Every so often you flick on the TV or radio or a magazine and you discover an odd reference to Doctor Who or the show suddenly featured on some other program.

Channel-hopping the other night I skimmed across the show Russell Gilbert Live (he's an Australian comedian) and he had a segment on his favourite robots.
Along with some very bad carboard ones from 30s sci-fi and the Lost In Space robot were not one, but two, clips from Doctor Who.

The first was of the 60s Cybermen (I'm guessing it was The Invasion) and his big laugh was how the costume obviously was a diving suit. Come on, we all know the funny stuff is the laces on their boots.

And the next one was the robot from the imaginatively-titled Robot. Not sure which ep but there were a few UNIT soldiers firing at it and, as Gilbert points out, the robot almost trips but stops itself at one point.

So where have you seen Doctor Who crop up in an unlikely place lately?

Just thought of another... I was reading the Red Dwarf book Backwards lately and towards the end, someone uses a sonic screwdriver to open something - and I had to contain my Whovian excitement at this subtle nod.

In the Are You Being Served? episode No Sale, Mr. Humphreys comments that Mr. Lucas's excuse for being late for work makes the stuff on Doctor Who seem plausible (or words to that effect).
In the third installment of the Star Wreck parody series (back when it was still funny), the crew of the Endocrine find out that the ship's security camera tapes went through a time warp and are being used to make a popular TV series, and now there are conventions and all sort of stuff. About a third of the crew wants to go back and bask in the fan worship, about a third want to go back and put a stop to it, and about a third couldn't care less. "What does this have to do with Doctor Who?" sez you. Sez I, "Keep your pants on, I'm getting to that." One of the first group builds a time machine and when presented it has the appearance of a phone booth (I suspect the author thought that some readers would have no clue what a police box was). When asked what it was, the builder says, "It's a TARDIS, like on Doctor Whom."

The Fourth Doctor has turned up twice in the background on 'The Simpsons', one of which was when he was one of several geniuses gathered to stop an asteroid from going splat on Springfield.

In The Simpsons episode 'Mayored to the Mob', a sci-fi convention has a panning shot, revealing Tom Baker signing autographs in front of a whopping great seventies Who logo. (In case you didn't know).

In 'Carry on Screaming' Kenneth Williams is met with the reply 'Doctor who?' to which he replies that he isn't a relation.

'The Young Ones' has Alexei Sayle putting a cacti in between his legs and pretending to be a Dalek.

The Beano used to produce glossy big-format specials and one edition, called Dr Wotsit, had the Bash Street Kids go on an adventure with him in his red telephone box. Again, for some reason, modelled on the Doctor's fourth incarnation...

My younger brother joined the Navy recently, and a massive gun-turret structure is referred to, by officers and new recruits alike, as The Dalek. It is termed this by all ranks like it's an everyday word. A piece of military hardware is actually called a Dalek! You can even buy a postcard of it shouting 'Exterminate!'.

Less impressive, but by no means less valid, is the name used to term the big metal fat catcher in the base of the fryers at the Burger King I used to work. (May God strike me down). Again, like it's an everyday word, it was called a K9.

My memory's a little vague on this, but in the late eighties, Doctor Who was once watched in the Fowler household in EastEnders. (Like we need another Who/Enders link...!)

'The Goodies', (I wish satellite or terrestrial would repeat this series again), I think had numerous references. It had R2-D2 and Threepio in one episode.

There is, of course, 'The Mutants' in Rushdie's 'The Satanic Versus'.

Eddie Izzard, in his early gigs, based a whole ramble around Daleks and the stupidity of the companions. ("Doctor, I'm just going out the TARDIS..." Izzard walks a few paces. "Oh. Captured." Holds hands in air in surrender).

The Martin Clunes film 'Staggered' had a Doctor Who convention half way through it.

Harry Enfield's 'Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era' had Nicey in one of his first TV roles - as the shadow at the end of An Unearthly Child as the end credits roll.

Mastermind had that cabbie take as his subject 'Doctor Who'. He went on to win the series that year.

The Fourth Doctor also appears in the episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob demands to rid the town of TV (the Doctor is a representative of TV, along with the Bumblebee Man, Kent Brockman and Urkel).

He also crops up again in a Halloween episode where Bart and Lisa gain special powers and are up against the Comic Book Guy, otherwise known as the Collector, who has the Fourth Doctor in his menagerie, along with Seven of Nine.

In another episode the Comic Book Guy buys 100 tacos and says "This should be enough sustenance for the Doctor Who marathon".

Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee both appeared in the Goodies and there was also a fly-by of the TARDIS in an episode.

Years ago, another Australian comedian, Richard Stubbs, did a routine about Daleks not being able to go up stairs on the show While You're Down There, circa 1987.

In 1990, the Australian comedy sketch show Fast Forward did a take on Doctor Who for some political satire.
It featured Doctor Hewson (at the time he was the Federal Opposition Leader) with a Leela lookalike, in search of an immigration policy in the future. John Howard (who later replaced him and is now the Prime Minister) turned up as Davros, weak and insubstantial.
An alien appears and it rips off its mask, revealing they are not in the future but in the past. It's Bruce Ruxton, president of the RSL, who has very right-wing views on immigration, going "This is 1955 when you could still get a pie with Rosella sauce and those b l o o d y pizzas were still back in Iti-land".
After he disappears, an omniscient voice appears and it's former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser who offers the solution "Two wongs don't make a white" then asks if anyone has seen his trousers (he supposedly turned up in a hotel without them once).

The whole thing was a comment on the Liberal parties views being way, way behind the times and the fact they live 50 years in the past.

About a year later, Dr Hewson was interviewed on the show and they asked how he was getting on with the Daleks. He had no idea what she was talking about - he said "Do you mean my voice?" (thinking it sounded a bit like "dialect").

I was watching the Grudge Match edition of Robot Wars (Series II) last night. In one of the shots they showed from a previous episode, one of the robots shown looked like a Revenge era Cybermat.

Didn't Little & Large do a sketch? My God! Just thinking about it has made me remember that on top of Syd Little's TV set in the sketch was, (I can't believe I'm remembering this), the Dead Planet video box set. Large as life. In your face.

Harry Hill uses the Brigadier and Cybermen all over the place. I'd say the Brig's performance in this equals anything he did in the series proper!

In Tiny Toons, (a part of my brain is reserved for rubbish trivia like this), there was this huge docking bay area on a spaceship, and alongside the Enterprise and Jupiter II etc was a lil' police box. Which was nice.

In 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie', Stephen holds up a washing up liquid bottle with historic reverence and tells us this was an actual spaceship from Doctor Who, piloted by the alien [insert goobledygook word].

Although not strictly a bona fide reference to the show, the Austin Powers series does have many subtle hints. The walls of the British scientific core are roundelled like the TARDIS walls, Powers goes back and forward in time, he dresses in velvet and frilly shirt like Pertwee, Michael York dresses like the Brigadier, and many of the jokes aimed at the Bond films work just as well for Doctor Who. ("Why don't you kill him now? Why lock him up so he can escape again?" and many others). Also, Heather Graham and Liz Hurley fulfil the companion role.

And then, of course, any article about former DG of the BBC John Birt is accompanied, somewhere, with the word 'Dalek' or 'dalek-like' or 'dalek-voiced', a comparison originally made by Dennis Potter, (who also had a script rejected for the Hartnell era).

Did he really? Is it still in existence anywhere?

It was a story about a mad man who thought he could time travel but couldn't. It wasn't your typical Doctor Who story, more your deep psychological thriller. Don't know any more than that, but I like a lot of Potter's stuff and it would be interesting to read. I do know it was amongst the first scripts he ever wrote, so he's probably burnt it.

In that Mr.Bean Christmnas special, Bean is playing with figurines and animals in Jesus' manger, until he produces a Dalek that threatens to exterminate them all, until he uses (I think) an angel or some other figure to scare the Dalek away.

Thought of another: in Mel Brooks' "The Hitler Rap" from 1984 I'm sure he says "We're going to give it to the nazis, Dalek-style!"

Sorry, Chris, it was "Dachau-style."

I guess that's what they call a mondegreen (a misheard song lyric) - can't believe I've been living with that mistake for 16 years. Doctor Who fans: we'll find references even when they're not there.
Bit like when I see the abbreviation for the World Health Organisation. I see WHO in big capitals and all I can think of is Doctor Who.

The amount of times I've flicked through a newspaper to be greeted with the headline "DOCTOR WHO" only to stop and read the less thrilling, but probably more newsworthy, headline "DOCTOR WHO KILLED PATIENTS" or "VERDICT ON DOCTOR WHO PRESCRIBED MORPHINE". Unless there was a really violent scene that never made it to the final edit of The Twin Dilemma that no one's said anything about. :)

Hey, I just bought a great Who related souvenier at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. It's a baseball jersey that commerates the old Abbott and Costello routine, "Who's on First?" The back of the jersey reads "WHO 1". As soon as I saw it, I had to buy it.

For A&C fans, they also have "WHAT 2" AND "IDONTKNOW 3".

Wow, what a great idea! They should also put up for sale a baseball shirt from the great team Mudville of their star batter Casey.

p.s. for those who work at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was my idea, I expect to be paid for it.

Luiner--too late, they've already got it.

Bummer. I guess that means that I'll have to continue to work for a living.

In the Star Trek TOS novel Ishmael there are two obvious Dr Who references - Kirk says "I bet green apples to metabelis crystals.." and they talk about a mythical species from Kasterborous who mastered time travel and stagnated. There are two more dubious references. Twice fights start in bars over a girl who ignores the fighters and leaves with mysterious men. The first is described as "a tall, curly haired man in the eccentric garb typical of space-tramps" and the second is "an untidy little man with a flute sticking out of one pocket of his threadbare velvet frock-coat"

That's wonderful! I'm so glad those ghastly Trekkies pay homage to the great Who, whilst Who resolutely refuses to acknowledge their existence. Even when the Doctor's talking about teleporting in Cold Fusion, Tegan says 'I've seen Blake's 7' not 'I've seen Star Trek' :)

I wouldn't call those latter two references dubious. They're rather similar to the way the Benny NAs talk about previous Doctors - if anything, they're a bit clearer. Though of course they just _have_ to get the flute wrong - IT'S A RECORDER!

In one Star Trek episode, on one of the computer screens is listed all the actors to have played the Doctor in chronological order.

I can't remember which N/A mentions Ren & Stimpy. Anyone know? Are there any other cultural references like this in the Who novels?

As for Tegan's reference - she lived in England when Blake's 7 was first aired, so maybe it isn't so wrong of her to mention it like that. But the reason we Whovians don't like to acknowledge 'ST' is down to envy pure and simple. BBC2 are repeating the original series again, alongside the other cast-offs. And bearing in mind the number of films that make references to Star Trek, it gets enough publicity as it is. The only film to make a Who reference is 'Carry on Screaming'.

What would be nice would be for George Lucas to secure the rights to all the alien races ever devised for science-fiction TV/film and put them together into the same Star Wars universe. You'd have the Mos Eisley cantina filled with Klingons and Monoids and Zygons and Gelfs and rest assured Doctor Who would clean up on the Most Original Alien Designs Award. Because let's face it, Star Wars is the 'Other Sci-Fi Thing' most Trekkies and Whovians worship and is a kind of neutral territory.

That was the NextGen episode The Neutral Zone. It showed the first six on a geneology chart, paired off.

A Voyager episode mentioned a Trakan beast once. A reference to Nyssa's homeworld, perhaps?

The new look of the Klingons seems to have been inspired by the Ogrons. The Voth are a sentient species descended from dinosaurs. (Silurians anyone?) Also an unnamed species from the episode Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy looked similar to the Sontarans. Not to mention that Voyager has a Doctor without a name.

While I didn't see it myself, in Marvel Comics Heroes For Hire, Luke Cage & Iron Fist go into a Building which is bigger on the inside than the outside and has an eccentric owner.

In an issue of DC Comics Presents, Superman teams up with the Forgotten Heroes (DC Comics characters from the 50's & 60's) and is introduced to Chris KL99, the Columbus of Space who has "discovered more planets than Who, Kirk & Tomorrow." (Tommy Tomorrow was a 50's sci-fi comic character.)

Of course, who didn't think the BBC would sue the makers of the Bill & Ted movies when you found out the characters travel through time in a phone booth?

There was also a sketch on Dave Allen At Large back in the 70's, which had Dave dressed as a priest and while he's walking down the aisle a baptismal font (?) starts following him and squaking, "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" Dave makes it to the alter which then starts fading away with TARDIS wheezing & groaning.

Of course, Red Dwarf A-Z had the Daleks. LOL
"What about Mandy by Barry Manilow?"
"No, we did not write that!"

In the NextGen episode The Naked Now, Riker asks for a "sonic driver".

A few comicbook references:

There was an issue of the Marvel comicbook Powerman/Ironfist in the mid 1980's which featured an old man called (I think) the Professor, who lived in a (I think) curio shop that was suspiciously similar to (I know) a TARDIS and whose personality was very Doctorish.

Also- in the latest run of Fantastic Four, their headquarters are basically in a TARDIS-like structure which is bigger on the inside than the outside.

And- in the mid-1980s, the comicbook Alpha Flight featured a goateed arch villian called, of course, The Master.

Lily Savage did a great sketch playing a female doctor getting skincare advice from a laydek (lady dalek) which kept shouting EXFOLIATE!

Also, I was kind of surprised by all the Dr Who stuff on Queer as Folk, the thing in series one about the boyfriend not being able to name the actors who played the Doctor in the correct order was great, but now I really want a remote controlled K9!

Queer as Folk was by Russell T Davis, author of the NA Damaged Goods, and *swoon* scriptwriter of the non-existent Doctor Who 2000 - hence all the references. That remote controlled K9 was indeed a joy to behold, though so he should be, considering how many hours of gay sex I had to sit through waiting for him to appear.

PJW - of COURSE my feelings about Trek are down to envy! Actually envy is putting it mildly, bitter virulent jealousy is more like it. What's the MATTER with the human race? Can't they just SEE the infinite superiority of Who?

*Emily looks at The Blue Angel and slowly starts eating her words with regard to Doctor Who ignoring Star Trek*

Do Whovians really worship Star Wars? Not me. And to put Who monsters together with every other sf show's would force thousands of continuity freaks such as myself to commit suicide.

Emily: In the Classic Trek section, Classic Trek Sink there is a Star Trek vs. Doctor Who board. In the Star Wars section, Jedis Sink subsection, Vs. (Versus) folder there is a SW vs.Doctor Who board.
I don't think any Doctor Who fanatics have posted on either board yet.

The beginning of The Making Of The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy has a TARDIS sighting. When the book is talking about how Earth seems like an unusual place to film a science fiction series, but that the BBC had tried it before, we see the TARDIS and the Liberator fly by. (Does this mean that DW, B7 & HHGTTG all take place in the same universe? ;-)

Isobel, god I've just remembered that Lily Savage sketch! I thought it was actually rather good too!

Did anyone catch the second series of Queer As Folk? Apparently, in a crucial scene towards the end, a line is said that Russell says 'only Who fans will acknowledge'. What was it?

Spike Milligan had the classic Pakistani Dalek sketch - preceeding the '80s idea of racially different Daleks, I might add!

An obscure radio series from the late sixties nobody will have heard of, {I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again), ran a weekly Doctor Who take-off. It starred John Cleese and Graham Garden, amongst others, and since it was made around the time of the Troughton era, would make it one of the earliest skits.

KAM, I like to think so. But it is strange that in Destiny of the Daleks, he is reading Oolon Culluphid's book and in Ghost Light, he quotes Douglas Adams. So, in this case, the creator and the created share the same universe. A bit like the Land of Fiction, I suppose.

Emily, maybe worship is the wrong word. Abide, I suppose. At least Star Wars combines Who's quirkiness with Trek's rigidity. And because it's a series of films, it's forgiven for not impinging on the TV battleground. As for continuity, I'm sure we'd work it out. ;)

Talking of continuity, in Dimensions in Time we had the whoniverse descend on Albert Square. But there are many references to the TARDIS in 'proper EastEnders' - Peggy is trying to cram a load of vegetarian meals into a fridge, and comments that it 'isn't a TARDIS', for instance. Does she mean that as a cultural reference or as a real reference. Perhaps everyone's grumpiness and nastiness in the soap is all down to the Malus. It would explain a lot. If Mark starts selling Plaup fruit on his stall, (or whatever it was Peggy Mount was selling on her stall in Greatest Show in the Galaxy), then we'll know.

PJW, the 'Queer as Folk' line must have been when the man the Whovian is in love with (sorry, I've forgotten the names) is going to move to London and the Whovian tells him that's pathetic, anyone can move to London, he ought to 'dematerialise' instead. So they go off abroad together. (I couldn't believe it! What self-respecting Who fan would abandon their video collection just to be with the love of their life?)

And sorry, but I can't abide Star Wars either. How DARE it be most popular than Doctor Who! And how DARE its fans be more dedicated - you won't catch ME sleeping outside a cinema for an entire month before the Who film is on *crosses fingers*. OR getting a cinema ticket just so I can catch the Doctor Who trailer.

Keith, I wish you hadn't told me that. Now I'll have to get over to the *shudders* Trekkie board sometime to defend our honour.

The Lily Savage sketch also had K9 "messing" on the floor of the shop - there was this little pile of nuts and bolts - fab.

*puts her hand up and admits that she likes both Trek and Who* To be honest I can't understand the whole animosity thing - IMHO they are both good, just in different ways. *prepares for immediate ostracism from both 'fandoms'*

Actually, I'm in agreement with you Isobel.

Isobel: In The Kitchen Sink, most popular folder, there are 2 boards for Crossover Madness where people list links between different shows, books, comics, etc., etc.

Ooops! That should have been addressed to PJW, not Isobel.

I would never agree that Trek is as good as Who, but then I would never agree that apples are as good as oranges. I prefer Dr Who Oranges. But the Star Trek apples taste good. Particularly the Deep Space Nine apples, with the Classic apples a close second.

I also like the Babylon 5 cherries and the Blake 7 peaches. Not to mentioned the Red Dwarf mangos.

And the Star Wars watermelons are pretty good except the last one which tasted a little too sweet and overripened to the point of rotting for my taste. And way too many seeds for me to spit out.

Am I pushing the metaphor a little too hard?

Sounds like you're sharing the fruits of all your knowledge.

But you can still have sci-fi shows that are bananas and nuts. :)

If sci-fi is the new religion, then this must surely be a religious war. And we all know how bloody and arbitrary they can be. We have our Holy Videos and Sacred Autographs, we can quote entire passages from the Episodes, we maintain the right to wear scarves and trilbys and clinging one piece suits, we muse over the events, we try to convert others, we have to suspend our disbelief at times, we pilgrimage to convention sites and location sites... It won't be long before someone coins the words Whoism and Trekkianity.

I've posted on that board before, KAM, (the Dr Who vs Star Trek one), and thought it'd be nice to let a little of that seep on this one! But cheers anyway.

Chris & Isobel, much of it isn't really hate like that. It's that the lucky basts get the better deal in terms of complete histories, series in colour, repeats... And budgets! Emily, like myself, has a right to be peeved. Can't they see they're being bought! :)>

And as for Vince and Stuart from Queer As Folk running off abroad, Vince may be going for the continual repeats. He may not be able to wait for UK Gold to get round to Four to Doomsday again.

The Radio 4 comedy Dead Ringers featured two Who sketches today. One was someone impersonating Tom Baker ringing a real(? possibly) Taxi firm and asking to be taken from Gallifrey to Floriana and being told it would cost £8.50 (Hurray, take me please) and the other was a preview of a new Who movie with Mr Humphries from Are You Being Served? as the Doctor. The Daleks chorusing "I'm free!" was cool.

PJW - I know it's not really hate like that, but anti-Trek feeling can be a little OTT. I got some dodgy looks wandering around a Who convention in a Next Gen uniform top. Is it my fault if the opportunity to play at being a "redshirt" happened to coincide with being surrounded by Who fans??

To use a football analogy, imagine if you wore a Derby shirt to a Leeds game and stood in with the Leeds crowd. The blood, the blood... oy vey!

Thanks for the Dead Ringers tip-off! Hopefully I'll be able to catch a Radio 4 Saturday repeat or something. It'd be really helpful if the Radio Times, in the programme listings for TV and radio, put something along the lines of "This programme will contain a reference to Doctor Who." While I'm at it, DWM, in their Outside the Spaceship feature, always tell us anything relating to an actor or actress a month later as if to taunt us! Why not tell us a month early!!!

Isobel- I think it's because, and no offense here, a lot of Who fans are jolly tired of people automatically assuming that being a Who fan automatically equals a) being a Star Trek fan, and b) dressing up in a costume at the slightest opportunity. And cos Star Trek's [junk], obviously, apart from DS9, but that isn't Star Trek, and when it is it's [junk] too. All IMHO, obviously...

Note from Mike the Moderator--edited due to inappropriate content.

There was a sketch on an Australian comedy show, called The Late Show, in late 1992 sending up Doctor Who.

Basically, the Doctor (dressed Tom Baker-style, of course, and played by Rob Sitch) are accompanied by the Brigadier (Tony Martin) and a soldier. They are in the TARDIS and suddenly three Daleks appear. The Doctor says: "Oh no, it's my old enemies the Daleks!"
The Brigadier responds: "Soldier, you, I and the British army will fire weapons at them that are patently useless and then when that doesn't work we'll wait for the Doctor to come up with a better plan."
The Daleks converge on the Doctor and blast him, forcing him to regenerate. His face transmutes and it's Peter Russell-Clarke, a guy who used to have his own five-minute cooking show in the 1980s on ABC in Australia. He also did a lot of ads promoting cheese and this Doctor's first line is: "G'day, where's the cheese?"

The Daleks, which had eggbeaters instead of the laser arm, appeared in two more sketches in the same show.
An announcer says: "And coming up on tonight's ABC, the classic film Wuthering Heights, starring the Daleks."
And then there's a shot of Daleks coming from opposite ends to one another screeching: "He-ath-cli-ff! Ca-thy! He-ath-cli-ff! Ca-thy!"
The announcer continues: "And then in our late movie it's Singin' In The Rain."
You then see a Dalek going down a rain-soaked street, singing in its mechanical voice: "I'm-sin-gin'-in-the-rain; just-sin-gin'-in-the-rain"

Obviously they wanted to make use of the Dalek props they built.

Thanks Chris, now I am going to write to my local PBS station and ask them to pick up this show. They recently broadcasted Nightline, (a fantastic comedy series about the behind the scenes of a current affairs program and had many of the same actors as above), so why not The Late Show.

I wish I can contribute to this discussion's topic, but besides the Simpsons, the US is a desert when it comes to Who references.

Remember, this is The Late Show, as shown on Australia's ABC, in 1992 and 1993. PBS would need to write Australian Broadcasting Corporation, GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. Not sure who to address it to but the new managing director of the ABC is Jonathan Shier.

I'm guessing you're referring to Frontline, not Nightline. That was a great show; they did three seasons (and, as a journalist, you don't know how true the show was). Of course, there's the English show Drop The Dead Donkey which was in a similar vein, as was the Canadian show The Newsroom.

The people that did Frontline (their company is called Working Dog) also did a show called Funky Squad, a sort-of spoof of The Mod Squad. They also made a film in 1997 called The Castle and currently they do a show on Channel 10 in Australia called The Panel, a talk show sitting around a panel talking about the week with guests and clips.

Many of these people can also be found in the D Generation series, done in 1986 and 1987 on ABC and 1988 on Channel 7 Australia (famous Thunderbirds sketch in this time).

Quoted from Ed:
a lot of Who fans are jolly tired of people automatically assuming that being a Who fan automatically equals a) being a Star Trek fan, and b) dressing up in a costume at the slightest opportunity.

Ed - I don't assume that. I have only ever seen one or two people in costume at a Who convention, and it's blatantly obvious that being a Who fan doesn't mean you're automatically a Trek fan.

*Shrugs and wishes she had never responded to the whole "Who not acknowledging Trek" thing in the first place.*

Obvious to you and me, however these are the same people (i.e. the general public) who assume anything labeled science fiction is exactly the same as Star Wars and Star Trek.

I'm not saying it's right for people to be pissed off with you, but it is the most likely explanation.

Edje's June 30 comments really ticked me off. If you don't like Star Trek fine, but is that any excuse for foul language? Simply sticking an e at the end of a four-letter word does not make it any nicer.

Like it or not, some of us Who fans are also Star Trek fans, and vice versa.

Apologies to anyone I've offended with my above cooments, especially Keith and Isobel- Mike, if you're reading, please just delete them.

I'm under a bit of stress in RL at the mo', it's far, far too easy to type stuff like this, when I wouldn't word it in *quite* the same way in conversation.

My bad, sorry everyone.

Note from Mike the Moderator--no problem. But remember, everyone, this is a civil site. Please review your message before you hit the Save Message button.

And BTW, does it worry anyone that the owrd I used above isn't in the filtering system, but ••••••, sorry $tupid, is?

Thanks Chris, for the info. It was broadcasted as Frontline on the local PBS station. Rather strange that, since a documentary series on American Public Television is also called Frontline, though not nearly as funny.

