Watch Doctor Who Christmas special: Stream ‘Joy to the World’

‘Doctor Who’: Joy to the World’ Key information

Date: Wednesday, December 25, 2025
• UK: Watch for FREE on BBC iPlayer
• US and elsewhere: Watch on Disney Plus
• Away from home: Use a VPN such as NordVPN to watch your usual service from anywhere

“Doctor Who: Joy to the World” continues the veteran sci-fi show’s two-decade run as a Christmas TV institution. The Time Lord has been a fixture of the BBC’s festive schedules ever since 2005’s “The Christmas Invasion”, and this year is no different.

The last time we saw Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor, he’d just defeated Sutekh and left companion Ruby Sunday back on Earth to get to know her recently discovered birth mother. Now traveling solo in the TARDIS, the Doctor pays a visit to the Time Hotel, where guests can open doors to any period in history. And dinosaurs.

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