{"id":10758,"date":"2012-11-20T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2012-11-20T23:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T04:07:25","slug":"doctor-who-christmas-special-prequel-and-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/11\/doctor-who-christmas-special-prequel-and-trailer.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Christmas Special Prequel and Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>Now that I am back from the conference I was attending this weekend, I could finally watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5961284\/doctor-who-christmas-special-minisode-shows-a-very-different-doctor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Children in Need Doctor Who minisode<\/a>, which is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/doctorwho\/articles\/Children-in-Need-Unmissable\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the prequel to this year\u2019s Christmas special<\/a>. It is called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/doctorwho\/articles\/Steven-Moffat-and-Matt-Smith-on-the-Doctor-Who-Christmas-Special\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Great Detective<\/a>,\u201d and it is followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/doctor-who-christmas-special-goodies-the-great-detective-prequel-minisode-the-snowmen-trailer\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sfsignal+%28SFSignal%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this trailer<\/a> for the Christmas special itself, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogtorwho.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/the-snowmen-details.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Snowmen<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doctor Who: The Snowmen - Christmas Special Trailer - Children in Need 2012 - BBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3KVpvEUTns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I am back from the conference I was attending this weekend, I could finally watch the Children in Need Doctor Who minisode, which is also the prequel to this year\u2019s Christmas special. 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