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55 unusual facts about Doctor Who


3325 TARDIS

It is named after the TARDIS, the time travel vehicle used by the Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Alistair Appleton

In 1999, Appleton returned to the UK, where he scored roles on Sky's Hot TV (2000), Five's House Doctor (2000–2003), BBC Two's Rhona (2000), the Travel Channel's Travel On (2001), BBC One's Garden Invaders (2001), Cash in the Attic (2002–2005), BBC Food's Stately Suppers (2005), and had an appearance as himself on the 2006 Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts.

Ambassador Magma

The stories were generally resolved in four episodes, much like Doctor Who, and a new monster would be found by Rodak to begin another four part struggle.

Anthony Read

By 1978, Read had been lured to Doctor Who by producer Graham Williams.

Barbara Clegg

After writing for several radio and television serials, including for Crossroads and a radio dramatisation of The Chrysalids, Clegg was asked to submit ideas for the science fiction television series Doctor Who in 1981.

Cloford Quarry

Cloford Quarry was the main location used for the planet Lakertya in the Doctor Who story Time and the Rani.

Dickie Burnell

During the run up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the BBC produced the film Bert and Dickie (also called Going For Gold: The '48 Games), depicting Burnell and Bushnell's achievement at the 1948 Games, with Sam Hoare portraying Burnell, and Bushnell portrayed by Doctor Who actor Matt Smith.

Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive

Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive was the third in a series of compilations showcasing the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's work on the science-fiction programme Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: A Celebration

Nicholas Briggs and Barnaby Edwards provided Dalek voices and operation respectively, with Paul Kasey and others appearing on stage and in the auditorium as monsters from the series including Clockwork Droids, Cybermen and Ood.

Doctor Who: Children in Need

The appeals in which they both appear were light-hearted, with Piper claiming to be Tennant and vice versa in the first, and in the second the pair introducing themselves as Letitia Dean and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 3

In a DVD commentary for "42", executive producer Russell T Davies mentions that the theme was "moved up" into earlier episodes than initially planned.

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 5

As well as the theme song, most of the recurring themes for the season were introduced in the opening episode, "The Eleventh Hour", including Amy’s childhood themes ("Little Amy", "Can I Come With You?", "Little Amy: The Apple", "Amy in the TARDIS") and the Eleventh Doctor’s themes, "I Am the Doctor" and "The Mad Man With A Box", replacing tracks previously associated with the Ninth and Tenth Doctors ("The Doctor’s Theme" and "The Doctor Forever").

Doctor Who: Podshock

The occasional interviews on the main show have included the actors Colin Baker, Deborah Watling, Jules Burt and Eugene Washington, music composers Murray Gold and Mark Ayres and writers John Peel, Steven Moffat, Tom MacRae and Paul Cornell.

Since September 2005 the show has been produced in two audio formats: an enhanced version, encoded in AAC, and an MP3 version.

Doctor Who: Return to Earth

Australian video game talk show Good Games two presenters gave the game a 1 and 1.5 out of 10, saying, "It's one of the worst games I've ever played."

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

The game received a 3.5 out of 20 from the game critics Stephanie Bendixsen and Gus Ronald on the ABC television program Good Game: Spawn Point, later describing what they truly wish a Doctor Who game would be like.

Doctor Who: The Music

The album was re-released in 1992 by Silva Screen records as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1, with bonus tracks including "The World of Doctor Who", a track recorded by Mills as a B-side to Dudley Simpson's 1973 "Moonbase 3" single, which featured a mix of music from the serial "The Mind of Evil" with sound effects from "Planet of the Daleks" before finishing with Simpson's "Master's Theme".

The collection was produced by Workshop member and long-time Doctor Who sound-effects creator Dick Mills.

Brian Hodgson is credited with "special sound" on tracks 1 and 2

Doctor Who: Worlds in Time

It is based on the science fiction series Doctor Who and was commercially released on 12 March 2012.

Ernie Vincze

In 2005 he became the director of photography on the new series of Doctor Who, photographing the entire first series.

First Doctor comic stories

The First Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the first incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi BBC One series, Doctor Who.

Fool's mate

In the Doctor Who episode "Nightmare In Silver", a boy named Artie Maitland loses to a chess-playing Cyberman via the Fool's Mate.

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan

The Doctor Who audio play The Wreck of the Titan, released by Big Finish Productions in May 2010, is partly inspired by this novella, and features the characters of John and Myra.

Gaspard de Saulx

He is featured as a supporting character and the main antagonist in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, in which he is played by André Morell.

Glen McCoy

One of his earliest commissioned BBC scripts was Timelash for Doctor Who, screened in 1985.

Happy number

In the 2007 Doctor Who episode "42", a sequence of happy primes (313, 331, 367, 379) is used as a code for unlocking a sealed door on a spaceship about to collide with a star.

High Wizardry

Duane confirmed that a character briefly seen in a cameo is the Fifth Doctor from the series Doctor Who.

Hound Tor

Hound Tor was used extensively in location filming for the 1975 Doctor Who story The Sontaran Experiment.