I have 'The Castle' on DVD. Excellent movie.

As far as Ed goes, 'shite' is a common Irish swear word. Why that isn't filtered but ztupid is, I have no idea. I think filtering is kind of silly, anyways. Jeepers, I've used all of George Carlin's seven most censored words when I was a kid. So do 99% of today's kids. Who exactly are we protecting from the these naughty words?

However, it is all too easy to understand Ed's opinion. Go to any bookstore, these days, and at least half of the books in the science fiction section are under the Star Wars or Star Trek categories. When some hack Star Trek writer can sell more books than somebody else like Kim Stanley Robinson, Larry Niven, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Harlin Ellison, Andre Norton, etc, etc, it kind of makes me sad.

And what's more, when some hack Star Trek writer can sell more than some hack Doctor Who writer...

;-)

Okay, kids, take a deep breath and calm down.

Lunier & Ed, the reason that there a kajillion ST books in the science fiction section is because publishers are responding to the demands of the marketplace. Sadly, that's what most SF fans buy these days. TV has pretty much taken over the world of science fiction, to the point where, if it doesn't have a TV tie-in, it don't sell.

As an old codger who's been an avid READER of SF for years, I'm saddened by this. It's one of the reasons I was originally reluctant to read the New Adventures; I thought that would be the same as defecting to the enemy camp. Now I see it as a blow against the Star Trekization of SF

I don't blame Star Trek for all the problems, BTW. What's really behind it is the short memories of the public. Very few fans realize that there was SF (and, for that matter, other literature) before "Star Trek." I've read stories of alien half-breeds, faster than light spaceships, energy weapons, and half-man/half machines before, all written decades before Gene Rodenberry finished the first ST pilot.

SF fandom would be a happier place if modern writers would admit that they had roots, not that they created the whole darn field.

End of rant.

Found another example of Doctor Who in Australian comedy:
In the late 80s there was a show called The Comedy Company and in the spin-off book there were spoof TV listings which included:
Doctor Who. The Repeat of Doom. (Rpt). The Doctor degenerates into an even worse actor than before and lands on the planet Quarry. He is captured by the Silver Wetsuitoids but they come up with a better plan and let him go for no reason at all. They spend the rest of the episode chasing each other up and down corridors.

I know it's already been mentioned, but I saw the Simpsons episode 'Treehouse of Horror X' on Sky for the first time and I have to say that I was impressed.

Not only is Tom Baker strung up next to Xena, but he also gets a mention and lots of screen time! His first shot is partially obscured by The Comic Book Guy, and I thought it looked a lot like the Eighth Doctor, but he gets a lot of air time and the chance to roll his eyes a fair old bit! I'm waiting for a Simpsons episode with the interior of the TARDIS and a couple of Daleks. It's only a matter of time, surely?! Surely the Daleks are just as well know as Ol' Tom in the US? (Well, it's a dream...)

I've wondered, has there ever been any Doctor Who references or guest appearances on Futurama, since it's also created by Groening?

There haven't been any Doctor Who refrences on Futurama, yet. But, it seem to be only a matter of time before one shows up. IMHO, it would be funny if the 11th doctor turned out to be Leela's dad.

Or if Leela used a Janus thorn. ;-)

Is the name of the character Leela possibly a nod to Doctor Who?

I read in a Matt Groening interview somewhere that it wasn't. Although the low-cut tops both Leelas wear cannot surely be a coincidence. :)

In the first episode of The Good Life, Tom and Barbara do Dalek impressions. With one arm outstretched as the 'plunger' Tom shouts "comute, comute" as he gets ready for work and they both walk out across the front garden talking like daleks and have a cute little 'plunger to plunger' kiss - aaaah!

I never really saw what was so good about their life. Tom and Barbara were always weird. Had The Good Life come after Paradise Towers, we might've seen Tom affectionately chase Barbara to the upper levels of the house with a couple of cleaners.

Comedians Lee and Herring, in their live 1995 show, make a mention of Our Show in their act, and Stewart Lee makes a joke that the nearest thing the people of Somerset got to video games was to press both thumbs into both eyelids to create something like the opening credits to Doctor Who. He then goes on, (quite bravely, I think, given their relative obscurity in popular culture), to mention Silurians. During the recent repeats, many people confused at this obscure reference finally got it and laughed quietly to themselves.

Found this in the Dallas Morning News about last night's Metallica concert.

"Heavy metal has always been mythical stuff, as dependent on the
receiver's imagination as a Wagner opera or a Dr. Who episode.
In this arena, the worst thing a band can do is disappoint, but
there was little chance of that as the bad boys of San Fran rocked
the house with the determined certainty of an artillery barrage."

So, somebody else in DFW has heard of Dr. Who.

I think living with Felicity Kendal would be a pretty good life, myself, by the way.

There's an estate agents in East Ham with two cartoons in the window. One has a vaguely Tom Baker-like figure emerging from a blue box saying 'You're right - it is more spacious than it looks' and the other has a bunch of Daleks clustered around the steps up to a house, with the estate agent telling them 'Perhaps you'd prefer a bungalow.'

OK, strictly speaking they weren't very good cartoons, but I still had to restrain myself from leaping into the estate agents and buying a flat from them. They restored my faith that Doctor Who was still part of the cultural heritage of this country, which I’d been rather doubting since – when trying to renew War of the Daleks – I discovered a librarian who didn’t know how to pronounce the word ‘Dalek’. It made me think of the whole lost generation growing up bereft of Who. No wonder society is collapsing! ELEVEN YEARS since the last series. Plus the preceding three years when the programme was...how can I put this tactfully...not at its peak (I mean, I ADORE season 26, I honestly think it’s the best ever, but unfortunately everyone had switched off by then). Two years before then – ugg – the Colin Baker era, in which even _I_ switched off. And say a kid has to be 5 or 6 before it can be a vaguely sentient Whovian...that means there are people of TWENTY-ONE walking around who never had a fair chance of experiencing true Who. My heart bleeds for them. Admittedly not as much as it bleeds for ME.

Private Eye has done a good job of keeping the Cause alive. A little picture of a Dalek every time Birt is mentioned. Plenty of cartoons – when viagra came out, a Dalek shrieking ‘Fornicate! Fornicate!’ and another with a ‘Things to do today’ sign: ‘Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.’ Etc. Their ‘Men behaving badly’ cartoon series included ‘Cybermen behaving badly’. And a Whovian made it to their Pseud’s Corner.

I remember seeing a travel agent years ago called TARDIS Travels... and yes, they had a blue police box as their logo.

Can you say "copyright infringement"? ;-)

Probably explains why they're not around any more.

A while back I was reading the Star Trek TOS novel 'My Enemy, My Ally', and came to a passage about a crew member (named Freeman, though that may just be a coincidence) whose hobby was converting classic old movies and the like into 3-D holograms. There was a line about Freeman's loving everything made before 2200, and I instantly thought 'That means he must like "Doctor Who". Good taste.'
At the bottom of the same page, one of Freeman's latest conversions is tested, and...
'A peculiar grinding, wheezing sound began to fill the air. On the platform there slowly faded into existence a tall blue rectangular structure with doors in it, and a flashing white light on top, and what appeared to be the Anglish words POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX blazoned on the front panel above the doors. There was a pause, during which the noise and the flashing light both stopped. Then one of the box's doors opened. To Jim's mild amusement, a hominid, quite Terran-looking, peered out and gazed around him in great interest; a curly-haired person in a burgundy jacket, with a floppy hat, a striped scarf of truly excessive length, and sharp bright eyes above a dazzling smile, ingenuous as a child's.'

The online comic strip General Protection Fault from October 25 to November 4.

http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20001025.html

There's even a bit of discussion about it in the Forum.

Funny cartoon, even if it did crash my computer after accessing that website. Thanks MicroSoft.

Gee, sounds like me trying to explain DrWho to another American who has absolutely no idea what I am talking about to the point that I am banging my head against the wall without the comfort of listening to Megadeth while doing it.

In a way, I understand how those Jehovah's Witnesses that come knocking on my door to convert me must feel when I slam the door back in their faces.

We'd like to speak to you about your relationship with Televised Science Fiction.

Just checked out that comic. And wow! What a coincidence, a friend of mine and his girlfriend went to a fancy dress party as the 4th Doctor and Catwoman! Freaky. Ahem, and I went as Austin Powers

Just don't give me free issues of the Dark Tower.

What is really scary is that the novels talk about a Watch Tower on or in the Panoptican.

I think I will become a Rastafari in self defence.

It makes sense to have the Doctor and Catwomen, together at a party. They have both been played by several actors. Austin Powers is a pastiche of several Cold War spy characters rolled up into one. Why I brought that up, I have no idea. Hoping to find a similar DrWho character and Kamelion is the only one that comes far from being close.

I just hope you didn't 'yah,baby' and 'shagadelic' everybody to death.

I wonder if he met anyone dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi & they told him to, "Use the Force, Luke."

You've all gone nuts.

I've heard that line since day one.
In fact, if I hear it one more time, I'll show them exactly how I'll 'use' the 'force'

Oh, good. I got it in just under the wire. Whewwww. ;-)

Now if only I could convince someone I don't like to use that line on you... hmmm...

Luke,

I AM your father.


Sorry about that, couldn't resist. ;)

"I have felt your presents..."

oo er... my presents? Not *the* gift-wrapped package, surely?

I've been rehearsing a play for the past few months and there's a young brother and sister (16 & 19) in it and they spied my Doctor Who socks (hangs his head in shame) and said "Our dad was in Doctor Who".

My ears immediately pricked up and it turns out he was the lead Kroton - and he still gets royalty cheques to this day. I checked my fact books and, sure enough, his name is there. Apparently he had a very brief role in The Invasion as well but he doesn't remember it.

In the paper yesterday there was a news article about the BBC setting up a £25million film industry that will apparently set out to rival Hollywood. I ask you! £25million in Hollywood money would just about pay for a two foot long piece of cabling! £25million is actually peanuts.

The Doctor Who in Unlikely Places relevance? One of the first all-out glitzy special-effectsy productions will be Dr Who. This could make or break Beebwood. (Or whatever they're calling this Hollywood 'rival').

CGI Daleks would, I think, be lovely to look at. Lots of firepower and spaceships and lushious production lines. I hope it does have Daleks. If it has the Master in it, I think I will scream.

Chris, that must've been a nice shock. It's not many who can stumble across the children of a lead Kroton actor. That's well flukey. Have you made any attempts yet to get him to sign your Krotons video?

I would - if I could actually get a copy of The Krotons, because he and his family would like to see it, too.

Well, Chris, you can borrow my tape, but I don't think it will play in Ozzie VCR's. Though if you have a way of converting NTSC to PAL or whatever you have down under, let me know and I will dub a copy for you and mail it.

25 million pounds for an alternate Hollywood? It is so expensive there that producers are going to Canada to make shows. In fact, I believe most of X-Files were recorded in Vancouver. As far as CGI Daleks go, it would be nice to see their suction cup arms turn into fully manipulatable robotic hands. Those toilet plungers really make it hard for me to suspend belief long enough for me to be scared of them. Are they going to exterminate me or unblock my pipes?

As far as topic goes, DrWho in unlikely places, I just found out recently that DrWho is back on the air in Dallas-FortWorth, after at least 7 years, starting Dec 2. Not only that, but they are starting off with Pertwee, not the well worn Tom Baker that every DrWho fan has the complete episodes on tape. AT LAST, I can complete my Pertwee collection of episodes. And they are doing episodes, not movie length stories. I get to see him as it was originally intended, one episode a week with cliffhanger intact. No fast forwarding to find out what happened. I will be in the dark as to what happened next. Suffering from anxiety that the Doctor may not make it, for a whole week!

Life is all of a sudden, good. Thank you, KERA (local PBS station).

It's like that with me, Luiner. I'm filling those pesky gaps in m'collection with UK Gold Pertwees, (movie-length though, dang), but when I pop back home for Christmas, I'll be able to sit down and watch, like yourself, efforts like The Mutants for the Very First Time. In the new year, then, expect a lot of activity on the Pertwee boards!

For a while I've been following a daily internet cartoon called Triangle and Robert. It's been bizarre pretty much from the beginning, but late last year it took a brief Whovian twist. If you want to know more, check the last 4 strips on this page.

Cute. Although since I hate Leave It To Beaver, I was rooting for the Daleks. ;-)

I had heard about Triangle & Robert, but had never seen it before. Interesting.

Oh, there are also some SF parodies in the strip Fans. (http://www.faans.com)
Doctor What appears in the background of a number of strips in the first storyline & I think a Dalek has a cameo in the FIB's underground containment unit in the 3rd or the 4th story.

Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but the League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions had several Whovian references.

The Spidermobile uses TARDIS-like 'bigger on the inside than the outside' technology.

Visitor #25 disappeared from 1968 San Francisco in a blue phone booth, & I posted as The Timelords 3 or 4 times.

The LICC Archives can be found out http://www.geocities.com/TheLICC/

In Port Mike (in the Soap Operas section of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 board here at NitCentral) was a character named Sarah Jane Stone, a former journalist who had had adventures with a mysterious doctor who worked for a secret British organization.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before this happened. You'll have to scroll down a bit, but it'll be obvious when you find what I'm referring to.

'The EsseX Files', co-written by Mark Gatiss, includes a couple of DW references/in-jokes. File 8, 'The Chingford Faeries' features characters named Alice and Maud Peladon, and their guardian Reverend Alec Aggedor.
More significantly, the final chapter, which attempts to link the 'paranormal' phenomena described in the book with global conspiracy theories includes the following observation:
'Even more incredibly actor Nicholas Smith who played jug-eared boss Mr Rumbold had a bit-part as a Robo-Man (sic) in Doctor Who - a show which began the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination. But the adventuring Time Lord finally disappeared from its sacred Saturday teatime slot to be replaced in the schedules by none other than The Little and Large Show.'

The 'Room 101' scheduled for a repeat on BBC2 next Monday includes some ill-informed speculation on TARDISes.

Ed, is that the Room 101 with Stephen Fry?

It's the one with Will Self from the previous series. At least, that's what the announcer said after the Stephen Fry one.

Oh yeah. I remember that one now. Room 101 tends to do a lot of references. Once, when someone wanted to banish spiders into Room 101, they showed a clip from 'Planet of the Spiders'. And it wasn't one of the particularly good clips either.

You mean...there were GOOD clips from Planet of the Spiders?!

The final scene has some good moments.

Yeah, but there wouldn't be much point in showing the regeneration scene in a programme about arachnophobia...

I love the scene where the Great One humiliates the Doctor by making him stomp around in a circle - then exposes his fear.

The end doesn't justify the scenes.

Okay, so I'm watching "Police Video Action" on TLC last night (there wasn't anything else good on TV). During one host segment, the narrator is being filmed at an British police driving course. I was half paying attention when I spotted a very familiar shape in the background--a police box! Now, since this was filmed about a year ago, and police boxes haven't been used in Britain since 1980, there's only one possible explanation for that box.....

Well, reading the July 19-25 2001 edition of the Guardian Weekly, which is sold all over the world to liberals and UK expatriates, I came across a photo of the 7th Doctor and Mags behind bars on page 7.

The caption reads: Time Lord returns - Dr Who finds a home on the Internet.

Then a short paragraph about the 1/2 hr episode being broadcasted on the Beeb's website.

What was somewhat interesting was that it was reported that the Beeb will start charging us to listen to online drama in future.

God! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO typical!!!! That is so....BBC! Just when you're beginning to wonder if, after all, the BBC isn't _totally_ the spawn of satan...Just when you're saying to yourself OK, so they murdered Doctor Who but at least they're paying a BIT of homage, however hypocritical, to its corpse...Just when you're thinking, well, I can't actually LISTEN to it because my computer at home doesn't have sound and my computer at work doesn't have sound and my mum's computer refuses to play the bloody thing despite me spending SEVERAL HOURS downloading some wretched realplayer (whatever that is), but hey, what does it matter, Who is back! And can I not feast my eyes on the pictures so kindly provided by the BBC (OK, so I'd really rather not, but that's beside the point)? And admittedly the thought has crossed my mind that even if I DID get to listen to these thrilling instalments they wouldn't really be worth the hundred quid I've annually forked out since the last time I actually got my moneysworth out of the BBC (May 1996 to be precise) but, after all, it's the thought that counts. And OK, we've only got it on-line because the bloody beeb can't even get their act together to make a RADIO programme, never mind bring back a new series but it's better than nothing...Just when you're thinking, a-ha! A million and a half hits, ignore THAT you ********...well, what happens? The BBC decide they haven't made enough money fleecing the poor devoted fans over the decades. What next - are they going to charge us for the privilege of BREATHING? Or is this less a matter of pure greed and more an attempt to cut down on the embarrassingly high number of people who showed up the BBC's non-Who policy for the insanity it is?

Dare I mention that the photo of Doc and Mags behind bars lies above an article captioned "Britain 'jailing torture victims'"? The article was about tortured asylum seekers being put in jail while awaiting their hearing with murderers and rapists.

If you didn't look close, you would've wondered if the Doctor was looking for political asylum, and being thrown in jail.

Was the Guardian Weekly making a strange choice of putting a misjustice of human rights report under the comeback of Dr Who paragraph (in fairly small print), or was it a secret message to us Whovians?

Anyone see that Blackadder special, Blackadder Goes Back and Forth?
Not Doctor Who, but Blackadder and Baldrick are whizzing through time and space in a wooden box... kinda familiar (and pertinent given Atkinson in The Curse of the Fatal Death).

Luiner, I deeply regret that, knowing the so-called Gruniad's reputation, it was probably an accident rather than a genuine attempt to subliminally instill a 'Help, the Doctor's a prisoner!' message in the expatriate population.

Chris - *ggrrr* - WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THE DOCTOR, that's what I want to know!!! You need a program about time travel to mark the millennium? Well, who's the most famous time traveller Britain has ever produced?! Isn't it OBVIOUS!!! OK, so any program would no doubt have been dire, embarrassing, a total flop (like everything else about the millennium dome) and non-canonical, but it would have introduced a whole new generation of kids to Who.

My dreams.

Last night I dreamed I was nitpicking a new Doctor Who video where Pertwee had reprised his role as the third Doctor.
(Sadly my mental video recorder was not working properly, so I can't provide copies for anyone.)

The title was one word that started with an I & I remember thinking that it appeared more like an Avengers episode rather than Doctor Who. (After some onscreen action with a flare of music, rather than at the end of the title sequence.

Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier was really showing his age unfortunately. Although for that matter Pertwee didn't look so hot either, but after waking up I realized that he was dead, so in retrospect I have to admit that he did a very good job of convincing he was alive.

Don't remember any companion besides the Brig. I think the bad guy was an alien, but the story was set on Earth, possibly involving infiltration.

(Boy, nitpicking dreams of new episodes... Is that just desperate or simply sad & pathetic?)

Someone mentioned Dead Ringers on this page. Good news: the new series begins this Friday, 6.30pm, Radio 4! (and repeated Saturday lunchtime 12.30pm)

I was watching an episode of Blake's 7 (Breakdown) and Avon was trying to bypass Zen. Inside his tool case was a tool that looked extremely familiar. I could have sworn I seen a sonic screwdriver.

Wouldn't surprise me the least. During that period of Doctor Who, I thought a saw a standard Federation Issue Blaster Gun from Blakes Seven. Though for the life of me, I can't remember which Dr Who story it was.

Actually, my subconcious memory keeps telling me it was on Face of Evil. However, I wouldn't be surprised if I were completely wrong about that.

If you believe that B7 is set in the Whoniverse then maybe Avon, the soldier from The Silurians & whatshisname from Timelash all belong to the same family?
Or maybe the guy from Timelash ended up in Blake's time & changed his name to Kur Avon? ;-)

As for the Federation blaster in Face Of Evil, welll.... maybe Sevateem isn't a corruption of Survey Team, but a corruption of Seven Team, Blakes Seven. Yes! They did survive the final episode then crashed on the planet. ;-)

I was surfing the web & came across a description of a cartoon show from the 60's called King Kong. The villain of the show was named Dr. Who.

KAM--that was a Japanese kaiju (big monster movie) called "King Kong Escapes" (1967). It was your standard guy in rubber suit live-action film, not animated. KK had to face the awsoma powah of Mecha-King Kong in this one. Dr. Who was played by Eisei Amamoto; the dubbed English voice was provided by Paul Frees. If memory serves me correctly, this Dr. Who dressed like a tamer version of Chairman Kaga from "Iron Chef"...

Well, since you don't believe anything I write here's the link. Read for yourself.

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1116.php

Hmm, the IMDB let me down again; they don't have any record of this Saturday morning toon. I humbly beg your pardon.

There was a Doctor Who question on the Australian Who Wants To Be A Millionaire the other week:

In the TV series, what his name is Doctor who?
A) What
B) Who
C) When
D) Why.

Correct answer was B. I wanted to scream "Doctor Who isn't his name, his name is just the Doctor!"

On an episode of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer one of the bad guys says, "I've seen every episode of Doctor Who." An amazing feat considering this guy was in High School about 2 years ago.

Ooohhh...don't you just want to mention that fact that he couldn't possibly seen every episode to the Nitpicker board for Buffy (if there is one)?

I know I would.

Already did. Check the board for Smashed (Season Six).

Ah, the tricks the brain plays on us. I was driving through a forest, rounded a sharp corner, and caught a glimpse of a large sign leading to an industrial area. In the half-second the sign was visible, my brain read in big black letters the words "Lalla Ward." That made me curious enough to turn around and take a closer look. Turns out that when it's not glimpsed out of the corner of your eye while traveling at 60 mph, the sign actually reads "Log Yard." It's very sad.

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I was moderately amused to see today one (sadly unnamed) Labour backbencher comparing the shock of Iain Duncan Smith (Tory opposition leader) actually scoring a few points off Tony Blair to 'Doctor Who discovering that Daleks can go up stairs.' In fact, I was so happy about it I didn't even shriek 'His name's THE DOCTOR you moron!'

Oh, and I saw the address 'Silurian Close' the other day. I was overcome with excitement for the two seconds it took me to remember that Silurian was the name of a prehistorical era as well as of some three-eyed monsters.

Earlier tonight I could've watched the Five Docs once again for the zillionth time on a local PBS station's pledge drive. For non Americans PBS isn't commercially run so they have to beg for money on programming, especially programming that doesn't have corporate backing like Dr Who. Now, the Station Director for this particular PBS station quite obviously hates Dr Who and so instead of doing a pledge drive on its normal night (some self help idiot was on instead), he does it on Saturday night at the same time a new episode of Saturday Night Live was being broadcasted.

Now I could fight against this by watching Dr Who anyways, but I had already pledged my money and quite frankly I didn't feel like watching more hypocritical begging and the Five Docs (which I had already on tape).

So I watched SNL. So imagine my surprise when I hear the TARDIS materialization sound effect during a skit about two comic book geeks on Public Access TV talk about their Oscar picks. Then they introduce a Doctor Who impersonator who manages the local Pizza Hut. In comes Sir Ian McKellen dressed up as the fourth Doctor, scarf and all. My jaw dropped to the floor. I have to go find it now, I think it rolled under the desk.

The skit wasn't particulary funny, but it was a cool moment. Sir Ian then impersonated Gandalf and Magneto. He has actually played those parts in movies. Does that mean he is going to finish the hattrick and play the Doctor as well in a movie?

The Doctor is mentioned in this week's "This Day in The Onion", at the http://www.theonion.com, the satirical website.

I was reading the letters page on the latest issue of the New Musical Express at the library when I noticed that one of the letters was sent in by someone calling themselves Pigbin Josh, the name of the short lived tramp like character who is one of the first victims of Axos.

IIRC there was an angry letter to DWM once about some of the N/A writers borrowing planet/character names from Trek.

I was at the Western Washington Fair Sunday & in the Hobby Hall someone displayed their Doctor Who memorabilia. Books, figures, TARDIS kits, Doctor Who Annuals, a chess set, a head of an original Cyberman (or a mock-up), other stuff I can't remember.

The chess set seemed odd though.
On the white(?) side all the pawns were K-9, the TARDIS was both rooks the knights were Adric (I think) & Jamie, the bishops were the Brigadier & Kamelion (Why him?), the queen was Leela & the king was the 7th Doctor. A rather odd assortment of companions.
On the black(?) side the Daleks were pawns. (The Daleks as pawns, wouldn't Ogrons be more appropriate?) The Master was king and the Rani was Queen.
The bishops were an Ice Warrior & a Sea Devil. And I'm starting to forget the rest of them. I do remember they had a Draconian as bishop which had me thinking were the Draconians really villains? Weren't they being tricked into a war with Earth?

As the proud owner of the Doctor Who Chess Set (bought second-hand for £150, I was fully intending to flog it off on eBay where they go for £400-500, I just...er...haven't got round to it yet), I have to agree the character choices are bizarre.

I liked the Daleks as pawns (they're exactly the right shape, unlike K9) but the COMPANIONS! Call me a raving feminist, but the only females it's got are (unavoidably) the queens. (Unless you go for the almost-all-TARDISes-are-female theory.) Shouldn't Sarah Jane have taken precendence over Kamelion? And wouldn't Romana have made a better queen than Leela, given that the Black King/Queen team were both Time Lords?

