Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About A Christmas Carol

20. It’s The First Christmas Special Where Nobody Dies

What do you think of when you think of Christmas? Family gatherings? Chocolate? A sense of generosity and giving?

Well, if you work on Doctor Who, you probably think of death and mayhem.

Since the first Doctor Who Christmas special in 2005, these episodes have brought plenty of bloodshed to the big day.

All the Sycorax get blown up, Lance and his spider queen are done away with, Voyage of the Damned kills pretty much everyone on the space Titanic, there are a bunch of Cyber-conversions in The Next Doctor, and the Master eats some homeless people in The End of Time Part One.

While it's implied that Abigail dies soon after, nobody's death is actually shown in A Christmas Carol, which was a first at the time.

Well, except for that little fishy-wishy that got eaten by the shark. Poor guy.