Well, there aren't any super creeps, but you can't blame me for making the David Bowie reference, can you?

Doctor Who is making its return at Christmas with the special "A Christmas Carol," but things will really get fired back up when everyone's favorite Time Lord resumes his weekly adventures the following spring with its sixth series (32nd overall). While we're still not sure what will be going on when the TARDIS trio returns to the main pace of adventurin', but we do know one thing: the season will begin with a two-parter set in the United States (Who recently filmed in Utah, marking the first time that the series has recorded stateside).

But it's not the new setting that will be the source of chills for this episode, according to star Matt Smith. That honor goes to the monsters of the episode, whom he described in a recent Nerdist podcast as being "on par with the Weeping Angels... the most hideous [things] in the world."

Now, when the Weeping Angels first appeared in the series three episode "Blink," I was terrified. Showrunner Steven Moffat did a fantastic job with the creatures, both in that episode and with their subsequent reappearances in "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone." Has Moffat stricken gold again with his new creatures? Provided the monsters aren't the American people themselves (I kid, I kid! I'm a yank, too), Moffat will be hard pressed to create something as ingeniously scary as those creatures made of stone. Do I think he's up to it? Of course. I can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve for the Eleventh Doctor's first stateside adventure.

Doctor Who will return on Christmas day with the special "A Christmas Carol," and then will return again in (presumably) April 2011 to begin its sixth series.