As for the dark side...yes, there's nothing wrong with the Draconians, unless you count being male chauvinist pigs, which alas goes for our beloved Doctor as well. And the Ice Warriors and Sea Devils are no more war-like than the filthy humans. (The Sontarans were the rooks, by the way. Fair enough.)

Though Lawrence did once comment vis-a-vis Kamelion and Adric 'Both entirely logical choices: it's the purpose of most chess pieces to be brutally sacrificed in favour of the King.'

The set came with all (in those days) seven Doctors. You _can_ get other pieces to add to the original set, the makers cashed in by creating loads of extras - I've seen Davros, Zoe, Chang Lee etc on eBay. When I'm a millionaire I'll no doubt create an all-female team for the red side.

Just 2 short ones;
All these years I never realized that I lived just 4 blocks away from Perivale Road.
And I keep seeing a delivery truck with 'Ace Bakery' on its side.

The Dead Ringers can be found here (and they're terribly funny): http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/deadringers/index.shtml

I remember seeing a travel agent years ago called TARDIS Travels... and yes, they had a blue police box as their logo.

There's a computer program called tardis, complete with blue police box icon, on a computer at my college's library.

Don't know why I didn't post this before, but years ago there was a Mac computer game (not sure if it was freeware or shareware) called Daleks. It was based on some other game (Cops & Robber???) & the player was the Doctor and he could move around the board, but the Daleks would come after you. The idea was to get the Daleks to collide with each other, which would destroy them. Also you could use the sonic screwdriver to wipe out any Daleks that were too close. If you were trapped, you could use the TARDIS feature, which transported you randomly to another spot on the board, sometimes killing you.

It was a fun game, but it was never updated for later operating systems. (And no doubt the BBC might have gotten upset with the programmer if it had been since it most likely wasn't licensed.)

Speaking of games, I won a game of Scrabble last night by playing the word "roundels." For 68 points. Unfortunately, TARDIS is not in the official Scrabble dictionary yet (though "tardies" is).

On a recent Old Navy (U.S. clothing store)commerical, the actors are all wearing very long striped scarves, several of which look remarkably like #4's various scarves.

The 4th Doctor shows up in Elf Life. (This link should be good till Monday, then the strip'll be archived & I'll post a new link.)

Oh, BTW a couple of weeks ago I saw a list of Top Ten Sci-Fi characters & the Doctor was on it.

Unfortunately I lost the list and haven't seen a copy of it anywhere. Which is surprising as I would have figured some NitCentralian would have posted a copy as it featured characters from Doctor Who, Farscape, Stargate SG-1 & Lord Of The Rings. (How LOTR can be considered SF baffles me.)

Here and the next day.

not really funny- didn't get the second one.

Umm, was that a TARDIS I just saw on this weeks episode of Enterprise?

A number of nitpickers on the Enterprise board thought so.

And did you notice some of the characters undergoing a Chronic Historysus, as well?

Yeah, I did catch that, shades of Meglos. But it's not the first time Star Trek used the chronic hysteresis effect. ST:TNG also did that, though I forget which episode.

When they were looking for the power source I kept thinking they need to find the Eye of Harmony.

Very strange. I felt like I was watching some bizarre episode of Dr Who without the doctor where all these different species are fighting over this capsule without really knowing what it is. But we know that it is must be a Timelord in his TARDIS.

In the MST3K episode "Time of the Apes" the so-called "heros" wake up and there are three "deep-sleep" pods behind them.

Joel: "Its the Daleks!"

Tom [In Dalek Voice]: "Exterminate! Exterminate! Ex.."

The recent Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Future Tense" featured a ship that traveled through time and was bigger on the inside than on the outside.

I was in a takeaway the other night and a girl called Tegan served me. Being flippant I said "Did you know there was a Tegan in Doctor Who?" and she said "That's who I'm named after."
And I said: "Please don't tell me you have a brother and sister called Adric and Nyssa" but fortunately she didn't.

I once met a Nyssa, named after Doctor Who's Nyssa - her mother was pregnant and watching the show one night and liked the name.

Not to sound ignorant and American, but ... what's a takeaway?

A place where you can pick up prepared food to take home and eat. I guess the US equivalent would be "to go."

Ohhh, I see. Thanks.

I've seen a Dalek! OK, not a real one, obviously, or I wouldn't be here to tell the tale, but a big, evil-looking Dalek on a poster with the slogan 'Are you power mad?' It was advertising batteries. I can't remember what variety, or I'd tell everyone to buy loads of them. I'm getting so worried that Who will soon cease to permeate British public consciousness that I'm even prepared to approve of such disrespect.

That reminds me of the time earlier this year, when I was walking through my old college and happened upon a darkened hall lined wall to wall with passive immobile Daleks...

I was surfing through the channels on Sky on the channel search thingie, trying to decide to watch, and caught a glimpse of the words 'Ice Warriors'. So I stopped and flipped back, feeling some excitment I might add.

But sadly it's some gameshow on the Challenge channel - sad men doing Gladiators in the ice, I believe....

And, Emily, I saw the Dalek on a posterboard...didn't see what it was advertising though. Still thrilling to see it! And UK Gold have reserved both Bank holidays to show Dalek stories this month. I spent last week's on the sofa for nearly the whole day...as much to add to the viewing figures as anything! But I saw the Dalek Invasion of Earth for the first time. Can't think why I've never watched it through before...

Adorable and extremely politically accurate cartoon of Daleks!:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,955640,00.html

We have a freelance employee at my company with the last name 'Vogan'. Not sure how much she likes gold.

We also have an employee who calls himself 'Ron', but also 'Rannie'.

And I live within a mile of The Church Of The Master. So far it hasn't dematerialized or turned into a pillar.

Alice, the Dalek was advertising Energizer Batteries as I recall...!

Daleks, have you got the bunny inside?

Mutated or Unmutated ?

(Starts pulling Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch out of coat pocket...)

By the way, are'nt the Cybermen supposed to run on Panasonic alkaline batteries, according to an Australian ad, featuring Tom Baker & Lalla Ward...?

Was reading a rather strange online comic called Closetspace and came across two Who refs.
The first one has a character say "I have every episode of "Doctor Who." And I watch them every day."

I wonder where she found the missing episodes and she must mean she watches some of them because you couldn't watch all of them in a day without multiple TVs.

The second one has a picture of a Dalek on a poster for a Sci-fi convention. 2 of the listed special guests are William Hartnell & Peter Cushing.

I just got back from seeing "Looney Tunes: Back in Action." There is a scene where a bunch of classic sci-fi creatures are chasing after the main characters and among them are not 1, but 2 Daleks prominently displayed and lasers blasting!

(And by the way the movie is hysterically funny!)

That was funny, but I was disappointed that they got the Dalek weapons effect wrong.

In the online comic Freefall, Sam Starfall is an alien conman who is always seen in an environment suit. Another cartoonist did a pic of Sam having to use a backup suit.

Dalek birthday cake.

KAM: I wonder if the Dalek cake sings "Happy Extermination Day To You"?

Or how about instead of blowing out the candles, you exterminate them?

I'M MEL-TING!

I'M MEL-TING!

THE DOC-TOR JUMPED WHILE I WAS IN THE OVEN.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA....

Not the best spot for this, but as there doesn't seem to be a board for discussing the Time Lords, I'll put it here.

Was rereading an old 2-part JLA story* & one of the villains was The Lord Of Time, also referred to as the Time Lord.
This story first appeared in 1962, a year before Doctor Who aired & the Doctor's people wouldn't be named Time Lords until 1969 or 1970.

* The Fantastic Fingers of Felix Faust/One Hour To Doomsday! originally printed in Justice League of America's 10 & 11

This is also perhaps not the best place for this one either, nor is it new, but for the benefit of those who haven't seen it, it's definately worth a look:
http://www.oblongpictures.co.uk/dw1.htm

Re:Isobel's Comment Mon Jun 19th 2000
Some of the Doctor's assistants/companions make cameos in Other Star Trek Novels, abeit thinly disguised....
For example, Scotty & Chekov (dragooned as Scotty's "caddy") play a very unusual game of golf, with a certian Brigader & Sargent-Major, in John M Ford's "How Much For Just The Planet...?"
(Apparently UNIT use 81 mm Mortars, instead of clubs to drive the ball, & "Five Round's Rapid...." does make a apparance as a line of script...).
In addition, some Star Trek novelists, insert a
Certain Trakenite Companion into their novels, in cameo roles, the latest being the
Enterprise Novels "Daedelus" & "Daedelus'es Children" ...
Could this be a "sub-genre" of this "game", I ask myself...?

Lunier is right in his observation that the US is a Dr Who desert, but not everyone is completely lost. I was driving home from work yesterday in my mini (yes, I have a yellow mini because they're just sooo cute!), when I saw on the license plate in front of me "DALEK." I wanted to drive up next to the driver and pop my current DW book ("Evolution") in the window, but it was in the trunk. Lest you lot not realize the magnitude of this, I live in OKLAHOMA at the moment, not generally considered a nexus of global culture.

Perhaps I should get a license for my car that says "TARDIS." They are bigger on the inside, you know. Of course, only me and the DALEK car would get it.

Oh, I just remembered another one: I was watching one of those home buying shows on BBCAmerica and the couple came out of a rather small-looking house and commented, "It's a lot bigger than it looks. Bit like a TARDIS."

Now they didn't live in Oklahoma so it's not quite such a big deal; guess comments like that are common in the housing market over there.

Two cartoon refs/appearances here & here.

,2-2004501691,00.html, Dr. Who Fan Buried in TARDIS

Dan & Mab's Furry Adventure features Who in a slight pop culture war.

This past weekend there was something called 'Rib Fest' in a nearby park where you could buy spare ribs hot off the grill, and go on rides.
One of the rib vendors went by the name of 'Bad Wolf'!

There's an online comic called Sex And Violence (no link because I don't read it, but also because it does feature nudity & excessive violence) one of the evil characters is apparently called Councilwoman Davros.

Skippy, the Wonder Dalek!

Random drawings of a girl with a TARDIS key
http://www.conscrew.com/index.php?strip_id=234
http://www.conscrew.com/index.php?strip_id=255

On a weird cartoon thread in another forum I go to a certain Who villain appeared in the final cartoon.
The thread where it appeared (scroll down to the bottom)
or
Just the picture
Note: Reading the full cartoon series will not make anymore sense then just the one cartoon. ;-)

Bunny

Two more TARDIS appearances in webcomics.

The strange comic Riboflavin
http://riboflavin.keenspace.com/d/20010924.html

& Schlock Mercenary
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20041007.html

Here's an odd one which I don't recall being announced before, Tom Baker recently spent something like 11 days in a recording studio, so that if you send a text message to a normal phone (only on BT I think), you get Tom's voice reading it to you (including translating text speak into proper words) - wil only last three months.

And having said that, I wouldn't like to see Emily's phone bill this month.;)

Story is here :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4665254.stm

I recently saw the first episode of 'Chelmsford 123', an old sitcom about British life under the Romans. In one scene the TARDIS appears in the distance and two people come out, have a look around and then go back inside before dematerialising.

Detective Fork
Fellow in the first panel looks familiar. (If you ignore his being an anthropomorphic fork, that is.)

I'm not sure if this one's intentional or coincidental. I lean towards intentional but have changed my mind a few times.

I was searching for something completely different at emusic and found this:
http://www.emusic.com/album/10883/10883881.html
An album by Mr Who called 'A Matter of Time.'

I've never really gotten into hip-hop (or even know what the term means), so I'm not going to spend my downloads on it to search for any other references.

This one’s doing the rounds but I thought I’d pop it in here anyway: in last Saturday’s episode of Stargate SG-1, this appeared (scroll down to the bottom of the page). Apparently (I’ve not seen the movie for yonks), one of the items in the background is a Reflector Staff from the Eye of Harmony room in the movie.

(Stargate SG-1 is filmed at Bridge Studios where the movie was also filmed. No-one is yet certain whether the staff was found in the props room and they just thought it looked appropriate, or whether someone deliberately snuck it in, knowing full well what it was.)

The Lovecraftian inspired webcomic Weirdlings had a sighting of both the 4th Doctor & the 9th Doctor.

Oh, and The Whovian Observer has a new address.

The latest Cross Time Cafe.

Heard a radio commercial for Orkin (bug killers) & in it the president of a science fiction club (in a really insulting portrayel of a SF fan) is calling Orkin & at one point mentions what sounds like, "A Silurian phaser pistol!"

Didn't know the Silurians had phaser pistols.

Admittedly I only heard the commercial once so maybe I misheard.

A Doctor Who/Torchwood appearance in ConScrew.

I visited the Cornstalker forums (cornstalker.com/forums/) & discovered that several posters had taken to a Doctor Who theme with their avatars. Not sure why, but here's a site with all the avatars. (Cornstalker is a collective of webcomics so it's actually the cartoonists' characters dressed as Who characters.)

Characters & Posters I've identified are

1st Doctor - Komiyan

2nd Doctor - 834n

3rd Doctor - Cj Burgandy

4th Doctor - Mr. Bob

5th Doctor - The Neko

7th Doctor - Pierce Studios

8th Doctor - Ry Claude

9th Doctor - K-Dawg

Scaroth - Sortelli

Not sure who the 6th & 10th Doctors & the Cyberman are. They haven't posted in any of the threads I read.

Replete with Beatle haircuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDzO2wukck

Mask Of The Golden Death

I like how he uses the Sonic Monkey Wrench myself.

Interesingly enough the character & his companion have turned up in the current Indavo storyline as one of the Time Board.

Bit of an older one, but, the current storyline in Freefall has had Florence Bowman (genetically engineered wolf person) at a meeting of robots which has had cameo appearances by a lot* of different robots from TV, movies & comics including K-9 from everyone's favorite British series... K-9 & Company. ;-)

* And I mean a lot, this has been going on for a few months & it includes robots both well known & very obscure.

Saw the Doctor (Tennant) at the Live Earth concert watching Duran Duran. Nice to know he cares about our planet in that way, too!

In the current storyline of Life & Death, Steve (Death) has ended up in the future where he meets someone familiar.

I was just watching "The Bourne Ultimatum", and realized that it features the actors that played the US President from "The Sound of Drums" and van Stratten from "Dalek."

I offer this link without comment:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/10/snow-dalek-attacks.html

Ah, bless!

It's amazing that, while Doctors are almost impossible to capture in any art-form, Daleks are consistently adorable whether they're cakes, pumpkins, eggcups, cushions, keyrings, snowmen...

This is known as the "wussification of evil." It explains why it's perfectly okay to hang representations of corpses and skeletons as Hallowe'en decorations, just so long as they're cute.

Was just reading a book by Simon R. Green that had the line, 'A jukebox the size of a Tardis.' I know it should be TARDIS, but I won't hold that against him.

Wikipedia Manual of Style:

"Acronyms that were originally capitalized (with or without periods) but have since entered the vocabulary as generic words are no longer abbreviated with capital letters nor with any periods. Examples are sonar, radar, lidar, laser, snafu, and scuba."

Interesting...

...Especially as the TARDIS doesn't seem to capitalise herself any more...if the 'Tardis calling' message on Rose's phone in World War Three is anything to go by.

Except that, whilst 'TARDIS' (it's always gonna be TARDIS to ME!) may have entered the vocabulary of THIS planet (tee hee! Doctor Who is slowly but surely taking over the WORLD!) it really wouldn't have entered the vocab of the Whoniverse's Earth, which is still in serious denial about the existence of ANY alien at that point.

There's massive building work going on at the house next door (waking me at an ungodly hour every morning) and what do the builders have outside but...a TARDIS toilet.

No, really. With a picture of a policebox. A RED policebox. In what's either a desperate attempt to avoid being sued by the BBC, or a sign of EXTREME ignorance...

All these decades I've been dreaming about a TARDIS materialising in the vicinity of my front garden, and when it does it's a ******* toilet.

Does it count if we see a big poster of a previous companion that's advertising a new role for her?

If so, then big posters of Billie Piper (our beloved Rose) are scattered throughout the subway system of Toronto (but advertising her role in 'Confessions Of A Call Girl').

I think of her only as Rose, and not her other character, as far as I'm concerned.

In the current Season of "24" the villain is called Davros!

I bought the DVD of Channel 4's 1066 to show in my class, and while watching one the extras (not in class of course), the producer was shown in front of the new series, pre-Smith, Tardis interior. No explanation was given.

That should be 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl'.

Ah, well.

I don't watch it, anyway.

I can't say this is an UNLIKELY place. OF COURSE the TARDIS would be in 7,000-year-old cave paintings...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2982917/Who-painted-the-Dr-in-a-cave-in-5000BC.html

Possibly the earliest Doctor Who-related sighting;
In the 1965 episode of the 'The Avengers', "Death At Bargain Prices", Emma Peel is working undercover at a department store in the toy section. In one scene she's standing in front of a wall where toy airplanes are displayed, as well as a DALEK toy!

The latest (third) series of Kingdom did a nice Who tribute, replete with a Tom Baker lookalike, a father overly dedicated to sci-fi, and an unrelated b-story guest-staring Colin Baker.

In the 1967 episode of 'Hogan's Heroes' titled "Hogan And The Lady Doctor", Hogan tries to impress upon Colonel Klink that the doctor Schultz has captured is someone important, saying, "Wow, Doctor Lechay!"
To which Klink replies in confusion,
"What, what, what? Doctor Who?"

Not a true reference to our series, but the words are still there.

Did he really? That's funny.

In the latest episode of Eureka ("Stoned") one of the characters, Zane, hacks into the Department of Defense site and asks "“Anything else you want to know while I am in there? Launch codes, Defense plans, TARDIS blueprints..."

Hackers Plant Tardis Atop MIT Building

Since Steven Moffat wrote 'Curse of Fatal Death', and is now producer of the tv series, maybe it's not surprising that he incorporated Doctor Who into his other series, 'Coupling', but he's a quote from a 2001 episode titled, 'Her Best Friend's Bottom'.
In it, the main character, Steve, is asking his friends why a sofa needs decorative pillows on it for padding, when it's already designed in a particular way...

"This...is a sofa. It is designed by clever scientists in such a way so as to shield the unprotected user from skin abrasions, serious head trauma, and of course (flops down behind it, and pokes his head up)...Daleks!"

Plus Oliver in the lasts series of Coupling was a big Doctor Who fan and had toy Daleks in his comic book shop.

The webcomic Lit Brick (although if it wasn't for the author's note I wouldn't have known that.)

Nobody mentioned the Hyperspace scene in the Family Guy Star Wars special?

In an episode from a few weeks ago, the guys in 'The Big Bang Theory' tv show dress up as the Justice League for a costume party at a comic book store, while the owner is costumed as the Fourth Doctor.
Can't go wrong with the classic floppy hat & scarf ensemble!

Not Doctor Who, but you can't tell me that the artist wasn't influenced by the Fourth Doctor, Quantum Vibe.

Not to mention the roundels.

Yep, & apparently the story will involve time travel.

The Navy Lark had a few over the years, especially when Jon Pertwee was playing the Doctor.

For instance, in one episode (The Master of Sardnia, broadcast in 1972), Leslie Philips is talking about a film he once saw which had a Dr in it (referring to the Bond film Dr No).
Jon Pertwee says "Who?"
To which Leslie Philips replies "No no, this chap was a good actor."

Ouch.

Considering the whole idea of The Navy Lark originally was as a vehicle for Jon Pertwee, I doubt they'd have been written in if he wasn't up for having the mickey taken.

HE may be up for foul slander of Who, I most certainly am not...

TV Tropes has an entry for The Navy Lark. A transcript for the Doctor Who reference is under the Shout Out listing.

I found the name of the character Pertwee was playing in that scene rather amusing. ;-)

What Emily might consider "foul slander", and an appearance, in the webcomic Gin & Comics.

Discussion of the show started 2 comics earlier & ends in the next one, but the link is to the funniest one.

Sit back and watch Emily's head explode in sheer ecstasy ...

Awwwww.

I have never wanted to cheer on a Dalek so much in all my life....

Oh.

SO beautiful! SO brave!

How do we sign her (or him) on for Twelfth Doctor?

Rodney, someone needs to sort you out. Could you borrow Tosh for a few days?

I told you Em- Tosh died ages ago

WHAT!

Bloody hell.

I'm so sorry.

Did I mention I have SERIOUS problems remembering pieces of information that I just don't agree with in the first place?

OK, SOMEONE'S gotta lend you some feline company for a few days. This is an emergency.

Emily: OK, SOMEONE'S gotta lend you some feline company for a few days. This is an emergency.

No-he's better off without it. If he replaces it-he'll get attached to it, and get hurt again when it dies. It's better to break the cycle.

My last cat died more than 12 years ago(after around 11 years)-and I've avoided pets of any kind since(who knows how many more would have died since??).

In the long run-it's for the better.

They do say those with pets are happier than those without. Having had a dog about the house since the summer, I'd have to agree.

I wouldn't mind some ••••• for a while....

Scottish CBS talk show host Craig Ferguson has a small TARDIS on his desk.
He also made a crazy, crazy dance routine about Doctor Who.
There's a surprise near the end around 2:20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4

The WWE recently had a wrestling show in Sacramento, California, on February 25 and as usual the fans in the arena showed their signs to the TV cameras, whether it be 'Fear The Undertaker' or 'John Cena: Number 1'.
However one sign caught my eye instantly, which simply said,
'BAD WOLF' !

Wow hadn't seen the censoring that ruined my last joke. Let me try again-

I wouldn't mind some pu$$y for a while....

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quote:

Steve: Scottish CBS talk show host Craig Ferguson has a small TARDIS on his desk.
He also made a crazy, crazy dance routine about Doctor Who.
There's a surprise near the end around 2:20.

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Rodney:Wow hadn't seen the censoring that ruined my last joke. Let me try again-

I'm sure everyone knew what you said.

I don't know if this is actually a reference, but I'm going to mention it anyway. On my school's campus in two separate spots someone had chalked on the sidewalk two words: "Bad Wolf". Hmmm...

Yeah, Craig's definitely a fan

THAT'S what you do if you're a FAN?

What the hell would he have done to our programme if he'd HATED it?

I don't know if anyone's posted this before, but I was watching a very old episode of Top Gear online and guess what I found?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K39E1Ro4ueA

This isn't really 'Doctor Who in unlikely places' so much as it's 'unbelievable statement about Doctor Who'.

Meredith Veira is one of the morning hosts to NBC's 'Today' show, for those of you outside of the US/Canada viewing range, and she was lucky enough to interview Smith and the actress that plays River Song, and even managed to get a tiny cameo on a future episode as a news reader.
After the segment aired, she spoke to the rest of her 'Today' hosts and said...siiiiigh...that she'd never heard of 'Doctor Who' before she did this assignment.
Okay, I can accept that some people don't know this movie or that tv show or that book, but dangit, she's never heard of 'Doctor Who'????? It's one thing to not watch it, but not even know it exists?
On the air from 1963 to 1984, 1985 to 1989, reruns and syndication from 1990 to 2005 and then on the air from 2005 to 2011...and she's oblivious to it????
Never heard it in passing? Never met a single person that mentioned it to you? It's the flipping BBC, for gosh sacks, not some little tv station in Greenland or Togo!
Does not compute.

Doesn't surprise me at all. I'm more surprised to find an American who has heard of it.

Hey!!!! I resemble that remark!!!

I posted a comment on an MSN story about visiting Mars recently and got a pretty good response:

Me: So what if they find the Ice Warriors?
Next poster: We will be saved by a man with no plan, no back up, and no weapons.

Just goes to show, you never know where a Who fan'll pop up.

Well, let's see... I first heard of Doctor Who in the late '70s when Pinnacle started publishing novelizations & other Doctor Who related material started appearing in bookstores, mostly in the science fiction section.
If Ms. Vierra doesn't read Sci-Fi then she might have missed all those books.

Later Marvel put out some Doctor Who comics.
Apparently Ms. Vierra doesn't read comics.

Various PBS stations started running Doctor Who in the mid-80s.
Possibly she didn't live in an area where those episodes were broadcast or she was watching something else at those times.

Various TV stations will occasionally run the Cushing Doctor Who movies.
Guess she doesn't care for Sci-Fi movies.

In 1996 Fox aired the Telemovie.
Oh, wait! She wouldn't watch Fox for anything. ;-)

And all the publicity of the revival.
Soooo, yeah, if she doesn't pay attention to Science Fiction, or know (or listen to) people who watch & read it, it's possible, but does seem a stretch.

A Dalek in Planet Karen.

And just a side note for those who never heard of Meredith Veira (Ha-ha! Bets it's alot more than not knowing DW!), she's a 57-year old American journalist, that began her career in 1975 on radio, before moving to TV in 1979, so she's been in the 'loop' for a very long time, so it's not as if I'm talking about a younger, thirty-something reporter. To not even come across the name, 'Doctor Who', even in conversation with a viewer or entertainment reporter is what completely shocks me, since she hasn't focused her entire career on, for example, politics and nothing else.

Being so clueless to this British icon I wouldn't be surprised if when covered the Royal Wedding she didn't say, "William and Kate? Who are they? Are they famous British actors?"

