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Doctor's Daughter

The Doctor's Daughter, an episode of the British science fiction series 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.

Audio Visuals

Featuring Nicholas Briggs as the Doctor, twenty-six audio plays were recorded and distributed on audio cassette between 1985 and 1991 (a pilot, in which the Doctor was voiced by Stephen Payne, was recorded at Chris Corneys house in Hamble near Southampton in 1984).

Bulgarian mafia

UDF chief prosecutor Ivan Tatarchev allegedly recreated together with Ivo Karamanski, NMS-II finance minister Milen Velchev was photographed playing cards with Ivan "The Doctor" Todorov, and most recently BSP interior minister Rumen Petkov negotiated with the shadowy "Galev brothers".

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.

David Dickinson

On one radio episode of Dead Ringers, The Doctor (voiced by Jon Culshaw) 'phoned up Dickinson to ask him how much he could get for a Magnetic Core Extractor that was believed to be owned by the Doctor when he was Jon Pertwee.

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.

Doctor–patient relationship

In Star Trek: Voyager, the Doctor often compliments himself on the charming bedside manner he developed with the help of Kes.

Flannan Isle

The poem Flannan Isle is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who story Horror of Fang Rock, which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck.

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.

Lillah McCarthy

In 1915 she played with her husband's company at Wallack's Theatre in New York City in Androcles and the Lion, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anatole France's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (translated by Curtis Page), and The Doctor's Dilemma, and at various colleges in outdoor performances of Euripedes' The Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris.

Michael Jayston

In the serial The Ultimate Foe, the Valeyard is revealed to be a manifestation of the Doctor's dark side.

Nick Wallace

This means that whilst Wallace's novel Fear Itself was the last book to feature the Eighth Doctor, it is set at an earlier point in the Doctor's life than Lance Parkin's The Gallifrey Chronicles, which is the last Eighth Doctor Adventure.

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).

Rondine al nido

The song was sung by tenor Agostino Castagnola as The Doctor (EMH) portrayed by Robert Picardo in the 13th episode, Virtuoso, of the sixth season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.

Room 101

In the 2011 Doctor Who episode, "The God Complex", the Doctor and his companions find themselves in a hotel full of their own personal Room 101s, each with their greatest fear in it.

The Best of Tubular Bells

It was advertised on television in 2001, where the actor Tom Baker, known for his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, provides his voice-over.

The Hungry Earth

In the episode, the Doctor—a time travelling alien played by Matt Smith—and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) land in Wales in 2020, where a drilling operation headed by Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal) is drilling deep into the earth and disrupting a civilisation of Silurians who dwell beneath the earth.

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 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.

Victory of the Daleks

In the episode, the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companion Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) arrive in London during the Blitz, where Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) has employed "Ironsides", a scientific creation from Professor Bracewell (Bill Paterson) to be used as weapons in the war effort.


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Alienist

It is used in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to describe the doctor in the Company headquarters in Belgium.

Astrid Peth

She accompanies the Doctor (David Tennant) on a trip organised by Titanics resident historian, Mr Copper (Clive Swift), teleporting with some Titanic passengers down to Earth where she and the Doctor meet Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins).

Banned from Argo

The "Doctor" (Leonard "Bones" McCoy) is arrested for "inciting whores to riot", and has to be transported out of jail, "intact except for hickies and six kinds of VD".

Christopher Barry

He is also one of only three directors (the others being Douglas Camfield and Lennie Mayne) who directed all of the first four actors to play the Doctor, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.

Cult of Skaro

The Doctor ultimately manages to use the vortex manipulator at the Torchwood Institute to suck what he believes to be all the Daleks back into the Void.

David B. Samadi

Women go through more preventive screening; they give birth; they have mammograms and PAP smears; men do not like to go to the doctor.

Doctor Impossible

For the Doctor Impossible created by Austin Grossman, see Soon I Will Be Invincible.

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: 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".

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".

Soon after, he recorded an abridged audio book of the Doctor Who novel The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole.

Donald Sumpter

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

Ed Stradling

In late 2012 he was reported by Doctor Who Magazine as having left the Doctor Who DVD range and working for the Loaded TV channel.

Eddie Robson

He has also written books on film noir and the Coen Brothers for Virgin Publishing, the Doctor Who episode guide Who's Next with co-authors Mark Clapham and Jim Smith, and an illustrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Edwin Dewees

However, in the second round, Dewees sustained a large cut in his forehead, forcing referee Herb Dean to call a timeout for the doctor to assess the cut due to the large amount of blood pouring from Dewees' head.

Foreign Devils

The story begins in China, 1800, when the Doctor and his companions arrive in their time machine, the TARDIS, at the English Trade Concession in Canton.

Frau Farbissina

In Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Doctor Evil Story, a half-hour long preview special of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Dr. Evil states that he met Farbissina "at gymnasia in Baden-Baden at a street corner next to the McDonald's."

Grace Holloway

Grace's life after her encounter with the Doctor has not been explored on-screen beyond the television movie, although the Doctor did have to deal with the after effects of those events in the spin-off Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum.