Javier Calvo

Crystal Palace is an autobiographic story about the author's relationship with the series Doctor Who during his childhood.

Jenny Colgan

In July 2012 her Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons was published under the name J. T. Colgan.

Joseph Bell

In the Doctor Who episode "Tooth and Claw", the time travelling adventurer known as the Doctor identifies himself as an ex-student of Dr. Bell to Queen Victoria.

Lee Binding

Lee Binding (born 1975) is a graphic designer, most notably working on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

MacCrimmon

Jamie McCrimmon, fictional character in the British television series Doctor Who.

Media of Wales

BBC Wales produces the most-watched Welsh news programme BBC Wales Today, current affairs programme Week In Week Out, sports coverage in Scrum V and Sport Wales, science-fiction programmes including Doctor Who and Torchwood, and factual programmes such as X-Ray.

Michael Pertwee

He was the brother of Jon Pertwee of Doctor Who fame, the son of Roland Pertwee, a noted screenwriter and actor of the 1910s-1950s, the cousin of Bill Pertwee, a noted character actor, and the uncle of actor Sean Pertwee.

Nant Ffrancon Pass

It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen.

Ninth Doctor comic stories

Ninth Doctor comic stories were a small number of comic stories featuring the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, the pratagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

Norse funeral

In the TV series Doctor Who, a robot version of the Doctor is given a Norse funeral where it is buried at sea aboard a flaming ship in Lake Silencio in Utah (2011).

Penllyn Castle

In 2005, the semi-derelict castle stable block and manor house were both used as the main shooting location for Tooth and Claw, the second episode of the second series of the resurrected BBC One television series Doctor Who.

Peter Brookes

In the mid-1970s he replaced Chris Achilleos as regular jacket illustrator for Doctor Who novelisations from Target Books but his cartoon-style artwork proved less popular than Achilleos's more naturalistic style and he completed only four covers.

Raymond Sargent

During his early career he played small parts in television programmes such as Only Fools and Horses, Miss Marple, cult programmes The Two Ronnies, Blake's 7 and Doctor Who.

Recap sequence

An example of this is Doctor Who, which during its original run (1963–1989) used the final scene of the previous episode to begin the next, whereas from the series relaunch (2005–present) the recaps are made up of a collection of short clips.

Rise of a Digital Nation

A music video was made for "All of My Angels" in 2013 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Seventh Doctor comic stories

The Seventh Doctor comic stories is a wide range of comic strip adventures featuring the seventh incarnation of the Doctor, the Time Lord protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

Shaun Sutton

In 1963, the new Head of Drama at the BBC, Sydney Newman, offered Sutton the job of being the first producer for the new science-fiction series Doctor Who, but Sutton declined.

Spitting Games

The track was also featured in "Everything Changes", the first episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, and later in the episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts", in 2006.

St Levan's Church, St Levan

St Levan's Church was featured in the first series of BBC Doctor Who.

Stephen Wyatt

Wyatt then went on to write two scripts for the science fiction series Doctor Who — these were Paradise Towers and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Third Doctor comic stories

The Third Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

Trogir

Trogir notably featured in two episodes of the British TV series Doctor Who.

Valley of the Gods

Two episodes of the BBC science fiction TV show Doctor Who were filmed in The Valley of the Gods: "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon", the second of which includes an explicit on-screen reference to the filming location.

White Darkness

White Darkness is an original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Wise old man

The Seventh Doctor in the long-running British Science-Fiction series Doctor Who acted as a Wise Old Man, acting as a mentor to his companion Ace (Doctor Who).

Z with stroke

Also, the popular British TV show Doctor Who uses ƶ as the symbol for the unit of money, Galactic Credits.


1993 in Australian television

Now airing weekday mornings at 4:30am, the series will start with the first serial of Season 19 Castrovalva and will continue until March 3 1994 with the fourth and final part of the sixth and final serial of Season 22 Revelation of the Daleks.

2013 in Scottish television

Among the proposals are plans to replace BBC Scotland with a Scottish Broadcasting Service, although the body would continue to have close ties with the BBC, including airing content such as Doctor Who and EastEnders.

Alice Troughton

Her work on Doctor Who makes her only the second person (after Colin Teague) to direct episodes of each of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Antony Root

He was subsequently promoted to Script Editor, working on Doctor Who, The Chinese Detective and Strangers and Brothers.

Barry Tourist Railway

Some parts of the line, particularly around the Plymouth Road/Barry Island area, were used for several scenes in the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" in January 2005.

Camille Coduri

Coduri recurred regularly in the first two series of the revived Doctor Who as Jackie Tyler and reprised her role in the Series 4 episode "Journey's End" (2008) and David Tennant's final episode, "The End of Time" (2010).

Carry On Breathing

It contains the usual mix of samples from a variety of sources, including EastEnders, Doctor Who, American Dad, The Simpsons, and many other samples taken from British Television and radio broadcasts.

Damian Samuels

He is most recognisable from his role as the invited band manager and selected victim in the infamous award winning music video of the single "Where's Your Head At?" by Basement Jaxx, directed by Traktor, and Mr. Lloyd in Doctor Who in the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances".

