A Christmas Visitor vs Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 5.4/10 for A Christmas Visitor). Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 40m. A Christmas Visitor is the older of the two (2002 against 2013). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Christmas Visitor posterA Christmas Visitor2002 VS Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor posterDoctor Who: The Time of the Doctor2013
A Christmas VisitorDoctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
Audience score★ 5.4/10★ 8.1/10
Year20022013
Length1h 40m1h
GenresDrama, TV MovieDrama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorChristopher LeitchJamie Payne
Main castWilliam Devane, Aaron Ashmore, Reagan Pasternak, Lindy Booth, Dean McDermottMatt Smith, Kayvan Novak, Jenna Coleman, Tessa Peake-Jones, Karen Gillan

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 Time of the Doctor

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

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