Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks

 

Given that holiday episodes of Doctor Who are generally lighthearted and comedic, Eve of the Daleks is what you'd be looking for.  

The Tardis is going to need to be re-set.  Thinking they're on a beach planet that will be a relaxing place to wait for the process, the Doctor, Yaz and Dan find themselves instead inside a storage facility with two humans and a Dalek.

The owner of Elf storage, Sarah, is frustrated being stuck at work again on New Year's Eve.  Her only customer, Nick, who appears to own numerous storage lockers in the facility, has a secret crush on Sarah which is revealed over the course of the evening as everyone runs from, confronts, and dies at the lasers of the Daleks.

Die, run, re-set.  There's a plan, of course, but as the clock heads towards midnight, and the time loops close for good at that hour, it's a terrible chance the Doctor and her companions take to beat the Daleks.

Though the Doctor and Yaz have dealt with the Daleks on many occasions, Dan, Sarah and Nick toss out insults which the Daleks respond to in their humorless, single minded way.  It's something that the three can keep wise cracking after numerous deaths.

Doctor Who: Village of the Angels

 The fourth episode of this season was really excellent, bringing in the always frightening Weeping Angels.

Weeping Angels actually appear in the Tardis, attacking as they do when you look away or blink for a moment.

 

Landing in 1967 they are in a village just at the beginning of an attack by the angels.

Two villagers, a man and woman, are looking for their ten year old ward Peggy.  Yaz tries to use her police service questioning techniques to learn more about the girl so they can help find her, but the man is impertinent and won't answer her questions, acting as if she's silly for asking.  There's an arch to humor to all of the characters in the town, and to the Doctor as well.

While Yaz and Dan end up in 1901 with the missing Peggy, the Doctor finds herself barricaded in a house with a professor of paranormal studies and a woman who can see the future.  Angels surround the house, ringing the doorbell!, pressing in at the windows, and driving the Doctor and her companions of the evening into the basement of the house.

The Doctor gets permission to enter Claire's mind.  There she finds a rogue Weeping Angel, using Claire's form, has been hiding in Claire's mind from the others outside.  They're after her, she says, and she tries to bargain with the Doctor to get help escaping.  

The Professor interrupts, pulling the Doctor out, as the Angels have broken into the house and have made their way to the basement.

As the Doctor, Claire and the Professor make their way outside through an old tunnel, filled with Angels, they finally come out side only to be surrounded by even more Angels.  The Rogue speaking though Claire informs the Doctor that the Angels and The Division want the Doctor even more than they want her, and the Doctor is transported and turned into a Weeping Angel herself.

I'm just a casual viewer, but I have to say I haven't been taken with the Division story line or the Timeless Child story line.  Clearly if the Division controls (?) the Angels as is hinted here, then why turn the Doctor into one?  What do the Division have to do with or say about the Flux?

Bel and Zinder's story line, though charming enough, must have some large payoff if it's included in these sparse few last episodes.