Daniel Blythe

After several years writing stories for the small press, Blythe began his professional career writing for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels, and very soon moved on to have his own original work published.

Don Warrington

He portrayed the villainous founder of Time Lord society, Rassilon, in several Doctor Who audio plays, and also appeared as "The President (of Great Britain)" (on a Parallel World) in the Doctor Who (2006) episode "Rise of the Cybermen".

Donald Sumpter

One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor.

Face of Boe

In the New Series Adventures novel The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons, Jack Harkness (who is from the 51st century) says that he once saw someone "dressed up as the Face of Boe".

Garrick Hagon

He was the rebel leader Ky in Doctor Who: The Mutants and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in BBC’s The Archers.

Glynneath

Julie Gardner, television producer, responsible for the successful relaunch of Doctor Who.

Hamish Wilson

Hamish Wilson (born 13 December 1942) is a Scottish actor from Glasgow, and is best known for briefly taking over the role of Jamie McCrimmon for part of two episodes in the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber when series regular Frazer Hines was ill with chickenpox and unable to attend the recording.

High Holborn

The street is depicted on Christmas 1883 in one of the segments of the 2005 Doctor Who on-line adventure game, "Attack of the Graske".

I am a Dalek

To date it is the one of only five novels based upon the revived series that have not been published in hardcover: the second, Made of Steel, was published in March 2007; the third, Revenge of the Judoon, was published in March 2008; the fourth, The Sontaran Games, was published in February 2009; and the fifth, Code of the Krillitanes, was published in March 2010.

Illusion On-Demand

Illusion not only premiered Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere to American audiences but has been applauded for returning classic Doctor Who to television after well over a decade of absence.

Janet Ellis

Also that year she played the character of "Teka" in the Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon.

John Baskcomb

He made appearances in numerous British television plays and series including; Doctor Who (Terror of the Autons), The Saint, Softly, Softly and Poldark and he played the role of Cardinal Wolsey in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).

Kaldor City

Kaldor City is a human city of the future on an unspecified alien world, created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and reused in his Past Doctor Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999.

Learners

Writer Jessica Hynes, who also stars as Beverly, had previously appeared together with David Tennant in the Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood".

Leena Dhingra

Furthermore, Dhingra has done the rounds of popular British TV by making appearances in The Bill, Casualty, Peak Practice, Cutting It, Silent Witness, Prime Suspect, and Doctor Who to name but a few.

Martin Stenersen

He enjoys reading, social drinking and watching science fiction (Doctor Who is a particular favourite).

Nick Tilsley

(During this period, he may have been summoned to fight in the Time War on Gallifrey.

Peter Birrel

He appeared in the Doctor Who story Frontier in Space in 1973, as well as in the documentary I Was a 'Doctor Who' Monster.

Peter Craze

He has had many film and television appearances including in Doctor Who (The Space Museum, The War Games, and Nightmare of Eden), EastEnders and Blake's 7.

Philip McGough

He appeared as Sergeant Calder, a member of the British Army's bomb disposal squad, in the 1984 Doctor Who story Resurrection of the Daleks.

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

"The Fires of Pompeii", a Doctor Who episode where Quintus, Lucius, and Metella are characters

Robert Banks Stewart

Stewart wrote two highly regarded serials for the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975) (which was set in his native Scotland and drew on the Loch Ness Monster legend) and The Seeds of Doom (1976) (which was influenced by The Day of the Triffids).

Robert Taylor incident

A theory by author David Slater, proposes that Taylor’s experience may have been a belladonna induced hallucination that triggered memories of a recently aired Doctor Who episode in which a spaceship of similar appearance featured.

Roger Noel Cook

He wrote for various series in TV Comic, including Doctor Who, Tom and Jerry and Popeye.

Roy Hattersley

In 2008, Hattersley appeared in a documentary on the DVD for the Doctor Who serial, Doctor Who and the Silurians, to discuss the political climate that existed at the time of making the serial.

Secret Histories

Secret Histories is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Mark Clapham, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Simon Gipps-Kent

Gipps-Kent had the uncredited speaking part of a posh party boy in Quadrophenia (1979), based loosely on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who and appeared in the Doctor Who story The Horns of Nimon.

Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet

A performance by the Georgian National Ballet's dancers in which the female dancers, wearing long skirts, appeared to glide across the floor was an inspiration for writer Terry Nation in creating the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who.

The Companions of Doctor Who

The first two books were Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma by Tony Attwood, published in July 1986 based upon the character played by Mark Strickson in the early 1980s, and Harry Sullivan's War, written by Ian Marter, who had actually played Harry Sullivan on the series a decade earlier, published in October 1986.

The Deviant Strain

It was published on September 8, 2005, alongside Only Human and The Stealers of Dreams.

The Taking of Planet 5

The Taking of Planet 5 is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Undertaker's Gift

The Undertaker's Gift is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and is set after the conclusion of the second series.

The Unquiet Dead

In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) travel to Victorian Cardiff on Christmas, 1869 where there have been sightings of strange gas-like creatures.

Tim Preece

He played the politically correct Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77) and The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996) and also had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of the Daleks" (1973).