First Look at Christmas Special: Where in River’s Time Line Does it Take Place?

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Sometimes they are married, sometimes they don’t recognise each other – it’s a minefield of time travelling faux pas when the Doctor and River get together – syncing their diaries once again, the pair will reunite this Christmas and, thanks to the Radio Times, we know, roughly when that meeting will take place.

“It doesn’t really matter, but for those who care,” said Steven Moffat. “It’s immediately after The Angels Take Manhattan. River’s just seen Matt Smith’s Doctor lose Amy and Rory, and obviously before The Name of the Doctor because she’s dead in that.”

Speaking of the departed, this year’s Christmas Special could have been Moffat’s last episode.

“We’ve just lost Clara, so I didn’t want to go straight into a new companion,” he went on. “I’ll be honest, I brought River Song back in because I thought there was a possibility I’d never write it again so that’d be my goodbye.”

Which depending on your view of Moffat and River, it’s either the most typical/infuriating goodbye he could have come up with.

Speaking of strange unions; just how do does the pairing with Twelve work?

“It’s strange because they’re now, in our human terms, the perfect couple. They’re both sexy older people. It’s always been slightly strange before with Matt Smith. Now, yeah, they could actually be married. It works.”

He also added:

“If you’re a long term fan of the show you might be interested because there’s been a lot of talk about the Doctor and River’s glory years but we’ve never seen them. Here at last we see them as Mr and Mrs Who at the height of their powers. It’s great fun.”

Additional casting includes Greg Davies as King Hydroflax and Matt Lucas as Nardole.

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