Doctor Who spoofs
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The long running science fiction television
series Doctor Who
has over the years been the subject of many comedy sketches and specially made comedy programmes, from Spike Milligan
's "Pakistan
i Dalek
" to the Comic Relief episode Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
. There have been occasional parodies and references to Doctor Who on American TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Robot Chicken, and The Colbert Report. What follows below is a chronological list of Doctor Who parody, categorized by medium:
sketch show It's a Square World in December 1963, only a few weeks after the series first aired. Season 6, Episode 8, broadcast on New Year's Eve
, featured Clive Dunn
playing a scientist called Doctor Fotheringown ("Doctor Who?" / "No, not Doctor Who, Doctor Fotheringown!"), for which Dunn wore William Hartnell
's First Doctor
costume and wig. The sketch, which was recorded on 16 and 20 December 1963, also featured Wilfrid Brambell
and Patrick Moore
.
featured several Who parodies throughout its long run. A prominent example originally aired in the early 1970s – an Irish country priest is tidying up his church, then quickly becomes aware that the baptismal font
(which is roughly cylindrical, with a wide base and a domed top) is following him. As the cleric quickens his pace down the nave
, the font charges after him screaming in metallic tones, "Exterminate! Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy!" The priest ducks behind the pulpit
, which then dematerializes (accompanied by the familiar TARDIS sound effects).
as the Fourth Doctor and Peter Glaze
as Lethbridge-Stewart, and notably no appearance from Harry Sullivan
as he is "having his duffle-coat surgically removed".
's television sketch show Q
contained a memorable sketch in which a Dalek returns to its suburban home from a bad day at work and proceeds to exterminate things that irritate, including commuters on the tube – even demanding that his wife, in the trademark Dalek staccato, to "Put [the family dog] in the curry
!"
The Goodies
In the British comedy series The Goodies, there were Doctor Who spoofs in at least two episodes.
In the episode "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", Tim tells Graeme that he must telephone home, and Bill points to a telephone box floating past (actually the Doctor's TARDIS).
In the episode "U-Friend or UFO?", when Graeme asks his robot EB-GB, "How do you speak to aliens?", EB-GB replies "Exterminate!" in a Dalek voice.
In the segment "Doctor Emu and the Deadly Dustbins", Rod Hull and his puppet Emu appear dressed as the fourth Doctor, who travel in a normal red British public telephone box. They land on Earth and deal with a race of public dustbins which eat people (in a way which was later seen in the series itself when Mickey Smith
is consumed by a wheelie bin in the episode "Rose
"). In a later series, the pair starred in "The Return of the Deadly Dustbins".
End of Part One
In the British comedy series End of Part One, the one-off "Doctor Eyes" sketch parodied the low-budget nature of Doctor Who featuring bad special effects and poor acting. Ironically, End of Part One director Geoffrey Sax
would later also direct the Doctor Who Movie.
DangerMouse
In the British comedic action cartoon DangerMouse, there is an episode where Penfold tries to remember the Doctor's name and DangerMouse himself keeps telling him the answer, "Doctor Who". Penfold naturally mistakes DM's answer for a question and never remembers the Doctor's name, but does describe the Doctor as the one who travels in a phone booth.
Other references within DangerMouse are in the stories "Custard", where the heroes return to Earth through "a time-traveler's potting shed" and "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma", where DangerMouse and Penfold first encounter a clock, within which they discover they can travel through time, "Oh, like that Doctor!" "Who?" "Can't remember."
The Two Ronnies
An episode of the long-running comedy show The Two Ronnies spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch called "The Adventures of Archie". Ronnie Corbett
, as the eponymous character, becomes trapped in the past but is able to return to the twentieth century in the TARDIS after the Doctor turns up. Ronnie Barker
played Jon Pertwee
's Doctor as the scarecrow
Worzel Gummidge
, Pertwee's other famous television role.
In another sketch, parodying Star Wars, both Ronnies portray robots which claim that, once filming is over, "we'll end up as walk-ons on Doctor Who"; they are then chased ("Redecorate! Redecorate!") by two enormous cans of Dulux
paint that have acquired the mind and apppendages of Daleks.
Elektronik Komik" spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch. They land on a planet in the TARDIS, encounter an alien, and sing a song. Ian Tough played "Dr. Why", while Janette Krankie played his companion.
The Lenny Henry Show
A sketch on The Lenny Henry Show featured Lenny Henry
as the (newly regenerated) Doctor alongside Peri
. The two land on Earth in the year 2010 and encounter the Cybermen
and their leader "Thatchos" (a Cyberleader with a Margaret Thatcher
wig and handbag); the Doctor's response is to "run up and down lots of corridors".
This sketch was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
and also on the Trial of a Time Lord DVD release.
French & Saunders
An unaired sketch filmed for French & Saunders featured Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
as bored extras in Silurian
costumes during the filming of a Doctor Who serial that resembles The Trial of a Time Lord
. They eventually disrupt filming so much that the floor manager tells them that all Silurians can have a tea break. Unfortunately, their version of the Inquisitor also happens to come from the planet Siluria, and walks off the set as well. The spoof was recorded on the set for "The Trial of a Time Lord".
George Layton
played the Doctor, which had the look of the Fourth
. The segment was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
.
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV featured a brief sketch in which Jim Broadbent
(later to appear in The Curse of Fatal Death) appears as a Tom Baker
-style Doctor and comes up against a villain called Crayola
. The sketch parodies the technobabble of the show, and the number of continuity references later episodes of the series had.
The segment was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
.
Chelmsford 123
Chelmsford 123, a UK sitcom set during the Roman occupation of Britain in the second century AD, featured in its premiere a scene in which an arriving Roman dignitary and his retinue trudge wearily along a dirt track in the middle of the night, muttering about how boring Britain looks and how dull they expect their stay to be.
Unnoticed, the TARDIS materializes by the side of the road (using the original sound effect); the Doctor (seen only in silhouette) steps out, looks around and goes back into the TARDIS, which disappears again.
The sketches featured "Doctor Hewson" (played by Steve Vizard
), who was an amalgam of the Fourth Doctor
and the then-Australian Federal Opposition Leader, Dr John Hewson
; Lylo (played by Marg Downey
), based on Leela
; a rubber alien, who after removing his rubber head was revealed to be the recurring character "Bruce Rump" (spoof of Bruce Ruxton
); Davros
with the head of then-opposition MP John Howard
; and a disembodied voice called "Time Lord Malcolm", who had lost his trousers (former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
famously appeared in an American hotel lobby sans trousers in 1986). Davros was also towing a crude imitation K-9
.
Doctor Hewson's mission was to find a new immigration policy, which he eventually took from some graffiti spray-painted on the "Retardis": "Two wongs don't make a white." (however, Hewson says "two wogs" instead of "two wongs"); The implication is that Bruce Rump was responsible for the graffiti, as he is seen carrying a spray can.
The sketches appear in Series 2, Episode 10 – which can be found on Disc 3 of "Fast Forward: The Complete Season Two".
The Real McCoy
The BBC sketch show The Real McCoy featured a sketch using redubbed footage from the serial Earthshock
. In a scene where the Fifth Doctor
confronts the Cyberleader, the two characters speak in Jamaican Creole
, with the Doctor telling the Cyberleader "You no look like no Dalek to me".
This sketch was included as an "Easter Egg" on the DVD release of Earthshock.
. Its credits do not include a scriptwiter, but list "Cast & Crew" as gag writers and Kevin Davies
as script editor. It was produced by Keith Barnfather.
It takes the form of a mockumentary
, with Nicholas Briggs
as a reporter visiting the set of Doctor Who on the first day of filming on 9 August 1963 (although the actual first day was on 20 August and what is being filmed appears to be Episode 1 of The Daleks
).
The sketch includes several references to popular stories about the early days of the show. For example, "Sidney Newbaum" (Sydney Newman
) assures the interviewer there will be no bug-eyed monster
s, at which point a Dalek wrapped in brown paper gets wheeled across the corridor.
The sketch ends with the Director General of the BBC (played by Nicholas Courtney
) predicting the series will last "twenty-six years, one week and six days" (the exact length of time the original series did run from its debut on 23 November 1963 until its final episode on 6 December 1989). The credits then run over a reversed version of the theme tune.
It appears as an extra on the The Beginning DVD box set, alongside the three 1999 Doctor Who Night sketches.
Saturday Night Live
The 14 March 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live had a parody where Democratic presidential candidates Paul Tsongas
, Jerry Brown
, and Bill Clinton
(played respectively by Al Franken
, Dana Carvey
, and Phil Hartman
) speak at a Star Trek
convention. The Carvey/Brown character mentions Doctor Who.
The 16 March 2002 episode featured Sir Ian McKellen
– then famous for his roles in the X-Men
and The Lord of the Rings
movies – in a sketch about a public-access television
cable TV programme titled "Kevin and Richie's Comic Book Zone". In it, McKellen plays a pizza parlour manager who is introduced as the "local Doctor Who impersonator", he comes out dressed in costume as the Fourth Doctor
. The hosts question him about choice of subject (he responds that he's the only guy around with a British accent) and quickly ask him to try his hand at other English-accented characters, leading to McKellen mimicking his own performances in the genre. The TARDIS dematerialization sound is also used several times during the sketch.
The 5 February 2005 episode featured Paris Hilton
in a spoof advertisement for a phone sex
line for science fiction and fantasy fans. At the sketch's conclusion, Hilton dons a Tom Baker-style scarf and floppy hat and mentions Doctor Who, the TARDIS
, Dalek
s, and "extermination".
The Simpsons
The Simpsons has briefly referred to Doctor Who seven times. The Fourth Doctor
made cameo appearances in the episodes "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
" (as one of the "esteemed representatives of television") which aired 3 days after Doctor Who's 32nd Anniversary., "Mayored to the Mob
" (at a science fiction convention), and "Treehouse of Horror X
" (in which he is kidnapped by the Comic Book Guy
, along with Lucy Lawless
and Yasmine Bleeth
). Tom Baker did not provide any voices for The Simpsons.
Tables resembling the TARDIS
console appear briefly in the tech gadget store in "The Homer They Fall
", and in "Bart the Fink
" the Comic Book Guy is seen wheeling a wheelbarrow full of tacos and saying "Yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Doctor Who marathon." In the episode "Springfield Up
" a British filmmaker (voiced by Eric Idle) is interviewing the family and Homer calls him "Doctor Who". In the episode "Husbands and Knives
", Milhouse is attacked by a pop-up comic book of Wolverine
. After shedding a tear on the cover of the book, Comic Book Guy calls Milhouse "Doctor Boo-Who". In the opening credits of The Treehouse of Horrors XX, the listing of Consulting Producer Don "He Will Knock 4 Times" Payne refers to the prophecy from "Planet of the Dead
". In the same episode a reference was made to another story previous story arc Bad Wolf.
Doctor Who in turn referenced The Simpsons in the 2008 episode "Planet of the Ood
", in which an Ood with a "comedy classic option" setting on his translator ball says, "D'oh!
". In The End of Time
, the Doctor, strapped to a chair and being pushed down a flight of stairs, said "Worst. Rescue. Ever!" in reference to Comic Book Guy's famous catchphrase("Worst episode ever!").
Consequently, in January 1997, Tom Baker did an advertisement for New Zealand television, spoofing his own portrayal of the Fourth Doctor and advising viewers to plan for their financial future. He points out how the audience does not "need a sonic screwdriver or a Gallifreyan time capsule" to figure out that New Zealand Superannuation Services are a reasonable way to make their future dreams realities.
The 30-second spot licensed not just the Fourth Doctor's appearance, but the console room and a version of the show's theme music similar to that of the Seventh Doctor's. It ended on a scene of the TARDIS amongst New Zealand sheep.
Harry Enfield and Chums
A one-off sketch in the second series of Harry Enfield and Chums parodied the then-recent casting of Liverpudlian actor Paul McGann
as the Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. A workman stands next to a ladder in an otherwise abandoned TV studio, when suddenly the TARDIS appears, and out steps Gary Bleasdale
's "Gary Scouser" character (one of Enfield's popular trio of stereotypical Scouse
r characters), dressed in the Fourth Doctor's coat, scarf and hat. The workman asks "Who are you?", to which Gary replies "I'm Doctor Who Are You Lookin' At?" He then headbutts the workman, and begins to rant "Come on then, where's all these friggin' Daleks, eh? I'll bleedin' exterminate yez!" as the Doctor Who music fades in.
Although he did not appear in this particular sketch, Paul's brother Joe McGann
is a regular in the Scouser segments, playing Barry Scouser.
TV Offal
TV Offal, a creation of Victor Lewis Smith had the Gay
Dalek
s as recurring characters. They came from the planet Maskaro and travelled in a flying portoloo known as the TURDIS. They also had pink livery and often sported handbags slung-over their plunger-arm, as well as distinctly un-Dalek-like phraseology such as "BITCH". Each episode ended with an aroused Dalek ejaculating (sometimes preceded by "I AM GOING TO EX-SPERMINATE!"), repeating in the metallic voice the phrase "WHITE WEE WEE!"; In the Pilot dubbed clips from Destiny of the Daleks
were used instead.
After the first (and only) series the estate of Terry Nation
, creator of the Daleks, refused to renew the license. Later attempts at reviving the Gay Daleks as an animated series were also blocked.
Red Dwarf
A television special to celebrate the series. Many cast and crew members, fans and celebrities, such as Patrick Stewart
, offer an opinion on the popular British sci-fi comedy series. In one skit, a couple of Daleks being interviewed disapprove of the series. However, one of them then begins to compliment Red Dwarf on its jokes. The other one takes notice of its associate's having a sense of humour and, naturally, exterminates him on the spot.
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They performed "My (Re)Generation" in a studio with TARDIS
-like roundels forming part of the set. This sketch formed part of a question for Janet Street-Porter
posed by host Vic Reeves
: "Who is the current Doctor Who?", who at the time was Paul McGann
as the Eighth Doctor
.
, Joanna Lumley
, Hugh Grant
, Richard E. Grant
(later to appear in the webcast Scream of the Shalka
), and Jim Broadbent as various incarnations of the Doctor and Jonathan Pryce
as the Master
.
showed various Doctor Who-related material interspersed with sketches and documentaries, under the title "Doctor Who Night". The night featured three sketches by writer Mark Gatiss
, known as a member of The League of Gentlemen
, who has gone on to write several episodes of the revived series of Doctor Who, as well as starring in "The Lazarus Experiment
" (2007). These sketches were co-written and performed with David Walliams
, later to be better known for his work on Little Britain
.
In The Pitch of Fear, Walliams appears as Sydney Newman
and Gatiss as fictional BBC executive "Mr Borusa" in a spoof about the early history of Doctor Who
, which also features Little Britains Paul Putner
.
The Web of Caves, which is in black and white, sees Walliams and Putner as aliens (somewhat similar in appearance to Movellans) trying to persuade the Doctor (Gatiss) to defeat their schemes. The Walliams alien appears alone at first and outlines his scheme to hollow out the core of the Earth and replace it with a motor
; the Doctor dismisses this plan, in a rather bored fashion, as having been done, and the alien suggests he will come back the next day with a new plan. The next day he returns, accompanied by the Putner alien, and proposes to drain the world's oceans into its core thus boiling them away
; again the Doctor points out that it has been done, but decides he has to stop them. The two aliens and the Doctor agree on a time for their battle and the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, only to have it rematerialise in the same spot, leaving the Doctor visibly annoyed. He disappears back into the TARDIS, only to have the Walliams alien obliviously comment on how nice the Doctor is.
In The Kidnappers, Walliams abducts Peter Davison
for Gatiss.
All three sketches were included as extras in the DVD box set Doctor Who: The Beginning (consisting of the first three serials of the programme). A reference in "The Pitch of Fear" to Doctors "towards the end" of the series being played by "just any old f**ker with an Equity
card" had deeply offended both Colin Baker
and Sylvester McCoy
when it was first broadcast.
Gatiss gave permission for the sketch to be included on the DVD only on condition that the lines be cut, saying that he knew it was a mistake as soon as he saw it broadcast.
Boy Meets World
In the episode "As Time Goes By", Eric discovers a phone booth similar to the TARDIS. Its entrance is covered with caution tape draped across it that reads "This is not a phone booth, it is a time continuum vortex. Whatever you do, do not pick up the phone." He laments "I wish I knew how to read" before tearing the tape away. (This would seem, though, to be more of a reference to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
than to Doctor Who.)
Dead Ringers
One of the most prolific sources of Doctor Who-related parody in recent years has been the radio and television programme Dead Ringers. This is primarily due to comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw
and writer Nev Fountain
, both of whom are Doctor Who fans. Culshaw often impersonates Tom Baker
in character as the Fourth Doctor
.
Kit Kat
A 2001 advertising campaign for Kit Kat chocolates showed celebrities doing things which were contrary to their popular images (for example, football player Roy Keane
doing needlepoint, and Motörhead lead singer Lemmy playing the violin).
One of the first shots in the advertisement is of Daleks chasing people on the street saying, in the standard Dalek tones, "Give us a cuddle!" while the final shot had Daleks following a group of Hare Krishna
devotees, chanting "Peace and love!" The advertisement concluded with the Kit Kat slogan "Have a break, have a Kit Kat," implying that the Daleks were having a break from their habitual killing.
The Daleks' use in this advert was brought to an end by the estate of Terry Nation
, who had not been aware of the usage. The advertising agency had mistakenly believed that the creatures were in the public domain.
production starred Sylvester McCoy
as the Foot Doctor doing battle against the Krynoids, Sontaran
s, and Auton
s. It also parodied elements of the Seventh Doctor's
tenure, including his incarnation's penchant for spoon-playing and his regeneration scene in Time and the Rani
. The title was a reference to how BBV had never obtained a license from the BBC to produce official Doctor Who tie-in material and therefore had to create works that only narrowly avoided infringing the BBC's intellectual property rights.
