The Doctor Who Christmas Special Gets a Name—And a New Sonic Screwdriver!
This year,
Doctor Who fans will have the shortest ever wait between the end of a season and the show’s now-traditional Christmas special—which is bringing Alex Kingston’s adventurer River Song back as a
wildly divisive present under the tree. But she’s not the only thing making a return: The Doctor’s favorite toy is back too!
The special, written by Steven Moffat, has been titled “The Husbands of River Song,” and sees a lonely Doctor travel to meet his wife (and by the looks of it a giant, vaguely threatening robot) for the holiday—only to find he’s travelled to a point in time where River hasn’t met him yet. The “him” in this case being The Doctor’s current incarnation.
According to Moffat, the special takes place immediately after the events of the 2012 story “
The Angels Take Manhattan” for River.