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The Christmas Inversion was the third short story in Twelve Doctors of Christmas, featuring the Third Doctor.

Summary[]

Answering a distress call from 21st century London, the Doctor, Jo Grant and Captain Yates encounter a remarkable woman named Jackie Tyler, convinced that the Doctor has changed "again" and that Jo is her daughter Rose! As they survive malicious holiday decorations, attempt to assist the contemporary UNIT personnel and discover the Master's latest scheme gone awry, Jo wonders if her absence from the future Doctor's life is a ghost of her Christmas future...

Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

  • The Third Doctor is unfamiliar with the Slitheen.

Notes[]

  • This story essentially takes place at the same time as The Christmas Invasion, with the Third Doctor arriving in Jackie's flat after the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS has been taken up to the Sycorax ship and leaving after his future self has been returned to London.
  • It's explained that the Tenth Doctor was able to complete his regeneration and stabilise his new incarnation by siphoning regenerative energy off of the Third Doctor, the latter referring to it as "energy osmosis".
  • The Doctor claims to have "never known a Rose". According to PROSE: Roses, his granddaughter was originally named Arkytior, "rose" in High Gallifreyan.

Continuity[]

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