Coupling
In the British comedy Coupling, main character Steve makes reference to Daleks in his rant about cushions: "...This... is a sofa; it is designed by clever scientists in such a way so as to shield the unprotected user from the risk of, skin abrasions, serious head trauma, and of course...DALEKS!" (Season 2, Episode 3)
Other Doctor Who references are made by Oliver in Season 4:
These references may be because current Doctor Who Head Writer Steven Moffat
was a writer on the show.
Codename: Kids Next Door
In this Cartoon Network
series, the nerdier operatives enjoy a program called "Doctor Time Space and the Continuum". In the episode "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." Numbuhs 1, 3, 4, and 5 are captured and forced to watch the series, with Numbuh 5 pleading for it to stop.
During the credits of the episode "Operation: A.M.I.S.H." a segment is presented featuring a man on an ultra-low budget set (parodying the budget of the series) wearing several long scarves (a parody of the Fourth Doctor) standing next to an equally low budget cardboard robot, which falls apart.
In Operation E.N.G.L.A.N.D one of the kids from Sector E (England) has a long multicolored scarf and an over sized trench coat mocking the Fourth Doctor's outfit/costume.
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
In an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Conan brings out his cousin who is a fan of "the 1970s science fiction show Dr. Who" and only talks about things in terms of Doctor Who. When the cousin comes out (dressed as Tom Baker) and is asked a question, his unrelated response involves discussion traveling through time in the TARDIS with the Doctor.
Chewin' the Fat
In a sketch from the 2005 Hogmanay
edition of the BBC Scotland
comedy series Chewin' the Fat, the character Ronald Villiers ("the world's worst actor") acts as an army soldier sent into a metal building to take on the Daleks. Villiers, however, keeps on messing up his lines and throwing in various ad-libs relating to Doctor Who.
After repeatedly failing to understand that the production crew are going to superimpose a Dalek onto the scene in the post-production stage, Villiers is thrown off set - but not before telling them that "All the Doctor Whos after Sylvester McCoy were rubbish anyway".
from Lost in Space
and the Dalek
s.
After subsequent showings, the advertisement was later shortened to not feature the Daleks due to complaints from the estate of Terry Nation
without permission.
Robot Chicken
In the Adult Swim
series Robot Chicken, the Fourth Doctor
made an appearance, standing on the first base of a baseball diamond asking, "You get it?", a reference to the Abbott and Costello
sketch "Who's on First?
".
In an episode entitled "Suck It", a student begins to give a presentation about the TARDIS
before being berated for his perceived geek
iness.
The Chaser's War On Everything
The 21 July 2006 episode of the Australian satirical comedy programme The Chaser's War On Everything contained a song making fun of Doctor Who fans; It was written and performed by Andrew Hansen
, who is himself a Doctor Who fan.
The Charlotte Church
The second episode of The Charlotte Church Show (broadcast on 8 September 2006) included a sketch in which Church played the Doctor's new companion. In the sketch, Church complained about travelling to Cardiff
by TARDIS ("I can take the bloody bus!"). The sketch also noted the series' tendency to have "relationship-y episodes where somebody's gran's dying, that they use to pad out the middle of the series when they run out of money for special effects", referring to "that psychic girl with the crayons
" as a "rubbish" example.
The sketch also showed the Doctor examining a scantily clad female mannequin, claiming he thought it was an Auton
. At the end of the sketch, the Doctor regenerated into Todd Carty
.
The Friday Night Project
Tenth Doctor
actor David Tennant
appeared as host on the 5 January 2007 edition of Channel 4
's The Friday Night Project. Tennant joined regulars Justin Lee Collins
and Alan Carr
in a number of jokes related to the show/role - including a short parody episode which saw Collins as the Tenth Doctor, Tennant in drag as his female assistant and Carr as various Doctor Who villains.
In the parody, Collins and Tennant travel to the "Pink Planet" to confront their biggest enemy, the Gay Lord (a parody of the Time Lords) and then the Carrleks (a parody of the Daleks).
Also, there was a fake charity Doctor Who auction in which two fans were pranked - one being made to pay a large sum of money for an item he hadn't intended to bid on, the other being led to believe the auction had stolen his one-of-a-kind prop of the Key to Time from the classic-series serial of the same name.
Later when the show's name was change to The Sunday Night Project, Catherine Tate
who plays Donna Noble
appeared as a guest host on 18 January 2009. While her time on the show, Tate joined both Justin and Alan in several parodies about the show, in one, Tate dressed as the Tenth Doctor while Collins and Carr take the role as Donna. At first, Carr makes the mistake of dressing like Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper
, then Collins wins the part when he wears a bride's dress.
compared time travel to Senator Hillary Clinton's motion to repeal President George W. Bush
's authorization to begin the Iraq War. After he made this statement, the Word sidebar displayed, "Dr. Who is she kidding?"
On 28 June 2007, during an interview with Doug Bailey
, Bailey discussed an online convention for the Centrist Party at Unity08.com with polls on who should run for President. Colbert informed him that with an online convention "You're going to get a bunch of computer nerds [nominating] Doctor Who and Chewbacca
".
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
In the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess", Arwin creates a machine for time and space travel out of a British telephone box. Zack and Cody use the machine to travel to a parallel world, as first done in Inferno
and repeated several times throughout spin-off media for the classic series and episodes of the new series, including Rise of the Cybermen
and Journey's End
. The machine lights up and makes a sound similar to the TARDIS upon takeoff and landing.
Family Guy
In "Blue Harvest
", the Star Wars
themed season premiere of the sixth season of Family Guy, Peter Griffin
(as Han Solo
) comments that "Hyperspace
always looks so freaky." The scene then cuts to the first Fourth Doctor
title sequence (with full audio) playing outside the Millennium Falcon
cockpit. Also, in the 2009 episode "420
", Brian, who has successfully lobbied to have marijuana legalized in Quahog, comments that in the aftermath, "Crime is down, productivity is up, and ratings for Doctor Who are through the roof." In the episode "Welcome Back, Carter
", Peter mentions his owl's name is Doctor Hoo.
CSI: NY
In the episode "Time's Up", the main case involves scientists experimenting in time travel
. When the team enter an apartment containing a "time machine", the character Flack remarks "paging Doctor Who".
Gina's Laughing Gear
In this children's spoof show on CBBC
, three sketches spoofing Doctor Who are shown. The first begins with the Doctor and Rose stepping out of the TARDIS into a darkened room. The Doctor, using his Sonic Screwdriver as a torch, reveals several aliens who are all blasted by Rose's ray gun. The Doctor then turns on the light and sees that they have materialised at a child dress-up party. The child then comes in. The Doctor and Rose wish him a happy birthday. He calls them to get a doctor. "Funny you should say that" says the Doctor.
In the second sketch, the shortest of the three, we hear the TARDIS materialise and the Doctor inquiring where they are. Then we hear a scream, as a woman runs out of a building. The Doctor apologises, just as the camera focuses on a sign for ladies toilets.
The third and final sketch starts with the Doctor stepping out of the TARDIS into Tim Westwood's (Pimp My Ride UK
) garage. The Doctor asks if he is a Cyberman. Tim corrects him and says he is a DJ-man. The Doctor then recognizes this "alien that plays hip-hop music on the radio". Tim calls it old and a "TURDIS" and then says to the Doctor that he is going to "pimp his TARDIS". There are then several shots of mechanics attaching things to the TARDIS that are typical to Pimp My Ride (e.g. a customized number plate: T4RD15 and a disco ball where the normal light would be on top of the TARDIS). The Doctor doesn't mind as these are only cosmetic changes, but Tim has messed up the suspension and the Doctor dematerializes from the garage with the TARDIS jumping to different places in the garage.
The Omid Djalili Show
In one sketch of the third episode of the first series, Omid Djalili
plays a man desperate for fame who attends a children's party along with Freema Agyeman
who plays companion
Martha Jones
. In the sketch, Djalili tries to get a role in Doctor Who by performing as the new Cybermen and the Daleks (he wears a helmet with a Dalek eyestalk on it). Because his performance scares the children, Agyeman is enraged and restrains him, but Djalili just quotes "I'm half human, half Dalek, I am your future!" (the line said at the end of Daleks in Manhattan
), so she asks him what is his problem and he replies "Help me, I need to be famous"; she then headbutt
s him.
Extras
In the Christmas special finale of Extras, Darren Lamb (Stephen Merchant
) tells Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais
) that he's been offered a part in "the BBC's jewel in the crown, Doctor Who", but Andy dismisses the show (along with Hotel Babylon
) as "camp, frothy nonsense". Later in the episode, Andy gets a new agent who proposes roles in the same programmes, which Andy again rejects. However, after not working for five months (and telling his new agent, "I've told you a thousand times, I'm not going to play an alien in Doctor Who"), we see Andy opposite the Tenth Doctor
(David Tennant
), playing a slug-like alien named Schlong (in a rubbery costume, with Andy's face fully visible).
In the scene, "Schlong" attacks the Doctor and the young woman with something the Doctor first describes in technobabble
as "hyperpodulating—he's using his molluscian gline valves to internally vibrillate our DNA!" and then explains that "we'll both turn into slugs in about thirty seconds unless I can reach that sodium chloride!" The Doctor throws the salt on the slug-creature, who collapses, foaming at the mouth.
American Dad!
In the episode "Escape from Pearl Bailey
", Steve Smith's friend, Debbie, is running for Student Council President at Pearl Bailey High School. In her speech to the student body, Debbie refers to a "thirty-year-old TV show", the scene cuts to several students in the audience wearing the costumes of the Fourth
, one wearing a costume of the Eighth
, and one whom has hair similar to the Sixth
incarnations of the Doctor
, as well as K-9
. Technically, "thirty years" refers only to the approximate American broadcast history of Doctor Who
.
made a guest appearance where he played a retired actor named Graham Capelli who played a time traveller in a television show called The Lollipop Man where he could travel through time with his traffic lolliepop stick. Graham also has to provide commentary for the DVD release of the show.
The Sarah Silverman Program
In one episode of the second season, Christopher Eccleston
makes a guest appearance in which he plays the fictional main character from a long-running science fiction series called Dr. Lazer Rage.
Ben 10: Alien Force
The creator of the series confirmed that Professor Paradox was inspired by the Doctor, with similar traits such as a British accent and an aversion to guns. At one point he also carried around a bag of gumballs, similar to the Doctor's jelly babies.
Pinky and Perky
Episode 34 of the CGI animation Pinky and Perky, broadcast 17 February 2009, was titled "Doctor Roo". The title refers to a time-travelling kangaroo dressed like the Tenth Doctor
, who travels through time with his time-travelling pouch. Pinky thinks Dr Roo's TV show is real, and tries to travel back in time to save the world from the Robo-Sheep (which are based on Cybermen).
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson
dubbed the 16 November 2010 episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
the "Doctor Who Episode", and began the show with a dance number to the tune of the Doctor Who theme, which had to be cut out due to not being able to get the legal rights to play the song. The show featured many Doctor Who references and jokes, including a Dalek alongside Craig's usual sidekick Geoff Petersen
and a miniature TARDIS
on Craig's desk. The guests were Chris Hardwick
(who talked with Craig almost exclusively about Doctor Who) and the Eleventh Doctor
, Matt Smith. The cut opening number was later broadcast in early 2011. In 2011 two other Doctor Who actors - Alex Kingston
and Karen Gillan
appeared on the programme, with Gillan making an encore appearance (along with Matt Smith, in a separate broadcast), in late July 2011. On 3 Aug. 2011 Smith made an unadvertised appearance in a pre-recorded segment at the end of the broadcast.
National Television Awards
A special 3-minute sketch was written by Steven Moffat, featuring Matt Smith and the TARDIS
set, and broadcast on ITV1
on 26 January 2011 before the awards ceremony. Dermot O'Leary
wakes up realising he has missed the ceremony he is presenting, and the Doctor helps him get there on time, meeting Dot Branning
, Ant & Dec
and Bruce Forsyth
en route.
South Park
In the episode Funnybot
the Funnybot's appearance is similar to that of a Dalek, with a plunger-like arm, and even says "Exterminate".
Community
During the episode "Biology 101
" Britta searches for a new television series for Abed to watch. She eventually shows him a sci-fi series called Inspector Spacetime, a thinly veiled parody of Doctor Who. Troy and Abed have been seen watching Inspector Spacetime throughout the third season
Dorkly
In the episode "Chrono Trigger Time Travel Mix-Up", the characters from the game Chrono Trigger
meet the Doctor who tells that Lavos was in fact a friendly being trying to return back to its home planet.
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
In episode 8 of the first full series, the main feature was a sketch called "Doctor Why and The Thing".
In Series Six there was a running sketch entitled "Professor Prune and His Electric Time Trousers", which was a send-up of Doctor Who.
Doctor Poo
"It's all cisterns go, with the amazing man who dares to go anywhere. Doctor Poooooooooo."
The brainchild of comedians Geoff Kelso, Lance Curtis, Steve Johnston and Ken Mathews, this Australian radio serial started airing on the Double Jay AM
radio station in Sydney
, migrating briefly to FM
when the station became Triple J
.
In the serial, a pompous and selfish alien called Doctor Poo (from the planet Galah-Free) travels through time and space in his TURDIS with his "beautiful, but stupid" assistant Dana Sock (a parody of many useless female companions on Doctor Who
) and Dennis the Denim Cat (a possible parody of K-9
), the homicidal moggie of the cat planet Felix Major.
The 2-minute radio show even had parodies of the Dalek
s (the Drecks and their creator Lavdros) as well as the Master (Doctor Wee, an "Asian stereotype"). The show also introduced us to Doctor Poo's wife, Constance.
Proceedings were narrated by Kevin the Announcer - who would continually talk to the characters and make disparaging comments about the show.
Lance Curtis played Doctor Poo, Geoff Kelso was Kevin the Announcer and Dennis the Denim Cat and Steve Matthews voiced Dana Sock (in falsetto). Minor characters in each two-minute episode were voiced by various members of the cast.
The series spawned two record releases, Knees Ahoy which was a compilation of one of the radio storylines, and Dr. Poo and the Psychic Koala's The Universe is Big, a musical LP recorded in 1981 but released in 1985, shortly after the death of Lance Curtis.
In late 1980, the Official Doctor Poo Fan Club numbered a membership over 10,000.
One storyline was replayed during the lunch breaks of a cricket test on 702 ABC
in the mid eighties. This story, "The Dubbo and Western Plains French Revolution" included parodies of a number of cricket commentators.
Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
An episode of the radio series entitled "Lords and Ladies" featured Jon Pertwee
playing a Time Lord
and the character Nana Hill spoofing the role of Davros
, creator of the Dalek
s.
Another episode featured the Dalek
singing trio (who were unable to complete any songs with the word "Doctor" in the lyrics without resorting to extermination). Harry also had a Dalek
girlfriend who would phone him and refuse to hang up until he said "I will obey".
Whatever Happened to
"Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?" was a BBC Radio 4
comedy drama play, part of the series Whatever Happened to ..? The play followed a humorous account of Susan Foreman
's life after she departed from the TARDIS
, and featured Jane Asher
in the role of Susan and Andrew Sachs
as Temmosus Skyedron, a Thal
. This play is included as an extra on The Dalek Invasion of Earth
DVD.
Nebulous
The BBC Radio 4
comedy series Nebulous (written by Graham Duff
, directed by Nicholas Briggs
, and starring Mark Gatiss
) parodies many elements of Doctor Who. The eponymous Professor Nebulous is a very Doctor-ish character, while the organization K.E.N.T. echoes UNIT
.
The Premiere ("The Night of the Vegetarians") has a Cactus villain reminiscent of Meglos
; Episode #2 ("The Loverly Invasion") is clearly based on The Claws of Axos
with a race of beautiful aliens arriving on Earth; Finally, the recurring villain Doctor Klench brings to mind the Master
- even going as far as carrying around his miniaturized victims (still living) with him.
The audio CD of Series One includes in the liner notes
a list of "missing episodes", a reference to the notorious missing Doctor Who episodes
; Among the episodes listed are "Genesis of the Faceless Ambassadors of Fury" (a story which mimics Genesis of the Daleks
while its title combines Genesis, The Faceless Ones
, The Ambassadors of Death
, and Fury From The Deep
) and "The Farmers" (which draws parallels to the less-popular "historical" episodes of Doctor Who).
, a youth community radio station in Melbourne
, Australia
. In this show the hosts (changed on a weekly basis), would pick a part of time and talk about it; at the end a 2-minute radio play would be performed based around the Doctor and the hosts in their chosen period of time.
Carry On Screaming
In this spoof horror film
, one of the Carry On... film series
, Kenneth Williams
plays a scientist named "Dr Watt". At one point in the film another character responds to this name with the question "Doctor who?", to which Watt replies "No, Watt. Who's my uncle."
Carry On Screaming also features Jon Pertwee
, who later played the Third Doctor
, as a police scientist.
U.F.O.
Roy "Chubby" Brown
, playing himself in this sci-fi comedy, is placed in a museum by a group of hyper-feminist
aliens as an example of outdated attitudes towards women. He soon tries to escape, and is pursued by guards into a police exhibition, where he hides himself in a Police Box.
The guards demand that he come out of the box...only for it to dematerialize, revealing it as the TARDIS. Brown is dropped off in prehistoric times by the TARDIS, which then dematerializes, leaving him in a close encounter with a T-Rex
as the film ends.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
The heroes walk into the hidden base of "Area 52", the real name of Area 51, which is a facade to hide Area 52. This scene features cameos from various vintage science fiction movies: Robby the Robot
from the film Forbidden Planet
, the title character from Robot Monster
, a Triffid
, a bug-mutant from This Island Earth, a Dalek
and many others.
