Name:
Joy Almondo
Species:
Human
Place of Origin:
Earth
First Appearance:
The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas!
Other Appearances:
It’s Christmas Time!
Joy to the World
Main Actor:
Nicola Coughlan
Joy Almondo booked a single room at the Sandringham Hotel at Christmastime in 2024. (Joy to the World)
UNDATED EVENTS
Joy was once present in a large group, near the Fifteenth Doctor and alongside a Christmas tree. (It’s Christmas Time!)
LEGACY
Joy was depicted alongside the Fifteenth Doctor on a billboard advertisement for a Casio A159 and Doctor Who’s Christmas return. (The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas!)
APPEARANCE
Joy had blonde hair and wore a red hat. (The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas! It’s Christmas Time!)
BEHIND THE SCENES
Joy Almondo made her first visual appearance in The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas!, in which an image of her was depicted on a billboard, while her physical debut was in the promotional image It’s Christmas Time!. These both served to promote her first full appearance in Joy to the World. Joy was played in Joy to the World by Nicola Coughlan, with images of her in the role reused in The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas! and It’s Christmas Time!.
The title of Joy to the World is a pun on Joy’s forename and the English hymm and Christmas carol “Joy to the World”.
Joy was depicted on the covers of Radio Times #5236 and SFX #386.