Great Dunmow

Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 - 16 February 1834 - considered by some to have been the inventor of the unsinkable lifeboat, designs for which he tested on the Doctor's Pond.

Huitzuco

Different versions exist on the meaning of the word Huitzuco, the doctor Gutierre Tibón affirms that it comes from the Nahuatl huitzilizo (thorns), and the locative co, and so means as “Place of Thorns”, because their lands were covered with huisache.

Izzy Sinclair

In the 2008/2009 Tenth Doctor strip The Stockbridge Child, Izzy is mentioned as having gone travelling around the world by Max who also says she found something "amazing" in Kabul but cannot reveal what before being interrupted by the Doctor's new companion Majenta.

Judoon

In the novella Revenge of the Judoon, where they seized Balmoral Castle in 1902 after being conned into a fraudulent mission, they made a deal with the Doctor that meant Earth was off-limits to them, something confirmed as canonical with the TV series by the BBC Monster Files feature.

Liu Bocheng

The doctor was greatly moved by this display of courage and perseverance, and out of great respect he gave Liu the nickname "Chinese Mars".

Mat Irvine

In 1981, Irvine served as Visual Effects Designer for the Doctor Who spin-off, K-9 and Company.

Middlemarch

2013: Middlemarch, an Orange Tree Theatre production adapted and directed by Geoffrey Beevers in 3 plays: Dorothea's Story, The Doctor's Story, and Fred & Mary.

Mirabella

In the Family Guy episode "Fore, Father", Stewie Griffin picks up the December issue of Mirabella in the doctor's waiting room.

Old Higher Lighthouse

The doctor, pioneer of birth control and Portland Museum founder Marie Stopes owned the lighthouse from 1923 until her death in 1958 where over time some of her visitors included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Thomas Hardy.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Paolo Montarsolo

Besides the 18th and 19th century Italian repertoire, he also gained considerable acclaim in character roles such as Fra Melitone, Geronte, Gianni Schicchi, Baron Ochs, the Doctor in Wozzeck, as well as roles in many contemporary works by Rota, Tosatti, etc.

Patrick Bohan

Patrick "Burly" Bohan (1860-?) was an American saloonkeeper and owner of The Doctor's, a popular Park Row dive bar and hangout for panhandlers and professional beggars known as the "Bowery Bums".

Paul Manz

Trinity Seminary of Columbus, Ohio bestowed the “Joseph Sittler Award for Theological Leadership” and among his many honorary doctorates is the Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Valparaiso University, and most recently, the Doctor of Music degree from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

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.

Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas

Saint John Lutheran Church was located there, as was the Hafer General Store, the Prairie Hill School, and the doctor's office.

State University of New York College of Optometry

The College grants a professional degree, the Doctor of Optometry (O.D.), and two academic degrees, the Master of Science (M.S.) in Vision Science and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Vision Science.

Swamp Zombies

Mr. Heatmiser on the Doctor Dream White Christmas Album (1991)

The Empire of Glass

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki travel to what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of historical characters including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare.

The Gunfighters

Soon afterward Wyatt Earp and Sheriff Bat Masterson arrive and break up the fracas, taking the Doctor into custody for his own protection.

The Hungry Earth

The Doctor and Rory capture one Silurian, Alaya (Neve McIntosh), and the Doctor instructs Rory and a local family to not harm Alaya, as it could spark a war.

The Library

The Library, a planet from the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"

The Web of Fear

Chorley, who has been attempting to find a way out of the underground, is told of the TARDIS by Victoria and he rushes off to Covent Garden tube station to find it, locking Victoria and The Doctor in the common room.

The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith

In the concluding scenes, Sarah Jane and the Doctor each tell the other not to forget them: this same exchange took place in The Hand of Fear, as Sarah Jane left the TARDIS for the final time until The Five Doctors.

Third Doctor comic stories

During the early 1970s, the adventures of the Third Doctor in comic mainly ran in two similar formats, TV Comic and Countdown, and as with every incarnation of the Doctor, the Third Doctor featured in Doctor Who Annuals.

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.

Twelfth Doctor

Capaldi made his first, very brief appearance as the Doctor in the show's fiftieth anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), as one of the thirteen incarnations of the Doctor who are summoned to save Gallifrey from destruction.

Urinary incontinence

Stress test – the patient relaxes, then coughs vigorously as the doctor watches for loss of urine.

Vardø witch trials

Barbra said that Maren had accused her, encouraged by doctor's wife Anne Rhodius, who had been exiled from Oslo to northern Norway with her husband because of conflicts in Oslo, and that the doctor and his wife had pointed out the wife and daughter of one of the members of the court as witches.

Women in Cellblock 9

She was then taken to dinner with the commander of the doctor, where they have oral sex in order to then get a little sip of salty Champagne.

WWWS

It has a local jock, "The Doctor" James Cornelius, in the afternoons, and features Walt Love's syndicated programs on weekends.