The alien cyborgs yelling "Exterminate them!" are Dalek
s from the British sci-fi series Doctor Who
; more precisely, the models used are from the non-canon films Dr. Who and the Daleks
and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
(distinguishable from the TV versions by the "vapor spray" weapon, although there seems to got circle-shaped death-Ray with it). It was at the insistence of Steve Martin
that Daleks be used in that scene. This was the cause of a minor legal issue as the Daleks are owned by the estate of Terry Nation and are not in the public domain as was assumed.
as Dr. Loo, who travels through time and space in her TURDIS, a time machine disguised as a public toilet. She and her trusty female shagbot get into numerous sexual adventures including run ins with the evil Empress Minge the Merciless and her army of ruthless robot killers, the Phaleks.
one). Full frontal nudity, amazingly bad acting, and awful special effects but no actual sex follow. However the Daleks are very authentic looking with even the right kind of voice.
The BBC took action to prevent sale of the DVD upon learning of it in November 2005. Despite this action, the film was leaked onto the internet.
While originally sold/released as "Abducted by the Daleks", in a limited edition of 1000, after the BBC’s action the film was re-released with the "Daloids" title, in another "limited edition" of 2000 though technically the film still infringes on copyright laws by using Dalek characters. The film's director, "Don Skaro", is rumoured to be erstwhile horror film magazine publisher Trevor Barcley; Some say that under a different pseudonym he also made the porn/horror film Fantom Kiler and its sequels.
Robot Odyssey
A Dalek can be seen near the beginning of the game patrolling the sewers. Touching it sends the player back to the very beginning.
game, the player warps to ten different time periods using a "phone box", and an enemy called a "Glider Cyborg" appears to be a Dalek.
computer game, the player uses a telephone booth to travel to the planet Retupmoc where she meets a man who looks like Tom Baker
's Fourth Doctor
and identifies himself as "the Doctor". A "mechanical monster" appears to be a Dalek, and the phone booth looks like the TARDIS
. The Doctor gives the player a "sonar screwdriver" for rescuing him.
Beneath A Steel Sky
In this dystopian graphic adventure, the lead character has a "pet" robot called Joey. During the game Joey's brain is transferred between several robot shells. At one stage, Joey adopts the shell of a welding robot. When asked how he feels about his new casing, Joey states that he particularly likes the welding torch and proceeds to impersonate a Dalek with the line "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!."
In the Amiga CD32
and PC-CD versions which feature speech, Joey's voice is heavily ring-modulated, akin to the voice of the Daleks.
Boppin'
In the DOS
version, one of the monsters that Yeet and Boik can rescue looks distinctly like a Dalek.
AdventureQuest
In this single online RPG
, there is a Level 122 monster called the ZARDIS. It resembled one of their creatures as merged into a TARDIS
. Another rarely seen enemy is "Salek Sprayer", which is a photograph of a salt cellar with added graphics such as a Dalek-like gun stalk. It shoots water and shouts "Extinguish!".
The quest "Save Warlic!" contains quite a few Doctor Who references, including "Cyberhens" and "Time Cord" and "Gallie and Frey" plus "Z.A.R.D.I.S." and "Salek Sprayer".
Destroy All Humans! 2
Part of this video game takes place in "Albion
" (Britain). On this level, when the main character (Crypto) terrorizes humans in his true form, their screams include the cries "Someone call the Doctor!" and "Where the hell's the bleedin' TARDIS?"
Using the psychokinetic power "Follow" on citizens of Albion causes them to sometimes chant "I obey", which is a possible nod to either the Master or the Daleks. The Earth is also referred to as "Sol 3", the name used by the Time Lords in various stories.
The description reads as follows: "Traveling in time or just touring the Neighborhood, this long jacket and scarf combo won't let you down."
League of Legends
The champion Zilean back story is very similar to that of the Doctor.
The robot champion Blitzcrank sometimes response with the line: "Exterminate. Exterminate".
Several other champions have minor references.
RuneScape
The non-player characters Amelia and Rory remind the player of events that occur in a series of quests involving their character. Also, if the player claims to be the hero in the story, Rory will say that is impossible because the player is not strong or tall enough, and the player does not wear a bow tie.
Poot!
The British adult comic Poot!
features a character called Desmond Hoo who thinks he is Doctor Who and that his wardrobe is the Tardis.
ALF
The story "Timing Is Everything!" in Issue 38 of Marvel Comics
' ALF comic featured ALF's encounter with a time traveller named "Doctor Whozonfirst", who was somewhat a Melmacian version of the Fourth Doctor.
Viz featured a one page comic strip, "Doctor Poo
", in 1995. It features the increasingly desperate attempts of Doctor Poo (looking like the Fourth Doctor
but with Jamie
as a companion) to find a quiet place to defecate.
Futurama Comics
Issue #32 is a direct spoof of Doctor Who, with Dr. Zoidberg as the Doctor. Also in one sequence of the comic, the "Deacons" were basically parodies of Daleks, which fire weapons out of their eyestalks at Fry, Leela, and Bender shouting "Excommunicate! Excommunicate!" (a parody of the Dalek's "Exterminate!" battle cry).
and written by Justin Richards
, Nicholas Briggs
(who provides voice acting for the Dalek
s in the 2005 series), Stephen Cole
, Jacqueline Rayner
and Mike Tucker
.
Parodying The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks
, the Dalek Survival Guide gives wry hints such as how Daleks work, how to recognise different Dalek variants
, "How to survive enforced captivity with a Dalek" and "What to do if you see a Dalek".
This book became the subject of legal action due to copyright issues and is now a sought-after collectible due to being withdrawn from sale.
's crossover fanfiction "The TARDIS at Pooh Corner" features Doctor Pooh, a Time Lord of very little brain. In his brief adventures he meets further characters from Winnie the Pooh and other franchises. It was originally published in a magazine, and republished on David's website in 2002.
Return of the Bunny Suicides
In this black comedy book by Andy Riley, one drawing features the Fourth Doctor
escaping a Dalek
as he runs into the TARDIS
. On top of the TARDIS is a bunny with a slipknot tied round its neck in order to hang itself once the TARDIS has dematerialized.
The Areas of My Expertise
John Hodgman's
book makes references to Doctor Who in several places. In the beginning, where (made up) literary themes
are being discussed, a still from The Wheel in Space
is used to illustrate the theme of "Man vs. Cyborg
".
In a later section listing the names of hobo
s, one is "The Nine Doctor Whos". In the same section, a "Hobo Pictogram" is stated as meaning "A house that is bigger on the inside than the outside".
The Beano
Beginning in their 21 April issue, The Beano ran a three-part parody comic-within-a-comic by writer-artist Kev F Sutherland called "Hot-Rod Cow", about a superhero time-travelling talking cow. "Hot-Rod Cow" is the favourite comic of The Bash Street Kids
character, Plug. The comic contained many in-jokes, for example Hot-Rod Cow wielded a "Sonic Moo-driver". The phrase "Hot-Rod Cow" is, like Torchwood
, an anagram of the phrase "Doctor Who". The comic also spoofed classic comic covers such as Amazing Fantasy
#15 (Spider-Man
's first appearance) as well as containing other superhero related jokes. Later, a Dalek won a fancy dress competition in a Les Pretend
story, and another Dalek attacked the Bash Street Kids in BeanoMAX Issue 1 - the Doctor appeared in his TARDIS to take it away.
. It parodies Doctor Who and Eats, Shoots & Leaves
by Lynne Truss
. The book is subtitled "E. T. shoots and leaves: The zero-tolerance approach to parodication".
It briefly mentions the Daleks ("Garleks"), the Cybermen ("Cydermen"), and the Master ("The Master Debater"); another aspect of this book is how it mentions a philosophy by which parody is evolution, and those who are against parody are against evolution and thus the very basis of life - this turns out to be the keystone of the book.
wrote a parody of Torchwood
in the style of Dylan Thomas
's radio play Under Milk Wood
. This parody described Captain Jack Harkness
as "the insomniac bicon; snug as a hobbit, pretty as a choirboy, immortal as carbon dioxide, wooden as a horse" and included a café sign reading "Llanfairfach giant maggots, fresh in today! Organic? Of course!" (a reference to The Green Death
).
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Published on 2 July 2010, the online gaming-related webcomic
published a comic based on the rumors about the possibility of an American Doctor Who film. The one frame comic has the Doctor played by Jason Statham
holding a gun and hanging outside the TARDIS on a speed chase with guns and rockets firing at it.
and Adrian Edmondson
, Richie is concerned about Eddie, whom he hasn't seen for weeks. As it turns out, Eddie has been busy with his latest invention: a time travelling toilet which he names the Turdis. The ship's dematerialisation noise consists of the original TARDIS sound effect with the noise of flatulence and flushing toilets mixed in, and it can only be recharged when someone masturbates inside it.
, a British comedy duo, toured the UK with their show Doctor What and the Return of the Garlics. Russell T Davies, the showrunner of the new Doctor Who series, wrote three episodes of the duo's long-running Children's BBC television series ChuckleVision
in 1992.
was initially broadcast. The British Go-Go's
best-selling Christmas novelty single tried to turn the sinister Dalek
s into another version of The Chipmunks
, and was originally released as one of the many products fueling Dalekmania.
However, as that craze fizzled out the song was largely forgotten, with snippets occasionally appearing in Doctor Who anthological products. It finally resurfaced in its entirety on the October 2000 album, Who is Doctor Who.
("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF). The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme music, Gary Glitter's
"Rock and Roll (Part Two)" with sections from "Blockbuster!" by Sweet
and "Let's Get Together Tonite" by Steve Walsh
. The single was panned by critics but became a commercial success, reaching number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and charting in the Top 10 in Australia and Norway. The song was also mashed-up with Green Day's
Holiday
for the album American Edit
.
, rendered in claymation and computer animation
. It shows Adric
and the head of a Cyberman
surviving the crash of the freighter into Cretaceous
Earth, only for Adric to be eaten by a dinosaur
. The Cyberman head commenting by saying "Excellent!".
as the reporter for an
investigation show, reporting on the weird happenings at Llanfairfach, the location of
the incidents occurring in The Green Death
. Mark talks to a variety of people, including the actors who played Professor Jones and Stevens, and the son of Stevens' assistant.
. Features the voice of Gabriel Woolf
reprising his role as Sutekh and was featured with the 2004 DVD release of Pyramids of Mars.
.
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...
series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
has over the years been the subject of many comedy sketches and specially made comedy programmes, from Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
's "Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
" to the Comic Relief episode Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999...
. There have been occasional parodies and references to Doctor Who on American TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Robot Chicken, and The Colbert Report. What follows below is a chronological list of Doctor Who parody, categorized by medium:
It's a Square World (1963)
The first known televised Doctor Who spoof was on the Michael BentineMichael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. A Peruvian Briton by heritage as a result of his father's nationality, In 1971 Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru because of his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian...
sketch show It's a Square World in December 1963, only a few weeks after the series first aired. Season 6, Episode 8, broadcast on New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
, featured Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn OBE is a retired English actor, comedian and author, best known for his role as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.-Early life:...
playing a scientist called Doctor Fotheringown ("Doctor Who?" / "No, not Doctor Who, Doctor Fotheringown!"), for which Dunn wore William Hartnell
William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell was an English actor. During 1963-66, he was the first actor to play the Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...
's First Doctor
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
costume and wig. The sketch, which was recorded on 16 and 20 December 1963, also featured Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell
Henry Wilfrid Brambell was an Irish film and television actor best known for his role in the British television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their film A Hard Day's Night, playing Paul McCartney's fictional grandfather.- Early life :Brambell was born in Dublin...
and Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...
.
Dave Allen at Large (1970s)
The sketch/sitdown comedy series starring Irish comic Dave AllenDave Allen (comedian)
David Tynan O'Mahoney , better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, very popular in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. He also became known in the United States through repeats of his shows on public television. His career had a major resurgence during the late...
featured several Who parodies throughout its long run. A prominent example originally aired in the early 1970s – an Irish country priest is tidying up his church, then quickly becomes aware that the baptismal font
Baptismal font
A baptismal font is an article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults.-Aspersion and affusion fonts:...
(which is roughly cylindrical, with a wide base and a domed top) is following him. As the cleric quickens his pace down the nave
Nave
In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting...
, the font charges after him screaming in metallic tones, "Exterminate! Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy!" The priest ducks behind the pulpit
Pulpit
Pulpit is a speakers' stand in a church. In many Christian churches, there are two speakers' stands at the front of the church. Typically, the one on the left is called the pulpit...
, which then dematerializes (accompanied by the familiar TARDIS sound effects).
Crackerjack (1960s-70s)
This children's game/comedy sketch show featured several Who parodies, notably 1974's Ello My Dalek!, including Don MacLeanDon Maclean
Don Maclean is an English actor and comedian, who appeared on the BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze, and Jan Hunt in the 1970s....
as the Fourth Doctor and Peter Glaze
Peter Glaze
William George Peter Glaze was an English comedian born in London. He hosted Crackerjack with Leslie Crowther in the 1960s and with Michael Aspel, Don Maclean, and Bernie Clifton in the 1970s...
as Lethbridge-Stewart, and notably no appearance from Harry Sullivan
Harry Sullivan
Harry Sullivan is a fictional character from the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who and is a companion of the Fourth Doctor...
as he is "having his duffle-coat surgically removed".
Pakistani Dalek (1975)
Spike MilliganSpike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
's television sketch show Q
Q (TV series)
Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered from Q5 to Q9, and a final series titled There's a Lot of It About...
contained a memorable sketch in which a Dalek returns to its suburban home from a bad day at work and proceeds to exterminate things that irritate, including commuters on the tube – even demanding that his wife, in the trademark Dalek staccato, to "Put [the family dog] in the curry
Curry
Curry is a generic description used throughout Western culture to describe a variety of dishes from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southeast Asian cuisines...
!"
The GoodiesThe Goodies (TV series)The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 until 1980 — and was then broadcast by the ITV company LWT for a year, between 1981 to 1982.The show was...
(1975, 1980)
In the British comedy series The Goodies, there were Doctor Who spoofs in at least two episodes.In the episode "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", Tim tells Graeme that he must telephone home, and Bill points to a telephone box floating past (actually the Doctor's TARDIS).
In the episode "U-Friend or UFO?", when Graeme asks his robot EB-GB, "How do you speak to aliens?", EB-GB replies "Exterminate!" in a Dalek voice.
Emu's Broadcasting Company (1977)
In the British children's comedy series, there was a Doctor Who spoof in at least two episodes.In the segment "Doctor Emu and the Deadly Dustbins", Rod Hull and his puppet Emu appear dressed as the fourth Doctor, who travel in a normal red British public telephone box. They land on Earth and deal with a race of public dustbins which eat people (in a way which was later seen in the series itself when Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Noel Clarke.Mickey is introduced as the boyfriend of the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler, and a recurring character on the programme...
is consumed by a wheelie bin in the episode "Rose
Rose
A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...
"). In a later series, the pair starred in "The Return of the Deadly Dustbins".
End of Part OneEnd of Part OneEnd of Part One was a British television comedy sketch show written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall and produced by Simon Brett, it was made by London Weekend Television. It ran for two series on ITV, from 1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of The Burkiss Way...
(1979)
In the British comedy series End of Part One, the one-off "Doctor Eyes" sketch parodied the low-budget nature of Doctor Who featuring bad special effects and poor acting. Ironically, End of Part One director Geoffrey SaxGeoffrey Sax
Geoffrey Sax is a British film and television director, who has worked on a variety of critically acclaimed and popular drama productions in both the UK and the United States....
would later also direct the Doctor Who Movie.
DangerMouseDangerMouseDanger Mouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. It features the eponymous Danger Mouse, an English mouse who works as a superhero/secret agent. The show is a loose parody of British spy fiction, particularly James Bond and the...
In the British comedic action cartoon DangerMouse, there is an episode where Penfold tries to remember the Doctor's name and DangerMouse himself keeps telling him the answer, "Doctor Who". Penfold naturally mistakes DM's answer for a question and never remembers the Doctor's name, but does describe the Doctor as the one who travels in a phone booth.Other references within DangerMouse are in the stories "Custard", where the heroes return to Earth through "a time-traveler's potting shed" and "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma", where DangerMouse and Penfold first encounter a clock, within which they discover they can travel through time, "Oh, like that Doctor!" "Who?" "Can't remember."
The Two RonniesThe Two RonniesThe Two Ronnies is a British sketch show that aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.-Origins:...
An episode of the long-running comedy show The Two Ronnies spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch called "The Adventures of Archie". Ronnie CorbettRonnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE is a Scottish actor and comedian of Scottish and English parentage who had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the British television comedy series The Two Ronnies...
, as the eponymous character, becomes trapped in the past but is able to return to the twentieth century in the TARDIS after the Doctor turns up. Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...
played Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
's Doctor as the scarecrow
Scarecrow
A scarecrow is, essentially, a decoy, though traditionally, a human figure dressed in old clothes and placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.-History:In Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan...
Worzel Gummidge
Worzel Gummidge
Worzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Euphan Todd. A walking, talking scarecrow, Gummidge has a set of interchangeable turnip, mangel worzel and swede heads, each of which suit a particular occasion or endow...
, Pertwee's other famous television role.
In another sketch, parodying Star Wars, both Ronnies portray robots which claim that, once filming is over, "we'll end up as walk-ons on Doctor Who"; they are then chased ("Redecorate! Redecorate!") by two enormous cans of Dulux
Dulux
Dulux is an internationally available brand of paint. It is produced by AkzoNobel . The brand name Dulux has been used by both ICI and DuPont since 1931 and was one of the first alkyd-based paints.-History:...
paint that have acquired the mind and apppendages of Daleks.
The Krankies Elektronik Komik
An episode of the "The KrankiesThe Krankies
The Krankies are a Scottish comedy duo that enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own television shows and releasing their own music single. They entered semi-retirement in 1992, but they have regularly appeared in pantomime since.The duo...
