The Doctor uses the heat from entry into the Earth's atmosphere to restart the ship's engines.
To save the Doctor, waitress Astrid Peth rams Capricorn with a forklift, which sends both of them over a ledge to their deaths. Capricorn was bitter about being forced out of his own company and plotted the Titanic's inevitable collision with Earth to bankrupt the company and frame the board of directors for murder. The Doctor breaks from the party and is taken to the Host's leader, former cruise line owner Max Capricorn. En route to the bridge, the Doctor's party are repeatedly attacked by the Host, androids resembling angels who were programmed to kill the survivors. The resulting collision kills most of the passengers on board and draws the ship to an extinction level collision with Earth. The ship's captain sabotages the ship by engineering its collision with three large meteors. The TARDIS has collided with a ship called the Titanic, a nuclear-powered interstellar cruiser from the planet Sto. She declines, but suggests he needs a companion to keep his temperament in check. The Doctor offers Donna the opportunity to travel with him. The Doctor attempts to offer a peaceful solution but the Empress refuses, and the Doctor is forced to flood the pit with water from the Thames. The Empress uses her ship to start firing on Earth. The Doctor takes Donna to his TARDIS and travels back billions of years to discover that an inert Racnoss ship became the core of the Earth as the planet formed around it the Empress is now trying to wake her children aboard that ship with the huon particles. He finds the spider-like Empress of the Racnoss, who had been hiding in hibernation at the edge of the universe, awoke and used the Torchwood company to gain the equipment to make huon particles. The Doctor discovers something is controlling them remotely from space. The reception is attacked by robots dressed as Santa Claus. However, the Sycorax ship is destroyed against the Doctor's wishes by Harriet, who had called Torchwood on the matter.ĭonna Noble, in a wedding dress, appears within the TARDIS while in flight. After the Doctor has fully recovered, he challenges the Sycorax leader to a sword fight for the future of the Earth, which he eventually wins. Rose, Mickey, and Jackie drag the Doctor onto the TARDIS, but the TARDIS is detected by the Sycorax and they transport it to their ship, with Rose, Mickey, and the Doctor inside. Prime Minister Harriet Jones is threatened by the leader of the Sycorax to give them half of the Earth's population as slaves Harriet tries to negotiate and is transmatted on their ship. When out shopping, Rose and Mickey are attacked by Santa robots the Doctor theorises that energy from his regeneration has lured them here. Rose Tyler and the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor return to Rose's house, where Rose, her mother Jackie and her former boyfriend Mickey Smith carry him inside to rest. No subsequent episodes of the series' original run were broadcast on Christmas Day the first episodes of Day of the Daleks (1972) and The Face of Evil (1977) were first shown on New Year's Day, but make no reference to the holiday season.
In its final scene, as the Doctor and his companions celebrate Christmas with a toast, the First Doctor ( William Hartnell) turns to the camera and breaks the fourth wall by saying "Incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home." The following episode, "Volcano", returns to the main narrative of The Daleks' Master Plan, although its ending briefly features a contemporary New Year's Eve. The former, "The Feast of Steven", was scripted as a comic interlude in the style of a pantomime, in the middle of an otherwise epic adventure.
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During the third season, the twelve-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan was broadcast weekly over the 1965–1966 Christmas period, with its seventh and eighth episodes scheduled for Christmas and New Year's Day respectively. During the first run of the programme (1963–1989), special episodes were not a frequent occurrence.