Specials, Episode 3 | 1 part | First broadcast: 1 January 2022 | Writer: Chris Chibnall | Director: Annetta Laufer
Cast
- Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor
- Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan
- John Bishop as Dan Lewis
- Aisling Bea as Sarah
- Adjani Salmon as Nick
Summary
Trapped in a time-looping New Year’s Eve storage facility alongside its owner Sarah and her employee Nick, the Doctor, Yasmin, and Dan find themselves repeatedly reliving the same violent night as a squad of Daleks systematically hunts them down, forcing the group to use each repeated loop to gather information and outsmart the relentless Dalek attackers before the countdown to midnight runs out for good.
Interesting Facts
- The episode uses a New Year’s Eve time-loop structure similar to films like “Groundhog Day,” repeating and subtly varying the same night multiple times.
- It marks Doctor Who’s third consecutive New Year’s Day special outing rather than a traditional Christmas broadcast.
- Comedians Aisling Bea and Adjani Salmon’s guest performances brought a notably comedic tone to an otherwise tense Dalek-siege plotline.
- The story doubles as a quiet romantic subplot between the two guest characters, blossoming across the episode’s repeated time loops.
- This was one of the concluding entries in the show’s stripped-down 2022 “special episodes only” broadcast model following the serialized “Flux” season.
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