Next thing you know she'll be saying, "'Godzilla'? Who's he?"

You underestimate the insular American culture. We export our entertainment to others; we don't contaminate ourselves with their inferior products.

BBC America's only been around since 1998 (during the 16 long and barren years) and who watches PBS?

Okay, she should have run across it at some point, especially with the telemovie, but I'm not surprised that she didn't.

Another thing the Sonic Screwdriver can't fix.

Don't normally read that comic, but they used the third panel in an ad & I wondered if it was going to go for the obvious joke.

More of a reference than an actual appearance in last Saturday's Cross Time Cafe.

You underestimate the insular American culture. We export our entertainment to others; we don't contaminate ourselves with their inferior products.

I remember a Trivial Pursuit question. Which country can 46% of Americans can't find on a map.

The answer: the United States!

Steampunk Dalek

The answer: the United States!

I find that unbelievable. (Not that is was a Trivial Pursuit question, but that it's true.)

Steampunk Dalek?...I can't help thinking geriatric Dalek.

The alien intelligence in Sequential Art have been around for a while & don't really look like anything from Doctor Who, but in the most recent strip their name was revealed & I realized that Eldak had to be a Doctor Who reference.

The Daily Dalek Cartoon.

And now the webcomic Moron County has a Doctor Who reference.

The Daily Dalek Cartoon

A prostitute Dalek. How could the BBC never have thought of THAT?

So that's what that sucker is for.

The TARDIS shows up in the webcomic The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!

Forget the Doctor; my new hero is Inspector Spacetime!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMSyIgydYfs

You can see the TARDIS in Anthronauts.

There'll also be some Who references in my comic come Monday & Wednesday.

Here's The KAMics for Monday & a Whovian element will be appearing in the background of Wednesday & Friday's comics.

(For the wondering about context, the girls are cleaning out their bags of holding.)

I didn't expect a Doctor Who reference in The Gutters. (Although Emily might argue it's not a true Who reference. ;-)

An interesting costume can be seen in The Chapel Chronicles.

OBSCURE? The TARDIS is OBSCURE????

On Comic Book resources they were doing sketches of various people turned into superheroes or villains & someone decided to draw the Tenth Doctor as Doctor Doom (9th picture down, so you'll have to scroll).

Obligatory Emily Explanation: Doctor Doom is a supervillain who usually fights a hero group called the Fantastic Four.

Personally I think the Master would make a better Doom, but I didn't draw the picture.

Not as obscure as it used to be. I use a TARDIS as my avatar on a news site I comment on and every now and then I get a remark on it.

Hijinks Ensue combines Dr. Who & Peanuts.

Lit Brick again. The second Romana & fourth Doctor.

It's the 17th entry (lots o'scrolling) but an artist drew a team-up of the 11th Doctor & Spider Man.

Expected Emily Explanation: American comic book superhero who sticks to walls and shoots webbing.

2 entries in this list.

Number 7 teams up the 10th Doctor & Booster Gold.

Number 14 teams up the 11th Doctor & Booster Gold.

Actually Booster Gold fits rather well with the Doctor. He first appeared in comics in the 1980s & his backstory was a guy from the 25th century who stole some objects & a time machine from the Space Museum to come back to the 20th century to become a superhero.

More recently his series has teamed him up with Rip Hunter, who was a time traveling comic book character from the 1950s & '60s who has been revealed to the readers to be Booster's son, & is helping Booster to protect the timestream.

Hey Keith- Booster Golds back-story is even odder than that.

One of the items he steals from his 25th century musuem was a worling 30th century Legion of Superheroes Flight Ring(made from a new element only invented/discovered in the 30th century).

One of DC's big mysteries is "how did it get there?".

IIRC Brainiac 5 gave it to President Reagan, course that was before the 40 gazillion reboots that DC has been under since Crisis On Infinite Earths, so doubtless the explanation is different in the NuDC 52.

Besides I wanted to keep the explanation relatively simple for people who aren't interested in reading about characters who aren't the Doctor. ;-)

Another Line It is Drawn list scroll down to the second pic & wait a minute.

Moffat is one of the producers of the new Tintin movie.

Ah, would that be the Tintin movie he agreed to write before he was offered the Who Executive Producer's job, whereupon he told Tintin to **** off?

Well, this time The Line It Is Drawn just decided to do a whole mash-up of comic book characters & Dr Who

Top Gear, Season 18, Episode 1 (56 min):

Jeremy Clarkson: "God, this is quick. Oh my giddy aunt."

So did Troughton adopt the phrase because it was already in use, or did it become a common (well, not THAT common) phrase after he invented it...?

*Vaguely flicks through the internet* Huh. It seems to predate him. Pity - it's about time Who gave the human race a few choice phrases. Merely inventing words like 'Dalek' and 'TARDIS' isn't enough.

I have been known to use the phrases, "Evil! Evil since the dawn of time!" & "Ice Hot!" on occasion. Do those count?

And I've been known to use 'Only for this moment have the generations of my fathers lived' and 'Nozzing in ze vorld' and suchlike, but that's just not good enough. We don't have a 'Play it again Sam' or 'Beam me up Scotty' phrase that the Not We recognise.

"Jelly baby?" perhaps?

The TARDIS turned up in the second episode of Sherlock Season 2. You can see it here. It's not the first object you see up on the hill - wait until about 33 seconds in and it's further to the right.

Even Moffat tweeted his amazement and belief that it must be the TARDIS when people drew his attention to it. (Although Sue Vertue, aka Mrs Moffat, the Executive Producer, claimed that it was just a light rig, but what does she know?!)

And, yes, the close-up at the end makes it less convincing, but we all had a moment there for a bit!

This day (feb 7th 2012) marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. A program called The Sunday Edition on CBC radio highlighted the anniversary by creating an audio collage of pop culture references to the great writer. They included a few references to a familiar character.

I have extracted the montage from the program and placed it here.

Small reference to Doctor Who in Supernatural

TARDIS in the webcomic Brental Floss

The TARDIS making an appearance in Grey's anatomy

Good grief, they had a whole subplot with it!

Do people REALLY think we're like THAT?

Lets face it, some of us are, and they'll naturally be the ones people notice.

Came across a comic, Does Not Play Well With Others, that had several Who refs. The comic is generally NSFW, although the links just have some bad language.

First strip
For the next strips just change the comic number.
0085
0088
0094
0119

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/pre-caffeine-tech-ipad-info-tardis-cake-712745

Oh. My. God. I've finally encountered the impossible - something cuter than a kitten...

Please tell me no one would...well, y'know...EAT that?

It was delicious....

Can you imagine if it could be made bigger on the inside? All the cake you'd ever want, in a small and convenient package.

You could eat the red iDaleks next to it.

It was delicious....

You. Wouldn't.

Can you imagine if it could be made bigger on the inside? All the cake you'd ever want, in a small and convenient package.

That would be EVIL. I'm trying to diet.

You could eat the red iDaleks next to it.

You most certainly could NOT! For the first time in their miserable existences, even the iDaleks are adorable...

Two weeping angels in a fan made video of of the song Dreams, by Enya, the first at 1:00 min, the second at 1:49 min. The first is a true angel, the second is more a statue that evokes one.

The cover of the Free Comic Book Day offering Bongo Free-for-All has the Comic Book Guy dressed up in large number of sci-fi/fantasy/gaming references including the fourth Doctor's outfit.

Here's a link to the comic in question. It's in the next to last row second from the right. Click on the cover to get a larger image.

And Emily won't get what any of the other references are.

I guess, despite Matt's efforts with bow ties, there's only ONE look if you want to pretend to be the Doctor...

I didn't see the Peter Cushing Doctor Who in that group!
Kidding, kidding!

In Start Trek: The Next Generation, the episode titled The Neutral Zone, the Enterprise's crew finds and revives three cryonically preserved people from the 20th century. At one point in the show, the ship's counselor helps one of the cryonauts do a computer search of her family tree to see if she has any living relatives in the 24th century. The search lists, among others, six familiar names, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker.

They've got one hell of a cheek.

In Start Trek: The Next Generation, the episode titled The Neutral Zone, the Enterprise's crew finds and revives three cryonically preserved people from the 20th century. At one point in the show, the ship's counselor helps one of the cryonauts do a computer search of her family tree to see if she has any living relatives in the 24th century. The search lists, among others, six familiar names, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker

I wonder why Sylvester McCoy wasn't included, he was the Doctor when this TNG episode was made.

When this TNG episode was made (1988), the current Doctor, Matt Smith, was only five years old!

How could I have missed this? And I call myself a nitpicker.

Emily - They've got one hell of a cheek.
Yes, but they predated RTG's gay agenda by 17 years. ;-)

Tim - I wonder why Sylvester McCoy wasn't included
Because the joke involved pairing them up.

A screencap of the computer search.

Even without the Doctor Who reference, this is one cool video.

http://kottke.org/12/07/man-interviewed-by-12-year-old-self

Adorable, and OF COURSE it's a hilarious moment when he glances at his collection while claiming not to be a Fan any more...but WHY OH WHY OH WHY would he DENY it? St Peter is NOTHING compared to this guy...

As a new event for the London Olympics, there's the Doctor Who Marathon.

http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=1093

A Dalek in Mister Bean.

Great. So basically they're popping up everywhere EXCEPT the Olympic Opening Ceremony that the entire world (bar me, obviously) was watching...

I heard the TARDIS in the Opening Ceremony, so maybe it was the Doctor leaving after discretely taking care of a few Daleks backstage. He IS trying to keep a low profile your know.

This is overtly political, and since I'm posting it, you can assume it's neither conservative nor middle-of-the-road.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s480x480/190071_519878064704922_1455751090_n.jpg

Don't know where else to post this but I wanted your help- a teacher doing year 8 media studies is going to be showing them two Doctor Who episodes to contrast the different filming techniques of modern Who to classic Who.

She's picked "Beast Below" for the modern series and has picked- of all things- "The Sontaran Experiment" for the classic series.

Thoughts about the actual story aside- Emily please note that very prudent point- this seems a really odd choice given that it is shot entirely on location and is shot using video instead of film. I'm trying to think of what would be a better story that is more indicative of filming styles of the day.

AGAIN- this is not about the best story, best Doctor, best monster etc, but rather about filming style of the day.

Kevin, while the language sounds Doctorish it really needed a picture of Captain Jack in it as the description fits him.

Rodney - I'm thinking she chose Experiment because it's short (2 episodes).

Offhand I would have picked The Dead Planet as the book Doctor Who The Early Years explains the filming process using that episode.

KAM- The problem is, most kids cannot sit through black and white- I think something from either the Pertwee or Tom Baker years is probably going to work well.

And yes, I agree she probably chose that because of its length- by that stretch, that would only leave us with the rescue, black orchid or ultimate foe. Wouldn't wish that last one on anyone....

You forgot The King's Demons & The Awakening, although that's understandable, 2-parters were not Classic Who's best efforts.

The Rescue is out because it's B&W, which would leave Black Orchid as the best of the remaining 2-parters.

Still one wonders at how educational showing a whole story would be to actually demonstrating filming styles. Sounds more like a way to keep kids quiet by having them watch TV shows in class.

You make that sound like a bad thing KAM!

I think it's a way to show how techniques have changed so much and by using the same show you can really compare. Even things like pacing, lighting, music (especially) have changed so dramatically....

It can be a bad thing if the teacher is just using it to keep the kids quiet while she goes off to have a smoke or something.

If she's actually teaching them film techniques does she actually need whole stories? "Now watch this scene where they (whatever)."

On the other hand the whole "most kids cannot sit through black and white" is rubbish since this is supposed to be educational. They're supposed to be paying attention to lighting and other filmy stuff not the story.

So what if it's in black and white, learnin's about hard stuff like readin', ritin' and uh, adding stuff up! It's what you call edumacational!

At least you didn't have to sit through creaky old Full House in your media class on sitcoms.

I also don't buy the 'kids these days' thing in regard to b&w productions, but lighting is so different for b&w productions that she may feel it's incompatible.

This should technically go under 'Doctor Who in Expected Places,' but as it would probably be the only post there, I'll put it here.

A now famous event, which I'm know has been discussed here before, and part of Chicago folklore. True Chicagoan Who fans will tell you they saw it, even if they didn't. The day our airwaves were hijacked.

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/#videoclip-59

Not really safe for work, by the way, unless you work in a pretty loose environment.

Why the hell would anyone DO that! To darling Horror of Fang Rock!!

Rodney, how could you???

BAD, RODNEY,BAD!!!!

Why are you blaming me JEP??? Sheesh!

As much I as I have issues with certain aspects of the show, I'd be joining in with Emily and lynching the person responsible for this ABOMINATION!!

The guy was wearing a Kryten mask?

Dalek remains found in a pond.

That's not an unlikely place to find a Dalek! They LOVE water! Why else would they be swimming (well, 'swimming' possibly isn't the right word) in the Thames in Dalek Invasion of Earth?

This is a bit of a stretch and might not count, but here goes.
The American version of 'Big Brother' recently had a young contestant named Ian, who liked to wear a bow tie half the time, survive his elimination.
His response? Pacing back and forth in the Big Brother house, juttering to himself, "What? What? What? What?"
I have a feeling he's a fan.

I don't think a fan could possibly have faced locking themselves in a house without Doctor Who for weeks. Though I suppose he COULD have imagined he was re-enacting Bad Wolf...

It certainly wasn't Paradise Towers! Perhaps Ace's Gabriel Chase? There were certainly a few weird characters in the house with Ian!
He even has a former companion's name.

Got another one.
A wrestler in the WWE called Damien Sandow has a finishing move called 'Terminus'.

Terminus just means 'end of the line'. It's not necessarily a reference to lepers and skirt-removals, you know.

I know, but I never, ever hear the word 'Terminus' in any capacity, day to day.
Maybe this guy is also a Doctor Who fan? It could have been worse.
"Sandow is going for his finishing move! here comes The Macra Terror!"
"Sandow's going in for the kill! He's putting John Cena into the Adric Smash!"
"Sandow's pinned Orton with the UNIT!"

A TRUE fan would name it the 'Grun' after the Peladonian King's Champion with which the Doctor wrestled...or maybe the 'Omega'...

Another bit of a stretch. There's this movie that has just been released, titled "The Master".

Little Britain probably has more, but I caught this one right away.

The skit has a talent agent is on the phone confirming his actor/client has a part, and he adds, "I can give you Bonnie Langford for another 10 pounds? No? Okay."

I thought that was funny and out of nowhere.

A Tardis was used as a Halloween costume in a US comic strip: http://www.kevinandkell.com/2012/kk1029.html. Apparently, the child inside the costume is human, though his mother is a rabbit, and his father a fox. They picked the Tardis costume to keep their son safe, a natural choice which leaves me wondering what their version of the Doctor looks like.

In the recent Halloween episode of Big Bang Theory, the guys attended a Halloween party at Stuart's comic book store. There was a TARDIS mock-up at said party

A Dalek with a different catchphrase in the comic strip Userfriendly

The tenth Doctor in the " How Looper Should Have Ended" video.

Gotta share this one here. And I think I have to type some more words so that it will post a link. I wish it would tell me WHY it isn't posting, but anyway, let me try again.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/483078_516464441731722_245179491_n.jpg

Kevin: You have to type more because of the various spambot attacks that NitCentral has had over the years.

Yes, I know. I just wish it would give some kind of message. Instead it just reloads the preview page with no reason given at all.

In the British comic Redfox #2 in the A Night On The Town story you can see a silhouette of a Dalek amongst the tavern patrons (a number of whom are cameos of various other series).

S.L. Gallant, the artist who draws the current series of the G.I. Joe comic has admitted he usually slips Doctor Who refs into his work. Here's a scan of one page.

While researching an actor on imdb.com, I accidently came across a role he had in the 1966 animated version of 'King Kong'.

The fourth episode of the first season of 'King Kong' was called 'Dr. Who' !

I guess technically it's not unlikely that TV Legends Revealed would do a legend related to Doctor Who, but the only other spot I could think of to put it would have been The TARDIS board and it didn't seem right there because it has to do with the trademark of the TARDIS, not the TARDIS as a prop/character in the show.

Not sure if it's canon or not but How to write Gallifreyan.

Started watching the TV series Frankie and I am still on the first episode when I came across reference to Doctor Who and it was made by a couple of people who are already familiar with it:
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/doctor-who-reference-on-frankie.html

At the same time of completing my latest rewatch of The Fires of Pompeii featuring Vesuvius saw Monroe 2.2 which coincidentally had a reference to that aforementioned volcano.

Quarter Life Crisis

The previous page has a rude David Tennent joke as well

After Strax, somehow a Dalek stand-up comic doesn't seem such an unthinkable blasphemy any more...

The mere thought of what a Dalek's sense of humor could be like sends shivers down my spine.

Sorry, but 'exterminate' puns are pretty old hat...

There was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. They were inferior beings so I exterminated them.

The mere thought of what a Dalek's sense of humor could be like sends shivers down my spine.

Weren't they trying to be funny in Doomsday when they said the Cybermen that 'You are better at only one thing...You are better at DYING'? I've often wondered.

There was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. They were inferior beings so I exterminated them.

*Groan*

At a time when we're all waiting to learn the identity of the next actor to play the Doctor, one of my local daily newspapers played a trick on me.
In one corner they had a small caption and a familiar man's face with the caption; "DOCTOR WHO ARE YOU REALLY?'
Obviously, I thought they were about to reveal the actor's name, until I read the caption below it, which revealed it was just an article about TV doctor, Dr. Oz! It was just questioning how he could be so great and such a good husband!
UGH!
The caption was missing that all-important apostrophe, so it should have read; 'Doctor, who are you really?', or even better, 'Doctor Oz, who are you really?'
Oh, well.
Back to the waitying game...

I only say this because it's a nitpicking board and not because I'm a grammar nazi. That's a comma, not an apostrophe.

And yet you didn't comment on my 'waitying' boo-boo!
I stand correctededed.

You mean that's not how it's spelt? :-)

Doctor Who got referenced in Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent review of the movie The World’s End starring Doctor Who guest star Simon Pegg:
“The World’s End follows in the paranoid footsteps of novels like John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos, movies such as The Wicker Man, and TV series including The Prisoner and Doctor Who. These are stories that amplify our fears of assimilation.”

How is The Midwich Cuckoos about assimilation? I'd say it's more about alien infiltration/invasion.

Just finished seeing Community 4.3 Conventions of Space and Time and from the episode title I thought it would be an episode that I would take a liking to and I was right.
The episode has the main characters going to an Inspector Spacetime convention.
Inspector Spacetime is a long running gag in Community as the Inspector in question is a parody on Doctor Who and when a proposed Inspector Spacetime web series did not get off the ground, Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time came about instead.

Conventions of Space and Time has Matt Lucas as a Special Guest Star. Also appearing were BSG alum Tricia Helfer and Beverly Hills 90210 alums Luke Perry and Jennie Garth.

For Lucas he has already appeared in a production of Doctor Who in the Big Finish Sixth Doctor story The One Doctor. As for Helfer, Perry and Garth their appearance in the Community episode is the closest for now that they have gotten to appear in Doctor Who.

A fan created his own Transformer/TARDIS.

Kind of brings new meaning to the nickname "Sexy". ;-)

A ukelele TARDIS.

Also it may or may not be unlikely but Rifftrax has misted Doctor Who And The Daleks a clip can be found here.

A ukelele TARDIS.

Some things (I'm thinking cakes) work REALLY WELL as TARDISes. Other things (I'm thinking ukeleles) don't.

Also it may or may not be unlikely but Rifftrax has misted Doctor Who And The Daleks a clip can be found here.

Frankly that was no more surreal to watch than an actual Cushing Dalek movie.

Doctor: I fly a ukelele now. Ukeleles are cool.

;-)

The webcomic Real Life Fiction has a sighting. (Emily will probably agree with a comment in the fourth panel.)

...and the webcomic Spoofy Experiment references the Doctor for four comics.

LOL! That's funny

In the Sydney Sunday Telegraph in her usual column Lisa Power talked about the embarrassments inflicted on her by her children including one that was caused by her son and this how she described how people reacted to this embarrassment:
“Like Cybermen, the crowd turned as one to stare at me in silent reproach.”

Saw the penultimate episode of TekWar, Redemption which had the saying of “reverse the polarity’ and not long after watching this saw Cars 2 and that coincidentally also had that saying.

In the DVD commentary of Robin of Sherwood 3.5 The Sheriff of Nottingham, Mark Ryan (Nasir) made a funny remark of how he looked like a Dalek in one scene he was in.

Well, I think we've found the actress to play the Doctor after Capaldi. ;-)

A Doctor Who reference may have crept up in The Vampire Diaries.
In 5.6 Handle With Care, Katherine said “doctor whoever”. Then again it might have been just a clarification on a doctor’s name.

STACK issue 109 has an interview with Fifth Doctor Peter Davison.
Davison says that there isn’t any life after Doctor Who saying that the Doctor is like the US President in that the latter is always Mr President hence the same for being the Doctor.
He also says that he enjoys the “new” series and that in theory Doctor Who is “completely self-perpetuating because as the present writers get tired and want to move on to other things, younger writers who’ve grown up watching this series of Doctor Who will want to write for it.”

Notwithstanding an ad on the DVD release of the most recent season and a review of The Tenth Planet, this issue of STACK also featured 50 Years of Doctor Who, a two-page spread on Doctor Who’s said 50 years. (Interestingly the spread has pictures of 11 of the 12 Doctors, with it lacking a picture of the outgoing Doctor Matt Smith) and the STACK revealing their favourite Doctor Who character by having a picture of their favourite Doctor Who character next to their names in the usual column of what they have been up to lately.

From CBC in this thread back in 2000:
"In that Mr.Bean Christmnas special, Bean is playing with figurines and animals in Jesus' manger, until he produces a Dalek that threatens to exterminate them all, until he uses (I think) an angel or some other figure to scare the Dalek away."
Quite prophetic considering that Rowan Atkinson did later meet the Daleks when he was the Ninth Doctor in Curse of the Fatal Death.

The Vicar of Dibley: The Christmas Lunch Incident:
http://www.tv.com/m/shows/the-vicar-of-dibley/the-christmas-lunch-incident-74684/trivia/

Jim: Knock knock.
Geraldine: Who's there?
Jim: Doctor.
Geraldine: Doctor Who?
Jim: Yes!

Continued from previous post.

To add to all this, this episode of The Vicar of Dibley featured the second of two appearances by future Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi which makes his appearance in this episode with a Doctor Who reference quite prophetic.
As this is a Christmas episode, this has Capaldi going through a revolving door of Christmas episodes between The Vicar of Dibley & Doctor Who.
As the The Vicar of Dibley Christmas episode was the last time that he had appeared in The Vicar of Dibely and notwithstanding his guest stint as a different character in The Fires of Pompeii, the upcoming 2013 Doctor Who Christmas Special would be the first time that Capaldi appears as the Doctor.
Incidentally The Vicar of Dibley episode has Orla Brady playing Capaldi’s fiancée and this is a case of Torchwood meets Fringe, two similar shows, as Capaldi was John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth and Orla Brady was Walter’s wife and Peter’s mother in Fringe.
Orla Brady is the only principal female cast member of UK Mistresses who has not performed in Doctor Who either in the TV series or on Big Finish and obviously someone at the BBC or Big Finish needs to rectify this.

Was watching an episode of Leverage "The Mile High Job" and the gang are choosing some fake identities for airline tickets...

Nate: I have a Peter Davison, Sylvestor McCoy and a Tom Baker.
Sophie: I have a Baker, Sarah Jane.
Hardison: I now pronounce you man and wife.

Hope this link works:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202424506804269&set=gm.10152351335827004&type=1&theater

My old High School's band trophies (2013 season).

Those aren't trophies, ScottN, THEY'RE WEEPING ANGELS!!! 8-o

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The Tom Baker alias popped up again in the Leverage episode "The 12-Step Job" along with a missed opportunity. One of the other guys pretended to be Tom's brother, but he used the name Mark instead of Colin.

My old High School's band trophies (2013 season).

What is the significance of a TARDIS for your old High School's band?

Their show this year is "Dr. Who"

A recipe for a delicious looking Dalek cake.

The webcomic This Is Normal 3rd panel.

Probably not unlikely, but I wasn't sure where this should go, but every week the Are Comics Good blog has The Line It Is Drawn where artists draw suggestions they like based on that week's theme.

So this week’s theme is to team-up or mash-up comic book characters with Doctor Who characters!

You need a Twitter account to make suggestions, just write @csbg with your reply.

All suggestions due by 3pm Pacific Friday.

Yes, today!

There are no guarantees about your suggestion being chosen, but if anyone here wants to participate...

The Doctor Who themed The Line It Is Drawn has gone up.

One of my suggestions got used.

Anyone else make any suggestions?

In the Companions Assemble one, who is the woman in the back, just under the Ninth Doctor? I just can't put my finger on her.

I think it's Sarah Jane.

Oh yes. Since K9 is in the group, I guess she should be there too.

A cosplayer as the Doctor in The KAMics.

Warning! Final panel might be NSFW.