Elektronik Komik" spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch. They land on a planet in the TARDIS, encounter an alien, and sing a song. Ian Tough played "Dr. Why", while Janette Krankie played his companion.
The Lenny Henry ShowThe Lenny Henry ShowThe Lenny Henry Show is a comedy sketch show featuring Lenny Henry. In its first incarnation it ran for two seasons on BBC 1, in 1984 and 1985. Each season had six episodes. A 40-minute special was aired in December 1987...
(1986)
A sketch on The Lenny Henry Show featured Lenny HenryLenny Henry
Lenworth George "Lenny" Henry, is a British actor, writer, comedian and occasional television presenter.- Early life :...
as the (newly regenerated) Doctor alongside Peri
Peri Brown
Peri Brown, full name Perpugilliam Brown, is a fictional character played by Nicola Bryant in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
. The two land on Earth in the year 2010 and encounter the Cybermen
Cyberman
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more...
and their leader "Thatchos" (a Cyberleader with a Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
wig and handbag); the Doctor's response is to "run up and down lots of corridors".
This sketch was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999...
and also on the Trial of a Time Lord DVD release.
French & SaundersFrench & SaundersFrench and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act....
(1987)
An unaired sketch filmed for French & Saunders featured Dawn French and Jennifer SaundersJennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...
as bored extras in Silurian
Silurian (Doctor Who)
The Silurians are a fictional race of reptile-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The species first appeared in Doctor Who in the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians...
costumes during the filming of a Doctor Who serial that resembles The Trial of a Time Lord
The Trial of a Time Lord
The Trial of a Time Lord is a fourteen-part British science fiction serial of the long running BBC series Doctor Who. The serial, produced as the twenty-third season of the Doctor Who television series, aired in weekly episodes from 6 September to 6 December 1986...
. They eventually disrupt filming so much that the floor manager tells them that all Silurians can have a tea break. Unfortunately, their version of the Inquisitor also happens to come from the planet Siluria, and walks off the set as well. The spoof was recorded on the set for "The Trial of a Time Lord".
George Layton
George Layton
George Layton is an English actor, director, screenwriter and author. He was educated at Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School in Bradford and later studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where he won the Emile Littler award. He went on to leading parts at Coventry and Nottingham and...
played the Doctor, which had the look of the Fourth
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
. The segment was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999...
.
Victoria Wood As Seen On TVVictoria Wood As Seen On TVVictoria Wood As Seen On TV was a British comedy sketch series starring comedienne Victoria Wood, with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge...
(1987)
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV featured a brief sketch in which Jim BroadbentJim Broadbent
James "Jim" Broadbent is an English theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Hot Fuzz, and Bridget Jones' Diary...
(later to appear in The Curse of Fatal Death) appears as a Tom Baker
Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
-style Doctor and comes up against a villain called Crayola
Crayola
Crayola is a brand of artists' supplies manufactured by Crayola LLC, which was founded in 1885 as Binney & Smith. It is best known for its crayons...
. The sketch parodies the technobabble of the show, and the number of continuity references later episodes of the series had.
The segment was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999...
.
Chelmsford 123Chelmsford 123Chelmsford 123 is a British television situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions. It ran for two series, of six and seven episodes, in 1988 and 1990....
(1988)
Chelmsford 123, a UK sitcom set during the Roman occupation of Britain in the second century AD, featured in its premiere a scene in which an arriving Roman dignitary and his retinue trudge wearily along a dirt track in the middle of the night, muttering about how boring Britain looks and how dull they expect their stay to be.Unnoticed, the TARDIS materializes by the side of the road (using the original sound effect); the Doctor (seen only in silhouette) steps out, looks around and goes back into the TARDIS, which disappears again.
Fast Forward (1990)
The Australian sketch comedy show Fast Forward featured several sketches which combined political satire with a spoof of Doctor Who.The sketches featured "Doctor Hewson" (played by Steve Vizard
Steve Vizard
Stephen William Vizard, born 6 March 1956 in Richmond, Victoria, is an Australian media personality, comedian, businessman and writer.-Early life:...
), who was an amalgam of the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
and the then-Australian Federal Opposition Leader, Dr John Hewson
John Hewson
John Robert Hewson AM is an Australian economist, company director and a former politician. He was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1990 to 1994 and led the party to defeat at the 1993 federal election.-Early life:...
; Lylo (played by Marg Downey
Marg Downey
-Career:Downey first rose to prominence in the sketch comedy program The D-Generation on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1980s. She subsequently appeared in later sketch comedy series with other members of The D-Generation, including Fast Forward, Full Frontal and Something Stupid...
), based on Leela
Leela (Doctor Who)
Leela is a fictional character played by Louise Jameson in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Leela was a companion of the Fourth Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978...
; a rubber alien, who after removing his rubber head was revealed to be the recurring character "Bruce Rump" (spoof of Bruce Ruxton
Bruce Ruxton
Bruce Caryle Ruxton AM, OBE is an Australian ex-serviceman and former President of the Victorian Returned and Services League.-Early life:Ruxton grew up in Kew, Victoria...
); Davros
Davros
Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks...
with the head of then-opposition MP John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
; and a disembodied voice called "Time Lord Malcolm", who had lost his trousers (former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser
John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power in the 1975 election following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government, in which he played a key role...
famously appeared in an American hotel lobby sans trousers in 1986). Davros was also towing a crude imitation K-9
K-9 (Doctor Who)
K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977...
.
Doctor Hewson's mission was to find a new immigration policy, which he eventually took from some graffiti spray-painted on the "Retardis": "Two wongs don't make a white." (however, Hewson says "two wogs" instead of "two wongs"); The implication is that Bruce Rump was responsible for the graffiti, as he is seen carrying a spray can.
The sketches appear in Series 2, Episode 10 – which can be found on Disc 3 of "Fast Forward: The Complete Season Two".
The Real McCoyThe Real McCoy (TV series)The Real McCoy was a BBC Television comedy show which ran from 1991 to 1996, featuring an array of black and Asian comedy stars performing material aimed at an across-the-board black audience....
The BBC sketch show The Real McCoy featured a sketch using redubbed footage from the serial EarthshockEarthshock
Earthshock is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 8 March to 16 March 1982...
. In a scene where the Fifth Doctor
Fifth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Peter Davison....
confronts the Cyberleader, the two characters speak in Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois or Jamaican, and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-lexified creole language with West African influences spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. It is not to be confused with Jamaican English nor with the Rastafarian use of...
, with the Doctor telling the Cyberleader "You no look like no Dalek to me".
This sketch was included as an "Easter Egg" on the DVD release of Earthshock.
The Corridor Sketch (1991)
The Corridor Sketch was made by Reeltime PicturesReeltime Pictures
Reeltime Pictures is a British multimedia film and video production company founded in 1984 by Keith Barnfather.It is known for its many documentaries about the long-running television series Doctor Who and in particular for The Myth Makers, a series of interviews with people associated with the...
. Its credits do not include a scriptwiter, but list "Cast & Crew" as gag writers and Kevin Davies
Kevin Davies (director)
Kevin Jon Davies is a British television and video director primarily associated with documentaries and spin-off videos associated with Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Blake's 7...
as script editor. It was produced by Keith Barnfather.
It takes the form of a mockumentary
Mockumentary
A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...
, with Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks. Briggs sometimes uses the pseudonym Arthur Wallis...
as a reporter visiting the set of Doctor Who on the first day of filming on 9 August 1963 (although the actual first day was on 20 August and what is being filmed appears to be Episode 1 of The Daleks
The Daleks
The Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964...
).
The sketch includes several references to popular stories about the early days of the show. For example, "Sidney Newbaum" (Sydney Newman
Sydney Newman
Sydney Cecil Newman, OC was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s...
) assures the interviewer there will be no bug-eyed monster
Bug-eyed monster
Bug-eyed monster is an early convention of the science fiction genre. Extraterrestrials in science fiction of the 1930s were often described as grotesque creatures with huge, oversized...
s, at which point a Dalek wrapped in brown paper gets wheeled across the corridor.
The sketch ends with the Director General of the BBC (played by Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...
) predicting the series will last "twenty-six years, one week and six days" (the exact length of time the original series did run from its debut on 23 November 1963 until its final episode on 6 December 1989). The credits then run over a reversed version of the theme tune.
It appears as an extra on the The Beginning DVD box set, alongside the three 1999 Doctor Who Night sketches.
Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
(1992, 2002, 2005)
The 14 March 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live had a parody where Democratic presidential candidates Paul TsongasPaul Tsongas
Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...
, Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...
, and Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
(played respectively by Al Franken
Al Franken
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party....
, Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Dana Thomas Carvey is an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for playing the role of Garth in the Wayne's World movies.-Early life:...
, and Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman
Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States when he was 10...
) speak at a Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
convention. The Carvey/Brown character mentions Doctor Who.
The 16 March 2002 episode featured Sir Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
– then famous for his roles in the X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
and The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...
movies – in a sketch about a public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
cable TV programme titled "Kevin and Richie's Comic Book Zone". In it, McKellen plays a pizza parlour manager who is introduced as the "local Doctor Who impersonator", he comes out dressed in costume as the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
. The hosts question him about choice of subject (he responds that he's the only guy around with a British accent) and quickly ask him to try his hand at other English-accented characters, leading to McKellen mimicking his own performances in the genre. The TARDIS dematerialization sound is also used several times during the sketch.
The 5 February 2005 episode featured Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...
in a spoof advertisement for a phone sex
Phone sex
Phone sex is a type of virtual sex that refers to sexually explicit conversation between or other persons via telephone, especially when at least one of the participants masturbates or engages in sexual fantasy...
line for science fiction and fantasy fans. At the sketch's conclusion, Hilton dons a Tom Baker-style scarf and floppy hat and mentions Doctor Who, the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
, Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s, and "extermination".
The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
(1995-1996, 1998-1999, 2007)
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
made cameo appearances in the episodes "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" is the ninth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 26, 1995. In the episode, Sideshow Bob becomes disturbed when he hears the other inmates laughing at the inane antics of Krusty the Clown's...
" (as one of the "esteemed representatives of television") which aired 3 days after Doctor Who's 32nd Anniversary., "Mayored to the Mob
Mayored to the Mob
"Mayored to the Mob" is the ninth episode of The Simpsons tenth season, which originally broadcast on December 20, 1998. After Homer prevents Mayor Quimby and Mark Hamill from being trampled at a convention, Homer trains to become a bodyguard and is employed by Quimby...
" (at a science fiction convention), and "Treehouse of Horror X
Treehouse of Horror X
"Treehouse of Horror X" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons eleventh season, and the tenth annual Treehouse of Horror episode, consisting of three self-contained segments. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on Halloween 1999. In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did", the...
" (in which he is kidnapped by the Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy is a recurring fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the second-season episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", which originally aired on May 9, 1991. He is the proprietor of a comic book store, The...
, along with Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless, MNZM is a New Zealander actress and singer best known for playing the title character of the internationally successful television series Xena: Warrior Princess....
and Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...
). Tom Baker did not provide any voices for The Simpsons.
Tables resembling the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
console appear briefly in the tech gadget store in "The Homer They Fall
The Homer They Fall
"The Homer They Fall" is the third episode of The Simpsons eighth season and originally aired November 10, 1996. After Homer Simpson realizes he has a bizarre medical condition that renders him unable to be knocked out, he decides to embark on a career as a boxer with Moe Szyslak as his manager. ...
", and in "Bart the Fink
Bart the Fink
"Bart the Fink" is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 11, 1996. In this episode, Bart ruins Krusty the Clown's career by accidentally exposing Krusty as one of the biggest tax cheats in American history...
" the Comic Book Guy is seen wheeling a wheelbarrow full of tacos and saying "Yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Doctor Who marathon." In the episode "Springfield Up
Springfield Up
"Springfield Up" is the thirteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons. It originally aired in the United States on February 18, 2007. In the episode, filmmaker Declan Desmond returns to Springfield to film the continuation of his documentary series Growing Up Springfield, which...
" a British filmmaker (voiced by Eric Idle) is interviewing the family and Homer calls him "Doctor Who". In the episode "Husbands and Knives
Husbands and Knives
"Husbands and Knives" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons nineteenth season, and was first broadcast on November 18, 2007. It features guest appearances from Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman and Dan Clowes as themselves as well as Jack Black as Milo. It was written by Matt Selman and directed by Nancy...
", Milhouse is attacked by a pop-up comic book of Wolverine
Wolverine (comics)
Wolverine is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Born as James Howlett and commonly known as Logan, Wolverine is a mutant, possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing...
. After shedding a tear on the cover of the book, Comic Book Guy calls Milhouse "Doctor Boo-Who". In the opening credits of The Treehouse of Horrors XX, the listing of Consulting Producer Don "He Will Knock 4 Times" Payne refers to the prophecy from "Planet of the Dead
Planet of the Dead
"Planet of the Dead" is the first 2009 special of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was simultaneously broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 11 April 2009. It was the second of five special episodes broadcast throughout 2009 and early 2010, which served as lead actor...
". In the same episode a reference was made to another story previous story arc Bad Wolf.
Doctor Who in turn referenced The Simpsons in the 2008 episode "Planet of the Ood
Planet of the Ood
"Planet of the Ood" is the third episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 19 April 2008. It features the return of the Ood, who appeared in the second series episodes "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit".The episode...
", in which an Ood with a "comedy classic option" setting on his translator ball says, "D'oh!
D'oh!
"D'oh!" is a catchphrase used by the fictional character Homer Simpson, from the long-running American animated sitcom The Simpsons . It is typically used when Homer injures himself, realizes that he has done something stupid, or when something bad has happened or is about to happen to him...
". In The End of Time
The End of Time
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe, also sold with the alternate subtitle The Next Revolution in Physics, is a 1999 science book in which the author Julian Barbour argues that time exists merely as an illusion.-Auto-biography:The book begins by describing how...
, the Doctor, strapped to a chair and being pushed down a flight of stairs, said "Worst. Rescue. Ever!" in reference to Comic Book Guy's famous catchphrase("Worst episode ever!").
The Fourth Doctor sells New Zealand investments (1997)
In his autobiography, Tom Baker writes, "'Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?' That's the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing mid-January."Consequently, in January 1997, Tom Baker did an advertisement for New Zealand television, spoofing his own portrayal of the Fourth Doctor and advising viewers to plan for their financial future. He points out how the audience does not "need a sonic screwdriver or a Gallifreyan time capsule" to figure out that New Zealand Superannuation Services are a reasonable way to make their future dreams realities.
The 30-second spot licensed not just the Fourth Doctor's appearance, but the console room and a version of the show's theme music similar to that of the Seventh Doctor's. It ended on a scene of the TARDIS amongst New Zealand sheep.
Harry Enfield and ChumsHarry Enfield's Television ProgrammeHarry Enfield's Television Programme was a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse...
(1997)
A one-off sketch in the second series of Harry Enfield and Chums parodied the then-recent casting of Liverpudlian actor Paul McGannPaul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...
as the Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. A workman stands next to a ladder in an otherwise abandoned TV studio, when suddenly the TARDIS appears, and out steps Gary Bleasdale
Gary Bleasdale
Gary Bleasdale is an actor and playwright, born on Merseyside England in 1962. Gary has appeared in many television programmes since 1978 when his first role was playing the lead in an episode of the final series of Z Cars. He played Kevin Dean in The Black Stuff , and in Boys From the Black Stuff,...
's "Gary Scouser" character (one of Enfield's popular trio of stereotypical Scouse
Scouse
Scouse is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool and the adjoining urban areas such as the boroughs of south Sefton, Knowsley and the Wirral...
r characters), dressed in the Fourth Doctor's coat, scarf and hat. The workman asks "Who are you?", to which Gary replies "I'm Doctor Who Are You Lookin' At?" He then headbutts the workman, and begins to rant "Come on then, where's all these friggin' Daleks, eh? I'll bleedin' exterminate yez!" as the Doctor Who music fades in.
Although he did not appear in this particular sketch, Paul's brother Joe McGann
Joe McGann
Joseph 'Joe' McGann is an English actor. His most well known role is the lead role of Charlie Burrows, the "housekeeper" in the TV comedy series The Upper Hand . He is also known as a television reporter on the BBC's South Today programme, reporting on local events in the south of England...
is a regular in the Scouser segments, playing Barry Scouser.
TV OffalTV OffalTV Offal was a British television comedy sketch/archive series that ran on Channel 4, from October 1997 to June 1998. It was written and narrated by comedian and writer Victor Lewis-Smith, who shared writing duties with Paul Sparks...
(1997)
TV Offal, a creation of Victor Lewis Smith had the GayGay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s as recurring characters. They came from the planet Maskaro and travelled in a flying portoloo known as the TURDIS. They also had pink livery and often sported handbags slung-over their plunger-arm, as well as distinctly un-Dalek-like phraseology such as "BITCH". Each episode ended with an aroused Dalek ejaculating (sometimes preceded by "I AM GOING TO EX-SPERMINATE!"), repeating in the metallic voice the phrase "WHITE WEE WEE!"; In the Pilot dubbed clips from Destiny of the Daleks
Destiny of the Daleks
Destiny of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 September to 22 September 1979. The story introduces Lalla Ward as the newly-regenerated Romana....
were used instead.
After the first (and only) series the estate of Terry Nation
Terry Nation
Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, creator of the Daleks, refused to renew the license. Later attempts at reviving the Gay Daleks as an animated series were also blocked.
Red DwarfRed DwarfRed Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...
(1997)
A television special to celebrate the series. Many cast and crew members, fans and celebrities, such as Patrick StewartPatrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century...
, offer an opinion on the popular British sci-fi comedy series. In one skit, a couple of Daleks being interviewed disapprove of the series. However, one of them then begins to compliment Red Dwarf on its jokes. The other one takes notice of its associate's having a sense of humour and, naturally, exterminates him on the spot.
