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Doctor Who episodes broadcast in December

Episodes of Doctor Who originally broadcast in December, ordered by day

Monday
1st December 2008
4:35PM
BBC One (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - The Temptation Of Sarah Jane Smith - Part Two

Clyde and Rani get trapped in a devastated alternative world with the survivors of mankind.

Saturday
1st December 1979
6:00PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden - Part Two

Monsters and drug smugglers are loose on the ship. And it all seems to tie in with Tryst's electronic zoo…

Sunday
2nd December 2018
6:30PM
BBC One (49 mins)

Doctor Who - It Takes You Away

On the edge of a Norwegian fjord what monster lurks in the woods around the cottage – and beyond?

Saturday
2nd December 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors - Episode Four

The Doctor goes to the Ice Warriors' ship in an attempt to broker a peace, but they do not trust him.

Saturday
2nd December 2023
7:25PM
BBC Three (28 mins)

Unleashed - Blue Wild Yonder

Join Steffan Powell as he witnesses David and Catherine getting to grips with their prosthetics.

Saturday
2nd December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Two

The Doctor must employ a desperate gambit to keep the evil Grendel off the throne.

Saturday
2nd December 2023
6:30PM
BBC One (54 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - Wild Blue Yonder

The Tardis takes the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure with the fate of the universe at stake.

Saturday
3rd December 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks - Episode Five

Bragen leads the rebellion and takes control of the colony, killing Governor Hensell.

Sunday
3rd December 2006
10:00PM
BBC Three (53 mins)

Torchwood - They Keep Killing Suzie

Using alien technology to interrogate the victims of a serial killer, Gwen learns that the link is close to home.

Saturday
3rd December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Two

The Doctor is taken prisoner by the Gatherer and sent to the Correction Centre.

Saturday
3rd December 2016
10:00AM
BBC Three

Class - The Lost

Facing an impossible choice, our heroes must use all they’ve learnt to save Earth.

Saturday
4th December 1965
5:50PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan - The traitors (4/12)

Episode 4 of 12 from The Daleks Master Plan
The Doctor, Steven and Bret Vyon alert Vyon's friend, Daxtar, to the Dalek threat and Mavec Chen's treachery.

Sunday
5th December 2021
6:20PM
BBC One (59 mins)

Doctor Who - The Vanquishers

Episode 6 of 6 from 'Doctor Who: Flux'
All hope is lost. The forces of darkness are in control.

Saturday
5th December 1964
5:40PM
BBC 1 (26 mins)

Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Day of Reckoning (3/6)

Episode 3 of 6 from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The rebel attack on the Dalek flying saucer has been defeated. London is crawling with Daleks and Robomen.

Saturday
5th December 2015
8:00PM
BBC One (60 mins)

Doctor Who - Hell Bent

Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself.

Saturday
6th December 1986
5:45PM
BBC 1 (29 mins)

Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - Part Fourteen

Episode 2 of 2 from The Ultimate Foe
Mel realises that the Valeyard has created a weapon within the Matrix that will destroy the Time Lords.

Saturday
6th December 1975
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Android Invasion - Part Three

The Kraals intend to invade Earth by stowing away aboard Crayford's rocket as it returns back home.

Wednesday
6th December 1989
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Survival - Part Three

As the alien world dies around them, the Doctor and the Master fight like animals before escaping to Earth.

Saturday
6th December 1980
5:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - State of Decay - Part Three

Adric is taken prisoner by the three vampire rulers.

Monday
7th December 1987
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Dragonfire - Part Three

Shown the archive by the biomechanoid, the Doctor discovers that Kane is from the dead world of Proamon.

Wednesday
7th December 1988
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis - Part Three

With De Flores's Nazi's wiped out by the Cybermen, Nemesis claims it has secrets to reveal.

Saturday
7th December 1968
5:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion - Episode Six

Zoe, Jamie and Isobel confront Cybermen in the sewers beneath London.

Sunday
7th December 2025
8:30PM
BBC One (43 mins)

The War Between - Homo Aqua

Episode 1 of 5 from The War Between the Land and the Sea
Barclay’s ordinary life becomes a world of terror when an ancient species rises from the sea.

Sunday
7th December 2025
9:15PM
BBC One (47 mins)

The War Between - Plastic Apocalypse

Episode 2 of 5 from The War Between the Land and the Sea
Barclay becomes humanity’s ambassador when the mysterious Salt emerges from the Tank. But his family’s life is torn apart when Salt wreaks revenge upon all mankind.

