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56 unusual facts about Doctor Who


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According to the Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars, the first manned mission to Mars will set up a base there.

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.

AudioGO

AudioGo's catalogue from the BBC included popular radio dramatisations such as Doctor Who, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as radio comedy including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.

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.

Courtney Pine

In 1988 he appeared as himself in a jazz quartet in the Doctor Who serial Silver Nemesis.

Dick Mills

Although he recorded much in those early years, it is his later work on Doctor Who for which he most remembered.

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: 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: Evacuation Earth

Video game talk show Good Games two presenters gave the game a 3 and 2 out of 10 saying "it makes the fatal mistake of ignoring pretty much everything that makes Doctor Who great."

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

Such new material included two new themes for the Doctor, entitled I Am the Doctor and The Mad Man with a Box; along with multiple themes associated with Amelia Pond, and River Song.

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: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 6

For the series opener, "The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon", Gold wrote variations of the Eleventh Doctor’s themes, "I Am The Doctor" and "The Mad Man With A Box".

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.

Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time

The game does not feature any voice acting from Matt Smith or Karen Gillan, although sound samples from the show of the enemies are used.

Doctor Who: The Music

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

Don't Mug Yourself

The song featured as a plot point in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "Father's Day", playing briefly and anachronistically on a car radio in 1987.

Eighth Doctor comic stories

Eighth Doctor comic stories are two ranges of comic series that featured the adventures of the eighth incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

Elizabeth Shaw

Liz Shaw, fictional character from the television series Doctor Who

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.

Fourth Doctor comic strips

Fourth Doctor comic stories is a collection of the offscreen and comic adventures of the fourth incarnation of The Doctor, the protagonist of the long-running, hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

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.

Group captain

Captain Jack Harkness, fictional character in Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood carries the rank of group captain on his great-coat, however he is always mistakenly referred to as just "captain".

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.

Harry Wheatcroft

His niece, Anna Wheatcroft, was married to future "Doctor Who" star Tom Baker from 1961 to 1966.

Hedingham Omnibuses

Two former Hedingham Omnibuses (Bristol VRTs RUA 461W, HJB 455W) masqueraded as London Buses in the 2009 Doctor Who Easter special, Planet of the Dead.

Hound Tor

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

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.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

The museum has been a filming location for episodes of TV serials including EastEnders, The Bill, Doctor Who (Remembrance of the Daleks) and Industrial Age.

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".

Lee Binding

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

Legend Films

In late 2008, Legend colourised part 3 of the Doctor Who story Planet of the Daleks; the remaining episodes exist in colour, but part 3 was wiped and only a black-and-white film version remained.

MacCrimmon

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

Martin Slavin

One of his music pieces, "Space Adventure" was used in the "Doctor Who" serial, "The Tenth Planet" as the Cybermen's theme.

Martin Stenersen

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

Mirador del Río

Its interiors and balcony areas were used as a location for the BBC television programme Doctor Whos serial, Planet of Fire, representing an alien planet and culture.

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.

No Man's Land Fort

The 1972 Doctor Who serial The Sea Devils used the fort as a filming location for several scenes.

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).

Oljato–Monument Valley, Utah

In the 6th series of the new Doctor Who the location given on the invitations leads the characters to a spot in Oljato–Monument Valley.

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.

Physician, heal thyself

The phrase was also quoted as the last words of the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

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

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.

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.

Shaun Ley

Ley is a longtime fan of the BBC series Doctor Who and in 2011 he presented and narrated When Worlds Collide, a documentary accompanying the DVD release of The Happiness Patrol, which looked into the series' political and ideological influences over the years.

The Dead Line

Doña Croll, the actress who played Stella, also had a part in parent series Doctor Who as Matron Casp in the episode "New Earth".

The Stones of Venice

The Stones of Venice (audio drama), an audio play by Big Finish Productions based on the television series Doctor Who

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.

Titus Crow

In an interview with Lumley, Robert M. Price suggests various possible models for Crow, including Miro Hetzel, Jack Vance's futuristic detective, Doctor Who, Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, August Derleth's Dr. Laban Shrewsbury, William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki and Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin.

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).


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.

Bindya Solanki

In 2005, she guest starred in the Doctor Who Sixth Doctor audio drama The Juggernauts, returning to Doctor Who audios again in 2009 in the Seventh Doctor audio drama Enemy of the Daleks.

Bristol VR

Three 1980 VRs were used in the making of a 2009 episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who entitled "Planet of the Dead" - one new to West Riding Automobile Company (registered RUA 461W), and the other two new to Alder Valley (registered GGM 84W and HJB 455W).

Button Moon

They are best known for their roles as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), and Trillian (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), respectively.

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.

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

The compilation also collected some Dick Mills sound effects from the story as well as some effects from other 1980 serials "Meglos" and "Full Circle", whose music would be the subject of the fourth volume in the series.

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: The Music

#Dick Mills - "The World of Doctor Who" (composed by Dudley Simpson)

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".

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".

Ernie Vincze

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

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".

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.

Jim Dator

As part of his duties he filmed educational introductions and conclusions for Jon Pertwee-era episodes of Doctor Who aired by the channel.

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.

Lennie Mayne

He is most closely associated with the science fiction series Doctor Who, having directed four serials for the programme: The Curse of Peladon (1972), The Three Doctors (1972), The Monster of Peladon (1974) and The Hand of Fear (1976).

Lower Decks

In his "Production Notes: Doodles in the Margins of Time" in 2007, Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies cites "Lower Decks" along with the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo" as an influence on his 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters".

Luan Peters

She was also active on television in series such as: Z-Cars, Public Eye, Doctor Who (in the serials Frontier in Space and The Macra Terror) , Target, The Professionals and the Fawlty Towers episode The Psychiatrist playing Raylene Miles, an Australian tourist.

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.

Planet of the Spiders

Kismet Delgado, the widow of Roger Delgado, who had played the Master during the Third Doctor's era, was one of the voices for the Spiders.

Richard Jeperson

Jeperson - among the first characters created by Newman in his early efforts at fiction - is a homage to many of the 'telefantasy' heroes present on British television during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Jason King (Department S / Jason King), John Steed (The Avengers) and the Third Doctor (Doctor Who).

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).

Roger Noel Cook

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

Sheila Ruskin

She is possibly best known for playing Vipsania in the 1976 BBC adaptation of I, Claudius but is also remembered by fans of Doctor Who for her performance as Kassia in the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken, and by Blake's 7 fans as Alta 1 in the 1979 episode "Redemption".

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.

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 Companions of Doctor Who were a series of original full-length novels related to the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

The Dead Men Diaries

The Dead Men Diaries is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Paul Cornell, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Story of Martha

The Story of Martha is a BBC Books original novel written by Dan Abnett with David Roden, Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, Robert Shearman and Simon Jowett and based on the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Two Jasons

The book does not feature the Doctor, although sections of it retell the events of the Doctor Who novel Death and Diplomacy from Jason's point of view.

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).

Valentino Musetti

He has appeared in many TV programmes since the 1960s, such as The Avengers, Callan, Doctor Who (credited in the TV serial The Crusade), Space: 1999, The Professionals, Minder and Dempsey and Makepeace.

Warriors' Gate

Warriors' Gate is the fifth serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was written by the English author Stephen Gallagher and first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 January to 24 January 1981.

Yorkshire pudding

In the Doctor Who episode "The Power of Three" the eleventh Doctor claims to have invented the Yorkshire pudding, wanting a pudding that was also savoury.