Shooting Stars (1997)
Series 3, Episode 2 featured a sketch featuring the first four Doctors as the original members of the band The WhoThe Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
-
- The Third DoctorThird DoctorThe Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
/Jon PertweeJon PertweeJohn Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
as Roger DaltreyRoger DaltreyRoger Harry Daltrey, CBE , is an English singer and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also...
(played by Vic ReevesVic ReevesJames Roderick Moir , better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer . He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour....
) - The Fourth DoctorFourth DoctorThe Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
/Tom BakerTom BakerThomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
as Pete TownshendPete TownshendPeter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...
(played by Mark LamarrMark LamarrMark Lamarr is an English comedian, radio DJ and television presenter.-Early life:Lamarr was born in the Park South area of Swindon and has three elder sisters. His father is Irish...
) - The First DoctorFirst DoctorThe First Doctor is the initial incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor William Hartnell from 1963 to 1966. Hartnell reprised the role in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors in 1973 - albeit in a...
/William HartnellWilliam HartnellWilliam Henry Hartnell was an English actor. During 1963-66, he was the first actor to play the Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...
as John EntwistleJohn EntwistleJohn Alec Entwistle was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, horn player, and film and record producer who was best known as the bass player for the rock band The Who. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players...
(played by Bob MortimerBob MortimerRobert "Bob" Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves...
) - The Second DoctorSecond DoctorThe Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton....
/Patrick TroughtonPatrick TroughtonPatrick George Troughton was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969,...
as Keith MoonKeith MoonKeith John Moon was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon". Moon...
(played by Matt LucasMatt LucasMatthew Richard "Matt" Lucas is an English comedian, screenwriter and actor best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain; as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars, Tweedledee and...
)
They performed "My (Re)Generation" in a studio with TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
-like roundels forming part of the set. This sketch formed part of a question for Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter is a British media personality, journalist and television presenter. She was editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday. She relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002...
posed by host Vic Reeves
Vic Reeves
James Roderick Moir , better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer . He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour....
: "Who is the current Doctor Who?", who at the time was Paul McGann
Paul McGann
Paul McGann is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role...
as the Eighth Doctor
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
.
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
An episode made for Comic Relief with celebrity appearances from Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a British actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is most famous for his work on the satirical sketch comedy show Not The Nine O'Clock News, and the sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Thin Blue Line...
, Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...
, Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's...
, Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
(later to appear in the webcast Scream of the Shalka
Scream of the Shalka
Scream of the Shalka is a flash-animated series based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was produced to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the series and was originally posted in six weekly parts from 13 November to 18 December 2003 on bbc.co.uk's Doctor Who...
), and Jim Broadbent as various incarnations of the Doctor and Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his longtime partner English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s...
as the Master
Master (Doctor Who)
The Master is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is a renegade Time Lord and the archenemy of the Doctor....
.
Doctor Who Night (1999)
On 13 November 1999, BBC TwoBBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
showed various Doctor Who-related material interspersed with sketches and documentaries, under the title "Doctor Who Night". The night featured three sketches by writer Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock....
, known as a member of The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen are a group of British comedians formed in 1995, best known for their radio and television series.The League of Gentlemen may also refer to:* The League of Gentlemen ,...
, who has gone on to write several episodes of the revived series of Doctor Who, as well as starring in "The Lazarus Experiment
The Lazarus Experiment
"The Lazarus Experiment" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 May 2007 and is the sixth episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series. It stars David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones as his companion, played...
" (2007). These sketches were co-written and performed with David Walliams
David Walliams
David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...
, later to be better known for his work on Little Britain
Little Britain
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
.
In The Pitch of Fear, Walliams appears as Sydney Newman
Sydney Newman
Sydney Cecil Newman, OC was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s...
and Gatiss as fictional BBC executive "Mr Borusa" in a spoof about the early history of Doctor Who
History of Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British television science-fiction series, produced and screened by the British Broadcasting Corporation on their BBC One channel from 1963 to 1989 in its original form, with a new series launched in early 2005...
, which also features Little Britains Paul Putner
Paul Putner
-Life and career:He was born in East Grinstead. He studied at LAMDA where he won, amongst other prizes, the Kenneth More prize for comedy acting.His first significant TV role saw Putner as numerous characters in The Glam Metal Detectives shown on BBC2. His real break in comedy came after he set up...
.
The Web of Caves, which is in black and white, sees Walliams and Putner as aliens (somewhat similar in appearance to Movellans) trying to persuade the Doctor (Gatiss) to defeat their schemes. The Walliams alien appears alone at first and outlines his scheme to hollow out the core of the Earth and replace it with a motor
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964....
; the Doctor dismisses this plan, in a rather bored fashion, as having been done, and the alien suggests he will come back the next day with a new plan. The next day he returns, accompanied by the Putner alien, and proposes to drain the world's oceans into its core thus boiling them away
The Underwater Menace
The Underwater Menace is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January 1967 to 4 February 1967. The story constitutes Jamie McCrimmon's first journey with the Doctor as a travelling companion.-Plot:The TARDIS...
; again the Doctor points out that it has been done, but decides he has to stop them. The two aliens and the Doctor agree on a time for their battle and the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, only to have it rematerialise in the same spot, leaving the Doctor visibly annoyed. He disappears back into the TARDIS, only to have the Walliams alien obliviously comment on how nice the Doctor is.
In The Kidnappers, Walliams abducts Peter Davison
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...
for Gatiss.
All three sketches were included as extras in the DVD box set Doctor Who: The Beginning (consisting of the first three serials of the programme). A reference in "The Pitch of Fear" to Doctors "towards the end" of the series being played by "just any old f**ker with an Equity
British Actors' Equity Association
Equity is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers....
card" had deeply offended both Colin Baker
Colin Baker
Colin Baker is a British actor who is known for playing Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.- Background:Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to...
and Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to...
when it was first broadcast.
Gatiss gave permission for the sketch to be included on the DVD only on condition that the lines be cut, saying that he knew it was a mistake as soon as he saw it broadcast.
Boy Meets WorldBoy Meets WorldBoy Meets World is an American comedy-drama series that chronicles the events and everyday life lessons of Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage, a kid from suburban Philadelphia who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 on ABC, part of the...
(2000)
In the episode "As Time Goes By", Eric discovers a phone booth similar to the TARDIS. Its entrance is covered with caution tape draped across it that reads "This is not a phone booth, it is a time continuum vortex. Whatever you do, do not pick up the phone." He laments "I wish I knew how to read" before tearing the tape away. (This would seem, though, to be more of a reference to Bill & Ted's Excellent AdventureBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction–comedy buddy film and the first film in the Bill & Ted franchise in which two metalhead slackers travel through time to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation.The film was written by...
than to Doctor Who.)
Dead RingersDead Ringers (comedy)Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry...
(2000–2009)
One of the most prolific sources of Doctor Who-related parody in recent years has been the radio and television programme Dead Ringers. This is primarily due to comedian and impressionist Jon CulshawJon Culshaw
Jonathan Peter Culshaw is an English impressionist and comedian. He was educated at St Bede's RC High School, Ormskirk and St John Rigby College, in Orrell, Wigan....
and writer Nev Fountain
Nev Fountain
Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers.A native of Stamford, Fountain attended the University of Warwick...
, both of whom are Doctor Who fans. Culshaw often impersonates Tom Baker
Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
in character as the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
.
- Dead Ringers (on radio)
- In the radio programme, Culshaw often made live phone calls as the Doctor to everyday locations such as a hotel or DIY store, or to Doctor Who celebrities, and taped the unscripted responses.
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- Culshaw's "Doctor" has telephoned four of the "real" Doctors—Tom Baker, Peter DavisonPeter DavisonPeter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...
, Colin BakerColin BakerColin Baker is a British actor who is known for playing Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.- Background:Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to...
, and Sylvester McCoySylvester McCoySylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to...
. This prompted the bemused (and apparently confused) McCoy to ask the classic question: "Have you been in the pub?" When Culshaw phoned Tom Baker himself and stated that he "was the Doctor", Baker replied, "But there must be some mistake...I'm the Doctor..." Baker had previously worked with Culshaw and was aware of his impression but not when the call would come, if at all, so his reaction was genuine. On the other hand, McCoy has said that his reaction was faked, as he had been warned immediately before the call took place. (Although, in an unpublished interview with Andrew Lawston, McCoy instead claimed he had just assumed that it was Tom Baker until the producers called afterwards to request permission to use the recorded call)
- Culshaw's "Doctor" has telephoned four of the "real" Doctors—Tom Baker, Peter Davison
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- Culshaw's impression of the Fourth Doctor is now one of Dead Ringers' most recognizable trademarks, with the title credits (for the radio series and the TV series) now with the words "Dead Ringers" spoken by Culshaw in the recognizable voice.
- Dead Ringers (on television)
- When the programme moved to television, a now-visible Culshaw (in costume) was placed into mundane situations, such as the Fourth Doctor visiting a tanning salon and travelling on the Eurostar. At one point on his journey to France, Culshaw's "Doctor" stated to bemused passengers, "I am the Doctor. I travel in space and time.... and trains."
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- Though the Fourth Doctor was overwhelmingly the Doctor most imitated in the programme from 2000–2004, other Doctors also received treatment by the cast. With the coming of the 2005 series of Doctor Who, Dead Ringers added the most recent incarnations of the Doctor to its repertoire (for example, suggesting that Christopher EcclestonChristopher EcclestonChristopher Eccleston is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...
's real reason for leaving the programme was because his parents are hardcore Star TrekStar TrekStar Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
fans, which is possibly a parody of Star Trek fandom). The 2005 series trailer also parodied the "Do You Want To Come With Me?" trailers used to advertise the series; Eccleston's dialogue being spoken by impersonators of Tony BlairTony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
, Michael HowardMichael HowardMichael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, QC, PC is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005...
and Charles KennedyCharles KennedyCharles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency....
(due to BBC impartiality in the run-up to the 2005 General ElectionUnited Kingdom general election, 2005The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....
, all three political parties were represented).
- Though the Fourth Doctor was overwhelmingly the Doctor most imitated in the programme from 2000–2004, other Doctors also received treatment by the cast. With the coming of the 2005 series of Doctor Who, Dead Ringers added the most recent incarnations of the Doctor to its repertoire (for example, suggesting that Christopher Eccleston
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- In the 2005 Dead Ringers Christmas special, broadcast shortly before "The Christmas InvasionThe Christmas Invasion"The Christmas Invasion" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is Christmas, but there is little cause for celebration as planet Earth is invaded by aliens known as the Sycorax...
", Culshaw impersonated both the Fourth and Tenth DoctorTenth DoctorThe Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
s, while the SecondSecond DoctorThe Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton....
, Seventh, and NinthNinth DoctorThe Ninth Doctor is the ninth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by Christopher Eccleston....
Doctors were impersonated by Mark PerryMark Perry (impressionist)Mark Perry is a British impressionist and his notable impressions include; David Dickinson, John Prescott and the late Robin Cook. Perry is known for playing various public figures in Dead Ringers and 2DTV. In 2007 he appeared in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations...
, Kevin ConnellyKevin ConnellyKevin Connelly was born in Middlesbrough, England. He is an impressionist comedian, and after dinner speaker and is probably most famous for his role on the popular BBC television programme 'Dead Ringers'....
, and Phil CornwellPhil CornwellPhil Cornwell is an English comedian, actor, impressionist and writer. He is probably best known as being part of the Dead Ringers television and radio series...
, respectively. The sketch also made reference to Christopher Eccleston's departure from the programme and displayed some antagonism between the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, with the Eccelston Doctor referring to himself as having depth and grit, then the Tenth as "Jarvis CockerJarvis CockerJarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus Cocker has led a successful solo career...
in space".
- In the 2005 Dead Ringers Christmas special, broadcast shortly before "The Christmas Invasion
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- In Dead Ringers 2006 series, Culshaw's Tenth Doctor was joined by Rose TylerRose TylerRose Marion Tyler is a fictional character portrayed by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and was created by series producer Russell T Davies...
(portrayed by Jan RavensJan RavensJanet "Jan" Ravens is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.-Early life:...
) in two sketches. In one, the pair complained about the increasingly loud and intrusive music in the programme, and the Doctor was forced to use his sonic screwdriverSonic screwdriverThe sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoffs. It is a multifunctional tool used by The Doctor. Its most common function is that of a lockpick, but can be used to perform other operations such as performing medical scans,...
to "turn on the subtitles, like everyone at home is doing." In another, the Doctor remarked how easy his job had become since he could learn all about his adventures beforehand from the Radio TimesRadio TimesRadio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...
, Doctor Who ConfidentialDoctor Who ConfidentialDoctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly...
, Totally Doctor WhoTotally Doctor WhoTotally Doctor Who is a children's television series produced by the BBC that was originally broadcast between 13 April 2006 and 29 June 2007, accompanying the second and third revived series of Doctor Who. No episodes have been produced following the third series...
and the TARDISODETARDISODETardisodes are mini-episodes of the television programme Doctor Who created to accompany the 2006 series of the programme. Made by Doctor Who producers BBC Wales, each Tardisode is approximately 60 seconds long and serves as an introduction to one of the actual 45-minute episodes...
s; since everything was revealed ahead of time, the Doctor said he could "phone the rest of the show in" and watch the World Cup2006 FIFA World CupThe 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
(imminent at the time of the sketch's broadcast).
- In Dead Ringers 2006 series, Culshaw's Tenth Doctor was joined by Rose Tyler
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- In addition to parodying Doctor Who, Dead Ringers has also parodied TorchwoodTorchwoodTorchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
. The sketches comment Torchwoods high level of sex, and low levels of characterization (denoting OwenOwen HarperOwen Harper is a fictional character played by Burn Gorman, and a regular in the BBC television series Torchwood, a spin-off from the long-running series Doctor Who. The character last appeared onscreen in the Series 2 finale, "Exit Wounds"....
, IantoIanto JonesIanto Jones is a fictional character in the BBC television series Torchwood, played by Welsh actor Gareth David-Lloyd. A series regular, Ianto appears in every episode of the programme's first three series, as well as two crossover episodes of Torchwoods parent show, Doctor Who...
, JackJack HarknessCaptain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. He first appeared in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and reappeared in the remaining episodes of the 2005 series as a companion of the ninth incarnation of the...
and GwenGwen CooperGwen Cooper is a fictional character in the BBC television programme Torchwood, a spin-off to the long-running show Doctor Who, portrayed by Welsh actress Eve Myles. The series' lead female character, Gwen has featured in every episode of the sci-fi programme to date as well as two crossover...
by the traits of "annoying", "dull and annoying", "campCamp (style)Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being "cheesy"...
and annoying" and "WelshWelsh peopleThe Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
" respectively). The final episode of the seventh series also featured two spoofs of Torchwood, one of which featured Jack Harkness in a threesomeThreesomeA threesome is a group of three engaged in the same activity. In relation to a sexual activity a threesome refer to the activity involving three people of any gender or sexual orientation...
with three Cybermen in a hotel. The other was "Driftwood" (a cut scene would have explained that it filled the one demographic not touched by Doctor Who - having a family show, a children's show, and an adult's showTorchwoodTorchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
). June WhitfieldJune WhitfieldJune Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....
talks to the camera about the worry about leaving behind families in danger from monsters of other worlds. She says that Driftwood can help, and a team comprising four OAPOAPOAP may refer to:*OAP Tower, or Osaka Amenity Park Tower, plaza and office developments in Japan,*Old Age Pensioner - a person who has retired, and now collects a pension*One Australia policy - a proposal in the 1980s to limit Asian immigration to Australia...
s, including Victor MeldrewVictor MeldrewVictor Meldrew was a fictional character in the popular BBC One sitcom One Foot in the Grave. Created by David Renwick and played by Richard Wilson, the character was the archetypal grumpy old man...
and Albert Steptoe (with the latter having a mysterious event in his past - an event called UK GoldUKTV GoldGOLD is the original channel of the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland. It launched on 1 November 1992 as UK Gold, and is currently available on Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk TV and terrestrial subscription via Top Up TV. It shows repeats of classic programming from the BBC...
- "that means I can never die").
- In addition to parodying Doctor Who, Dead Ringers has also parodied Torchwood
-
- In another sketch, Tony BlairTony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
(Culshaw) is seen giving an interview. He then stands up and collapses. A regenerationRegeneration (Doctor Who)Regeneration, in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a biological ability exhibited by Time Lords, a race of fictional humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. This process allows a Time Lord who is old or mortally wounded to undergo a transformation into a new...
-like special effect is added, and Culshaw's Blair is replaced by David TennantDavid TennantDavid Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
, who was playing the Tenth Doctor at the time. Tennant stands up, licks and sucks his teeth and says "Hmmm, New Labour, that's weird" (a parody of one of Tennant's first lines as the Doctor ("Hmmm, new teeth, that's weird"The Parting of the Ways"The Parting of the Ways" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 18 June 2005. It was the second episode of the two-part story that featured Christopher Eccleston making his last appearance as the Ninth Doctor...
) and Tony Blair's rebranding of the Labour partyLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
, calling it "New Labour"). David Tennant proceeds to make a speech in Tony Blair's early style.
- In another sketch, Tony Blair
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Advertisement (2001)
A 2001 advertising campaign for Kit Kat chocolates showed celebrities doing things which were contrary to their popular images (for example, football player Roy KeaneRoy Keane
Roy Maurice Keane is an Irish former footballer and manager. In his 18-year playing career, he played for Cobh Ramblers in the League of Ireland, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United, before ending his career at Celtic in Scotland....
doing needlepoint, and Motörhead lead singer Lemmy playing the violin).
One of the first shots in the advertisement is of Daleks chasing people on the street saying, in the standard Dalek tones, "Give us a cuddle!" while the final shot had Daleks following a group of Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness , known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organization. It was founded in 1966 in New York City by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada...
devotees, chanting "Peace and love!" The advertisement concluded with the Kit Kat slogan "Have a break, have a Kit Kat," implying that the Daleks were having a break from their habitual killing.
