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Avalon County Entertainment System
Program Guide: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2410

BBC GALACTIC (CHANNEL 99)

18:00 [News] BBC Galactic News

19:00 [Action Documentary] James May: The Interstellar Adventures of Captain Slow
The Kessel Run - When a critical vaccine must be transported very carefully across the galaxy's most infamous smugglers' route in time to reach a remote colony by Christmas, there's only one man for the job.

20:00 [Motoring] Top Gear
Series 812, Episode 10 - Tribute to Sunrise Motorworks' Griffon badge; the new new new new new Mini; overthruster-equipped Renault Espace; flying reindeer - how hard can it be?

21:00 [Adventure] Professor Enigma
Christmas at Ground Zero - The Professor (Rose Tyler) and Lord Eccleston (John W. Smith) must prevent pre-Contact Earth's history from being diverted into a global thermonuclear war in December 1967. Meanwhile, stranded in Victorian Australia, John (Jack Harkness) gets very, very drunk. Dominus: Jeremy Clarkson.

23:00 [Action Documentary] Richard Hammond's Galaxy of Danger!
A Little Short for a Stormtrooper - Richard joins the men and women of the GENOM VII Legion for a holiday patrol of a tense border region. Special guest: Chet the Safety Trooper.

00:00 [Movie] (***½) Biggles Saves Christmas
(Black and White; 2410) After Santa Claus is shot down by the Germans over France, British aviator Capt. James Bigglesworth (Jack Harkness) gets the presents through in spite of the dastardly Huns. Algy: John W. Smith.

02:00 [Movie] (**½) The Claus Contingency
(Color; 2273) Dalek 207 has 48 hours to discover who has kidnapped Santa. Guest starring Cyber Force Gold.

03:45 Programming ends

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I'm boggled, intrigued, and wishing I had that interdimensional DVR people keep mentioning.

Dominus is the Professor Enigma analogue of The Master? That works rather well for Clarkson...

>Dominus is the Professor Enigma analogue of The Master? That works
>rather well for Clarkson...

Indeed. As you see, their Christmas special programming that year had a sort of Top Gear/Professor Enigma twin theme going on; Jeremy Clarkson's special guest appearance as Dominus was the point of convergence.

Some hardcore Professor Enigma fans who aren't also Top Gear fans were rather annoyed by his turn as Dominus; it's obvious he didn't take it entirely seriously (the big hint there being the bit where he hangs onto his TARDIS's control console, shoving all the levers to their furthest position, and yelling "POWERRRRR!" over the sound effects). Then again, they never take the Professor Enigma Christmas special entirely serious. I mean, look at the bits with John in Australia. Jack Harkness was on vacation when they shot the special, which is why he isn't in the main plot at all, and the B-plot shots are all just hidden camera footage from his actual vacation.

As an aside, one of the BBC channels having a Top Gear-themed Christmas is not unheard of; last year on Dec. 23 they had a "Top Gear Night In" on BBC2 in which all the shows aired in prime time featured at least one of the presenters (well, except The Great Escape, which they showed because they show it every year around Christmas and it's Clarkson's favorite movie).

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Makes complete sense. Besides, Richard Hammond showing up in "Ashes to Ashes" all of the sudden and asking to test drive DCI Hunt's Audi was hilarious.

>overthruster-equipped Renault Espace

["It's stuck in the wall." "It can't be! It... It's stuck in the wall." "Run!"]

Those who personally know Rose Tyler and "John W. Smith" - for instance, Kaitlyn - found the following exchange in "Christmas at Ground Zero" paralytically funny:

The Professor: Oi oi oi! Where d'you think you're going?

Lord Eccleston (pausing at the door): 1967.

The Professor: Go out there, dressed like that, you'll get us arrested, Oscar Wilde! (pointing) There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third room on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, fifth door on your left. 'Urry up!

oh god nice one, hehehe.

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