Doctor Who: 10 Places The Doctor Has Never Visited On-Screen
4. The First Christmas
In a show about time travel which commonly celebrates Christmas Specials, there's one particular Christmas that we've never seen on-screen.
According to the Tenth Doctor in 2007's Voyage of the Damned, he had been present at the first Christmas and even booked the last room at the inn. Likewise, 2009's Planet of the Dead confirmed that he had also been present for the first Easter and knew 'what really happened'.
Jesus Christ has been referenced to exist by the Doctor several times, including 2017's Thin Ice, but the programme has largely kept away from religion in its nearly sixty-year run. Episodes such as 1965's The Romans have taken place after Jesus' death, but time periods before and during have been mostly avoided.
Besides some throwaway lines and jokes, early A.D. Earth history has been unexplored on our screens by the TARDIS crew. This may be due to its controversial nature or the complexity in telling a story there, but a Christmas Special set on a particular night in Bethlehem may complete some gaps in the Doctor Who timeline.
Recently, FX's sci-fi Drama Devs travelled back to the Crucifixion of Jesus, suggesting that time periods uncommonly depicted on-screen and within the sci-fi genre may be a thing of the past...