BONUS: Last Christmas – The 2014 Christmas Special

Capaldi's first Xmas Special, and it's Alien meets The Thing meets Inception meets Santa... Mind-bending and awesome! * * * Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor has just celebrated his very first Christmas with us, and it was a mind-bending, Inception-esque tale that kept us thinking and debating long after it finished. Here is the result. And as another little Christmas miracle, this episode (of Who Back When) features the return of an old companion as well. Enjoy! You've probably all seen this Doctor Who Christmas Special, but here are a couple of paragraphs to briefly summarise 'Last Christmas', just in case you haven't or you've inexplicably forgotten: Clara wakes up in the middle of the night to find Santa Clause (played magnificently by Nick Frost) and two of his elves (played by Dan Starkey of Commander Strax fame, and Misfits' Nathan McMullen) having crashed onto her exorbitant roof terrace. Pretty weird, n'est pas? And things are about to get even weirder when all of a sudden The Doctor arrives, insinuates that Santa is up to no good, and then takes Clara to the North Pole in the TARDIS. Stuff is going down there as well. A team of scientists stationed on the North Pole have awoken malicious alien beings that lay dormant under the ice, and whose modus operandi consists of placing their victims in a lucid dream state while they surreptitiously ingest their brains. Creepy. And thus The Doctor and Clara are thrust into an adventure in which the boundaries between dream and reality are blurred and no one is safe. (You're welcome.) * * * Check out WHOBACKWHEN.COM for more information, Doctor Who TV Serial and Audiobook reviews, ratings and ramblings, and loads more podcast episodes. WEB: WhoBackWhen.com FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/WhoBackWhen GOOGLE+: plus.google.com/+Whobackwhen SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/WhoBackWhen TWITTER: @whobackwhen @ponken & @12manymornings #WhoBackWhen Toodle-Pip!