Doctor Who: The Snowmen

This 2012 Matt Smith Christmas Special is not included in Season 7-Part Two
It's 1842 London and a lonely boy builds a snowman. To his surprise, the snowman talks to him. Fifty years later, the boy is now the wealthy Doctor Simeon. He has hired several men to scoop snow into jars in return for food. They deliver the jars to him and ask for their food. Simeon snarls, "I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to." Suddenly, snowmen baring mouths of fangs spring up around the men ... and we only hear the rest.

Meanwhile, Clara Oswald leaves the Rose & Crown where she works as a barmaid. The disinterested Doctor strolls by but refuses to connect. So Clara does the sensible thing, runs after him and jumps into his carriage. Then follows a funny sequence where the Doctor orders Strax to use the memory worm on Clara, to make her forget having met him. Hah!

The next day is Christmas Eve, and Clara leaves for her other job, a total change of scenery, being a governess to Captain Latimer's 2 children. In front of his mansion is a pond where the...

The Introduction of the Impossible Girl & an Old Foe Returns
The 2012 Doctor Who Christmas Special is finally making its way onto DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, which introduces Jenna-Louise Coleman as the Doctor's new companion, Clara Oswin Oswald, or otherwise known as the Impossible Girl.

After losing his previous companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Doctor has parked the TARDIS above London in the year 1892. He's still grieving and would prefer to be alone, in which his allies, Vastra, Jenny, and Strax, keep others from seeking his help. That is until a barmaid, Clara Oswin Oswald, accuses him of building a snowman in front of her workplace. He ignores her and instructs Strax to erase her memory with a memory worm, but the snowmen appear out of nowhere.

Clara flees to her other job as a governess to Captain Latimer's children, but she will once again cross paths with the Doctor, who can't quite figure out where he has seen her before. The ghastly snowmen return along with an icy ex-governess, all...

"I am the smart one. You are the potato one."
In Matt Smith's oeuvre of Doctor Who holiday programming, "The Snowmen" challenges "A Christmas Carol" for top honors, it's that brilliant. As we near the Doctor's 50th anniversary, expect even more nods to classic Doctor Who, and why not start with this Christmas special? "The Snowmen" finds a gutted Doctor wandering the streets of Victorian London in the winter of 1892. Much time has elapsed since he lost the Ponds, but the Doctor's still in mourning, to the extent that he's disengaged from the world, retired from saving it. But then in steps a clever, cheeky tavern wench (Jenna-Louise Coleman) who moonlights occasionally as a prim and proper governess (or is it the other way around?). She may be the only person to wrench the Doctor from his mopey doldrums, just in time to save the planet from a horde of ravenous alien snowmen, and this on Christmas Eve.

The Doctor nowadays prefers his solitude and his wallowing in self-pity, never mind that he's got staunch friends and...

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