Sunday
7th December 2025
7:00PM
BBC Four (90 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sea Devils (Re-edited)

A re-edited, feature-length version of the classic 1972 Doctor Who story that introduced audiences to the formidable aquatic species the Sea Devils.

Saturday
7th December 1963
5:15PM
BBC TV (23 mins)

Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child - The Forest of Fear (3/4)

Episode 3 of 4 from An Unearthly Child
The time travellers escape path to the TARDIS through the forest holds dangers of its own.

Monday
8th December 2008
4:35PM
BBC One (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - Enemy Of The Bane - Part One

Gita vanishes and Sarah Jane encounters an unwelcome face from the past - Mrs Wormwood.

Saturday
8th December 1979
6:00PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden - Part Three

The Doctor and Romana begin to uncover the truth about the strange events aboard the luxury liner Empress.

Sunday
9th December 2018
6:25PM
BBC One (50 mins)

Doctor Who - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

On the planet of Ranskoor Av Kolos, a battlefield, a conflict-scarred survivor, and a deadly reckoning await.

Saturday
9th December 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors - Episode Five

The Ice Warriors are preparing to fire their deadly sonic cannon at the Brittanicus Base.

Saturday
9th December 2023
7:35PM
BBC Three (29 mins)

Unleashed - The Giggle

Steffan Powell goes behind the scenes of The Giggle and speaks to the Toymaker, Neil Patrick Harris

Saturday
9th December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Three

The Doctor must keep the android "king" running while Grendel plots to use Romana to destroy him.

Saturday
9th December 2023
6:30PM
BBC One (61 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Giggle

When the Doctor discovers the return of the terrifying Toymaker, he faces a fight he can never win.

Saturday
10th December 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks - Episode Six

As a battle rages between the rebels and the loyal colonists, the Daleks begin their attack.

Sunday
10th December 2006
10:00PM
BBC Three (49 mins)

Torchwood - Random Shoes

A hit-and-run victim, Eugene, was a bit of a nobody, and always convinced that aliens were coming to Earth.

Saturday
10th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Three

The Doctor is free but Leela has been captured by the Gatherer and is sentenced to a grisly death.

Saturday
11th December 1965
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan - Counter Plot (5/12)

Episode 5 of 12 from The Daleks Master Plan
Unseen creatures stalk the jungle and the Daleks close in on the planet Mira.

Saturday
12th December 1964
5:40PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The End of Tomorrow (4/6)

Episode 4 of 6 from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Doctor, Barbara and Susan make their way out of London to the Dalek's mining operation in Bedfordshire.

Saturday
13th December 1975
5:55PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - The Android Invasion - Part Four

The Doctor and Sarah Jane are desperate to warn UNIT of the alien invasion, but nobody will believe them.

Saturday
13th December 1980
5:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - State of Decay - Part Four

As the Great Vampire begins to awaken from his long sleep, the Doctor formulates a desperate plan.

Wednesday
14th December 1988
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Part One

Bellboy and Flowerchild escape the Psychic Circus but are pursued by the Chief Clown.

Saturday
14th December 1968
5:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion - Episode Seven

The world's population is unconscious and the Cybermen invade in force.

Sunday
14th December 2025
8:30PM
BBC One (44 mins)

The War Between - The Deep

Episode 3 of 5 from The War Between the Land and the Sea
Barclay makes a terrifying descent into the world of Homo Aqua. Back on the land, Kate stands alone as Downing Street conspires with the army to change the course of the war.

Sunday
14th December 2025
9:20PM
BBC One (45 mins)

The War Between - The Witch of the Waterfall

Episode 4 of 5 from The War Between the Land and the Sea
Barclay and Salt go on the run in a war-torn London as UNIT reels from disaster. But when Tide threatens the land and Gunsberg advances his plans, the Severance schemes demand blood.

Saturday
14th December 1963
5:15PM
BBC TV (24 mins)

Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child - The Firemaker (4/4)

Episode 4 of 4 from An Unearthly Child
Kal has been banished from the tribe and Ian is making fire for Za in the hope that he will be grateful.

Saturday
15th December 1973
5:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part One

UNIT investigates when scientists go missing kidnapped by an alien trapped in the 13th Century.

Monday
15th December 2008
4:35PM
BBC One (25 mins)

Sarah Jane - Enemy Of The Bane - Part Two

Only the Brigadier can save the day, before a final showdown at an ancient stone circle ensues.

Saturday
15th December 1979
5:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden - Part Four

The Doctor finally discovers the truth about the drug smuggling ring. But the villains are still one step ahead.

Saturday
16th December 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ice Warriors - Episode Six

The Ice Warriors invade the human's base, and it is up to the Doctor to repel them.