The Daleks' use in this advert was brought to an end by the estate of Terry Nation
Terry Nation
Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, who had not been aware of the usage. The advertising agency had mistakenly believed that the creatures were in the public domain.
Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? (2001)
This BBVBBV
BBV is a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
production starred Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to...
as the Foot Doctor doing battle against the Krynoids, Sontaran
Sontaran
The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoids from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and also seen in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. They were created by writer Robert Holmes.-Culture:...
s, and Auton
Auton
The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. First appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the show to be presented in colour.Autons...
s. It also parodied elements of the Seventh Doctor's
Seventh Doctor
The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....
tenure, including his incarnation's penchant for spoon-playing and his regeneration scene in Time and the Rani
Time and the Rani
Time and the Rani is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 7 September to 28 September 1987. This story was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor. It also features the last appearance of the Sixth...
. The title was a reference to how BBV had never obtained a license from the BBC to produce official Doctor Who tie-in material and therefore had to create works that only narrowly avoided infringing the BBC's intellectual property rights.
CouplingCoupling (UK TV series)Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to June 2004. Produced by Hartswood Films for the BBC, the show centres on the dating and sexual adventures and mishaps of six friends in their thirties, often depicting the three women and the three...
(2001, 2004)
In the British comedy Coupling, main character Steve makes reference to Daleks in his rant about cushions: "...This... is a sofa; it is designed by clever scientists in such a way so as to shield the unprotected user from the risk of, skin abrasions, serious head trauma, and of course...DALEKS!" (Season 2, Episode 3)Other Doctor Who references are made by Oliver in Season 4:
- In a dream, a girl mentions a found episode - "Only 108 missing episodes to go!"; when he wakes, he hits a box for emphasis, and it echoes "Exterminate, exterminate!". In the same episode, Oliver talks to a life-size model Dalek as if it were his ex-girlfriend: "...Yeah, well, maybe if you weren't such a... Dalek..." (Season 4, Episode 2)
- Oliver wears a blue sweater with a classic Doctor Who logo on the back. (Season 4, Episode 3)
These references may be because current Doctor Who Head Writer Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer.Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his...
was a writer on the show.
Codename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures in Santa Monica, California.. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired its final episode on...
(2004, 2007)
In this Cartoon NetworkCartoon Network (United States)
Cartoon Network is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992 after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991...
series, the nerdier operatives enjoy a program called "Doctor Time Space and the Continuum". In the episode "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." Numbuhs 1, 3, 4, and 5 are captured and forced to watch the series, with Numbuh 5 pleading for it to stop.
During the credits of the episode "Operation: A.M.I.S.H." a segment is presented featuring a man on an ultra-low budget set (parodying the budget of the series) wearing several long scarves (a parody of the Fourth Doctor) standing next to an equally low budget cardboard robot, which falls apart.
In Operation E.N.G.L.A.N.D one of the kids from Sector E (England) has a long multicolored scarf and an over sized trench coat mocking the Fourth Doctor's outfit/costume.
Late Night with Conan O'BrienLate Night with Conan O'BrienLate Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
(2005)
In an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Conan brings out his cousin who is a fan of "the 1970s science fiction show Dr. Who" and only talks about things in terms of Doctor Who. When the cousin comes out (dressed as Tom Baker) and is asked a question, his unrelated response involves discussion traveling through time in the TARDIS with the Doctor.Chewin' the FatChewin' the FatChewin' the Fat is a Scottish comedy sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show.Chewin' the Fat first started as a radio series on BBC Radio Scotland...
(2005)
In a sketch from the 2005 HogmanayHogmanay
Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner...
edition of the BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
comedy series Chewin' the Fat, the character Ronald Villiers ("the world's worst actor") acts as an army soldier sent into a metal building to take on the Daleks. Villiers, however, keeps on messing up his lines and throwing in various ad-libs relating to Doctor Who.
After repeatedly failing to understand that the production crew are going to superimpose a Dalek onto the scene in the post-production stage, Villiers is thrown off set - but not before telling them that "All the Doctor Whos after Sylvester McCoy were rubbish anyway".
ANZ advertisement (2005)
An advertisement for Australian and New Zealand bank ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) was shown on television showing a customer call center operated by robots including Robot B-9Robot B-9
The B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot was a character in the television series Lost in Space. Known and addressed simply as "Robot", his full designation was only occasionally mentioned on the show.-History:...
from Lost in Space
Lost in Space
Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...
and the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s.
After subsequent showings, the advertisement was later shortened to not feature the Daleks due to complaints from the estate of Terry Nation
Terry Nation
Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who...
without permission.
Robot ChickenRobot ChickenRobot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...
(2006)
In the Adult SwimAdult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
series Robot Chicken, the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
made an appearance, standing on the first base of a baseball diamond asking, "You get it?", a reference to the Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello
William "Bud" Abbott and Lou Costello performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s...
sketch "Who's on First?
Who's on First?
Who's on First? is a vaudeville comedy routine made most famous by Abbott and Costello. In Abbott and Costello's version, the premise of the routine is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team to Costello, but their names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers...
".
In an episode entitled "Suck It", a student begins to give a presentation about the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
before being berated for his perceived geek
Geek
The word geek is a slang term, with different meanings ranging from "a computer expert or enthusiast" to "a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts", with a general pejorative meaning of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp[ecially] one who is perceived to...
iness.
The Chaser's War On EverythingThe Chaser's War on EverythingThe Chaser's War on Everything is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television station ABC1. It has won an AFI Award. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts...
(2006)
The 21 July 2006 episode of the Australian satirical comedy programme The Chaser's War On Everything contained a song making fun of Doctor Who fans; It was written and performed by Andrew HansenAndrew Hansen
Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...
, who is himself a Doctor Who fan.
The Charlotte ChurchCharlotte ChurchCharlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...
Show (2006)
The second episode of The Charlotte Church Show (broadcast on 8 September 2006) included a sketch in which Church played the Doctor's new companion. In the sketch, Church complained about travelling to CardiffCardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
by TARDIS ("I can take the bloody bus!"). The sketch also noted the series' tendency to have "relationship-y episodes where somebody's gran's dying, that they use to pad out the middle of the series when they run out of money for special effects", referring to "that psychic girl with the crayons
Fear Her
"Fear Her" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 24 June 2006.The episode takes part on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, almost exclusively on a fictitious cul-de-sac named after the British athlete...
" as a "rubbish" example.
The sketch also showed the Doctor examining a scantily clad female mannequin, claiming he thought it was an Auton
Auton
The Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and adversaries of the Doctor. First appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the show to be presented in colour.Autons...
. At the end of the sketch, the Doctor regenerated into Todd Carty
Todd Carty
Todd Carty is an Irish actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles. His stage work has varied from pantomime to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations, and films...
.
The Friday Night ProjectThe Friday Night ProjectThe Sunday Night Project was a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005 under the title The Friday Night Project...
(2007)
Tenth DoctorTenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
actor David Tennant
David Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
appeared as host on the 5 January 2007 edition of Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's The Friday Night Project. Tennant joined regulars Justin Lee Collins
Justin Lee Collins
Justin Lee Collins, commonly known as JLC, is an award-winning English comedian and television presenter.A Bristolian, he's well known for his strong West Country accent, shaggy appearance and colourful shirts....
and Alan Carr
Alan Carr
Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
in a number of jokes related to the show/role - including a short parody episode which saw Collins as the Tenth Doctor, Tennant in drag as his female assistant and Carr as various Doctor Who villains.
In the parody, Collins and Tennant travel to the "Pink Planet" to confront their biggest enemy, the Gay Lord (a parody of the Time Lords) and then the Carrleks (a parody of the Daleks).
Also, there was a fake charity Doctor Who auction in which two fans were pranked - one being made to pay a large sum of money for an item he hadn't intended to bid on, the other being led to believe the auction had stolen his one-of-a-kind prop of the Key to Time from the classic-series serial of the same name.
Later when the show's name was change to The Sunday Night Project, Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards...
who plays Donna Noble
Donna Noble
Donna Noble is a fictional character played by Catherine Tate in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A secretary from Chiswick, London, she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor, appearing in one scene at the end of the final episode of the 2006 series,...
appeared as a guest host on 18 January 2009. While her time on the show, Tate joined both Justin and Alan in several parodies about the show, in one, Tate dressed as the Tenth Doctor while Collins and Carr take the role as Donna. At first, Carr makes the mistake of dressing like Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper
Lauren Cooper
Dame Lauren Alesha Masheka Tanesha Felicia Jane Cooper is a fictional character in The Catherine Tate Show. Lauren is one of the show's main characters and is played by Catherine Tate...
, then Collins wins the part when he wears a bride's dress.
The Colbert Report (2007)
On 8 May 2007, during his "Word" segment, Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.Colbert originally studied to be an...
compared time travel to Senator Hillary Clinton's motion to repeal President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
's authorization to begin the Iraq War. After he made this statement, the Word sidebar displayed, "Dr. Who is she kidding?"
On 28 June 2007, during an interview with Doug Bailey
Doug Bailey
Doug Bailey is an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily, online briefing on American politics.From 1968 to 1987, Bailey was President of Bailey Deardourff and Associates, among the first national political consulting firms...
, Bailey discussed an online convention for the Centrist Party at Unity08.com with polls on who should run for President. Colbert informed him that with an online convention "You're going to get a bunch of computer nerds [nominating] Doctor Who and Chewbacca
Chewbacca
Chewbacca, also known as Chewie, is a character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Peter Mayhew. In the series' narrative chronology, he appears in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi...
".
Mock the Week (2007)
In the final "Scenes we'd like to see" round, one of the scenes in an episode on 26 July 2007 was, "Unlikely lines to hear in an episode of Doctor Who". The lines given were -- Frankie BoyleFrankie BoyleFrancis Martin Patrick "Frankie" Boyle is a British comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic, often controversial sense of humour...
- "Between series I paint the TARDIS red and sell coffee." - Lauren LaverneLauren LaverneLauren Cecilia Fisher , known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, author and singer...
- "Yes Doctor, I am your arch-nemesis. You may also recognise me as Giuseppe DiMarco from EastEndersEastEndersEastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
and from my many walk-on parts on CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
as "Wounded man"." - Frankie Boyle - "Looks like we've materialised in the 19th century. Oh no, it's GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, 2007." - Hugh DennisHugh DennisPeter Hugh Dennis is an English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist, best known for his work with comedy partner Steve Punt. He is also known for his position as a permanent panelist on the TV comedy show Mock The Week...
(in "dull police officer" voice) - "This is not a waste of time. You are a Time Lord. Have you ever given money to the Labour Party?" - Frankie Boyle - "I'm here to save the Earth, but as a doctor, I won't be working evenings or weekends."
- Russell HowardRussell HowardRussell Joseph Howard is an English comedian best known for his TV show Russell Howard's Good News and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock The Week...
- "K9, stop humping the toaster!" - Frankie Boyle - "Welcome to my Dalek poetry reading! This one is called "Daffodils"! "Exterminate Daffodils!""
The Suite Life of Zack and CodyThe Suite Life of Zack and CodyThe Suite Life of Zack & Cody is an American sitcom created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan. The series premiered on Disney Channel on March 18, 2005 with 4 million viewers, making it the most successful premiere for Disney Channel in 2005. It was one of their first five shows available on the...
(2007)
In the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess", Arwin creates a machine for time and space travel out of a British telephone box. Zack and Cody use the machine to travel to a parallel world, as first done in InfernoInferno (Doctor Who)
Don Houghton came to Terrence Dicks with an idea for the story based on the real life Project Mohole. A smaller budget for the serial drove the idea of a parallel world, where the studio could use the same actors in multiple roles...
and repeated several times throughout spin-off media for the classic series and episodes of the new series, including Rise of the Cybermen
Rise of the Cybermen
"Rise of the Cybermen" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The episode features the return of Cybermen, where they are created on Earth itself. It is the first part of a two-part story, the concluding part being "The Age of Steel"...
and Journey's End
Journey's End (Doctor Who)
"Journey's End" is the thirteenth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who first broadcast on BBC One on 5 July 2008. It is the second episode of a two-part crossover story featuring the characters of spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane...
. The machine lights up and makes a sound similar to the TARDIS upon takeoff and landing.
Family GuyFamily GuyFamily Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
(2007, 2009, 2010)
In "Blue HarvestBlue Harvest (Family Guy)
"Blue Harvest" is the hour-long premiere to the sixth season of the FOX series Family Guy and the first part of the series' trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. It originally aired on September 23, 2007. The episode is a retelling and parody of the 1977 blockbuster film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New...
", the Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
themed season premiere of the sixth season of Family Guy, Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin is a fictional character and the protagonist of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the patriarch of the Griffin family. He is voiced by cartoonist Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998....
(as Han Solo
Han Solo
Han Solo is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise played by Harrison Ford. Introduced in the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope , Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca , become involved in the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire...
) comments that "Hyperspace
Hyperspace (science fiction)
Hyperspace is a plot device sometimes used in science fiction. It is typically described as an alternative region of space co-existing with our own universe which may be entered using an energy field or other device...
always looks so freaky." The scene then cuts to the first Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
title sequence (with full audio) playing outside the Millennium Falcon
Millennium Falcon
The Millennium Falcon is a spacecraft in the Star Wars universe commanded by smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca...
cockpit. Also, in the 2009 episode "420
420 (Family Guy)
"420" is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It premiered on Fox in the United States on April 19, 2009. The title of the episode is a reference to the term "420" used in cannabis culture; "420" premiered the day before April 20 , on which a...
", Brian, who has successfully lobbied to have marijuana legalized in Quahog, comments that in the aftermath, "Crime is down, productivity is up, and ratings for Doctor Who are through the roof." In the episode "Welcome Back, Carter
Welcome Back, Carter
"Welcome Back, Carter" is the third episode of the ninth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on October 10, 2010. The episode follows Peter after he discovers his father-in-law, Carter Pewterschmidt, having an affair with another woman...
", Peter mentions his owl's name is Doctor Hoo.
CSI: NYCSI: NYCSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
(2007)
In the episode "Time's Up", the main case involves scientists experimenting in time travelTime travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
. When the team enter an apartment containing a "time machine", the character Flack remarks "paging Doctor Who".
Gina's Laughing GearGina's Laughing GearGina's Laughing Gear was a special programming slot which was presented by Gina Yashere. It was shown on Friday afternoons on BBC One and repeated on Saturday on the CBBC Channel. The purpose was to showcase new CBBC comedy at the time....
(2007)
In this children's spoof show on CBBCCBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
, three sketches spoofing Doctor Who are shown. The first begins with the Doctor and Rose stepping out of the TARDIS into a darkened room. The Doctor, using his Sonic Screwdriver as a torch, reveals several aliens who are all blasted by Rose's ray gun. The Doctor then turns on the light and sees that they have materialised at a child dress-up party. The child then comes in. The Doctor and Rose wish him a happy birthday. He calls them to get a doctor. "Funny you should say that" says the Doctor.
In the second sketch, the shortest of the three, we hear the TARDIS materialise and the Doctor inquiring where they are. Then we hear a scream, as a woman runs out of a building. The Doctor apologises, just as the camera focuses on a sign for ladies toilets.
The third and final sketch starts with the Doctor stepping out of the TARDIS into Tim Westwood's (Pimp My Ride UK
Pimp My Ride
Pimp My Ride is a TV show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it and customizing it.The original United States version was hosted by rapper Xzibit...
) garage. The Doctor asks if he is a Cyberman. Tim corrects him and says he is a DJ-man. The Doctor then recognizes this "alien that plays hip-hop music on the radio". Tim calls it old and a "TURDIS" and then says to the Doctor that he is going to "pimp his TARDIS". There are then several shots of mechanics attaching things to the TARDIS that are typical to Pimp My Ride (e.g. a customized number plate: T4RD15 and a disco ball where the normal light would be on top of the TARDIS). The Doctor doesn't mind as these are only cosmetic changes, but Tim has messed up the suspension and the Doctor dematerializes from the garage with the TARDIS jumping to different places in the garage.
The Omid Djalili ShowThe Omid Djalili ShowThe Omid Djalili Show was a British sketch comedy/stand-up comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. Writing by Omid Djalili, Will Smith, Roger Drew, Ian Stone, Ricky Grover with script editor Steve Punt...
(2007)
In one sketch of the third episode of the first series, Omid DjaliliOmid Djalili
Omid Djalili is a British Iranian stand-up comedian, actor, television producer and writer.-Personal life:Djalili was born in Chelsea, London to Iranian Bahá'í parents and is a Bahá'í himself...
plays a man desperate for fame who attends a children's party along with Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman is a British actress who is best known for playing Martha Jones, former companion of the Tenth Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and itsspin-off series Torchwood...
who plays companion
Companion (Doctor Who)
In the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, the term "companion" refers to a character who travels with, and shares the adventures of the Doctor. In most Doctor Who stories, the primary companion acts as both deuteragonist and audience surrogate...
Martha Jones
Martha Jones
Martha Jones is a fictional character played by Freema Agyeman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who, replacing Rose Tyler...
. In the sketch, Djalili tries to get a role in Doctor Who by performing as the new Cybermen and the Daleks (he wears a helmet with a Dalek eyestalk on it). Because his performance scares the children, Agyeman is enraged and restrains him, but Djalili just quotes "I'm half human, half Dalek, I am your future!" (the line said at the end of Daleks in Manhattan
Daleks in Manhattan
"Daleks in Manhattan" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 21 April 2007, and is the fourth episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series. It is part one of a two-part story, concluded in "Evolution of the Daleks"...
), so she asks him what is his problem and he replies "Help me, I need to be famous"; she then headbutt
Headbutt
A headbutt is a strike with the head, typically involving the use of robust parts of the cranium as areas of impact. Effective headbutting revolves around striking a sensitive area with a less sensitive area, such as striking the nose of an opponent with the forehead...
s him.
