Doctor Who: 10 Worst Things That Have Happened To The Doctor At Christmas

10. Dying (In An Alternate Timeline)

Dying might seem like it should be higher up on a list like this, but we're putting it last because it only happened in an alternate timeline - one that was eventually erased. We see this alternate timeline in Series 4's Turn Left, which, while not a Christmas special, shows us a parallel version of The Runaway Bride, which is a Christmas special.

In this timeline, Donna Noble never meets the Tenth Doctor, meaning that she isn't there to save him during his confrontation with the Racnoss. As a result, the Doctor becomes completely consumed by rage, and ends up drowning himself - along with the Empress of the Racnoss' children - by flooding a chamber with water.

As well as being a tragic incident in its own right, the Doctor's death also ends up being disastrous for the entire human race, as he isn't there to save them when aliens attack planet Earth in the future. Which happens a lot.

But again, this all took place in an alternate timeline. In the main timeline, the Doctor's Christmas wasn't ruined by suffering a horrible, watery death.