'Joy to the World' (Story Code 14.0X) by Steven Moffat

“Ham-and-cheese toastie and a pumpkin latte?” - The Doctor

The Doctor attempts to deliver a ham-and-cheese toastie and a pumpkin latte to people at various points in history. Unfortunately, the guests at the Queens Hotel in Manchester in 1940, a passenger on the Orient Express in Italy 1962, nor Edmund Hillary at his Mount Everest base camp in 1953 have ordered them. Meanwhile, in 2024, a young woman named Joy checks in at the Sandringham Hotel in London, ready to spend Christmas alone. Inspecting her room, Joy is surprised when a locked connecting door suddenly opens, and a Silurian in a business suit walks in. Then the Doctor appears, bearing his snack and beverage. TO BE CONTINUED...


Ncuti Gatwa (The Doctor), Nicola Coughlan (Joy), Peter Benedict (Basil), Julia Watson (Hilda), Niamh Marie Smith (Sylvia), Phil Baxter (Edmund Hillary), Samual Sherpa-Moore (Tenzing Norgay), Steph de Walley (Anita), Jonathan Aris (Melnak), rest of cast TBA

Directed by Alex Pillai

Produced by Chris May
Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Jane Tranter, Joel Collins and Phil Collinson
A Bad Wolf / BBC Wales production

TX (BBC 1 & BBC 1 HD):
25th December 2024


Notes:
*Featuring the Fifteenth Doctor, and introducing Joy

*This episode is sixty minutes long

*It premiered in the UK on the BBC's iPlayer in Ultra-High Definition (UHD) at midnight on 25th December 2024, and simultaneously streamed on Disney+ outside the UK and Ireland

*The first few minutes of this episode were released as a preview teaser at San Diego Comic Con, and then online