Doctor Who: Every Russell T Davies Episode Ranked From Worst To Best

30. The Church On Ruby Road

The weakest of RTD's six Christmas specials is his most recent, which somehow doesn’t feel as ambitious as the specials of his first era.

We do get a cool sequence of the Doctor and Ruby ascending to a flying pirate ship inhabited by hungry Goblins, but in and around this it's all quite run-of-the-mill and oddly contained, with almost all of the action confined to a few small rooms in Ruby's flat.

There’s also The Goblin Song, which definitely isn’t the worst thing ever – but with lyrics like “better than beef”, it isn’t quite the Disney-style classic it thinks it is.

Still, it ends on a high note, with Ruby discovering the magic of the TARDIS and Ncuti Gatwa confidently announcing that he’s the Doctor. Brilliant stuff.