A Christmas Visitor vs Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 5.4/10 for A Christmas Visitor). Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars is the shorter watch at 1h 2m compared with 1h 40m. A Christmas Visitor is the older of the two (2002 against 2009). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Christmas Visitor posterA Christmas Visitor2002 VS Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars posterDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars2009
A Christmas VisitorDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Audience score★ 5.4/10★ 7.9/10
Year20022009
Length1h 40m1h 2m
GenresDrama, TV MovieAdventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorChristopher LeitchGraeme Harper
Main castWilliam Devane, Aaron Ashmore, Reagan Pasternak, Lindy Booth, Dean McDermottLindsay Duncan, David Tennant, Gemma Chan, Michael Goldsmith, Sharon Duncan-Brewster

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 Waters of Mars

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

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