A Christmas Visitor vs Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Doctor Who: The Snowmen has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.4/10 for A Christmas Visitor). Doctor Who: The Snowmen is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 40m. A Christmas Visitor is the older of the two (2002 against 2012). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Christmas Visitor posterA Christmas Visitor2002 VS Doctor Who: The Snowmen posterDoctor Who: The Snowmen2012
A Christmas VisitorDoctor Who: The Snowmen
Audience score★ 5.4/10★ 7.7/10
Year20022012
Length1h 40m1h
GenresDrama, TV MovieAdventure, Drama, Family, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorChristopher LeitchSaul Metzstein
Main castWilliam Devane, Aaron Ashmore, Reagan Pasternak, Lindy Booth, Dean McDermottMatt Smith, Richard E. Grant, Jenna Coleman, Ian McKellen, Juliet Cadzow

Synopsis

A Christmas Visitor

The Boyajian family learned of 18-year-old John's death in the Persian Gulf War on Christmas Eve eleven years earlier and have not celebrated Christmas since. They have been so consumed by his death that they have forgotten the joys of the holidays, until a mysterious visitor enters their lives and rekindles the spirit of the season.

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

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…

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