The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story)

The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe was the 2011 Christmas special.

Synopsis
It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness – all she has to do is make a wish. Three years later, a devastated Madge escapes war-torn London with her two children for a dilapidated house in Dorset. She is crippled with grief at the news her husband has been lost over the channel, but determined to give Lily and Cyril the best Christmas ever. The Arwells are surprised to be greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. Here, Madge will learn how to be braver than she ever thought possible. And that wishes can come true.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
 * Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
 * Madge Arwell - Claire Skinner
 * Cyril Arwell - Maurice Cole
 * Lily Arwell - Holly Earl
 * Reg Arwell - Alexander Armstrong
 * Co-Pilot - Sam Stockman
 * Wooden King - Spencer Wilding
 * Ven-Garr - Paul Bazely
 * Droxil - Bill Bailey
 * Billis - Arabella Weir
 * Wooden Queen - Paul Kasey

Story notes

 * Alexander Armstrong (Reg Arwell) previously supplied the voice of Mr Smith throughout the run of The Sarah Jane Adventures and in the Doctor Who stories The Stolen Earth / Journey's End.
 * Arabella Weir (Billis) previously played an alternative, female version of the Third Doctor in BFDWU: Exile.
 * Spencer Wilding (The Wooden King) previously played the Minotaur in DW: The God Complex.

Myths

 * The Daily Star reported that the Christmas Special would be a "Doctor Who take" on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This was proven true as there was one element of the C.S. Lewis story.

Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity

 * The Harvest Rangers are from Androzani Major. (DW: The Caves of Androzani)
 * At the end of the episode, Amy Pond points a water pistol at the Eleventh Doctor when he shows up on her doorstep. Previously, she has twice aimed a gun at her daughter, River Song. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut, DW: A Good Man Goes to War) and at The Silence (DW: The Wedding of River Song). Additionally, the Tenth Doctor once protected Donna Noble by bluffing the Soothsayers with a water pistol. That episode was the first that Karen Gillan ever appeared in, as a Soothsayer. (DW: The Fires of Pompeii)

Home video releases
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