You can see three Doctors in the latest Zelfia page.

Admittedly I only noticed them after I had clicked on the high resolution link the author provided in the Author's Notes.

And they also appear on the next page.

The evil snowmen in a nissan commercial. Well, not really, but it's close enough

I've seen this commercial and thought the same thing!

The TARDIS appears in the movie Iron Sky:
http://i.imgur.com/T0xqJ.jpg

Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola under the username LeonBlank made this statement on a website:

“Hi, this is the director of Iron Sky. We did hide couple of little things like this from stuff we love in the film, nice to see somebody spotting it, to be honest I was a little afraid it would've been too small

But then again, nothing's too small for Internet.

Danke schön!”

That's not small, that's microscopic!

The untitled back-up story in Bloodstrike #4 (Image Comics) had two riffs that might just be coincidental, but both makes me think the writer had some familiarity with Who.

Ironside says, "By using a psychic technique that was taught to me by the great Davros"

Rival says, "Am I crazy or does this thing seem much bigger on the inside?"

Last week’s Sydney Sunday Telegraph in its Escape section included an article by David May on the upcoming celebrations of William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday on April 23 and he mentioned David Tennant and stating “formerly of Doctor Who” and wrote that Tennant was playing Richard II in the main Royal Shakespeare Theatre. However there was no mention of The Shakespeare Code, the Doctor Who episode in which Tennant as the Doctor met Shakespeare.

May also mentioned the new Sam Wanamaker Theatre which was named after actor and director Sam Wanamaker, the father of Doctor Who guest star Zoe Wanamaker.
Zoe played Cassandra in The End of the World & New Earth, the latter with the aforementioned Tennant.

Sailor Who.

What do you do with a drunken Time Lord...

In a (non-canon) side-story for The Challenges of Zona. (Click on the pictures to move through the story.)

Maybe not the right place for this, but couldn't find anywhere else to mention it.

Retro TV has gotten the right to air Classic Who in the USA.

Not sure what stories they will and won't carry and I'm not sure what this means for the local PBS station which has been airing Dr. Who since the '80s.

The most annoying thing about this is that Retro TV doesn't have any affiliates in Washington state.

It'll be cut to pieces.
You won't be missing much.

Judi's right. This is the channel that butchers classic shows like Gilligan's Island and Bewitched.

There ought to be law against such crimes.

Here's a reference to Doctor Who I found in an unlikely place, and it made me smile. It appears at the 44 seconds mark in the video.

A different sort of reference, this one just for our fearless moderator, can be found at the 58 seconds mark.

Ooh, yes, EXCELLENT stuff!

Ha ha ha. Nice!

This trailer cashed in on Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary but was it really about Doctor Who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwih31LRxwA

Finished watching Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary on Comic-Con and Doctor Who gets represented here.
This occurred when someone cosplayed as the Brigadier while other people mentioned Tom Baker and David Tennant and also spotted a model of the TARDIS in the background in one scene.
According to IMDb, its release date in Poland was on Doctor Who’s 49th anniversary on November 23 2012.

This week's The Line It Is Drawn has the Doctor show up in the fifth picture down.

THAT'S supposed to be OUR DOCTOR?

I mean, it has a bow-tie and a sonic screwdriver, but...

It also has the floppy hair!

Okay, so it's not as good a likeness as it could be, still compared to some of the official artists who've drawn Who I think Tsubasa did a good job.

Yeah, but compared to some of the official artists a cave-man's stick-figure would be a pretty good job - if it had a bow-tie...

I was looking up future events at the Puyallup library when I came across this:

Doctor Who Crafternoon
Aug 13, 2014 3:00 pm-5:00 pm

Wibbly wobbly crafty wafty! Do you need an excuse to get together with other Doctor Who fans? Well, this is that excuse! Come and make Doctor Who crafts and play Doctor Who games. It will be fun. It has to be fun. You’ll definitely have fun.
This event is offered as part of the Teen Summer Reading Program (ages 12 - 19) and is sponsored by the Friends of the Puyallup Public Library.

Of course you'll be going. It may take some effort to disguise yourself as a 12-year-old, but it'll all be worth it in the end...

Emily, could YOU hang around a bunch of pre-adult humans, even for Who? I couldn't.

I think if you inspect the Ask The Matrix: Being A Fan: Indoctrinating Innocent Children section you'll discover I've done exactly that.

When it comes to Who, I'm really not sure if I'm capable of drawing a line...

But we're talking about already-Whovian pre-adult humans.

Another Leverage episode (sorry, I'm not sure which one) a person refers to Sophie as "Agent Tennant" and Sophie calls Sterling "Agent Smith".

Doctor Who gets a reference in the title in the following review of The Tomorrow People (US) 1.18 Smoke and Mirrors:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-tomorrow-people/the-tomorrow-people-recap-step-53129.aspx

I was just dutifully* checking out an article on Ofsted** when I was unexpectedly rewarded for my swotty diligence with the immortal line 'Are we in danger of accepting this Gallifreyan regeneration of the inspectorate'. Bless!

In The Unlikely Event Anyone Wants To Read This Article

*Obviously I bitterly resented the waste of time when I COULD have been typing up my The Doctor: His Lives and Times notes, but I sort of accidentally co-run an educational publishing company so have to vaguely keep up with such things.

**As in, 'I think there's some of that Ofsted Inspector left in the fridge' (Season 2/28 DVD box set deleted scene from School Reunion).

Doctor Who is among the sci-fi franchises that have been represented on Numeric Con, Sesame Street’s spoof on Comic Con:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2014/08/enumerate-enumerate-sesame-street.html

Well, I suppose a humorous, sci-fi comic isn't the most unlikely place for something Doctor Who related, but... in Bluff & Tales From A Forgotten Planet in the story Clean House the Stellar Losers are going through the ship's inventory and, along with other TV & Movie refs, is the head of a Cyberman.

Sometimes I think we just don't love Who enough.

Why did none of us think to use five tons of steel to construct a 35-foot Dalek in the Cheshire countryside?

What's the MATTER with us?

We have all of us constructed a 35-foot tall Dalek in our hearts.

*Sheds a sentimental tear*

That is so, SO true.

This filler in the webcomic Rasputin Catamite.

Now if only Big Finish, or someone, would do an audio adventure in that language just to watch Emily's reaction to the "blasphemy". ;-)

The Sydney Sunday Telegraph on August 10 had Nick Dent mentioning Doctor Who in not one but two movie reviews.
In Guardians of the Galaxy he mentioned Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan while in Postman Pat: The Movie he mentioned Doctor Who in the opening paragraph of his review:
“Postman Pat is a children’s show that has hung around long enough to become a British entertainment institution like Doctor Who, James Bond or the monarchy. It’ll probably last longer than the Royal Mint.”
Curiously enough Dent made no mention of either of the two Doctor actors in it David Tennant and Jim Broadbent.

DAVID TENNANT was in POSTMAN PAT????!!!

Last week’s Sydney Morning Herald’s The Guide had an interview by Gordon Farrer with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in the lead-up to the former’s official debut as the Doctor in Deep Breath.
Capaldi says that while he would not be able to pass a detailed exam on Doctor Who he does know that “I love the show and it is part of my DNA…I know instinctively what Doctor Who is about”.
With Capaldi he presents a darker Doctor but does that mean a less funny Doctor Who. Capaldi and Coleman insists that the series’ trademark laughs are still there.
Jenna Coleman:
“I think it’s a different kind of humour now. It’s throwaway. We catapult through the adventures and the humour is there the whole way through. And that’s what’s wonderful about Doctor Who: you can be in these moments of great peril and suddenly you can make somebody laugh.”

Capaldi says he is now in the position of keeping Doctor Who healthy, alive, fun and vigorous and when it comes the time when someone else takes over from him, he says hopefully that Doctor Who will still be in decent shape.

Capaldi says that while he would not be able to pass a detailed exam on Doctor Who he does know that “I love the show and it is part of my DNA…I know instinctively what Doctor Who is about”.

Not good enough! I say we kidnap, test and (if necessary) torture him untl he CAN pass a detailed exam. I was given to understand we were getting a PROPER FANBOY just like darling Tennant.

when it comes the time when someone else takes over from him

He's ALREADY discussing the day he'll betray n'abandon us?!

The latest page of the webcomic Girl Genius.

Ok, this is a strange one, but in this documentary, Richard de Crespigny looks and sounds uncannily like the Second Doctor, including the hairstyle, at least he does to me. That would be Richard de Crespigny himself of course, not the actor playing him in the incident's recreation.

7:47, 12:38 and 15:45 are good places to see this, and there are several more for those who want to take the time to look for them.

Daleks show up in the Cross Time Cafe.

That actually went up about two weeks ago, I had to wait for the next update to get the permalink.

Since when would Daleks flee from some badly-dressed DAWGS!

Actually it's three demons having taken the form of Ky who is a wolf lady, but... yeah.

The writers of the Cross Time Cafe can't ever seem to get Daleks right when they use them.

Then again IIRC an earlier use indicated that these might be Dalek casings with some squidlings from the webcomic Freefall in them.

The Drunk Duck Awards??? 8-/

A cute 2 page parody sequence starts here

This week's The Line It Is Drawn.

Obligatory Emily Explanation: (highlight to read)
He's drawn like Metron of the comic The New Gods, who traveled through space in his mobius chair.

I like. But isn't he already a superhero?

It seems like it sometimes.

Although, as the old joke goes, he wears his underwear on the inside. ;-)

By PJW on Tuesday, May 30, 2000 - 2:42 pm:

In 'Carry on Screaming' Kenneth Williams is met with the reply 'Doctor who?' to which he replies that he isn't a relation.

Actually, Kenneth's character, Dr Watt, states that Dr. Who is a relation, as shown by the following exchange:

SLOBOTHAM: Dr. Who?
DR. WATT: Dr. Watt. Who is my uncle, or was - I haven't seen him for ages! (BTW, Jon Pertwee (3rd Doctor) also appeared in this film as the police scientist)

'The Young Ones' has Alexei Sayle putting a cacti in between his legs and pretending to be a Dalek.
How can he pretend to be a Dalek by having a cacti between his legs?

BTW, Jon Pertwee (3rd Doctor) also appeared in this film as the police scientist

And one of the subplots was blatantly nicked for 'Journey's End'.

JOURNEY'S END nicked the plot of a CARRY ON film?

Why else do you think that people refer to the regenerated hand Doctor as "Oddbod Jr"?

I didn't know they DID refer to it as 'Oddbod Jr'. More 'Rose's Doctor-shaped Chew Toy'.

Mentioned in The KAMics.

It's the second time I see this type of comment about Moffat and Scotland's independance. Why would Moffat be kicked out of Doctor Who if Scotland became independant, exactly?

Probably because he would be thus turned into an illegal immigrant.

No he wouldn't. The idea that Moffat or Capaldi would be deported if Scotland were to split from the UK was a joke - nothing more!

Yeah, I doubt he would have been kicked off Who (which is all the cartoon was saying) for suddenly becoming a non-UK citizen, nor deported.

If independence had happened I imagine that all Scots would just have to get new IDs and some laws about crossing from Scotland to the UK would need to be drafted and that any UK citizens working in Scotland and Scottish citizens working in the UK would probably keep their jobs & apartments/houses with perhaps a bit of extra paperwork to worry about.

Personally I thought the joke was people making an important decision based on a triviality, but then again... looking at how too many people vote...

Mentioned in The KAMics.

Lovely!

Personally I thought the joke was people making an important decision based on a triviality,

A TRIVIALITY?!

Oh, um.... er... I... I used triviality because... um...

LOOK! Behind you! A Tennant-shaped distraction!

*runs and hides when Emily turns to look*

Doctor Who got mentioned in NCIS 12.3 So It Goes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCUf36LYkA

The Doctor Who reference was made by actor Hannah Marshall.

Playing the older version of Hannah Marshall’s character is Alice Krige who has appeared in Doctor Who in the Big Finish story Phantoms of the Deep.

The @KevinMsays Twitter account is very funny as a ••••-take on the 'Grand Designs' host and his use of language. So it was good to see he finally reached the ultimate residence : http://twitter.com/KevinMsays/status/525578574099906560/photo/1

A person dresses as a Who villain for Halloween in Indifferently Evil (and in the next comic.)

A VERVOID? That's...obscure.

The very good radio comedy 'Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully' has Peter Davison in the cast as the obvious connection but the last couple of episodes have had alien henchmen called Yartek and Gravis.

Given that it's written by former Big Finish producer/writer Eddie Robson, I'm not sure that this really counts as an "unlikely place".

Given that it's on Radio 4 the fact they're referencing anything in popular culture from the last fifty years makes it an "unlikely place".

Not really an intentional reference but... In the film of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' (1965), Richard Burton walks past a police box. Moments later Claire Bloom appears. No one starts humming the Chancellor Flavia music.

Ah, the Doctor's Dear Old Mum.

I suppose the odds against HER being the next-Time-Lord-out-of-the-frozen-alternative-lost-universe are pretty high.

Referenced in the latest Love And Capes.

The full interview of David Tennant on David Letterman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0brybvELY

David Tennant talks about Doctor Who to Queen Latifah:
http://queenlatifah.com/videos?bctid=3895659502001

It’s amazing just to hear Doctor Who coming out of Queen Latifah’s mouth.

Chris Chibnall, in his capacity as Gracepoint creator, tweeted a photo taken by Tenth Doctor and Gracepoint star David Tennant on the Gracepoint set and shows telephone messages from names that are familiar to Doctor Who fans:
https://twitter.com/ChrisChibnall/status/532917999288999936/photo/1

Tennant 'dunno's about whether he'd've voted in favour of Scottish independence? You'd think a Scottish Doctor would be in the Better Together camp.

'They did have a bit of a gap' - and he's a True Fan! How can he casually say THAT rather than writhing around in agony sobbing about TSLABYOD?

The top Doctor Who villains get mentioned (along with some lesser franchises' characters) in the webcomic Data Chasers.

Oh dear.

Where's the Terry Nation estate when you need 'em?

"You just be boring over there.", priceless!

Matt Smith Interview on Top Gear in February 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doI8mhVErgs

Interesting story from him about meeting a young girl at his home, the explanation that was given of why the Cybermen are not scary and quite interesting what he was singing whilst driving that car.

On Australian TV:
Peter Capaldi as the Doctor is included in FreeviewPlus ad.

The Line It Is Drawn has been having tryouts for new artists and The Doctor(s) show up in the last pic on page 7 and pics 1, 3 & 5 of page 8.

I rather like one or two of those. If only they didn't, y'know, have Batman in them.

I think The Doctor and Batman would be great together. The clash of egos alone would be something to behold.

Well, Emily, The Line It Is Drawn is for comic book fans and that tryout specifically was Batman team-up so Batman was kind of necessary for the artists to include.

Francois, depends on the era. Batman from the '40s to the late '60s/early '70s was probably the friendliest. Admittedly the "needs to take an extra-strength Prozac" version of more reason vintage is more egotistical. So the sixth Doctor and that version would be a true clash of egos.

*villain falls into acid pit*
Doctor: You'll forgive me if we don't join you.
Batman: Was that supposed to be funny?
Doctor: That was hilarious! Don't you have a sense of humor?
Batman: No. I lost that when I had the stick shoved up my butt.

Doctor Who theme part of 2015 New Year’s celebration in London:
http://www.kasterborous.com/2015/01/enjoy-doctor-themed-fireworks-londons-2015-new-year-celebrations/

*villain falls into acid pit*
Doctor: You'll forgive me if we don't join you.
Batman: Was that supposed to be funny?
Doctor: That was hilarious! Don't you have a sense of humor?
Batman: No. I lost that when I had the stick shoved up my butt.

Alternate ending:

Batman: No. Last time I did something like that, the guy came back as my worst arch ennemy.

The Daleks in a video about Muslims apparently running the UK.

It's awesome that the Daleks, and most things Who, are so well known that they can be used as humorous references with no explanations whatsoever

Btw, the Daleks appear at 2:42

David Tennant vocalises Broadchurch theme:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-01-12/david-tennant-vocalises-the-broadchurch-theme-its-nothing-like-doctor-who

Adorable!

I like the picture with the TARDIS on the beach.

Cyber Squirrel!

Why did I never think of that?

Man, you think it's tough to have a squirrel-proof bird-feeder before, now they have cyber technology at their disposal.

And just think of all the cats and dogs that are gonna get lasered trying to chase them?

Don't feed the squirrels, especially the big grey ones. They are pests, basically rats with bushy tails. I have one living in my attic that I can't seem to be able to get rid of. Lately, I saw an ermine hunting around my house, with a little luck it will catch my squirrel and I will be rid of it, finally.

On the other hand, if you have Cybersquirrels, sprinkle some gold dust in their food. ;-)

Doctor Who in Dominoes.

Who fandom manifests itself in many unlikely ways.

if you have Cybersquirrels, sprinkle some gold dust in their food. ;-)

Do I LOOK like I can afford any gold dust?! UNLIKE CHANG LEE - a homicidal gang-member who STOLE the Doctor's stuff and WILLINGLY SERVED THE MASTER - the Doctor (or, come to think of it, anyone else) has NEVER given any bags of gold dust!

I'd go for nail-varnish-remover instead, but as I've never worn nail varnish...

...Hmm. Gravity - that's free, right?

Or emotions. I could pretend the squirrel was a cat and get SERIOUSLY emotional about it...

Doctor Who in Dominoes

Hmm.

I'm not sure writing 'Delete' or 'David Tennant' on a piece of paper actually COUNTS. I need MORE STUFF like the domino Dalek...

This probably counts more as 'Doctor Who in likely places' but I would recommend the BFI's spiffing box set of 'Out of the Unknown' to anyone wanting to look out for faces familiar from Doctor Who. Anthony Ainley is the biggest 'Who' name, though sadly in a surviving episode from the rubbish fourth season. (Patrick Troughton was the lead in the same seasons' 'The Chopper', but the BBC in their wisdom burned that one.)

It's also very instructive to compare the earlier episodes to Doctor Who stories of the same vintage, to see how much is similar (down to howlround-like titles and Norman Kay music) and how much isn't.

Toby Hadoke marshals various episode commentaries, usually spiced up with some reference to Who or other, culminating in Peter Cregeen on the final surviving episode talking about how "I cancelled Doctor Who". The same commentary features Tom 'Duggan' Chadbon playing a commando squad leader, prompting 'Peep Show' fans everywhere to think "It's Paddy Ashdown! It's Indiana Jones! It's Indiana Ashdown!"

(Patrick Troughton was the lead in the same seasons' 'The Chopper', but the BBC in their wisdom burned that one.)

And if only there weren't NINETY-SEVEN EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO STILL MISSING I might actually give a toss.

culminating in Peter Cregeen on the final surviving episode talking about how "I cancelled Doctor Who". The same commentary features Tom 'Duggan' Chadbon playing a commando squad leader

Hmm.

I'm fairly sure that Peter Cregeen DIDN'T cancel Who. On the grounds that, HAD Peter Cregeen cancelled Who, I would almost certainly HAVE ACTALLY HEARD OF HIM.

However, the fact that someone can go round publicly claiming they've cancelled Who suggests to ME that we're just way, WAY too nice. I've always been proud of the fact that, out of all the major world religions, we're the only one that HASN'T killed anyone for dissing our Living God, but honestly, tying this guy to a stake and setting fire to him (whilst swirling round chanting 'Sacred Fire! Sacred Flame!', of course) would SURELY instil a much-needed sense of RESPECT for our Doctor Of Intestinal Parasites.

At the very least Duggan should have punched him.

And if only there weren't NINETY-SEVEN EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO STILL MISSING I might actually give a toss.

It's an episode from season four - when the series was ruined by Alan Bromly (later famous for walking off set during the making of 'Nightmare of Eden' after an argument with Tom Baker, and never working again*) - so I'm not bothered too much that it doesn't exist.

In fact I would happily swap all the surviving season four episodes for 'Andover and the Android', 'The Prophet', 'Immortality Inc.', 'The Naked Sun', 'Random Quest' and in fact any of the missing episodes from earlier years.

I'm fairly sure that Peter Cregeen DIDN'T cancel Who. On the grounds that, HAD Peter Cregeen cancelled Who, I would almost certainly HAVE ACTALLY HEARD OF HIM.

But you have no functioning memory. Wikipedia mentions it in his first paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cregeen

* Actually he did direct a few episodes of 'Coronation Street' right after this, but that hardly counts.

Peter Creegan himself says that he himself kill off Doctor Who I think in a special feature on the Survival DVD.

Karen Gillan and John Cho Shed Light on Selfie just prior to its debut in September 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkozUzFX-tM

Most probably unintentional but this piece manage to include a Doctor Who reference as it had a question on Twitter to Karen from someone using the name PhillipWithAFez.

What an appalling series that was. No wonder it got canned. Love Karen Gillan but this was simply painful to watch.

The Doctor(s) shows up again at the latest The Line It Is Drawn.

You'll have to scroll down to the final picture. The topic was Music Album homages and it's the New Series Doctors on The Who's Who's Next album.

In new movie Project Almanac one person said that upon building a time machine he and his friends will be Doctor Who which led to another person to ask “Who’s Doctor Who”.

As Project Almanac is a time-travel movie, the said Doctor Who reference was one of many time-travel allusions that has been made throughout the movie.

On the Not Another Happy Ending official website saw the interview with producer Claire Mundell in which mentioned Doctor Who.
As this was Karen Gillan’s first project after leaving Doctor Who, Mundell says they had to wait for Karen’s Doctor Who schedule to be finished before they could start filming the movie with her.

Doctor Who reference in This Is 40 (2012)?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM0WXVt42g4

That line was said by Chris O’Dowd who incidentally starred in the movie Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel three years earlier.

The TARDIS, or rather a mock up of it, appeared on Big Bang Theory last night. Howard owned it, but his wife wanted him to sell it.

Sheldon also dressed up in a floppy hat and long scarf at the end of the episode.

I saw the Fast Forward Dr Hewson/Whosen sketch. the Bruce Ruxton parody in it reminded me how much better it would have been if more people had also asked of the fourth Dr: "Who's the poofo in the scarf?".

On April 17 there was the screening of the 2004 Australian movie Prey on The Schlocky Horror Picture Show on Television Sydney (TVS).

Prey is a movie about the yowie, a Big Foot like monster.
During a break from the screening of the movie host Nigel Honeybone looked at the catalogue of Big Foot or Big Foot like creatures in movies and TV and it included the two Patrick Troughton Yeti Doctor Who stories with images provided and Honeybone made up the name of a Doctor Who story by Russell T Davies. It was made up because it was certainly a story I never heard before and I have seen all the Doctor Who stories that Davies had written.

Other works in this catalogue included The Abominable Snowman starring Peter Cushing.

Honeybone made up the name of a Doctor Who story by Russell T Davies. It was made up because it was certainly a story I never heard before and I have seen all the Doctor Who stories that Davies had written.

This Honeybone bloke either got his facts wrong, or perhaps this was a script that RTD wrote, but never produced for some reason.


Other works in this catalogue included The Abominable Snowman starring Peter Cushing.

I've seen that movie. It's pretty good.

It turns out UKIP has a Doctor Who policy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-wants-the-bbc-to-stop-making-doctor-who-strictly-come-dancing-and-top-gear-10193051.html

I am SO not voting for these guys.

Alright, so I almost certainly wouldn't have voted for them anyway, what with the sexism. And the racism. And the homophobia. And the determination to squeeze the poor so the rich can get richer. But THIS is BEYOND THE PALE.

Well, there was another, more pleasant news item on that page.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-will-continue-for-another-five-years-at-least-says-steven-moffat-10162403.html

K9 in a robot race. Of course, had the real K9 participated, it would have been no contest.

I hope the link will work, the video should start automatically when you click on it. Quality is not the greatest, but it shows what needs to be shown.

Based on the show the real K-9 would start off fine, trundling along, then before the race is halfway over he'd need to be recharged. ;-)

Course even if he didn't need recharging, how would K-9 pick up a glass of water?

Course even if he didn't need recharging, how would K-9 pick up a glass of water?

Threaten to shoot the nearest human unless THEY picked it up for him?

In the DVD commentary recorded c.2009 of the first The Thick of It special The Rise of the Nutters, The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci said that these specials in which the principal cast comes back together were like a Doctor Who season finale in which everyone comes back for it.
Also in the commentary about the joke of changing Malcolm Tuckers by having Peter Capaldi regenerating into David Tennant.
A Tennant-Capaldi regeneration kind of almost happened in Doctor Who as Capaldi regenerated from Matt Smith who in turn regenerated from Tennant.
Perhaps coincidentally is that Newzoids had the idea of a Tennant-Capaldi regeneration in its Broadchurch parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85W0CnmtUd4

The Rise of the Nutters had Oliver (Chris Addison) sarcastically called Phil (Will Smith) Hugh Grant.
Just as Capaldi is the official Twelfth Doctor, Grant was the Comic Relief Twelfth Doctor in The Curse of the Fatal Death and Capaldi and Grant had worked together in the movie The Lair of the White Worm (1988).
The Rise of the Nutters also had a newspaper headline calling Tucker the Downing Street Spiderman (sic) as it accused him of spinning a web of filth.
So this newspaper headline kind of makes Capaldi as an actor who has been both the Doctor and Spider-Man.

https://youtu.be/U_xoICJChu8

What's inside a Dalek?