ExtrasExtras (TV series)Extras is a British sitcom about extras working on TV and film sets and in theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO, and is created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom also star in it...
(2007)
In the Christmas special finale of Extras, Darren Lamb (Stephen MerchantStephen Merchant
Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the...
) tells Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
) that he's been offered a part in "the BBC's jewel in the crown, Doctor Who", but Andy dismisses the show (along with Hotel Babylon
Hotel Babylon
Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...
) as "camp, frothy nonsense". Later in the episode, Andy gets a new agent who proposes roles in the same programmes, which Andy again rejects. However, after not working for five months (and telling his new agent, "I've told you a thousand times, I'm not going to play an alien in Doctor Who"), we see Andy opposite the Tenth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
(David Tennant
David Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
), playing a slug-like alien named Schlong (in a rubbery costume, with Andy's face fully visible).
In the scene, "Schlong" attacks the Doctor and the young woman with something the Doctor first describes in technobabble
Technobabble
Technobabble , also called technospeak, is a form of prose using jargon, buzzwords, esoteric language, specialized technical terms, or technical slang that is incomprehensible to the listener...
as "hyperpodulating—he's using his molluscian gline valves to internally vibrillate our DNA!" and then explains that "we'll both turn into slugs in about thirty seconds unless I can reach that sodium chloride!" The Doctor throws the salt on the slug-creature, who collapses, foaming at the mouth.
American Dad!American Dad!American Dad! is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane and owned by Underdog Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions. It is produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television...
(2008)
In the episode "Escape from Pearl BaileyEscape from Pearl Bailey
"Escape from Pearl Bailey" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of American Dad!. It aired on Fox in the United States on November 9, 2008...
", Steve Smith's friend, Debbie, is running for Student Council President at Pearl Bailey High School. In her speech to the student body, Debbie refers to a "thirty-year-old TV show", the scene cuts to several students in the audience wearing the costumes of the Fourth
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
, one wearing a costume of the Eighth
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...
, and one whom has hair similar to the Sixth
Sixth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...
incarnations of the Doctor
Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
, as well as K-9
K-9 (Doctor Who)
K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977...
. Technically, "thirty years" refers only to the approximate American broadcast history of Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
.
Doctors (2008)
In an episode of the ninth series in 2008, Sylvester McCoySylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to...
made a guest appearance where he played a retired actor named Graham Capelli who played a time traveller in a television show called The Lollipop Man where he could travel through time with his traffic lolliepop stick. Graham also has to provide commentary for the DVD release of the show.
The Sarah Silverman ProgramThe Sarah Silverman ProgramThe Sarah Silverman Program is an American television series that starred comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, who created the series with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab...
(2008)
In one episode of the second season, Christopher EcclestonChristopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...
makes a guest appearance in which he plays the fictional main character from a long-running science fiction series called Dr. Lazer Rage.
Ben 10: Alien ForceBen 10: Alien ForceWhen it recalibrated it gained a more watch-like shape, a green wristband, became smaller and sleeker, and the face dial became black and green. The inside of the hourglass shape glows in different colors at special moments; these colors signify the state that the Omnitrix is presently in...
(2008) and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2011)
The creator of the series confirmed that Professor Paradox was inspired by the Doctor, with similar traits such as a British accent and an aversion to guns. At one point he also carried around a bag of gumballs, similar to the Doctor's jelly babies.Pinky and PerkyPinky and PerkyPinky and Perky is an animated children's television series first broadcast by the BBC in 1957, revived in 2008 as a CGI animation.-Original series:...
(2009)
Episode 34 of the CGI animation Pinky and Perky, broadcast 17 February 2009, was titled "Doctor Roo". The title refers to a time-travelling kangaroo dressed like the Tenth DoctorTenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
, who travels through time with his time-travelling pouch. Pinky thinks Dr Roo's TV show is real, and tries to travel back in time to save the world from the Robo-Sheep (which are based on Cybermen).
The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonThe Late Late Show with Craig FergusonThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is a Peabody Award-winning American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise, follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup...
(2010)
Craig FergusonCraig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson is a Scottish American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS...
dubbed the 16 November 2010 episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is a Peabody Award-winning American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise, follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup...
the "Doctor Who Episode", and began the show with a dance number to the tune of the Doctor Who theme, which had to be cut out due to not being able to get the legal rights to play the song. The show featured many Doctor Who references and jokes, including a Dalek alongside Craig's usual sidekick Geoff Petersen
Geoff Petersen
Geoff Peterson is the robot skeleton sidekick for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. His debut appearance was on Monday, April 5, 2010. Geoff Peterson was designed and built by Grant Imahara of the Discovery Channel show Mythbusters...
and a miniature TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
on Craig's desk. The guests were Chris Hardwick
Chris Hardwick
Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist...
(who talked with Craig almost exclusively about Doctor Who) and the Eleventh Doctor
Eleventh Doctor
The Eleventh Doctor is the eleventh incarnation of the protagonist of the BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. Matt Smith plays this incarnation, replacing David Tennant's Tenth Doctor in the 2010 episode "The End of Time, Part Two"...
, Matt Smith. The cut opening number was later broadcast in early 2011. In 2011 two other Doctor Who actors - Alex Kingston
Alex Kingston
Alexandra Elizabeth "Alex" Kingston is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER and as River Song in Doctor Who.-Early life and education:...
and Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan
Karen Sheila Gillan is a Scottish actress and former model who is best known for her current portrayal of Amy Pond in the British science fiction series Doctor Who.-Early life:...
appeared on the programme, with Gillan making an encore appearance (along with Matt Smith, in a separate broadcast), in late July 2011. On 3 Aug. 2011 Smith made an unadvertised appearance in a pre-recorded segment at the end of the broadcast.
National Television Awards16th National Television AwardsThe 16th National Television Awards ceremony was held at The O2 Arena in London on 26 January 2011 and was hosted by Dermot O'Leary. The awards are voted by the public and the winners are revealed live on ITV1. Ant & Dec won the award for Most Popular Entertainment Presenter for the tenth year in a...
opening scene (2011)
A special 3-minute sketch was written by Steven Moffat, featuring Matt Smith and the TARDISTARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
set, and broadcast on ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
on 26 January 2011 before the awards ceremony. Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary is an English television and radio presenter. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. O'Leary has also presented on the BBC and has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2...
wakes up realising he has missed the ceremony he is presenting, and the Doctor helps him get there on time, meeting Dot Branning
Dot Branning
Dorothy "Dot" Branning is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by June Brown since 1985. In a special episode entitled EastEnders: Dot's Story a young Dot was played by Tallulah Pitt-Brown in flashbacks. Dot first appeared in EastEnders in July 1985 as the mother of...
, Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...
and Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality...
en route.
South ParkSouth ParkSouth Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
(2011)
In the episode FunnybotFunnybot
"Funnybot" is the second episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 211th episode of the series overall. "Funnybot" premiered in the United States on Comedy Central on May 4, 2011, the first time a South Park episode has aired in May since season...
the Funnybot's appearance is similar to that of a Dalek, with a plunger-like arm, and even says "Exterminate".
CommunityCommunity (TV series)Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that airs on NBC. The series is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television...
(2011)
During the episode "Biology 101Biology 101
"Biology 101" is the first episode of the third season of Community. The episode originally aired on September 22, 2011 on NBC. The episode picks up where the second season left off, with Pierce out of the group...
" Britta searches for a new television series for Abed to watch. She eventually shows him a sci-fi series called Inspector Spacetime, a thinly veiled parody of Doctor Who. Troy and Abed have been seen watching Inspector Spacetime throughout the third season
DorklyCollegeHumorCollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...
(2011)
In the episode "Chrono Trigger Time Travel Mix-Up", the characters from the game Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger
is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. Chrono Triggers development team included three designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Square's Final Fantasy series; Yuji Horii, a...
meet the Doctor who tells that Lavos was in fact a friendly being trying to return back to its home planet.
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That AgainI'm Sorry, I'll Read That AgainI'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again was a BBC radio comedy programme which originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus...
(1965, 1969)
In episode 8 of the first full series, the main feature was a sketch called "Doctor Why and The Thing".In Series Six there was a running sketch entitled "Professor Prune and His Electric Time Trousers", which was a send-up of Doctor Who.
Doctor PooDoctor Poo (radio series)Dr Poo was a radio serial which aired on 2JJ, which was later Triple J, in Sydney, Australia. Over 400 episodes were broadcast in a continuous run from June 1979 to January 1981. It aired as a two-minute segment of Doug Mulray's morning show, at around 7:20 and 8:20 weekdays...
(1979-1981)
"It's all cisterns go, with the amazing man who dares to go anywhere. Doctor Poooooooooo."The brainchild of comedians Geoff Kelso, Lance Curtis, Steve Johnston and Ken Mathews, this Australian radio serial started airing on the Double Jay AM
AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...
radio station in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, migrating briefly to FM
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
when the station became Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
.
In the serial, a pompous and selfish alien called Doctor Poo (from the planet Galah-Free) travels through time and space in his TURDIS with his "beautiful, but stupid" assistant Dana Sock (a parody of many useless female companions on Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
) and Dennis the Denim Cat (a possible parody of K-9
K-9 (Doctor Who)
K-9, or K9, is the name of several fictional robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977...
), the homicidal moggie of the cat planet Felix Major.
The 2-minute radio show even had parodies of the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s (the Drecks and their creator Lavdros) as well as the Master (Doctor Wee, an "Asian stereotype"). The show also introduced us to Doctor Poo's wife, Constance.
Proceedings were narrated by Kevin the Announcer - who would continually talk to the characters and make disparaging comments about the show.
Lance Curtis played Doctor Poo, Geoff Kelso was Kevin the Announcer and Dennis the Denim Cat and Steve Matthews voiced Dana Sock (in falsetto). Minor characters in each two-minute episode were voiced by various members of the cast.
The series spawned two record releases, Knees Ahoy which was a compilation of one of the radio storylines, and Dr. Poo and the Psychic Koala's The Universe is Big, a musical LP recorded in 1981 but released in 1985, shortly after the death of Lance Curtis.
In late 1980, the Official Doctor Poo Fan Club numbered a membership over 10,000.
One storyline was replayed during the lunch breaks of a cricket test on 702 ABC
702 ABC Sydney
702 ABC Sydney is an ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 kHz on the AM dial....
in the mid eighties. This story, "The Dubbo and Western Plains French Revolution" included parodies of a number of cricket commentators.
Harry Hill's Fruit CornerHarry Hill's Fruit CornerHarry Hill's Fruit Corner was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It starred Harry Hill. Hill achieved his big breakthrough in 1992 when he won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
(1993)
An episode of the radio series entitled "Lords and Ladies" featured Jon PertweeJon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
playing a Time Lord
Time Lord
The Time Lords are an ancient extraterrestrial race and civilization of humanoids in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' eponymous protagonist, the Doctor, is a member...
and the character Nana Hill spoofing the role of Davros
Davros
Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks...
, creator of the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s.
Another episode featured the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
singing trio (who were unable to complete any songs with the word "Doctor" in the lyrics without resorting to extermination). Harry also had a Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
girlfriend who would phone him and refuse to hang up until he said "I will obey".
Whatever Happened toWhatever Happened to ..?Whatever Happened to ..? is a series of eleven plays broadcast in two series on BBC Radio 4 in 1994 and 1995. They covered the fate of various fictional characters, such as Popeye and Susan Foreman, the granddaughter of the Doctor in Doctor Who...
Susan ForemanSusan ForemanSusan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The granddaughter and original companion of the First Doctor, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season...
? (1994)
"Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?" was a BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
comedy drama play, part of the series Whatever Happened to ..? The play followed a humorous account of Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The granddaughter and original companion of the First Doctor, she was played by actress Carole Ann Ford from 1963 to 1964, in the show's first season and the first two stories of the second season...
's life after she departed from the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
, and featured Jane Asher
Jane Asher
Jane Asher is an English actress. She has also developed a second career as a cake decorator and cake shop proprietor.-Early life:...
in the role of Susan and Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...
as Temmosus Skyedron, a Thal
Thal (Doctor Who)
The Thals are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, originating on the planet Skaro.-History within the show:...
. This play is included as an extra on The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964....
DVD.
NebulousNebulousNebulous is a post apocalyptic science fiction comedy radio show written by Graham Duff and produced by Ted Dowd from Baby Cow Productions; it is directed by Nicholas Briggs. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4...
(2005-2006)
The BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
comedy series Nebulous (written by Graham Duff
Graham Duff
-Life and Work:Graham Duff is an English writer, actor and producer. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire and currently resides in Brighton on the south coast of England. He attended and graduated from the University of Brighton. His work for TV and radio is typified by intricate plotting, large...
, directed by Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks. Briggs sometimes uses the pseudonym Arthur Wallis...
, and starring Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock....
) parodies many elements of Doctor Who. The eponymous Professor Nebulous is a very Doctor-ish character, while the organization K.E.N.T. echoes UNIT
UNIT
UNIT is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures...
.
The Premiere ("The Night of the Vegetarians") has a Cactus villain reminiscent of Meglos
Meglos
* Working titles for this story included The Golden Pentangle and The Last Zolfa-Thuran.* This is one of only two multi-part stories to feature all credited cast members in all episodes, the other being The Edge of Destruction....
; Episode #2 ("The Loverly Invasion") is clearly based on The Claws of Axos
The Claws of Axos
-Writing:In late 1969, script editor Terrance Dicks contacted new writing duo Bob Baker and Dave Martin after reading a draft script they had sent around the BBC for another production, A Man's Life. After offering the duo a seven-part story in November 1969 for Doctor Whos eighth season, Baker and...
with a race of beautiful aliens arriving on Earth; Finally, the recurring villain Doctor Klench brings to mind the Master
Master (Doctor Who)
The Master is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is a renegade Time Lord and the archenemy of the Doctor....
- even going as far as carrying around his miniaturized victims (still living) with him.
The audio CD of Series One includes in the liner notes
Liner notes
Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
a list of "missing episodes", a reference to the notorious missing Doctor Who episodes
Doctor Who missing episodes
The Doctor Who missing episodes are the instalments of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who that have no known film or videotape copies. They were wiped by the BBC during the 1960s and 1970s for economic and space-saving reasons...
; Among the episodes listed are "Genesis of the Faceless Ambassadors of Fury" (a story which mimics Genesis of the Daleks
Genesis of the Daleks
Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was originally broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1975. It marks the first appearance of Davros, the creator of the Daleks.-Plot:...
while its title combines Genesis, The Faceless Ones
The Faceless Ones
The Faceless Ones is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 8 to May 13, 1967. The story concerns a race of identity-stealing aliens known as the Chameleons...
, The Ambassadors of Death
The Ambassadors of Death
The Ambassadors of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from March 21 to May 2, 1970.-Plot:...
, and Fury From The Deep
Fury from the Deep
Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968...
) and "The Farmers" (which draws parallels to the less-popular "historical" episodes of Doctor Who).
Doctor What? (2006)
Doctor What? was a radio show on SYN 90.7Student Youth Network
SYN Media is a youth-run media organisation that provides training and broadcast opportunities for young people.Commonly referred to as SYN, the organisation produces new and independent media that is made by and for Melbourne's young people...
, a youth community radio station in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. In this show the hosts (changed on a weekly basis), would pick a part of time and talk about it; at the end a 2-minute radio play would be performed based around the Doctor and the hosts in their chosen period of time.
Adventures in Odyssey (2010)
During one episode of Adventures in Oddysey, the character of Wooton Basset (an eccentric mailman), describes having a pet barn owl, named Doctor What. When asked about this, he says that "Doctor Who" would have been a better name, but it was copyrighted.Carry On ScreamingCarry On ScreamingCarry On Screaming! is the twelfth Carry On film and was released in 1966. It was the last of the series to be distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated before the series moved to The Rank Organisation. It was originally rated in the UK as an 'A' , it is currently rated 'PG'...
(1966)
In this spoof horror filmHorror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
, one of the Carry On... film series
Carry On films
The Carry On films are a series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....
, Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Charles Williams was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.-Life and career:Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February...
plays a scientist named "Dr Watt". At one point in the film another character responds to this name with the question "Doctor who?", to which Watt replies "No, Watt. Who's my uncle."
Carry On Screaming also features Jon Pertwee
Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...
, who later played the Third Doctor
Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is the third incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by actor Jon Pertwee....
, as a police scientist.
U.F.O.U.F.O. (film)U.F.O. is a 1993 British sci-fi spoof that stars Roy 'Chubby' Brown in the role of a blue comedian whose act offends a pair of female aliens, who proceed to kidnap him and put him on trial....
(1993)
Roy "Chubby" BrownRoy 'Chubby' Brown
Roy "Chubby" Brown is an English stand-up comedian, notorious for his decidedly blue humour. The controversial nature of his act means that he rarely appears on major television channels, and Brown has attracted accusations that his comedy style is outdated whilst also being described as "The most...
, playing himself in this sci-fi comedy, is placed in a museum by a group of hyper-feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
aliens as an example of outdated attitudes towards women. He soon tries to escape, and is pursued by guards into a police exhibition, where he hides himself in a Police Box.
The guards demand that he come out of the box...only for it to dematerialize, revealing it as the TARDIS. Brown is dropped off in prehistoric times by the TARDIS, which then dematerializes, leaving him in a close encounter with a T-Rex
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...
as the film ends.
Looney Tunes: Back in ActionLooney Tunes: Back in ActionLooney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live action/animated adventure comedy film directed by Joe Dante and starring Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton, and Steve Martin. The film is essentially a feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon, with all the wackiness and surrealism typical...
(2003)
The heroes walk into the hidden base of "Area 52", the real name of Area 51, which is a facade to hide Area 52. This scene features cameos from various vintage science fiction movies: Robby the RobotRobby the Robot
Robby the Robot is a fictional character who has made a number of appearances in science fiction movies and television programs after his first appearance in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet.-Overview:...
from the film Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain...
