If like me you loved last year's
Doctor Who Christmas Day episode,
The Snowmen, then you'll love this selection of original costumes and props featured in the seasonal special on display at the
Doctor Who Experience in
Cardiff Bay on May 20, 2013, which will hopefully get you in the festive mood with the
Holidays fast approaching.
Original costumes and props from the
Doctor Who 2012 Christmas Special The Snowmen
In this special episode broadcast on
Christmas Day 2012, the
Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) faced off against
'Doctor Simeon', deadly animated snowmen and the
'Great Intelligence' in the
Victorian era with the help of
'Clara Oswald', the
Silurian detective
'Madame Vastra', her human wife
'Jenny Flint' and their
Sontaran butler
'Strax'.
If you like these outfits and props, be sure to check out these other
original costumes and props from previous Doctor Who Christmas Specials, including the fantastic
Wooden King and Queen from
The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe from 2011.
The Snowmen Doctor Who Christmas Special 2012 poster
In this festive episode
Matt Smith's Doctor is brooding in
Victorian London after the loss of his
Companions 'Amy Pond' and
'Rory Williams' in
'The Angels Take Manhattan', fortunately he is forced out of hiding to investigate some mysterious, sentient snowmen and introduces his new
Companion 'Clara' along with a newly designed
TARDIS interior.
Costume worn by Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in The Snowmen
Howard Burden is series
Costume Designer responsible for creating the
Victorian period looks, including the one-off outfit sported by the
Doctor, his friends and adversary.
The darker tones and fabrics, plus more formal tailoring of his
Victorian England-inspired costume was meant to reflect the somber mood of the doctor during his 'retirement' from action.
Original costume worn by Richard E. Grant
as Doctor Simeon in The Snowmen
In this
Christmas special the role of dastardly
'Dr. Walter Simeon' was played by the familiar
Richard E. Grant. He was the proprietor of the
G.I. Institute and an unwitting pawn of
The Great Intelligence and had been since childhood.
Behind the actor's costume you can also see the huge, glass snow-globe prop which housed
The Great Intelligence, with the snow within moving and swirling to mimic
Doctor Simeon's emotional state.
Victorian barmaid outfit worn by Jenna-Louise Coleman
as Clara Oswald in The Snowmen
In this episode we are also properly introduced to the
Doctor's newest and most mysterious
Companion, who had sneakily appeared previously in a different incarnation in the seventh season opener
'Asylum of the Daleks'. This
'Clara Oswald', played by
Jenna Coleman, was a gutsy barmaid (and this was her costume), who also worked as a rather unorthodox governess for a rich family.
Original costume worn by Neve McIntosh
as Madame Vastra in The Snowmen
Doctor Who has always been a progressive TV series and in this special
Neve McIntosh reprised her role as the lesbian
Silurian warrior (belonging to a reptilian race and the cold-blooded predecessors of humanity), '
Madame Vastra', who had previously appeared in the sixth season episode
'A Good Man Goes to War'.She has a
'Sherlock Holmes and Watson' detective style relationship with her human female companion
'Jenny Flint'. Plus along with the
Sontaran clone
'Strax' the trio are sometimes known as the
'Paternoster Gang', a group of detectives active in
Victorian London named after
Paternoster Row.
This is the cloaked
Victorian costume she wears in
The Snowmen and she often wears a veil over her face to hide her reptilian nature.
If you're a fellow
Whovian, be sure to check out more
original costumes and props from Doctor Who on display as we countdown to the next regeneration of the
Doctor, from
Matt Smith into
Peter Capaldi.
A whole new universe of space-time adventures awaits.
Watch the episode:
The Snowmen [HD]
Buy the episode:
Doctor Who: The Snowmen [Blu-ray] (2012)
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