That t-shirt is SICK!

I want my green bubbling lumps of hate back!

But... but Derpy is Doctor Whooves one true companion! 8-o

On the cover of the book "Physics of the Impossible", by Michio Kaku, the TARDIS is used to illustrate space and time travel through a wormhole.

Blasphemy! Sexy doesn't need WORMHOLES!

Doesn't mean she can't travel through them

As I was listening to a stand-up comedian telling a funny story on the radio about his first job at a video store, where he stole VHS tapes, part of the story grabbed my attention.
His boss calls him into the office, after his theft is discovered, but the former store clerk has a fake excuse in mind, as he states,
"The moment has been prepared for!"
(Tom Baker's last line in 'Logopolis' for anyone still scratching their head)
Famous last words, word for word-- I think the comedian was a Who fan!

Last night for the screening of Warning from Space on The Schlocky Horror Picture Show on Television Sydney (TVS).

During a break from the screening of the movie host Nigel Honeybone said that one of the cast members of Warning from Space was also in the movie Diary of a Mad Old Man.
It was at this time that a Doctor Who photo was shown in the background that of Ben and Polly with the Second Doctor holding his 500 Year Diary!

The show had two mentions in this week's Popbitch email - which I think qualifies as an unlikely place to see it mentioned.

The Z Nation season 1 finale is called Doctor of the Dead.
While the episode title is not a reference to Doctor Who, it is somewhat to curious to note that it did have a reference to Elephant Man and the Elephant Man was played at one time by War Doctor John Hurt.

On The Schlocky Horror Picture Show on Television Sydney (TVS) on June 19 it had the screening of the Hammer movie Count Dracula and His Vampire Brides.
This in fact is the US title for Satanic Rites of Dracula.
I had seen this movie before years ago on the Nine Network under its original title.
So did the two said networks had different rights on what title they could show this movie under.
As this is part of the Hammer Dracula series it had the recently departed Christopher Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing.
Cushing in the 1960s had been Dr Who in the two 1960s Dalek movies.
In a curio to Doctor Who fans, this Dracula movie not only had Cushing in it but also Joanna Lumley who would become the Comic Relief Thirteenth Doctor.
Joanna Lumley plays Van Helsing’s granddaughter.
So a case of the Doctor being his own granddaughter!
This Dracula movie is written by Don Houghton who had written the Doctor Who stories Inferno & The Mind of Evil.
In fact host Night Honeybone mentioned the Houghton Doctor Who fact by describing Houghton as Doctor Who veteran and explains the movie’s sci fi elements.

Not quite.

It would make Doctor Who(from the movies) the grandfather of the Doctor( from the show).

( Do I hear Emily's teeth grinding at the mere thought of it???)

I like my explanation better.

In the DVD commentary recorded c. 2009 on the photo gallery of The Thick of It special The Rise of the Nutters among the comments that were made was a picture of Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker.
The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci says that it looked like a photograph from Doctor Who.
Producer Adam Tandy says that it could be a picture of Capaldi in Doctor Who as he had been in Doctor Who or Torchwood a lot!
[Up to that point in time, Capaldi had been in Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii & Torchwood: Children of Earth.]

Tandy asked whether Capaldi could become the next Doctor Who and Iannucci saying to spread that rumour around.
The Thick of It cast member James Smith tells viewers that they heard it here first of Capaldi as the Doctor.
Iannucci then says whether this means that Malcolm has to regenerate (presumably he meant whether Malcolm has to regenerate if Capaldi is off playing Doctor Who!)
The Doctor Who comments is then concluded by Smith on Capaldi being another Scottish Doctor Who!

So it seems that Capaldi became the Twelfth Doctor because of rumours spread by The Thick of It team!

Indifferently Evil featured a cast member dressed as a Doctor.

This seems to be as good a place as any to post this news item from doctorwhonews.net...

"NASA have released plans for the naming of areas of Pluto's moon Charon, based upon the International Astronomical Union's recommendations that these would relate to "destinations and milestones of fictional space and other exploration; fictional and mythological vessels of space and other exploration; fictional and mythological voyagers, travellers and explorers."

This has led to proposals of names from a number of sci-fi shows including Doctor Who, which sees a large crater on the surface named "Gallifrey Macula", with a nearby rift named "TARDIS Chasma". Star Trek is honoured with a plain named the "Vulcan Planum", containing craters such as "Spock" and "Sulu" and mons like "Kirk" and "Uhura" - there are also features named after Star Wars characters, and also sci-fi writers/directors such as Arthur C Clarke and Sta
nley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey).
The names are to be submitted to the IAU for final approval."

From Private Eye No.1,398:

Not long now till the return of Doctor Who, which arrives back on screens for the ninth series of it's latest incarnation on 19th September.
Fans should make as much as they can of this 12 part run, as .B.B.C. staff have recently been informed that showrunner Steven Moffat's commitments to his other hit show Sherlock mean that there will be no full series of Doctor Who in 2016.

This series has also had to do without the close supervision of Faith Penhale, .B.B.C. Wales's head of drama, preoccupied as she was by her efforts to take over the national drama job following the depature of Ben Stephenson, (it eventually went to Polly Hill instead).

Penhale stepped in personally to take over exec producer duties on the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special two years ago after the sudden and public, "erasing" of Caroline Skinner, who had long enjoyed a love/hate relationship with Moffat, (See Eye No.1,336).

Penhale's breif hands on experience on the show is fondly remembered for the occasion when, signing off marketing material for the programme, she pointed to a poster snd asked, "what are those flying things?".
"Daleks", she was told.

One more reason the BBC should assign Doctor Who to someone else who would give it his or her full attention, so Moffat could focus all of HIS attention on Sherlock instead of diluting his time and creativity between the two shows.

Developing two shows at the same time can be very difficult, (ie: The decline of Spooks and Hustle). In my opinion as both a Whovian and a Sherlock Holmes fan the quality of both shows means that any further dip in Moffat's already low creativity isn't going to be noticable. As to a replacement, who is there really that is either: a.Too inexperienced. b.Too much of a fanboy/girl. or c.Hasn't shown their unability through Big Finish audios?

One more reason the BBC should assign Doctor Who to someone else who would give it his or her full attention, so Moffat could focus all of HIS attention on Sherlock

For heaven's sake! He writes, what, one episode of Sherlock every SEVERAL YEARS?

As to a replacement, who is there really that is either: a.Too inexperienced. b.Too much of a fanboy/girl. or c.Hasn't shown their unability through Big Finish audios?

There's Russell T God. Who could juggle Who, Torchwood AND the Sarah Jane Adventures without batting an eyelid. (Alright, judging by The Writer's Tale it nearly KILLED Him, but that's not the POINT.)

There's Russell T God.
No. while I agree he was better then Moffat his reign had several problems of it's own, two of the most obvious being the quality of companions and his, "ever bigger finale/must ape Logolopis" fixation. Throwing him into the Big Finish mix now that would be interesting, (if only for the schaenfreude). Given: .D.W. End of Time, .T.W. Miracle Day and what trusted reviews are saying about his latest work, "Cucumber and Banana" he might be too burned out.

From what I've read and heard it's not just Moffat thats the problem but his underlings. Wether it's due to .B.B.C. cuts, (cut quality fast but increase management) or his percieved status but they are either too inexperienced or don't have the gupta to rein him in.

He writes, what, one episode of Sherlock every SEVERAL YEARS?

Be fair - it takes a lot of effort to use up the back of an entire fag packet.

Ok, this one is not directly related to Doctor Who. However, as I was watching it I could not help to think that this man looks, sounds and behaves extraordinarely like the 11th Doctor. All he's missing are a bowtie and a sonic screwdriver.

I always thought that 11 looked like George McFly from Back to the Future.

George McFly

"Amy, you are my density... I mean destiny"

Kim Newman has just described the new Man from UNCLE film as being the equivalent of a Doctor Who movie all about how Ian and Barbara met at teacher training college.

A person dressed like the eleventh Doctor appears in The Tyranny of Pants.

Saw the movie Prey starring Sally Faulkner and the DVD release included an interview with her.
It was here that she was asked about being in Doctor Who playing Isobel Watkins in The Invasion with images presented of Episodes 4 to 8 of that story.
Among the comments she made was whenever she was at Doctor Who conventions that she is always gets shown pictures of her gorgeous younger self from that story!

On August 23 2015, Holly Byrnes in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph in her article about the upcoming Australian mini-series Secret City and here she mentioned Torchwood as it is one of three credits that got mentioned for Secret City cast member Mekhi Phifer (the others being E.R. & Divergent).
In Secret City Phifer plays US Ambassador Moreton.

Secret City also features one-time Torchwood guest star Alan Dale (Reset) as Prime Minister Martin Toohey.

Secret City stars Anna Torv, the former lead actor of Fringe, a series that is not unlike Torchwood.

Cartographers have started naming features on Pluto and its major moon, Charon. Here is a map showing the still informal names chosen for Charon. Look just left of center.

http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_fill,h_562,w_1276/t_mp_quality/b2fvzihow0v3yjarapkq/nasa-names-pluto-craters-after-star-wars-star-trek-and-doctor-who-map-of-charon-538356.jpg

Indifferently Evil again. Who knew toasters were fans of the Who novels?

Private Eye No.1,254
"Doctor Who The Writer's Tale, The Final Chapter" by Russell T. Davis review.
Source= http://writerstale.rhgdsrv.co.uk/news/?p=719

“I hope you’re not expecting modesty here,” booms Russell T Davies in The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter, a warning that looms out of the dry ice like a rogue Sontaran, laser-gun cocked and levelled at those who assume a reputation as redoubtable as Davies’ requires no further embellishment.

But this is no place for diffidence. Or subtlety. Or self-restraint. As readers familiar with the scriptwriter’s work will attest, his is not a retiring voice; his contributions to television - most notably his recently-departed role as Head Writer, Executive Producer and Chief Resuscitator of Doctor Who - bearing testament to an all-encompassing zeal that, while undoubtedly infectious, may be rather too scattershot for its own good.

The Final Chapter marks what one assumes to be the final chapter in the published correspondence between Davies and journalist/fan Benjamin Cook: a sprawling, unexpurgated electronic dialogue that began in 2007 as a proposed feature for Doctor Who Magazine and snowballed into the 512-page granite slab/occasional table that was 2008’s The Writer’s Tale.

Now, 16 months later, the book rematerialises with an additional 300 pages of email and text message-based conversation: a breathlessly self-congratulatory valediction that covers the writing of the 10th Doctor’s final TV specials, the production of a five-part Torchwood mini-series, press duties for the launch of The Writer’s Tale, the handing over of the executive Who baton to writer Stephen [sic] Moffat, an OBE (Davies’), a chicken stir fry (Cook’s), all manner of idle and invariably saucy pan-dimensional musing (”imagine kissing Davros”) and, ultimately, Davies’ temporary move to Los Angeles.

Though the book’s new, Christmas special-referencing cover - from which peers the 6ft 6ins Davies, squidged between David “the Doctor” Tennant and John “the Master” Simm like a mildly vexed space referee - suggests a cash-in, the existence of this astonishingly long sequel owes more to the gargantuan esteem in which the man behind one of the most successful regenerations in TV history is held.

As a consequence, The Final Chapter reads like an intergalactic love-in: a bring-your-own-extolment party in which readers are invited to bask in the outrageous genius of this bear-like TV demagogue. Here, everything is either “brilliant”, “bloody brilliant”, “awesome”, “lovely” or, should Timothy Dalton agree to a role in your Christmas special, “AMAZING!!!”

We learn why his laborious gags are, in fact, “vital to the whole tone of the show. They ARE flippant, but that flippancy is intrinsic to the Doctor.” We share in his love of his own scripts (”how can you not watch Doctor Who when it’s this good?”) and thrill at his undying appreciation of actor Russell Tovey’s arse. The duo’s free-wheeling, irksome email discourse is “live and unfiltered. We didn’t go back and tidy up”, boasts Davies, as if merely the act of pausing to reappraise a text is anathema to the creative process.

Although the relationship between the journalist and scriptwriter can be endearing - Cook as saucer-eyed pageboy to Davies’ flapping dandy prince - there is always a flash of steel beneath the Welshman’s candyfloss exterior. He discusses his belief that it is “outrageous” not to have a BBC Doctor Who ident - and is not remotely surprised when the BBC promptly gives him one for Christmas. It seems that what Davies wants, Davies gets. “Oh, I’ve become a monster”, he writes towards the end of his Doctor Who tenure, the implied tee-hee not quite erasing the suspicion that this is not a character to be trifled with.

You wonder how his extraordinary ego will serve him in Hollywood; how the hand-on-the-tiller-or-else approach and the breakneck multi-tasking Philip Pullman refers to in his foreword as “omnicompetence” will wash with an industry notorious for its dismissive treatment of scriptwriters.

We leave Davies in his new, temporary home in Venice Beach, waggling his toes in the sand and pondering his new circumstances. “Christ, LA!” he hoots. “What the hell am I doing? Maybe it’s my mid-life crisis…” Had slightly more of this self-doubt been applied to The Final Chapter, it might have been a less irritating experience.

“The Bookworm”

one of the most successful regenerations in TV history

ONE OF...?!

Would Private Eye care to name any OTHER regenerations that come within a BILLION MILES of OUR Glorious Triumph...?

The Final Chapter reads like an intergalactic love-in: a bring-your-own-extolment party in which readers are invited to bask in the outrageous genius of this bear-like TV demagogue. Here, everything is either “brilliant”, “bloody brilliant”, “awesome”, “lovely” or, should Timothy Dalton agree to a role in your Christmas special, “AMAZING!!!”

And they say this like it's a BAD THING....

In the screening of Cave Women on Mars (2008) on the Schlocky Horror Picture Show on Television Sydney (TVS), host Nigel Honeybone says that this movie has scary situations, Doctor Who scary, old Doctor Who scary at that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSOwErP4vm4

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During intermission he stated that this movie featured a matriarchal society and that Doctor Who is one TV show which has shown such a society with a picture shown of William Hartnell and the Drahvins in Galaxy 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbtVl8Rt1I&list=PL0y_pNxamlHQw2Nmtio3T4J7qiH8OCOlL&index=4

For the DVD commentary of The Thick of It 2007 special Spinners and Losers had a rotation of commentators during this commentary.
For the first rotation, it was mentioned that the commentators have regenerated (like in Doctor Who) and among these new commentators is Alex Macqueen who plays Julius Nicholson in the series.

It was somewhat prophetic that Macqueen was among the regenerated commentators as it looks like this commentary was recorded before Macqueen went on to play the Master for Big Finish and of course the Master as a Time Lord knows all about regeneration.

Colin Baker and Star Trek join forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PvgJI6cvh8

Star Trek Continues is a fan made web series set in the never seen Fourth Season of Classic Trek. It's pretty good.

Sci-Fi actors have guest starred in it, such as Jamie Banber (Apollo in the Battlestar Galactica reboot), Erin Gray (Colonel Deering in Buck Rogers In The 25th Century), and now Colin Baker in this episode.

I'm glad to see that he's finally contributing to a series that's deserving of his talents.

WOW.

That was the single most scathing thing I've read in my life.

On facebook found a picture of Jay and Silent Bob by the TARDIS:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/6297302047/permalink/10153705179202048/

Saw Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and like the previous movie it had a Doctor Who reference.
In the case of this movie it showed a book called Jacuzzi Timelord.

The movie included in its cast the beautiful Gillian Jacobs and Chevy Chase both of whom are luminaries of the Community TV series and Community itself featured a parody of the Doctor called Inspector Spacetime.

I skimmed across the show Russell Gilbert Live (he's an Australian comedian)

Sadly, Russell Gilbert has been in the news a bit lately.

Sadly, Russell Gilbert has been in the news a bit lately.
Yes, very sad. I hope he pulls through the dark cloud that surrounds him.

Rodney: It's a shame the memory of Hey, Hey, It's Saturday was tainted by that horrible blackface incident as Gilbert's good work on that show is now lumped in with Daryl Somers racial stupidity.

In episode 5 of season 6 of Castle, titled 'Time will tell', Beckett investigate a grisly murder in which the main suspect claims to be someone sent back in time to prevent a future disaster caused by another time traveller. A weird device confiscated from the man is apparently nothing more than some tech haphazardly thrown together, which Castle finds somewhat disappointing. Detective Esposito jokingly asks Castle if he expected it to be Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver.

Cartoon from Private Eye No. 1,156

Cartoon from Private Eye No. 1,315

Cartoon from Private Eye No.1,182

Cartoon from Private Eye No.1,229

I was reading Osprey Graphic History #7 (Fight To The Death The Battle Of Guadalcanal) and the little blurb about artist Anthony Williams mentions, "Other work of note includes illustrating story boards for the British TV series Dr. Who."

Kinda wish they'd mentioned what years he did this, though.

Williams apparently did work for the DWM's strip The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack which came out in September-November 2003.

The Musketeers makes its Australian free to air debut less than an hour from now this Thursday October 15 8:30pm on the ABC and the voiceover promoted it as starring Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi.
Capaldi was working on The Musketeers when he got the call that he had become the Doctor and hence why the first season of The Musketeers is his only season of this series.

So how did the poor programme explain the disappearance of Cardinal Richelieu...?

He didn't disappear, he regenerated and got a new face

Blimey. I knew Richelieu was powerful, but...

Actually, I was joking. Richelieu died off screen some time between the end of series 1 and the beginning of series 2, and Marc Warren playing the Comte de Rochefort became the new main vilain.

Thank the gods for idiot programmes who can't even manage to get their stars to sign proper contracts.

The UK Met Office has decided to give names to storms to make them more easy to refer to - the T name on the current list is Tegan.

I couldn't help but think of a certain Australian when I read that.

Bring on Hurricane Dodo!

She's ALREADY been commemorated by a (Cyberman-spewing) funeral home, what MORE do you want...

Was a little shocked to see - in the exhibition the latest Butcher of Beijing got dragged to during his grovelling state welcome - a TARDIS and a Dalek.

I will never forgive that Dalek for not exterminating him.

For the Schlocky Horror Picture Show screening of Attack of the Moon Zombies on Television Sydney (TVS), host Nigel Honeybone in his intro mentioned Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. Even though he did not mentioned Doctor Who here I am pretty sure that he was referring to the Doctor Who episode of that name.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKLrnqWm6Ss

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During intermission, Honeybone described Attack of the Moon Zombies director Christopher R. Mihm as a master of 50s-style satire and because of the word "master", a picture of the Roger Delgado Master was shown!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsylAb3x3jA

Horse #6 in tomorrow's Melbourne Cup (one of the most prestigious horse races in the world) is called "Hartnell". Not great odds though. Apparently he can't remember where he's going and once tried to crush a competitor with a rock....

when i was 7 Mum let me bet 2$ on a horse in the Melbourne Cup. The Animal Rights Terrorists ("animals are equal to humans!") have called it "placing bets on cruelty"

Was looking at a bonus pic for the webcomic Nine To Nine and it was a picture featuring the fursonas of people who contributed to keep the comic going and spotted a Who related sign.

This relationship article on The Outhouse. :-)

In Saving Hope 3.11 The Parent Trap, Dr Alex Reid (Erica Durance) was asked if she was Dr Kinney and she responded:
"I'm sorry... Dr. Who?

This may or may not have been intended as a Doctor Who reference and it is plausible it was simply just a clarification of a doctor's name.
Then again Saving Hope is a Canadian series and Doctor Who is not exactly unknown in Canada.

Whether it was meant to be a Doctor Who reference it was still nice to hear the words "Doctor Who" coming out of Erica Durance's mouth formerly Lois Lane in Smallville.

This relationship article on The Outhouse. :-)

Adorable!

Though of course it's not a proper relationship if it only does NEW Who...

In The Sydney Morning Herald The Guide on November 9-15 2015, Noah Wyle was interviewed about his role as Flynn Carsen in The Librarians including one question about his costume -
The Guide: Your costume, it's very dapper, but it has a touch of Doctor Who about it.
Wyle: The bow tie tips it over. But Doctor Who did not invent the flamboyant costume. There's a little bit of Oscar Wilde, Nikola Tesla. I have a great photo display from great thinkers, and artists from the 19th and 20th century. I picked out pieces from all of them that I like, and with our costume designer pulled things that we could put together. I don't mind going plaid on plaid I think it's an interesting idea. I have a lot of input into my costume. I like it to feel a little bit nonsensical, an English gentleman mixed with a wild artistic flair.

Of all the effects Who has had on human development, I really wouldn't have expected it to have such an impact on FASHION.

Yes, it's such a shame women didn't start dressing up like Leela. ;-)

A certain Doctor Who prop turns up near the end (about 2:12, Emily) of this little video about the best weapon from sci-fi or fantasy.

And an illustration of a Doctor Who prop turns up in this article about creating believable weapons. (Scroll down to #3, Emily.)

On the Schlocky Horror Picture Show screening of Horror Express (1972) featuring Peter Cushing, host Nigel Honeybone during intermission listed Cushing's other work included the movie version of Doctor Who which he says has caused friction among die-hard Doctor Who fans for half a century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTcWund0Two&list=PL555B3CDE83535CCD&index=6

Horror Express incidentally is another version of The Thing but with a different setting as it is from the same source material.

Doctor Who got referenced in the DVD commentary for The Thick of It episode Opposition Extra but it was not an episode that featured current Doctor Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker.
As indicated in the episode title Opposition Extra looks at strictly the perspective of Tucker's political opponents, the said Opposition.
The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci in the commentary said it was like exploring parallel worlds and that Doctor Who gets away with it with mention of Rose Tyler of being in such a situation (most prominently in the 2006 Cybermen story set in Pete's World).

The latest update of the webcomic The Ten Tailors of Weston Court has a line of the Doctor's within the article.

And for those who don't want to read the whole thing, it's at the bottom.

In the comic Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes, the Emperor of the Earth Empire is showing Kirk, Sulu, Uhura, Chameleon Boy, Shadow Lass & Lightning Lad the machines of other time travelers he's captured and, of course, there's the TARDIS.

In the penultimate episode of Dead Set, Running, Doctor Who was mentioned in a dinner conversation with the character of Marky responding that it is a kids show but gets disputed that it is not.
Marky is played by Warren Brown who has had Big Finish roles on Doctor Who and its spin-offs including for the latter as a regular cast member in Big Finish's UNIT: The New Series.

Guardian crossword had 'Cybermen's foe'. I was flummoxed for a moment - six, three, surely it should be the other way round? - before realising it's 'Doctor Who'. The Cybermen aren't WOTAN, y'know.

The sixth cartoon down in the latest The Line It Is Drawn.

Not intentional at all, but it looks to me like Malcolm McDowell's character in 'Star Trek: Generations' is trying to get into Amy's Crack.

A brief snippet from 'We're Doomed: The Dad's Army Story', as they attempt to cast Captain Mainwaring:

"Jon Pertwee says yes."

"Tell him what we’re paying."

"Jon Pertwee says no."

Got Blackadder Remastered The Ultimate Edition and under the Historical Footnotes section of disc 1, the entry for Morris Dancers they have a picture of Pertwee from The Daemons being held prisoner (presumably by Morris Dancers).

Why they used that picture instead of something that was a better view of someone in a Morris Dancer outfit only Quiquaequod knows.

The Librarians (2.10) And The Final Curtain:
The TARDIS made a cameo here in The Library’s time machine (where else) and where was the Doctor in all this?
While sticking to the subject of Doctor Who, this Librarians episode featured William Shakespeare and coincidentally I am watching on DVD the first episode of Doctor Who: The Chase, The Executioners and that too featured Shakespeare.

The latest The Line It Is Drawn, the 11th entry down.

In the first episode of 'Brian Pern: 45 years of Prog and Roll' there was a snippet of the music from 'The Sea Devils'.

In the Leverage episode, "The Mile High Job", the crew needs three fake identities. They get tickets in the name of Tom Baker, Peter Davison, and Sylvester McCoy.

And no one SPOTS their fake identities?!

The Revolting World of Stanley Brown 1.5 Spider shown in 2012 had The Brain of Morbius showing on television during this episode.
The clips of The Brain of Morbius did not include the companion in it Sarah Jane Smith and I mention her because one of the cast members is Juliet Cowan who was formerly a cast member of The Sarah Jane Adventures where she played Chrissie.

I watched an episode of 'The Man From UNCLE' yesterday called 'The Sort-Of Do It Yourself Dreadful Affair', which was written by Harlan Ellison. It involved a scientist that was creating female cyborgs. The scientist's name?
Doctor Pertwee!
Even stranger, it was from 1966, years before Jon Pertwee took the role of the Doctor-- and 2 months before Troughton became the Doctor.

Pretty cool coincidence, but honestly, I'm more surprised by the fact that we haven't heard about this before.

Geeks Who Drink is a game show hosted by Zachary Levi and the first episode Eric Christian Olsen vs Scott Porter it featured the picture of David Tennant as the Doctor.
The picture of Tennant as the Doctor is one of four in which Levi asked what do these people have in common and Olsen correctly answered Doctors.
Along with Tennant as Doctor Who, there was Dr Evil, Dr Bones McCoy and Peter Cushing as Dr Frankenstein.

