Producer Russell T. Davies says that six decades in, they’re still finding new things for the Time Lord to do.
was just two years old, and when its final episode of the year was transmitted, actor William Hartnell turned to the camera at the end and wished the audience a Merry Christmas. A mistake? No chance. The episode was titledSince then, various seasons of the world’s longest-running science fiction series have concluded – or begun – with Christmas episodes.
“A lot of it is joyful,” says Moffat. “ there’s always sadness in Christmas because there’s always someone who didn’t make it this year and who’s never going to make it again. There’s always the empty chair at the table, and it’s always going to be the case. So there is sadness and there is always joy.
“It’s a literary quality, actually, which means he’s constant, or they are constant, and that’s a joy,” adds Davies. “It also makes you work very hard as a writer, that you can never quite take it easy. And if you are taking it easy, something is wrong. You just trot it out, an ordinary old doctor, saying, well, what’s that? There’s no such thing. That’s a sign in a fictional character that he’s much cleverer than we are. And so, you’ve got to absolutely be fighting fit to be writing it.
“There is to everybody, isn’t there?” Davies says. “Happiness is the antidote to something. It’s the antidote to everything else. Every day you spend happy is a victory because we all know how this ends, and it ain’t good. I’m not sure that anyone isn’t like that.
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