Saturday
16th December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Four

Grendel plans two weddings and a funeral to cement his hold over Tara.

Saturday
17th December 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Highlanders - Episode 1

Taken prisoner by the Redcoats, the Doctor and Ben are to be sent to the West Indies as slaves.

Sunday
17th December 2006
10:00PM
BBC Three (50 mins)

Torchwood - Out of Time

A small passenger plane from the 1950’s flies through the rift and lands in Cardiff 2006.

Saturday
17th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Four

The Others launch a full-scale uprising against the Gatherer and his Inner Retinue.

Saturday
18th December 1965
5:50PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan - Coronas of the Sun (6/12)

Episode 6 of 12 from The Daleks Master Plan
Forced to return to the planet Kembel, the Doctor tries to fool the Daleks by giving them a fake taranium core.

Thursday
18th December 2025
3:00PM
Youtube

The Whoniverse Show - 20 Years of Christmas Specials

David Tennant, Russell T Davies and Pete McTighe join hosts Tia Kofi and Christel Dee in this festive edition of the Whoniverse Show

Saturday
19th December 1964
5:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth - The Waking Ally (5/6)

Episode 5 of 6 from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
It is revealed that the Daleks intend to use a bomb to extract the Earth's magnetic core.

Wednesday
21st December 1988
7:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Part Two

The mysterious family watching the acts within the ring, dissatisfied with Nord, destroy him.

Saturday
21st December 1968
5:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion - Episode Eight

The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth.

Sunday
21st December 2025
8:05PM
BBC One (53 mins)

The War Between - The End of the War

Episode 5 of 5 from The War Between the Land and the Sea
Barclay stands alone, Salt is lost, UNIT is powerless, and the oceans rise as the war reaches its climax. While traitors conspire, can Barclay find Salt before it’s too late?

Saturday
21st December 1963
5:15PM
BBC TV (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks - The Dead Planet (1/7)

Episode 1 of 7 from The Daleks
Beyond a petrified jungle the time travellers see a huge metal city which the Doctor is determined to explore.

Saturday
22nd December 1973
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part Two

The Doctor discovers that the alien is a Sontaran warrior called Linx who is trying to repair his spaceship.

Saturday
22nd December 1979
6:10PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon - Part One

With the TARDIS disabled in order to undergo repairs, the Doctor is powerless when Romana is kidnapped.

Saturday
23rd December 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Enemy of the World - Episode 1

Arriving on an Australian beach in the future, the Doctor is mistaken for political leader Salamander.

Saturday
23rd December 1978
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part One

Searching for the Key to Time lands the Doctor and Romana in trouble on the third moon of Delta Magna.

Monday
23rd December 2024
9:00PM
BBC Four (89 mins)

Doctor Who - The War Games in Colour

When the Tardis lands in the horrors of World War I, the Doctor uncovers a threat spanning galaxies and history itself.

Saturday
24th December 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Highlanders - Episode 2

The Doctor manages to escape. Meanwhile Ben and his friends, have already been taken aboard the ship.

Sunday
24th December 2006
9:30PM
BBC Three (58 mins)

Torchwood - Combat

The team discovers a ring who are kidnapping Weevils – wild alien creatures that have come through the Rift.

Tuesday
24th December 2024
4:10PM
BBC Two (108 mins)

Doctor Who at the Proms - 2024

Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series

Monday
25th December 2017
5:30PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - Twice Upon a Time

Two Doctors stranded in an Arctic snowscape get caught by glass people, stealing their victims from frozen time.

Saturday
25th December 1965
6:35PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks Master Plan - The Feast of Steven (7/12)

Episode 7 of 12 from The Daleks Master Plan
The Doctor and his companions find themselves on a film set before celebrating Christmas in the TARDIS.

Monday
25th December 2006
1:00PM
BBC One (30 mins)
Special

Doctor Who Confidential - Music and Monsters

Musical celebration of Doctor Who, performed at the Wales Millennium Centre.

Tuesday
25th December 2007
8:30PM
BBC Three (43 mins)
Special

Doctor Who Confidential - Kylie Special

Behind the scenes as Kylie Minogue boards the TARDIS as the Doctor's special companion.

Wednesday
25th December 2024
7:10PM
BBC Three (28 mins)

Unleashed - Joy to the World

Steffan Powell is on set with Nicola Coughlan and Ncuti Gatwa as they film this year's Christmas special.

Thursday
25th December 2008
7:00PM
BBC Three (57 mins)
Special

Doctor Who Confidential - Christmas 2008 Special

An in-depth look behind the scenes of this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special.

