This Week in New Zealand

The Christmas Invasion

Last updated 02 January 2017

Broadcast: Tuesday 25th December 2007
4:30pm-5:30pm NZDT (03:30 GMT) < > « »
Prime

Featuring: David Tennant, Noel Clarke, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Penelope Wilton

The newly regenerated Doctor takes Rose home for the festive season, but the transition process has tired him and he falls unconscious - just as the planet comes under threat from evil alien race the Sycorax, who have employed sinister Santas and murderous trees to do their bidding.

Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide

Broadcast notes:

Shown commercial-free

Broadcast Source: TWiDW

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Saturday 22nd December 2007:
Prime TV http://www.primetv.co.nz http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com
4:3 cropped pan and scan.
Prime Christmas Event: http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/screenings
Christmas Eve 7 to 8:30PM 3-00 The Runaway Bride
Christmas Day Marathon - commercial free:
6:40AM 1-01 Rose
7:30AM 1-02 The End Of The World
8:15AM 1-03 The Unquiet Dead (a story set on Christmas Eve 1869)
9AM 1-04 Aliens of London pt 1 of 2
9:45AM 1-05 World War Three pt 2 of 2
10:30AM 1-06 Dalek
11:15AM 1-07 The Long Game
Noon 1-08 Father's Day
12:45PM 1-09 The Empty Child pt 1 of 2 (start of Captain Jack's episodes, relevant backstory for TV2's run of Torchwood in 2008)
1:30PM 1-10 The Doctor Dances pt 2 of 2
2:15PM 1-11 Boom Town
3PM 1-12 Bad Wolf pt 1 of 2
3:45PM 1-13 The Parting of the Ways pt 2 of 2
4:30PM 2-00 The Christmas Invasion (60 minutes)