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Doctor Who: The Snowmen

2012 · 60 min

A festive Victorian adventure that balances creepy snowmen and wit with a melancholy hero, brisk and emotionally charged.

Directed by
Saul Metzstein
Genres
Tv movie, Adventure, Science fiction
Tagline
This Christmas, carnivorous snow meets Victorian values.
Overview
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...

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Directed by
Saul Metzstein
Genres
Tv movie, Adventure, Science fiction
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • isolation
  • identity
  • mystery
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • twist ending
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror4
Humour5
Realism2
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

In this series

Doctor Who

  1. Doctor Who: The Five DoctorsMovie · 1983
  2. Doctor WhoMovie · 1996
  3. Doctor Who: Scream of the ShalkaTV · 2003
  4. Doctor Who: The Runaway BrideMovie · 2006
  5. Doctor Who: Voyage of the DamnedMovie · 2007
  6. Doctor Who: The Next DoctorMovie · 2008
  7. Doctor Who: Planet of the DeadMovie · 2009
  8. Doctor Who: The Waters of MarsMovie · 2009
  9. Doctor Who: A Christmas CarolMovie · 2010
  10. Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the WardrobeMovie · 2011
  11. Doctor Who: The SnowmenMovie · 2012 This title
  12. Pond LifeTV · 2012
  13. An Adventure in Space and TimeMovie · 2013
  14. Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorMovie · 2013
  15. Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedTV · 2013
  16. Doctor Who: The Night of the DoctorShort film · 2013
  17. Doctor Who: The Time of the DoctorMovie · 2013
  18. Doctor Who: Last ChristmasMovie · 2014
  19. Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongMovie · 2015
  20. Doctor Who: Twice Upon a TimeMovie · 2017

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Genres
tv movie, adventure, science fiction, drama, family
Directed by
Saul Metzstein
Written by
Steven Moffat
Starring
Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, Richard E. Grant, Dan Starkey, Catrin Stewart, Neve McIntosh, Tom Ward, Liz White
Music
Murray Gold
Cinematography
Stephan Pehrsson
Runtime
60 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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