Thursday
25th December 2008
8:00PM
BBC Three (10 mins)

Doctor Who Confidential - Doctor Who: Top 5 Christmas Moments

A look back at the best moments from the Doctor's festive adventures.

Friday
25th December 2009
7:00PM
BBC Three (57 mins)
Special

Doctor Who Confidential - Lords and Masters

Behind the scenes of the tenth Doctor's penultimate episode, with cast interviews.

Sunday
25th December 2005
7:00PM
BBC One (59 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion

Christmas becomes a time of terror, as the whole of mankind falls under the shadow of the alien Sycorax.

Saturday
25th December 2010
7:00PM
BBC Three (56 mins)
Special

Doctor Who Confidential - Christmas Special 2010

Featuring interviews with Matt Smith, Michael Gambon, Katherine Jenkins and Steven Moffat.

Monday
25th December 2006
7:00PM
BBC One (59 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Runaway Bride

Bride-to-be Donna mysteriously vanishes as she prepares to marry her boyfriend Lance on Christmas Eve.

Monday
25th December 2023
7:00PM
BBC Three (29 mins)

Unleashed - The Church on Ruby Road

Find out how the goblins came to life, and uncover what it means for Ncuti and Millie to be cast in this iconic TV series.

Tuesday
25th December 2007
6:50PM
BBC One (72 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - Voyage of the Damned

When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor, and his new friend Astrid uncover a threat to the whole human race.

Thursday
25th December 2008
6:00PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Next Doctor

When the Doctor starts to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths, he’s surprised to meet another Doctor.

Friday
25th December 2009
6:00PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The End of Time - Part One

It’s the Tenth Doctor’s final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve.

Saturday
25th December 2010
6:00PM
BBC One (62 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol

Is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs?

Sunday
25th December 2011
7:00PM
BBC One (58 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Doctor The Widow and The Wardrobe

It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home

Tuesday
25th December 2012
5:15PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Snowmen

Christmas Eve, 1892, and the falling snow is the stuff of fairytales. Old friends call on the Doctor for help.

Wednesday
25th December 2013
7:30PM
BBC One (61 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Time of the Doctor

Forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars.

Thursday
25th December 2014
6:15PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - Last Christmas

Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!

Wednesday
25th December 2024
5:10PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - Joy to the World

When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor.

Friday
25th December 2015
5:15PM
BBC One (56 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor is recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy.

Sunday
25th December 2016
5:15PM
BBC One (60 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Return of Doctor Mysterio

With brain-swapping aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter.

Monday
25th December 2023
5:55PM
BBC One (55 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Church on Ruby Road

Ruby encounters the Doctor, goblins, stolen babies, and maybe the mystery behind her Christmas Eve birth.

Saturday
26th December 1964
5:55PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Flashpoint (6/6)

Episode 6 of 6 from The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Barbara realises how to control the Robomen and orders an attack on the Daleks.

Saturday
28th December 1974
5:35PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Robot - Part One

UNIT are called in when top secret plans and valuable equipment is stolen from high security establishments.

Wednesday
28th December 1988
7:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Part Three

Ace and Bellboy team up to stop the Chief Clown while the Doctor realises that he is next into the ring.

Saturday
28th December 1968
5:15PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - The Krotons - Episode One

On the planet of the Gonds, every year, two students are sent to the mysterious Krotons.

Saturday
28th December 1963
5:15PM
BBC TV (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Daleks - The Survivors (2/7)

Episode 2 of 7 from The Daleks
Looking for Barbara, the Doctor, Ian and Susan discover that they have exposed to lethal doses of radiation.

Monday
28th December 1981
5:45PM
BBC One (50 mins)

K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

Saturday
29th December 1973
5:10PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part Three

Linx is providing advanced weaponry to Irongron and his men who prepare to attack Sir Edward’s castle.

Saturday
29th December 1979
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Horns of Nimon - Part Two

On Skonnos, Romana and the Athenian youngsters are forced into the labyrinth of the power complex.

Saturday
30th December 1972
5:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Three Doctors - Episode One

An antimatter creature attacks UNIT and the Doctor is forced to send an SOS to his people.

Saturday
30th December 1967
5:25PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Enemy of the World - Episode 2

Jamie and Victoria travel to Europe where they infiltrate Salamander's staff.

Saturday
30th December 1978
6:30PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part Two

Things look bleak for the Doctor and Romana, particularly when Kroll awakes.

Saturday
31st December 1966
5:50PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Highlanders - Episode 3

The Doctor is reunited with Polly and Kirsty and together the hatch a plan to rescue their friends.