Well, at least they had the decency not to have Cushing as Doctor Who...

They are geeks, they would never make such a horrendous faux-pas.

A cartoon legend involving Doctor Who.

Incoming Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall wrote his first script for TV with Stormin Norman starring James Bolam which can be seen in two parts on YouTube.


Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4TDDLylSws

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Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=undQ-3yZwPM


Chibnall even included a Doctor Who reference which was made about the 5 minute mark in Part 2.

In SFX's The Ultimate Guide To Time Travel that coming in at 18th place in its "The Top 100 Time Travel Tales of All Times" is Time Bandits (1981) and reviewer Alasdair Stuart compared it to Doctor Who's The Girl Who Waited.

Stuart says that the real genius of Time Bandits is the cruelty of time travel.

Stuart says that just "like The Girl Who Waited this is about how adventure changes you and what happens when adventure leaves you behind."

This issue of SFX was released in 2013 and in the same year Time Bandits cast member David Warner appeared in the Doctor Who episode Cold War.

In the subsequent DVD commentary of Cold War, writer Mark Gatiss not only mentioned Warner being in Time Bandits but also brought up The Girl Who Waited herself Karen Gillan.

Cold War does not feature Karen as she left the series not long before in The Angels Take Manhattan but Gatiss brought her up to remark how tall Karen is. Gatiss made that comment about Karen's height to remark the fact that she and Matt Smith are the same height which Gatiss noticed when looking at the shorter height of Karen's successor Jenna Coleman.

So what place was Doctor Who in on the Top 100 Time Travel Tales...?

I don't know what ranking it has on the actual list, but according to this, Doctor Who occupies 45 pages out of the 164 in the magazine.

Ah. Well, that'll do, I suppose...

I'm not sure that Doctor Who being mentioned in something called 'The Ultimate Guide to Time Travel' really counts as an "unlikely place".

I am not taking the thread title that literally.

Then again I was not talking about the magazine overall but why The Girl Who Waited got referenced in that piece about Time Bandits.

As to how Doctor Who got placed on that list -
76. Day of the Daleks
55. Mawdryn Undead
31. The Girl Who Waited - "A nimbly written, visually unique, slickly directed tale is enhanced immeasurably by Karen Gillan's performance, her best on the show."
3. Blink

In Geeks Who Drink 1.9 Harold Perrineau vs. Zachary Knighton, host Zachary Levi revealed that a member of Knighton's team Bridget is a Doctor Who fan and that she spoke at a Doctor Who convention twice.

Bridget was wearing a blue blazer and Levi suggested that colour of the blazer was meant to reflect the colour of the TARDIS but Bridget said her choice of blazer was not intentional to the colour of the TARDIS.

It is perhaps worth to note that Bridget is a redhead or ginger as the Doctor would say.

In the next episode Matthew MacCaull vs. Andrew Daly, there was a round called Doctor When in which there were pictures of six Doctors and Levi asked the teams to place the pictures of the Doctors from oldest to the newest.

The Doctors that got represented here were Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.

The MacCaull team won this round as they got it right with the order of the said Doctors.

The Daly team in contrast got the exact order backwards meaning Capaldi, Tennant, Smith, McGann, Baker and Pertwee.

The Daly team in contrast got the exact order backwards meaning Capaldi, Tennant, Smith, McGann, Baker and Pertwee.

Time dyslexia

It's not an unexpected place exactly, but check out the latest issue of SFX for an article on Shakespearian fantasy illustrated by pictures of ruff-wearing Daleks.

Captain Who is a musical that was rehearsed and performed during Degrassi season 14 and I was not surprised to read this from Degrassi wiki:
degrassi.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Who

"The name could also have taken inspiration from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who."

Clips of Captain Who from Degrassi 14.22 The Kids Aren't Alright Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I2p_9KVR0I

Degrassi: The Inside Look - Captain Who:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vRHsOe7sM

Elsewhere on the Internet it looks like I am not the only one with the opinion that the upcoming Class is going to be the Doctor Who version of Degrassi.

Meanwhile, for anyone really desperate for a Doctor Who fix on Saturday evenings, there's always this:

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/britains-got-talent/news/a793240/davros-doctor-who-auditions-britains-got-talent-tonight-no-not-joking/

That's not Davros! He's got eyeballs - oh. Right. OK.

Gods, we need a new series and we need it NOW.

Not really Doctor Who related, but how can you resist a headline like that?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11692974/Asbo-dwarf-jailed-after-impersonating-a-Dalek-and-threatening-woman-with-a-butterknife.html

Once again The Line It Is Drawn has the Doctor show up. Just scroll down to the 8th picture.

Private Eye No.1,418 P.13.
Congratulations to Pearl Mackie, the virtually unknown young actress whose casting as the new companion in Doctor Who was announced on 23rd April.
Congratulations too, to those unknown people who placed a flurry of bets on her casting the day before the official announcement, causing bookmarkers Betfair who had that very morning issued a list of 37 names, Mackie's not among them, to install her as 4/6 odds on favourite for the job.
Curiously, precisely the same thing happened three years ago with Peter Capaldi just before the .B.B.C. unvieled his casting as the new Doctor, so much so that William Hill even suspended betting 48 hours before the scheduled announcement. Show bosses do not seem particularly interested in how such things might happen, but series ewriter Mark Gatisswas quick to use Twitter to stoke the grievances of fans complaining about having their suprise spoiled by online reports of the altered odds on Mackie.

To be honest, Private Eye is an increasingly less unlikely place for Doctor Who to be turning up these days...

It isn't just these days, sometimes it felt like the only thing that actually REMEMBERED Who during TSLABYOD...

Results of a Yougov poll over people's perceptions of how fictional characters would vote in the EU referendum:

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/05/29/britains-characters-brexit/

The Doctor, as you might expect, is solidly pro-Remain but wouldn't have a vote anyway. Pretty much everyone else seems reasonably judged except that Sir Humphrey is probably closer to the middle, I doubt Sherlock Holmes would care one way or the other, and do people seriously imagine that they can judge Captain Birdseye's political views from a few 30 second adverts for fishfingers?!!!

Captain Birdseye still suffers PTSD from his time in the Cod Wars.

The Doctor's also suffering from PTSD. At least, he bloody well OUGHT to be by now.

I suppose the Doc WAS in favour of that Federation nonsense in Curse (well, so was I, given that the opposition was a treacherous Doctor-murdering religious maniac) but you'd think the fiasco of Monster would have him thinking twice.

Mmm, but in that case the villains were anti-Federation forces posing as the Federation to cause trouble, so a New Who* remake would have Azaxyr turn out to be Nigel Farage in a rubber mask.

There's also a hint that the broader problems are being caused by the Peladonian nobles creaming off the benefits of Federation membership for themselves (but this isn't developed because the actual scripts were written by Terrance in a hurry and a lot of Hayles' plot vanished in the process). In any case the Doctor is typically cosmopolitan in his outlook and opposed to the kind of cultural insularity and xenophobia that underlies about 90% of Brexit rhetoric, so I can't see him as anything other than a Remainer, if he had a vote.

* Funnily enough while most eligible Old Who companions strike me as pro-Remain, most of the New Who ones seem to me to be pro-Leave. Except the self-obsessed Moffat-created ones who probably haven't even noticed that there's a referendum on.

There's also a hint that the broader problems are being caused by the Peladonian nobles creaming off the benefits of Federation membership for themselves

WHAT nobles!

There AREN'T any nobles!

There's the occasional CLAIM that nobles exist, but in two interminable Peladon stories including a coronation did we see a single one of these mythical beasts!

And honestly, even if there HAD been any nobles and they HAD been creaming off the profits, that would STILL be the Federation's fault for flooding a primitive planet with goodies and not putting strict anti-corruption policies in place.

In any case the Doctor is typically cosmopolitan in his outlook and opposed to the kind of cultural insularity and xenophobia that underlies about 90% of Brexit rhetoric

OH YEAH?

Sarah Jane might tell you otherwise.

You know, the woman the Doctor DUMPED FOR THIRTY YEARS rather than let this filthy foreigner anywhere near HIS homeworld?

Turlough became a British citizen because of that Trion posing as a solicitor so he could vote.

Really, you can't compare Doctor Who to Captain Birdseye. After all, one is an old man who lures young people onto his ship with promises of adventure, while the other is ... Oh hang on.

How DARE you accuse Our Hero of luring young people onto his ship with promises of adventure!

Haven't you noticed how frequently Hartnell just SKIPS this step and KIDNAPS THEM?!

Clara's always struck me as a lapsed Lib Dem or Labour voter who'd be pro-Remain in the referendum. Clara never seemed too politically minded to me either, but she's a bit more socially conscious, I suppose, given her attitudes and job.

The Ponds ended up living in New York in the 30's, didn't they? I imagine they became New Deal Democrats.

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Pretty much everyone else seems reasonably judged except that Sir Humphrey is probably closer to the middle
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Sir Humphrey's probably right in the middle personally because he never believed in anything (mainly because if he tried to believe in the policies of the party of the day, he'd have held so many opposing positions on all topics he'd have gone insane), but he'd strongly support the position the civil service holds (or somehow maneuver himself into being in charge of the winning side if they're split).

Coming back on topic, I'd say Clara's moderately left wing, and voted New Labour because she felt that's who she was supposed to vote for (like a lot of people, she's probably inherited her politics from her family), but was disaffected because she never really agreed with their policies but didn't have anyone else to vote for (except maybe the Greens) - she'd be happier now the party's moving back to the left.

Of course, that's just my reading of the character and could well be wrong.

As for everyone else, well, in the general population, it seems to be the older generation who want to leave and the younger generation who're more likely to want to stay. But you never know, maybe their experiences with the Doctor could have completely changed their opinions, or left them without any real strength of feeling because they've had much more important things to deal with in their lives.

maybe their experiences with the Doctor could have completely changed their opinions

No doubt, but there are a lot of different ways your opinions could go. Realising after Kill the Moon that you don't want to take any notice of referendum results cos you know best? Realising after the Zygon fiasco that the Doctor's immigration views are not to be trusted? Realising that there's an amazing universe out there, most of which wants to conquer us so we should stick with the EU in the hope that it'll eventually be some use against alien invasions even though it hasn't been the last hundred or so times? Realising that maybe the Tivolians were onto something...?

This article takes the same poll very seriously: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2016/06/whos-winning-european-referendum-vicar-dibley-gives-us-clue

But even they can't quite believe it about Captain Birdseye.

Here we find a bit of Doctor Who in a *literally* unlikely place:

http://www.blastr.com/2013-5-24/decades-old-doctor-who-dalek-discovered-bottom-uk-pond

Nonsense, it's been quite obvious since Dalek Invasion of Earth that the metal meanies love paddling around at the bottom of lakes and rivers, even if no one's got round to giving us an explanation as to WHY.

It's a good way to move around covertly. Although, one would wonder why the arrogant gits would feel a need to conceal themselves.

There have been the occasional stories where Daleks have been less arrogant and more cunning.

Uniting with other galactic governments in The Dalek Masterplan comes to mind. Was it Power or Evil of the Daleks where they pretended to be harmless until they got what they wanted? Even a New Series ep like Victory of the Daleks had them pretending to follow orders and making tea.

It's a lesser trait, but it shows up occasionally.

Clara reads The Guardian. Probably in depth and talks down to working-class Rose about it.

Meanwhile, back at the referendum, Colin Baker has come out for Leave.

Sadly for him, Michael Grade also thought this was a good idea.

I'm kinda going off this 'Leave' thing.

Was just watching Last Week Tonight in a (vain) attempt to work up some enthusiasm for voting to stay in the bloody EU on Thursday when I came across the immortal line 'Honestly, as long as those crooked-toothed scone-goblins keep shooting out royal babies and episodes of Doctor Who, I don't give a tally-ho-•••• what happens.'

••••••• Colin Baker.

Like the unmitigated disaster that was Season Twenty-Two, The Hiatus and Season Twenty-Three, Brexit probably isn't his fault, but you know what? I'M GOING TO BLAME HIM ANYWAY.

All you bright young Poms who voted against Boris and Nigel's fascist Little England, there's a land of opportunity waiting for you in the Antipodes.

That's very sweet but when Global Warming really hits I'd prefer to take my chances on a half-submerged island than in a DESERT.

Also, don't you get your Doctor Who SEVERAL HOURS LATE?

Doctor: Don't you think Cameron looks tired?

Rose: Uh excuse me, Doctor. But couldn't you have suggested that over a YEAR ago?! What happened to the Golden Age?!

In the Funday Telegraph section of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph on May 8 2016 was a piece on jelly babies.

Under the heading "Care for a Jelly Baby?" it begins with opening paragraph:

"Doctor Who fans will recognise this reference to a yummy soft lolly. The curly-headed Tom Baker's Doctor Who (with his long, knitted scarf) often used Jelly Babies to defuse 'sticky' situations."

...
It then goes on with a brief history of jelly babies. Along with this piece are drawings of the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor, eight jelly babies and an ad for Unclaimed Babies as that was what jelly babies were known as in the 1860s.

As well as all this there was also the accompanying Jelly Babies Wordfind.

"Meanwhile, back at the referendum, Colin Baker has come out for Leave.

Sadly for him, Michael Grade also thought this was a good idea."

In contrast to the fact that both could not agree on when Colin Baker should leave Doctor Who.

A philosophical discussion of the problem of personal identity using the Doctor to illustrate some of its points.

I LIKE the Memory Theory.

I mean, I've ALWAYS denied ever having been a child and I've ALWAYS defined my life as beginning with my first memory cos my first memory was The Hand of Fear, but I didn't expect any actual philosophers to back me up on this.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/boris-johnson-recalled-to-beano-20160630110045

"Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove, officially on sabbatical from his position as one of Doctor Who’s Sea Devils, has reiterated that he has no plans to return to the show."

Tom Baker has just announced in the Mirror that old people shouldn't be allowed to vote.

God I just WORSHIP THAT MAN.

A cute crossover between the Doctor and the Mythbusters

This surely counts as an unlikely place... Anyone following Marwell's Zany Zebras trail in Southampton this summer might want to check out the Trojan Zebra in the Marlands shopping centre, which has caricatures of all of the Doctors as lions worked into its design. (OK, some of these are more recognisable than others, but it wins enthusiasm points for including John Hurt.)

JOHN HURT?

Whatever next, PETER CUSHING?!

*Glances guiltily in the direction of one's prized collection of all thirteen papier-mache Doctors-in-the-form-of-cats*

Oh, OK, as an excuse for acquiring an extra oochie, that Hurt thing is just about allowable...

But John Hurt is in-narrative in the TV series whereas Cushing isn't...

I suspect that he also might have had more screen time than Paul McGann...

John Hurt also exists as a real person in the Whoniverse, at least according to Torchwood.

Legal commentator David Allen Green, not content with repurposing Beckett for Brexit-analogy purposes, did a metaphor about a bird sharpening its beak on a rock this morning and got quite exercised when everyone accused him of nicking it from 'Heaven Sent'.

Is The Line It Is Drawn that unlikely after all the links I've posted?

Well, after a bit of dry spell the Doctor returns to the Line. (Fourth drawing down.)

TROUGHTON never said you couldn't change time!

The off-the-peg top secret government organisation in 'Supergirl' uses the call-signs "Greyhound" and "Trap One".

Emily - who was recently heard casting aspersions on 'The Mind of Evil's use of inferior UNIT codenames like "Windmill" and "Venus" - will doubtless be appalled.

You're •••• right I'm appalled!

Supergirl (whatever THAT is) can have Venus and Windmill, UNIT and NO ONE ELSE has GOT to have Greyhounds and Trap Ones! It's just an INTEGRAL PART of the natural order of things!

Doctor Who enters American politics!*

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/790552292453777408

* Caveat: this is a spoof and not a genuine leaked email.

Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowling's, "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them" film is very 11th Doctor like.

There's a soap called General Hospital. They recently reintroduced a character named "Tom Baker". One of the characters, upon hearing the name, made a reference to Doctor Who.

In the Out of the Unknown DVD release is the documentary Return of the Unknown.
Doctor Who gets mentioned in this documentary and it was in reference to Out of the Known contributors Bernard Lodge, Brian Hayles and John Wiles having also worked on Doctor Who.
Also from this documentary found out that the Daleks, albeit in a dream sequence, appeared in the season 3 finale Get Off My Cloud.
Get Off My Cloud as stated by the documentary is a spoof on science fiction but unfortunately it is one of the majority of episodes that has been wiped out due to the BBC’s purge at the time and no known copy exists today.

The white robots in The Mind Robber were recycled from costumes made for the Out of the Unknown story The Prophet, also wiped.

It's not an unlikely place exactly but... The music towards the end of the sixth episode of 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' sounds like its riffing off the Doctor Who theme.

Private Eye No.1435, Page 41:
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The latest Comic Shop Tales.

Hardcore fans of 'The Underwater Menace' - if such strange creatures exist - will know that the awfulness of Joseph Furst's acting as Zaroff was only exacerbated by the fact that the final episode was broadcast on the same evening as his much, much better performance in the title role of the TV play 'A Magnum for Schneider'.

Said play was so popular that it was spunoff in the TV series 'Callan'. And in the Season 3 episode 'A Village Called "G"', Furst pops up again playing a different character, and gets to deliver the line "nothing can stop me".

And just when you're thinking this can only be a horrible coincidence, Graham Crowden turns up to chew even more scenery than he later will in 'The Horns of Nimon'.

My planned biography of Graham Crowden will be titled A Crowden Hour

How about A Feast Of Crow(den)?

The webcomic Alvery Nerveaux's Secret Case Files has a Doctor cosplayer show up.

Then again considering the author is the one and only fan of the Who story The Dominators, I'm just surprised I haven't seen any other Who references in this comic...

Once again on The Line It Is Drawn, 5th one down. (Although Emily might like the 2nd one down as well.)

The Godzilla one is great. Inspired by Bambi meets Godzilla?

Well since Godzilla's foot is drawn in the same style as the cartoon I'd guess so.

This page and the next of The Challenges of Zona.

Zona is the french term for the shingles

In the most recent 'Brian Pern - A Tribute' show they discuss his life's work in a badly made documentary. According to it he played a Terileptil so they had Peter Davison in to talk about it (variously titled as 'Peter Troughton' and 'Peter Pertwee').

"Brian Pern was the worst actor we ever had on 'Doctor Who'. Takes some beating, believe me. The trouble was he was ••••, utter ••••. Talk about watching from behind the sofa. •••• me I didn't want to come out for about a week".

Find it on iPlayer. It's the funniest riff on prog-rock you'll see. Chris Eccleston also appears as one of Brian's record producers.

My eyes! My beautiful eyes!

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12491

Didn't Terry Nation mention the Daleks' hands in the original script...?

Saw Celebrity Mastermind from December 29 2015 and it was won by actor Vincent Franklin.
Franklin played Stewart Pearson in The Thick of It and Stewart was the Tory spin doctor which made him Malcolm Tucker’s direct opponent.
On accepting the award at the end, Franklin said he could hit Malcolm Tucker with it and that he is a wicked old man and now he is a Time Lord.
Soon after host John Humphrys ended this edition of Celebrity Mastermind by saying to the viewer that you do not need be a celebrity or even a Time Lord to take part in regular Mastermind!

Clickbait I will NOT be clicking on:

"What Jon Pertwee From “Doctor Who” Looks Like Now is Crazy"

In The Flash season 3 finale Finish Line, Cisco tells Wally to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
When it comes to outside of Doctor Who I usually hear just reverse the polarity but here Cisco says the whole line with the neutron leaving no doubt that this is indeed a Doctor Who reference.

Filmed In Supermarionation is a documentary on the Supermarionation shows created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
During this documentary, David Lane, a director on the Anderson shows including Thunderbirds mentioned Doctor Who but in a blunt assessment about the show’s special effects back in the 1960s as he said they were not clever nor classy.

Who the hell does he think he IS!

At least on Who the strings aren't showing!

I'm really showing my age with this video, since I used to watch this when I was little, but I can't help but think that's a TARDIS at the 44 second mark, even though I know it's not.

https://youtu.be/mLL7MpxvEWs?list=RDPa1fH0SvGPg

Wow. Things-that-aren't-Doctor-Who are really AWFUL, aren't they?

Well, it was 1000 years ago, back in the 60's, and we were all a little more innocent and easier to entertain back then.
Just think-- Underdog was bursting out of and blowing up telephone boxes at the same time the First Doctor was wondering where the brakes were in his telephone box!

Landmark – The Avengers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010749m

Originally aired in 2011 and presented by Matthew Sweet
Includes interviews with Brian Clemens who sadly passed away since this programme and he briefly mentioned one of The Avengers writers Terry Nation and that he was creator of the Daleks.

The recent casting gets a mention in The KAMics.

Watched the last episode of Poirot series 12, and there is a character named Matthew Waterhouse.

Has anyone noticed there are no challenging Doctor Who questions on TV general knowledge quiz programmes? I don't mean challenging for fans, or as part of a specialised Mastermind type round but just a random question that was even slightly remotely challenging to the non-fan. A couple of recent and genuinely pathetic Doctor Who questions:

Which metal Doctor Who characters used the catchphrase, "Exterminate"?
Gallifrey was the home planet of which character played by David Tennant?

They're clearly not pitched at the same level of specificity of a random sports question or a question about Harry Potter, say. If they were they'd be like "What do the letters of the word TARDIS stand for?" or "Who played Doctor Who when it first started in 1963?" Not challenging to a fan, but would at least separate those who have a casual interest in the programme from those with no interest whatsoever. Even the second question could be rejigged as "What is the home planet of Doctor Who?"

"Who played Doctor Who when it first started in 1963?"

That could actually be a difficult one from me, because I'm rubbish at recalling names, especially when the slightest level of stress is involved.

Things aren't quite as simple as they look...

Which metal Doctor Who characters used the catchphrase, "Exterminate"?

Are we QUITE SURE they're always made of metal? Cos some big-bottomed abominations looked distinctly plastic to me...

Gallifrey was the home planet of which character played by David Tennant?

CharacterS. He played two Doctors, after all, and the answer could be 'the Doctor' OR *shudders* 'Doctor Who'.

"What do the letters of the word TARDIS stand for?"

Dimension or Dimensions? Just because New Who has been entirely consistent on this issue doesn't mean I'm gonna accept their (INCORRECT!) decision without a fight...

"Who played Doctor Who when it first started in 1963?"

No one. His name wasn't Doctor Who?

William Hartnell?

David Bradley, according to any poor sucker who BELIEVES Twice Upon a Time?

You are WOTAN and I claim my five pounds?

You are overthinking things

That is a distinct possibility, yeah.

"Who played Doctor Who when it first started in 1963?"

No one. His name wasn't Doctor Who?

That's not what the credits said. ;-)

Well, what do the credits know about anything? They seem to think that Who is some sort of fictional TV programme. Plus they think there's a 'Hero Pig' in Daleks in Manhattan that ISN'T Lazlo!

According to the credits he was "Dr. Who" not "Doctor Who"!!!!

Plus, does no one remember daytime TV's "who created the Daleks?" fiasco, where they couldn't decide if the correct answer was "Terry Nation", "Davros" or "Raymond Cusick"? Or how about Saturday Superstore's "How many actors have played the Doctor?" controversy, which raged for several weeks and culminated in a DWAS type having to recite a list of all the stuntmen and doubles live on air?

According to the credits he was "Dr. Who" not "Doctor Who"!!!!

But it's pronounced the same way. ;-)

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 4.16 It Ain’t Easy Being Breezies had one scene that is of particular interest to Doctor Who fans and as noted on IMDb:
“While Seabreeze is tumbling through the air in the forest, he passes two ponies, one is referred to as Dr. Whooves, due to the hourglass on his flank, the other pony has a rose on her flank. These two ponies are a reference to the 10th Dr Who and his companion, Rose Tyler.”
Here is the scene in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83BY7PXK9fk

IS NOTHING SACRED!

I believe the 100th episode of MLP:FIM had a longer bit where Dr. Whooves is explaining about trying to build a time machine then finding out there's a magic spell for time travel and at the end he's wearing a very long scarf.

I would take it as a personal favour if everyone would avoid using the words 'Dr. Whooves' in my presence EVER AGAIN.

Shouldn't you be happy that Doctor Who appears to have such a wide ranging influence?

Obviously the difference between theory and practice can be summed up in the words 'Dr. Whooves'.

You're just a misponygist.

Admit it. If a horse had been cast as the next Doctor you would have been one of the ones screaming, "They've killed the show! I'm never watching this again!!!", right?

;-)

*sings the Mr. Ed theme* "A horse is a horse, of course, of course..."

Admit it. If a horse had been cast as the next Doctor you would have been one of the ones screaming, "They've killed the show! I'm never watching this again!!!", right?

Actually I think I was the only person campaigning for the next Doctor to be an animal. Obviously I had a cat in mind and, more specifically, a Cat-Doctor bearing a suspicious similarity to Thomas Kincade Brannigan himself, so naturally I'd find this horse abomination deeply offensive but I'd make damned sure to keep watching so I could share my deep offence with my fellow Nitcentrallers every day...

