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== ''Coronation Street'' ==
* 2008: On Christmas Eve, Tony strangles Jed Stone at Underworld after he tries to blackmail him about Liam's murder.He shoves the body in to a box while the staff have their Christmas Party. He comes on Christmas Day to find that he was just unconscious and offers him the best bribe of all (a free flat in Wigan!) to keep his silence.
* 2009: Secret lovers Kevin and Molly prepare to run away from their prospective partners Sally and Tyrone. The plan is quickly aborted when Sally reveals that she has cancer and Kevin backtracks to support his wife in this difficult time.
* 2010: ''Twice''. For the programme's 50th anniversary special shortly before Christmas, {{spoiler|Molly informs Tyrone that her baby isn't his and that she's been living a lie, Charlotte attacks John with a hammer and is killed by her own weapon, a gas explosion destroys a section of the bridge and buries various people, and a tram dives off the bridge and takes half the Street with it}}. All in ''one'' night.
** For the actual Christmas storyline, the main drama was about the return of Tracy Barlow after being in prison for murder.
== ''Doctor Who'' ==
* "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion
* "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2006 CS the Runaway Bride
* "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 CS Voyage of the Damned
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{{quote|'''Joshua Naismith:''' Ladies and gentlemen! It seems [[Sealed Evil in a Can|help is at hand]]! [[Lampshade Hanging|Christmas is cancelled.]]}}
* In the 2010 episode "A Christmas Carol" (set some time in the 44th century), Christmas was brought by a galaxy-class cruise liner crashing with Rory and Amy aboard, and the Doctor having to find a way to save them and everyone else aboard. {{spoiler|Along the way he was able to save the soul of the old man Kazran who controls the planet's upper atmosphere, but through some very morally grey use of time-travel, and Kazran was forced to see the love of his life die}}.
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== ''[[Eastenders]]'' ==
* Christmas Day 1986: Dennis "Dirty Den" Watts hands divorce papers to his shocked wife, Angie. About 30.15 million people watched. The population of the United Kingdom at the time was about 57 million. The [[Trope Maker]] episode.
* 1998: Grant gets arrested for attempted murder. His wife then gets run over during the New Year's Day special.
* 2001: Trevor abuses Little Mo, forcing her face first into a pot of boiling gravy. He'd also raped her a couple episodes prior to that. The New Year's Eve special sees her bludgeon him with an iron.
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* 2008: Sean Slater learned he was not the father of his new wife Roxy's baby when he found paternity test results in his homemade Christmas cracker!
* 2009: {{spoiler|Archie Mitchell is murdered in the Queen Vic, sparking another endless "whodunnit" storyline}}.
* 2010: The murderer of Archie Mitchell last Christmas is revealed to the Square to be Stacey Branning not her husband Bradley who was blamed after his death. Stacey then flees the country with baby Lily.
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* 2003: A storm hits Emmerdale village, the other half of the cast dies.
* 2006: Tom King is murdered.
* 2010: Chastity Dingle has a wedding on Christmas Day at which she jilts and humilates fiancee Carl due to knowing about his affair with Eve. She also lies about being pregnant.
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* On ''[[The OC]]'', Ryan's memories of Christmas aren't exactly [[Abusive Parents|happy]], and after a series of bad things inevitably happens he declares that "if there's cops and crying, well then it must be Christmas!"
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': "Amends". Angel gets psychologically tortured by Satan into recognising his essentially evil nature, and is prevented from suicide only by divine(?) intervention.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' first Christmas episode (actually a two-parter) falls victim to this in the worst kind of way. The episode starts with Scully spending the holidays with her brother and his wife in San Diego. They're expecting a baby and are very exciting, unknowingly digging the proverbial knife deeper for Scully, who has just found out that she is unable to conceive. A mysterious phone call leads Scully to a muder mystery, in which the parents of a sick 3-year-old die in quick succession. The little girl looks an awful lot like Scully's sister, Melissa, who had been killed two seasons before. So, Scully has some DNA tests run. While they run, Scully tries to adopt the orphaned Emily, but is denied. When the tests come back and reveal that Emily is actually Scully's daughter, things get worse. The little girl has an incurable form of anemia, which would be bad enough except when taken to the hospital, an entire conspiracy involving surrogate mothers taken from the local nursing home and alien hybrids is discovered after Emily's blood burns an ER doctor. On top of that, Emily has a growth that's shutting down her body systematically. The final scene is her funeral, which happens just after Scully's sister-in-law gives birth to Scully's nephew. Quite possibly one of the most depressing Christmas episodes.
** Their only other Christmas episode also has depressing themes, though is markedly less [[Tear Jerker]] and more comedic. The episode's premise is a lover's murder/suicide pact, which two ghosts are trying to get Mulder and Scully to re-enact.
* In ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'', Cooper Hawkes, an [[Artificial Human|InVitro]] who until he joined the Marines, had been homeless with no family, described Christmas as being the one time of the year when he was even lonlier than usual. Meanwhile, the squad spends Christmas in a crippled transport drifting in space, with no means of calling for help or getting home<ref> until the [[Nicknaming the Enemy|Chigs]] choose to give them information to help them get home rather than leave them to die.</ref>
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