The Line it Is Drawn once again veers into the Whoniverse. Fourth picture down.

What the hell is a RABBIT doing aboard Sexy? Whatever happened to 'I only take the best'??

Even the Doctor must like rabbit pie ;)

The Outer Limits episode Alien Radio, radio host Stan Harbinger (Joe Pantoliano) interviewed two people about aliens.
As one of these people Moses Saxon (Alex Diakun) was explaining about aliens Stan asked “What episode of Doctor Who did you steal this from?”
Incidentally the other person in the interview Darcy Kipling was played by Leslie Hope and she was among possible Graces for the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie but I read that she was either unavailable or not interested for the part.
The Outer Limits episode came on January 22 1999 and given that Hope was a possible Grace, the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie took place in 1999.
Alien Radio opened the fifth season of the 1990s The Outer Limits and NuWho’s own fifth season opener The Eleventh Hour marked The Outer Limits fan Karen Gillan’s debut as Amy Pond.

The Navy Lark (radio series) 11.11 The Forbodians Hijack Troutbridge had someone saying Noddy and Doctor Who books.
This episode came on March 8 1970 and although it had Jon Pertwee as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee this line was not said by him and it came in the midst of his first season as the Third Doctor.

The final episode of 'W1A' has a scene where the BBC Director-General gets trapped inside the TARDIS. Though obviously as this is a BBC-themed sitcom and chock full of familiar faces from Doctor Who (plus the familiar voice of Dr Jamie McCrimmon from 'Tooth and Claw') this isn't that unlikely a place...

Certainly less unlikely than the recent British film 'The Hippopotamus', which includes a scene of Luke from 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' having sex with a horse.

a scene of Luke from 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' having sex with a horse.

Was he playing Catherine the Great?

A few weeks ago, I read the second of the three Space Precinct tie-in novels, Demon Wing, and it has a character in it named Joseph Salamander.

The first episode of the current series of Dave Gorman's 'Modern Life is Good-ish' spends about ten minutes hilariously dissecting the DVD 'Dr Who: The Lost Interviews', with the help of Toby Hadoke.

It's well worth checking out, and since it's on Dave it should be repeated about several million times by the end of the year.

The Flash 4.5 Girls Night Out has Doctor Who references and it went like this:
Cecile is pregnant and says to adult daughter Joanie that she always wanted a sibling and Joanie said:
“And seven Doctor Whos later you totally came through.”

On hearing this Joe asked:
“Are you a Doctor Who fan, Joanie?”

Joanie then replied, “Ever since he became a lady I am hashtag feminism.”

A couple of minutes later Ralph came into the house and said that the house was small and that it looked much bigger in the street.
This is the opposite description of the TARDIS!

Girls Night Out has Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff as the villain Amunet Black/Blacksmith.
Katee Sackhoff back in 2013 had cosplay as the Fourth Doctor for GEEK Magazine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCuMuyLC3s

Katee Sackhoff had also played by Karen Gillan’s mum in the movie Oculus also in 2013.

Although an American Katee Sackhoff speaks with a British accent as Blacksmith.

They should have had a Brit do the role.

I dunno, I might actually be OK with the blasphemous idea of an American Doctor one day, providing she or he could do a really good British accent.

Brexiteers think the Doctor would vote Tory.

We've GOT to cancel Brexit, that's all there is to it.

Like the Doctor would give a toss.

I'm sure MOST of her/him would be grossly insulted.

Pertwee, maybe not.

Jane Ives/Eleven for the Doctor!

There was a reference in an episode of Big Bang Theory not too long ago.

When Amy suggested that a new version of Sheldon's childhood hero, Professor Proton, could be played by a woman, Sheldon said:

"You have the Ghostbusters and Doctor Who. Leave us men something."

The 13th Justice League Action Short True Colors has Firestorm tapping into a Kryptonite power source which accidentally turned Superman into various things including turning him into a woman Superman.
This short was released on October 13 2017 and I am thinking the timing of this short which sees Superman turning into a woman at one point is somehow reflects on the upcoming regeneration of the male Peter Capaldi into the female Jodie Whittaker in the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas Special Twice Upon A Time.

In fact upon noticing a change of gender the female Superman said “I can work with this.”

While I can't recall a canon Superman/Superboy story where he changed sex, DC has done similar stories through the years, so the recent example is probably not a Who ref.
A 1960s Krypto the superdog story where Red K turned him into a female collie who ended up giving birth (all a hallucination).
A 1970s story where Superman returns to Earth to find everybody is the opposite gender.
More recently the DC Multiverse showed Earth-8 where everyone is an opposite gender counterpart.
Not to mention the 1960s Justice League of America story where Batman was disguised as Wonder Woman.
So Ka-girling at DC comics has a long tradition.

I did not exactly say it was a Who reference but the timing of this short in the lead-up to the upcoming regeneration of Peter Capaldi to Jodie Whittaker is curious if not coincidental and it was certainly worth noting.

Runaways 1.4 Fifteen:
It gets mention here that Alex has a “My Other Car is a TARDIS” licence plate.
Incidentally this episode came on November 28 2017 which is the birthday of Doctor Who alum and MCU cast member Karen Gillan although she is not involved in Runaways an MCU series.
Fifteen does however features a dinosaur Karen met Dinosaurs On A Spaceship whilst she was Doctor Who’s Amy Pony.

The Arby's Twitter feed.

The webcomic Exiern.

Kind of appropriate as the main character Typhan-Knee (Tiffany) was a barbarian who got turned into a woman.

"I believe the 100th episode of MLP:FIM had a longer bit where Dr. Whooves is explaining about trying to build a time machine then finding out there's a magic spell for time travel and at the end he's wearing a very long scarf."

Just finished this episode.

Dr Whooves also uses the Tenth Doctor’s catchphrase Allons-y.
Dr Whooves is voiced by Peter New and the episode also featured Rose based and named after Rose Tyler and she is voiced by Kazumi Evans.

Star Trek: Discovery season 1 finale Will You Take My Hand? had Tilly realising that Georgiou is from the Mirror Universe and the former does something before she was told not to do that by Michael.
Certainly made me think of the Tenth Doctor saying that to his companions whenever they say something they shouldn’t be saying.

Private Eye No.1,465:
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Code: TOMEYE2
Expires: .31/3/18.

DC's Legends Of Tomorrow had a cute one. John Constantine is explaining that there is no spell for finding a spaceship lost in time and finishes with, "My business card says master of the dark arts not Doctor bloody what's-his-face." And the other two people says, "Who" and John says, "That's the bloke."

The Sydney Sunday Telegraph tv guide of April 1-7 2018 has a piece on Parker Posey on playing the female Dr Smith in the new Lost In Space.
The article writer Holly Byrnes stated that Lost In Space fans have almost immediately embraced the gender change of Dr Smith and that unlike “the controversy which surrounded the gender switch made by producers of Doctor Who, Posey had a long pedigree for making the weird seem wonderful.”

The new Lost In Space will be released by Netflix on April 13 which is incidentally Peter Davison’s birthday.

The article writer Holly Byrnes stated that Lost In Space fans have almost immediately embraced the gender change of Dr Smith and that unlike “the controversy which surrounded the gender switch made by producers of Doctor Who, Posey had a long pedigree for making the weird seem wonderful.”

Are they implying that Lost in Space Fans (whoever the hell they are - they can just go GET lost in space as far as I'm concerned) are BETTER than Who Fans?

Oh, and it's not very politically correct to refer to a gender-swap as WEIRD.

On Tuesday April 10 ABC (Australia) showed the second episode of the documentary series Employable Me and we meet jobseeker Ben and he made his entrance wearing a Twelfth Doctor coat.
It is undoubtedly meant to be the Twelfth Doctor coat as we soon see the TARDIS at his place.
We also see a piece of Doctor Who merchandise clothing among the clothes he puts up on the clothes line.
In context with both Doctor Who and his job seeking efforts, Ben says that he knows what it is like to be alien.
The last we see of Ben at the end of this programme he points the sonic screwdriver at the camera.

The ABC reran this episode of Employable Me two nights later on Thursday April 12 which incidentally was immediately followed by a rerun of Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.

On Tuesday April 17 2018 ABC (Australia) showed the third and final episode of the documentary series Employable Me and we meet jobseeker Cain and we see that he has a small TARDIS in his room.
Incidentally the reprise included fellow Doctor Who fan Ben in the previous episode in his Twelfth Doctor coat.
The ABC reran the final episode of Employable Me two nights later on Thursday April 19 which incidentally was immediately followed by a rerun of the Matt Smith swansong The Time of the Doctor.

In the April 23, 2018 episode of iZombie Ravi makes a reference to Doctor Who which neither Liv nor Clive get so he has to explain it to them.

Kind of interesting since iZombie is set in Seattle where local PBS station KBTC has been airing Doctor Who episodes since the mid-80s.

I can just hear Emily:

BURN THE BLASPHEMERS!

That was indeed my reaction.

After careful consideration, however, I realised that, actually, explaining it to them was a MUCH better idea.

Presumably entailing whipping out the City of Death DVD, not the Twin Dilemma one...in fact, when indoctrinating Not We into our cult, it's probably best to maintain the pretence for as long as possible that the Colin Baker era simply doesn't exist.

The premise of iZombie is that Liv Moore is a zombie who solves crimes eating murdered people's brain and getting flashes of their life, but she also takes on the persona of the person.

Reading Emily's post I couldn't help but think what would happen if Liv ate Emily's brain.

*snicker*

Clive mentions watching Game of Thrones and Liv calls it a "Lesser program!" Ravi & Major talk about a Star Trek marathon and Liv goes full Romero.

Man, it just writes itself.

;-)

Back to Who in unlikely places...
I went to a garage to get my car's oil changed, and went to the waiting area to have a seat while the job was done.
As I made my way to it, I noticed a blonde woman with her back to me in the area. She had long blonde hair just past her shoulders, and it was styled so that it was nice and wavy. When I took a seat, and finally got a look at her I realized, oh, not exactly a beauty queen.
She was in her 60's, and she literally had the face of Jon Pertwee.
Then I thought, Jodie's regenernation could have gone so very, very badly!

In the comic book Serenity: Firefly Class 03-K64 -- No Power in the 'Verse #3 we see what looks like the fourth Doctor in one panel.

I say looks like because at first I thought it was supposed to be Harpo Marx, but the extra long scarf made me think it was an attempt to draw the Doctor.

Got a point for my team at the local quiz night. What TV character said the line 'What a wonderful butler. He's so violent!'?

The Fourth Doctor, in reference to Hermann in City Of Death.

I wasn't asking, but yes.

Finished The Uninvited.
I have decided to watch The Uninvited after discovering that the novelisation by Paul Cornell included a cameo by the Brigadier from Doctor Who although the character is unnamed in the book and Cornell himself is a Doctor Who writer.

Even before Doctor Who gets mentioned the similarities between the original Rip Hunter comic series & DW were striking in this article on the Story Telling Engine.

Rip Hunter first appeared in 1959, if anyone was interested.

O.o The linked page is a writing contest by the Carter Brown Foundation. There is nothing on it about Rip Hunter or Doctor Who.

Oops, sorry. Correct link.

Usually I double check my links. The one time I don't...

In the comic Mae #1 published by Dark Horse Comics, Mae is talking to her friend Dahlia and wishing she could get out of town and Dahlia says, “Right then, Rose Tyler. You tell me. Where do you want to go?” and the next panel has them re-enacting the rest of the scene.

Next issue she asks Dahlia to record Doctor Who for her since she'll be going to a place with no TV.

Not exactly unlikely but still came about unexpectedly:

TV WEEK (Australia) of June 2-8 2018 has Doctor Who for its word puzzle.
On top of the word puzzle is a picture of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill with the following caption:
“The Doctor (Matt Smith) (centre) with companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) in Doctor Who.”

It was certainly a delight for me to suddenly see Karen when I turned the page to see this word puzzle and incidentally “Amy Pond” are among the words in this puzzle.

In a performance based on the first chapter of the webcomic Darths and Droids there is a TARDIS onstage.

Now it doesn't play any part in the story or even get referenced, so I imagine it was probably there for some other reason, perhaps another fan production on the same stage?

There is a video of the production, although if you're not a fan of Darths and Droids, you might be lost knowing what's going on. The TARDIS can first be seen around the 19 second mark.

Not exactly an unlikely place, but the back cover of the latest 2000AD (Prog 2083) is a crowd picture set at a ComicCon style convention and features a cosplaying female Tom Doctor, leading a K9 cosplayer around on a leash. (There's also a less prominent Matt Smith Doctor in there somewhere.)

The accompanying story involves a dimensionally-transcendental scarf-wearing cosmic villain called Inquisitor Qui, on the lookout for a new "companion" in order to feast on his/her life energy or something...

I just found out that creator Gene Ha has the first issue of Mae #1 online.

You can find the scene I described on pages 5 & 6.

Tom Doctor, leading a K9 cosplayer around on a leash.

Have we ever seen the Doctor lead K-9 with a leash? Seems like he was capable of following the Doctor without one.

The full cover is viewable here: https://twitter.com/2000AD/status/999948080429531136

I see Mirror Universe Kirk, Uhura and Soval, Doc Brown and Marty facing Rick and Morty, Fry and Leela, Spock and Sulu from ST:The Voyage Home, two versions of Marvin, Austin Power, Mike and James from Monster Inc, what looks like a killer rabbit from Blood C, and some others that look familiar I but can't quite put my finger on.

I like the advertisement for The Little Dalek That Could Exterminate. (Over the Warp-Con entrance.)

Booster Gold & Skeets are there, (Comic Book characters, Emily.) behind Rick & Morty.

Mirror Spock appears to be looking at the South Park kids and the Matt Smith Doctor (in fez) is on the other side of them.

Is that Bill & Ted in front of female Tom?

Appears to be a really bad attempt at a My Little Pony costume there (pink hair, blue skin).

Looks like Ash from the Evil Dead films with a chainsaw for a hand.

The 2000AD story continues with the obvious Doctor analogue killing his companions for their life energy, with Leela, Rose, the Brigadier and Tegan all suffering the same fate in flashback in the latest prog.

As yet, the character dressed as Adric is unharmed. (Anyone disappointed by this can flip ahead a few pages to the bit in the next strip where Not Vladimir Putin watches as Not Melania beats Not Donald Trump to death with a golf club.)

In The Navy Lark (radio series) 13.10 The Master of Sardinia, Sub-Lieutenant Phillips said that he saw a movie in which there was this doctor and the said Master played by Jon Pertwee (!) asked, “Who?”
Sub-Lieutenant Phillips then said, “No, this chap was a good actor.” He then said the name of the movie and it was Dr No.
In response to this, the Master said, “You watch it clever boy.”

This episode was originally broadcast on May 28 1972 the day after Episode 2 of the Pertwee Doctor Who story The Time Monster.

Nice way to plug the show.

Here's another plug:

The Navy Lark (radio series) season 14 finale The Talpinium Shell had the Master played by Jon Pertwee(!) says that if Una Stubbs married Doctor Who in secret she will be known as Shush You Know Who.
This episode came on 21 October 1973, almost eight weeks before The Time Warrior started the final Pertwee season of Doctor Who on December 15.

Several years later in 1979 Pertwee started playing Worzel Gummidge and Worzel was madly in love with Aunt Sally and Aunt Sally was played by none other than Una Stubbs!

How X-Men: Days of Future Past Should Have Ended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6YOI6JcRs

Logan says timey-wimey at 1.46.

Considering the author is a Who fan with an unhealthy love of the Quarks it shouldn't come as a surprise that Who refs will pop up, but the latest was amusing, so I thought I'd link to it. Alvery Nerveaux's Secret Case Files

Saw Star Wars fan series Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager series finale Chad Vader Dies when the following line came:
“It’s the end but the moment has been prepared for.”

That line had earlier been used for the Fourth Doctor’s last words in Logopolis.

IS NOTHING SACRED!

Actress Kate Hudson gave birth to a daughter recebtly and named her 'Rani Rose'.
A Doctor Who fan?
Or the origin of...THE RANI!!!! Dun-dun-duuuuuuhh!!!

I can practically feel myself developing schizophrenia - or at least whiplash - just READING that name.

How the hell is the poor girl going to cope LIVING it?

Not desperately unlikely, given how often Who turned up in its pages during the Moff era, but there's a mildly opaque* cartoon about the Doctor being a woman now in the latest Private Eye.

The penultimate episode of Runaways season 2, Earth Angel has Molly (Allegra Acosta) saying that they, the Runaways, are not Cylons from Alex’s (Rhenzy Feliz) Doctor Who show.

Cylons in Doctor Who!

Although the sonic screwdriver was neither seen nor mentioned there was however one moment that made me think of the sonic screwdriver not doing wood.

Well the Christmas installment of Exiern, in the first panel has the TARDIS, Princess Peonie dressed as Leela and Typhon-Knee dressed as the Doctor. Which is appropriate since Typh had been a male barbarian magically transformed into a woman, so dressing as the 13th Doc fits thematically.

The Line It Is Drawn again, 9th comic down.

Don't tell me Pertwee's trying to be politically correct, saying 'Aquatic Silurians' instead of Sea Devils...?

How Classic Doctors would vote:

First: Conservative
Second: Labour
Third: Conservative
Fourth: Monster Raving Loony
Fifth: SDP
Sixth: Conservative
Seventh: Whomever suits his plan

What is SDP?

Social Democratic Party (UK). Merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats.

Loath as I am to say anything in Old Sixie's defence, I just can't see him as a Tory.

In fact, I just can't picture him voting at all. He'd probably just toss anyone trying to canvass him at election-time into the nearest acid bath.

Peri Brown is a Reaganite Republican. (Rich family, beautiful, wants to keep the wealth etc.)

The Doctor isn't a UK citizen and therefore can't vote in our elections. And probably wouldn't bother anyway.

Didn't 5 have a not very positive view of Democracy in Castrovalva?

Peri Brown is a Reaganite Republican. (Rich family, beautiful, wants to keep the wealth etc.)

I can actually see her as a Democrat for the same reasons. There's an awful lot of rich Democrats in the US.

Emily - He'd probably just toss anyone trying to canvass him at election-time into the nearest acid bath.

What is with all these acid baths around? We need to elect someone to get rid of them! Will no one think of the children???

The Doctor isn't a UK citizen

Wouldn't he have had to get some sort of official status in the Exiled to Earth years, whether while at the Carlton Grange Hotel (Troughton's "they exiled me to Earth, but i escaped before they could change my appearance" period in TV Comic) or UNIT HQ?

He could have been given the status of resident alien, or the UK equivalent, without becoming a full citizen.

Maybe President of Earth gets a vote.

Once again you lot are confusing Earth Who with our world.

While the Doctor may not be allowed to run in an election here, on Earth Who, the rules are probably different.

And no, Emily, we can't arrange for you to move to Earth Who. Sorry.

He was confined inside an oil pointing in the Tower of London from his wedding day until the present; 400 years residency not enough?

“Of course I’m a resident - here’s a painting of me!”

*checks*: Oh. No time passes within the painting, so he hasn’t experienced being resident for 400 years.

Don’t ask how anyone can decide when to leave the painting if no time is passing. It’s probably timey wimey.

Well, he was married to an English Monarch. Does that count?

There was a strange small meteorite that passed over New York a few days ago, and on the news they interviewed a Japanese astronomer named Michio Kaku.
Go to Google images of him and you can't help but notice he has a head of hair that's very similar to William Hartnell's Doctor.
Maybe he's a fan?

And no, Emily, we can't arrange for you to move to Earth Who. Sorry.

I knooooooooooooooooooooooooow...and I can't deny it's a devastating blow...and I'll never quite give up hope that Herself will crash through the Void and into my living-room one day...but hey, it's not like they have DOCTOR WHO in the Whoniverse. The losers.

He was confined inside an oil pointing in the Tower of London from his wedding day until the present

He - was - WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

The Doctor was conscripted as the Chief Scientific Advisor of UNIT UK by Lethbridge-Stewart himself. This would have involved him being entered into HMRC & National Insurance rolls for payment and benefit purposes - which he was as Doctor John Smith. On that basis he would also have signed the Official Secrets Act as a naturalised British Citizen.

Not to mention paying the Rates on that cottage.

I don't think we ever learned which LGA was sending the bill out, but it's canon s/he is the householder.

He also owned Smithfield Manor on Allen Road in Kent, bought with his salary from UNIT in the seventies. Ace stayed there a few times, apparently.

The Doctor was conscripted as the Chief Scientific Advisor of UNIT

He wasn't conscripted, the Brig asked really politely.

I'd like to see his mileage claims... did he claim Bessie and the Whomobile as company cars?

All these references to out of touch politicians being "Doctor Who".

I cringe when real life politicians try to invoke fictional characters to make political points, and make it plain that they have only seen an episode or two, or not at all.

as a fan of The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter films, I'd love to see Georgie Henley and Emma Watson record a joint video as their respective characters next time a politician or tv pundit tries to make reference to entering a wardrobe to a magical land or to Hogwarts.

Big Finish canon has him as the owner of 107 Baker Street in London from the 19th Century onwards.

All told, he’s quite the property owner.

These foreign oligarchs regularly own multiple properties across London and the Home Counties.

He's neighbours with Sherlock Holmes

Most randomly unexpected reference to doctor who of the week can be seen here...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/22/jihadi-jack-pleads-to-be-allowed-back-to-uk-from-syria

Of course, some wags may think he's better off where he is at the moment.

Lying pile of ••••.

No true Who Fan would turn to Isis, they'd have all the fanaticism anyone could ever need to last a lifetime joy and excitement and laughter and nitpicking and humanist principles to fulfil 'em...

By the way, has anyone broke the news to him that the Doctor's a woman now..?

Wow, an example that might tick off both Emily and Tim.

I was watching Splatto Del Gatto review an episode of Star Trek: Discovery and Ya Boi Zack was talking about the cheapness of the episode and he said something like 'it looked like it had the budget of Dr. Who about ten years ago'.

Here's a cute one. The relevant spot is at the end, at 2 minutes 5 seconds, but the whole thing is worth watching.

Adorable!

Though I'm kinda glad cats...just don't do that.

Following her unexpected Oscar win for The Favourite, Olivia Colman was interviewed for the Sydney Sunday Telegraph on March 3 2019 and the article writer Michele Manelis briefly mentioned her appearance in Doctor Who [The Eleventh Hour].

“From early appearances in The Office and Doctor Who, to her breakout role in the acclaimed murder mystery series, Broadchurch, the 45-year-old has packed a lot into her 20-year-old acting career.”

the ISIS Whovian was soo not wanted.

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ultimately al-Qaeda was a pretty standard terrorist group whose aims were more political than religious. ISIS' aims were more religious and its presence operated more like a death cult than a terrorist group - more Manson Family or Aum Shinrikyo than IRA or Shining Path.

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In this video at the 1:49 mark, the host uses the Doctor to illustrate the notions of logos, ethos and pathos in writing. At 10:08, she uses the Doctor again to explain the pitfalls of using acronyms.

EXCELLENT stuff!

The Legends of Tomorrow season 4 finale Hey, World! had Ava saying Time Ladies. Perhaps a subtle Doctor Who reference.

No doubt it was.

Doctor Who gets mentioned in this week's Spectator, with reference to the Gareth Roberts affair:

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Mr Roberts is an accomplished screenwriter and has written several episodes of Doctor Who. He had been commissioned to write a short story about the idiotic timelord for BBC Books, as part of a collection. However, once he had written it, the publishers revealed that it would not appear solely because of complaints, including one from a fellow writer, that he had ‘transphobic views’.

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There was nothing in his short story that was ‘transphobic’, so far as I understand. More’s the pity, really: it might have given a bit of balance to the current incarnation of Doctor Who in which the plots are so woke children are turning off in their droves (check out the audience figures).

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Idiotic timelord? O.o

Idiotic timelord? O.o

I KNOW!

It's idiotic Time Lord.

the plots are so woke children are turning off in their droves

Bull****. People switched off because the plots just weren't very GOOD. The most blatantly Racism Is Wrong episode being one of the few triumphs of the season.

(I’m not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere. Emily can move/delete this if appropriate.)

Doctor Who gets several references in the Amazon series Good Omens, including some children listing things they would expect aliens to say on arrival on Earth, and one of them suggesting they would say, “Exterminate!” With David Tennant playing a 6000 year old demon called Crowley in the series, this has led to online suggestions that Crowley got bored in the early 21st century, changed his name and tried acting for a while ...

Also, one of the characters has a car with the registration number “51D RAT.” And when Crowley is thinking about leaving Earth to avoid Armageddon, pictures of other planets and nebulae float around his head. One of the planets is labelled ‘Gallifrey’ and although he’s not actually talking about that picture it’s still in shot when he says, “I helped make that one.”

Another character’s striped tie is apparently the same pattern as Four’s scarf; and it’s generally believed that the belt he wears is the actual belt also worn by McGann in The Night of the Doctor.

And (very tenuous link) the exterior of a frequently-seen cottage appears to be the same cottage from Amy’s Choice.