, the title character from Robot Monster
Robot Monster
Robot Monster is a 1953 American science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...
, a Triffid
Triffid
The triffid is a tall, mobile, carnivorous, prolific and highly venomous fictional plant species—the titular antagonist in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's 2001 sequel The Night of the Triffids....
, a bug-mutant from This Island Earth, a Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
and many others.
The alien cyborgs yelling "Exterminate them!" are Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s from the British sci-fi series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
; more precisely, the models used are from the non-canon films Dr. Who and the Daleks
Dr. Who and the Daleks
Dr. Who and the Daleks was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s. It was followed by Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D....
and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks , and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also...
(distinguishable from the TV versions by the "vapor spray" weapon, although there seems to got circle-shaped death-Ray with it). It was at the insistence of Steve Martin
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer....
that Daleks be used in that scene. This was the cause of a minor legal issue as the Daleks are owned by the estate of Terry Nation and are not in the public domain as was assumed.
Dr. Loo and the Filthy Phaleks (2005)
A pornographic film featuring Alicia RhodesAlicia Rhodes
Alicia Rhodes is an award-winning British pornographic actress.-Biography:Rhodes was a prolific performer, appearing in over 240 films between 2002 and 2010. She worked in Britain and the United States...
as Dr. Loo, who travels through time and space in her TURDIS, a time machine disguised as a public toilet. She and her trusty female shagbot get into numerous sexual adventures including run ins with the evil Empress Minge the Merciless and her army of ruthless robot killers, the Phaleks.
Abducted by the Daloids/Abducted by the Daleks (2005)
An unauthorized pornographic feature, Abducted by the Daloids (although the disc itself uses "Daleks"). In the film, the "Daloids" (portrayed by several Dalek models) abduct four scantily clad strippers (played by five women - four who spoke English with thick East European accents, and one with a strong UlsterUlster
Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island. In ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial...
one). Full frontal nudity, amazingly bad acting, and awful special effects but no actual sex follow. However the Daleks are very authentic looking with even the right kind of voice.
The BBC took action to prevent sale of the DVD upon learning of it in November 2005. Despite this action, the film was leaked onto the internet.
While originally sold/released as "Abducted by the Daleks", in a limited edition of 1000, after the BBC’s action the film was re-released with the "Daloids" title, in another "limited edition" of 2000 though technically the film still infringes on copyright laws by using Dalek characters. The film's director, "Don Skaro", is rumoured to be erstwhile horror film magazine publisher Trevor Barcley; Some say that under a different pseudonym he also made the porn/horror film Fantom Kiler and its sequels.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
This film is based around two teenagers who are given a time machine from the future, which just happens to be a phone box. The pair also make several references to "time vortexes" and other Doctor Who-esque items.Robot OdysseyRobot OdysseyRobot Odyssey is an adventure game, published by The Learning Company in 1984. It was released for the Apple II, TRS-80 Color Computer, and DOS.-Story:...
(1984)
A Dalek can be seen near the beginning of the game patrolling the sewers. Touching it sends the player back to the very beginning.Paradroid (1985)
The '883' security droid is a Dalek. According to the computer's text, it inspires terror in humans for a reason the creators of the spaceship Paradroid did not understand.Roland in Time (1985)
In this Amstrad CPCAmstrad CPC
The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...
game, the player warps to ten different time periods using a "phone box", and an enemy called a "Glider Cyborg" appears to be a Dalek.
Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (1991)
In this enhanced remake of the original 1986 game of the same name, the protagonist, Roger Wilco, encounters a robot-manned droid shop which sells a number of notable parodied sci-fi properties, one of which happens to be a Dalek (spelled "Dalick" in-game). Despite their apparent notoriety, the sales robot counters by praising their overly zealous qualities, though the store itself is currently out-of-stock — according to the staff, owners don't live long enough to re-sell them.Hugo II, Whodunit? (1991)
In this DOSMS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
computer game, the player uses a telephone booth to travel to the planet Retupmoc where she meets a man who looks like Tom Baker
Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
's Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
and identifies himself as "the Doctor". A "mechanical monster" appears to be a Dalek, and the phone booth looks like the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
. The Doctor gives the player a "sonar screwdriver" for rescuing him.
Beneath A Steel SkyBeneath a Steel SkyBeneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 science-fiction point-and-click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. Like many point-and-click adventure games, it features comedy elements, and was developed by Revolution Software, a British developer, and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was...
(1994)
In this dystopian graphic adventure, the lead character has a "pet" robot called Joey. During the game Joey's brain is transferred between several robot shells. At one stage, Joey adopts the shell of a welding robot. When asked how he feels about his new casing, Joey states that he particularly likes the welding torch and proceeds to impersonate a Dalek with the line "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!."In the Amiga CD32
Amiga CD32
The Amiga CD32, styled "CD32" , was the first 32-bit CD-ROM based video game console released in western Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil. It was first announced at the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom on 16 July 1993, and was released in September of the same year...
and PC-CD versions which feature speech, Joey's voice is heavily ring-modulated, akin to the voice of the Daleks.
Boppin'Boppin'Boppin is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys , originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft. The Amiga version only sold 284 copies, according to the developers, and so it was ported to DOS and released as shareware, published by Apogee Software.The primary differences between the Amiga...
(1994)
In the DOSMS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
version, one of the monsters that Yeet and Boik can rescue looks distinctly like a Dalek.
AdventureQuestAdventureQuestAdventureQuest is an online flash based single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002. As of June 14, 2010, aq.battleon.com, the game's hosting website, and www.battleon.com, the game's homepage, have an Alexa rating of 3,041...
(2002)
In this single online RPGRole-playing game (video games)
Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...
, there is a Level 122 monster called the ZARDIS. It resembled one of their creatures as merged into a TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
. Another rarely seen enemy is "Salek Sprayer", which is a photograph of a salt cellar with added graphics such as a Dalek-like gun stalk. It shoots water and shouts "Extinguish!".
The quest "Save Warlic!" contains quite a few Doctor Who references, including "Cyberhens" and "Time Cord" and "Gallie and Frey" plus "Z.A.R.D.I.S." and "Salek Sprayer".
Destroy All Humans! 2Destroy All Humans! 2Destroy All Humans! 2 is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles and is the sequel to Destroy All Humans!. It was released on October 17, 2006, in North America. It marks the last game in the series to be developed by Pandemic Studios...
(2006)
Part of this video game takes place in "AlbionAlbion
Albion is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island or England in particular. It is also the basis of the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba...
" (Britain). On this level, when the main character (Crypto) terrorizes humans in his true form, their screams include the cries "Someone call the Doctor!" and "Where the hell's the bleedin' TARDIS?"
Using the psychokinetic power "Follow" on citizens of Albion causes them to sometimes chant "I obey", which is a possible nod to either the Master or the Daleks. The Earth is also referred to as "Sol 3", the name used by the Time Lords in various stories.
Rock Band (2007)
In this video game, a top purchased with one of the game's stores for the game's characters is named "Doctor What". The piece of clothing features both a scarf and long coat, a reference to the Fourth Doctor.The description reads as follows: "Traveling in time or just touring the Neighborhood, this long jacket and scarf combo won't let you down."
Fallout (1997)
A random encounter on the world map sends you to a zone-screen with the TARDIS sitting near the center. It disappears, making the iconic noises, when the player nears it.Fallout 2 (1998)
One of the non-player characters you can recruit in the game is a talking robot dog named K-9.World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (2008)
Alliance players will find an item, The Ultrasonic Screwdriver. It can be found on the corpse of any mechanical in the pools surrounding the Fizzcrank Pumping Station.League of LegendsLeague of LegendsThe BetFred League of Legends was a darts tournament featuring some of the legends of the game of darts which commenced in May 2008. The tournament is broadcast on Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom....
(2009)
The champion Zilean back story is very similar to that of the Doctor.The robot champion Blitzcrank sometimes response with the line: "Exterminate. Exterminate".
Several other champions have minor references.
RuneScapeRuneScapeRuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
The non-player characters Amelia and Rory remind the player of events that occur in a series of quests involving their character. Also, if the player claims to be the hero in the story, Rory will say that is impossible because the player is not strong or tall enough, and the player does not wear a bow tie.Poot!Poot! (comics)Poot! is an adult British comic with the tagline "silly cartoons and smart-arse satire for grown ups". The first edition was published in 1985 with a run of 500 copies. The comic grew to around 50,000 per issue up until the time of its cessation in 1990, due to the publishers getting proper jobs...
(Current, 1980s and 90s)
The British adult comic Poot!Poot! (comics)
Poot! is an adult British comic with the tagline "silly cartoons and smart-arse satire for grown ups". The first edition was published in 1985 with a run of 500 copies. The comic grew to around 50,000 per issue up until the time of its cessation in 1990, due to the publishers getting proper jobs...
features a character called Desmond Hoo who thinks he is Doctor Who and that his wardrobe is the Tardis.
ALFALF (TV series)ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990, created by Paul Fusco. The title character was Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF , who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.The series starred Max...
(1991)
The story "Timing Is Everything!" in Issue 38 of Marvel ComicsMarvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
' ALF comic featured ALF's encounter with a time traveller named "Doctor Whozonfirst", who was somewhat a Melmacian version of the Fourth Doctor.
Viz Magazine (1995)
The British adult spoof comic magazineComic magazine
Comic magazine may refer to:*A periodical containing comic strips, in the UK referred to as comic.*In the U.S., more commonly referred to as a comic book.*In Japan comic magazines are called manga.*See also Franco-Belgian comics magazines....
Viz featured a one page comic strip, "Doctor Poo
Doctor Poo
Doctor Poo is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz, featured in a one-off one-page strip of 25 panels that appeared in the June 1996 issue of the comic...
", in 1995. It features the increasingly desperate attempts of Doctor Poo (looking like the Fourth Doctor
Fourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
but with Jamie
Jamie McCrimmon
James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A piper of the Clan McLaren who lived in 18th century Scotland, he was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1966...
as a companion) to find a quiet place to defecate.
Futurama ComicsFuturama ComicsFuturama Comics is a comic book series published by Bongo Comics and based on the television series Futurama. It has been published bi-monthly in the United States since November 2000 . It has been published in the United Kingdom and Australia since 2002 and four trade paperbacks have been released...
Issue #32 is a direct spoof of Doctor Who, with Dr. Zoidberg as the Doctor. Also in one sequence of the comic, the "Deacons" were basically parodies of Daleks, which fire weapons out of their eyestalks at Fry, Leela, and Bender shouting "Excommunicate! Excommunicate!" (a parody of the Dalek's "Exterminate!" battle cry).Dalek Survival Guide (2002)
Dalek Survival Guide was a humorous book published by BBC BooksBBC Books
BBC Books is an imprint majority owned and managed by Random House. The minority shareholder is BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation...
and written by Justin Richards
Justin Richards
Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, including series set in Victorian or early-20th-century London, and also adventure stories set in the present day...
, Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks. Briggs sometimes uses the pseudonym Arthur Wallis...
(who provides voice acting for the Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s in the 2005 series), Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole (writer)
Stephen Cole is an author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing...
, Jacqueline Rayner
Jacqueline Rayner
Jacqueline Rayner is a best selling British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who....
and Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series Doctor Who and...
.
Parodying The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks
Worst-Case Scenario series
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht is a book published in 1999 by Chronicle Books. It was a highly popular title and spawned a series of related books, games, and a television show called Worst Case Scenarios...
, the Dalek Survival Guide gives wry hints such as how Daleks work, how to recognise different Dalek variants
Dalek variants
Since their first appearance in 1963 there have been a number of variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.Daleks are not robots...
, "How to survive enforced captivity with a Dalek" and "What to do if you see a Dalek".
This book became the subject of legal action due to copyright issues and is now a sought-after collectible due to being withdrawn from sale.
The TARDIS at Pooh Corner (2002)
Peter DavidPeter David
Peter Allen David , often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games...
's crossover fanfiction "The TARDIS at Pooh Corner" features Doctor Pooh, a Time Lord of very little brain. In his brief adventures he meets further characters from Winnie the Pooh and other franchises. It was originally published in a magazine, and republished on David's website in 2002.
Return of the Bunny SuicidesReturn of the Bunny SuicidesReturn of the Bunny Suicides is the second bestselling book of black comedy cartoons by Andy Riley that depict the various ways bunnies attempt to kill themselves.-Overview:...
(2004)
In this black comedy book by Andy Riley, one drawing features the Fourth DoctorFourth Doctor
The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....
escaping a Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
as he runs into the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
. On top of the TARDIS is a bunny with a slipknot tied round its neck in order to hang itself once the TARDIS has dematerialized.
The Areas of My ExpertiseThe Areas of My ExpertiseThe Areas of My Expertise is a satirical almanac by John Hodgman. It is written in the form of absurd historical stories, complex charts and graphs, and fake newspaper columns. Among its sections are a list of 700 different hobo names and complete descriptions of "all 51" US states...
(2005)
John Hodgman'sJohn Hodgman
John Kellogg Hodgman is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in...
book makes references to Doctor Who in several places. In the beginning, where (made up) literary themes
Theme (literature)
A theme is a broad, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and are almost always implied rather than stated explicitly. Along with plot, character,...
are being discussed, a still from The Wheel in Space
The Wheel in Space
The Wheel in Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 27 April to 1 June 1968...
is used to illustrate the theme of "Man vs. Cyborg
Man vs. Machine
Man vs. Machine is the 2002 album by rapper Xzibit. It was released on October 1, 2002 and is his fourth album to be released. Special guests include Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, M.O.P, and Nate Dogg. Producers on the album include Rick Rock, Bink, Rockwilder, Erick Sermon, DJ Premier, and Dr. Dre...
".
In a later section listing the names of hobo
Hobo
A hobo is a term which is often applied to a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniless. The term originated in the Western—probably Northwestern—United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike 'tramps', who work only when they are forced to, and 'bums', who do not...
s, one is "The Nine Doctor Whos". In the same section, a "Hobo Pictogram" is stated as meaning "A house that is bigger on the inside than the outside".
The BeanoThe BeanoThe Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
(2006)
Beginning in their 21 April issue, The Beano ran a three-part parody comic-within-a-comic by writer-artist Kev F Sutherland called "Hot-Rod Cow", about a superhero time-travelling talking cow. "Hot-Rod Cow" is the favourite comic of The Bash Street KidsThe Bash Street Kids
The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip featuring in the British comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and since then, it has...
character, Plug. The comic contained many in-jokes, for example Hot-Rod Cow wielded a "Sonic Moo-driver". The phrase "Hot-Rod Cow" is, like Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
, an anagram of the phrase "Doctor Who". The comic also spoofed classic comic covers such as Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy is an American comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics from 1961 through 1962, and revived in 1995 and in the 2000s. It is best known as the title that introduced the popular superhero character Spider-Man in 1962...
#15 (Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
's first appearance) as well as containing other superhero related jokes. Later, a Dalek won a fancy dress competition in a Les Pretend
Les Pretend
Lesley Presley Pretend is a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Originally drawn by John Sherwood, he first appeared in issue 2493, dated 28 April 1990. In each issue, Les pretends to be something and dresses up like it, beginning with a martian in his debut...
story, and another Dalek attacked the Bash Street Kids in BeanoMAX Issue 1 - the Doctor appeared in his TARDIS to take it away.
Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves (2006)
Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves (ISBN 978-0-575-07928-1) is a book by A. R. R. R. Roberts, author of The SodditThe Soddit
The Soddit or Let's Cash in Again is a 2003 parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, written by A.R.R.R. Roberts. The book jacket states: "Following on from the frankly unlikely success of Bored of the Rings comes a new book from an entirely different author that Tolkien's other masterpiece."The...
. It parodies Doctor Who and Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and...
by Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss
Lynne Truss is an English writer and journalist, best known for her popular book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.-Early life:...
. The book is subtitled "E. T. shoots and leaves: The zero-tolerance approach to parodication".
It briefly mentions the Daleks ("Garleks"), the Cybermen ("Cydermen"), and the Master ("The Master Debater"); another aspect of this book is how it mentions a philosophy by which parody is evolution, and those who are against parody are against evolution and thus the very basis of life - this turns out to be the keystone of the book.
Under Torch Wood (2006)
Satirical technology columnist Verity StobVerity Stob
Verity Stob is the pseudonym of a British satirical columnist. Stob is an anonymous software developer, the author of humorous and satirical articles about information technology, particularly software development. Since 1988, she has written her "Verity Stob" column for .EXE magazine, Dr. Dobb's...
wrote a parody of Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
in the style of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...
's radio play Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, adapted later as a stage play. A movie version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released during 1972....
. This parody described Captain Jack Harkness
Jack Harkness
Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. He first appeared in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and reappeared in the remaining episodes of the 2005 series as a companion of the ninth incarnation of the...
as "the insomniac bicon; snug as a hobbit, pretty as a choirboy, immortal as carbon dioxide, wooden as a horse" and included a café sign reading "Llanfairfach giant maggots, fresh in today! Organic? Of course!" (a reference to The Green Death
The Green Death
The Green Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in six weekly parts from 19 May 1973 to 23 June 1973. It was the last to feature Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant in Doctor Who...
).
Ctrl+Alt+DelCtrl+Alt+Del (webcomic)Ctrl+Alt+Del is a gaming-related webcomic and animated series written by Tim Buckley. The name of the comic refers to the Windows command Control-Alt-Delete. Premiering on October 23, 2002, the comic's focus has gradually shifted away from single strip gags towards longer story arcs and greater...
(2010)
Published on 2 July 2010, the online gaming-related webcomicWebcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
published a comic based on the rumors about the possibility of an American Doctor Who film. The one frame comic has the Doctor played by Jason Statham
Jason Statham
Jason Statham born 12 September1967) is an English actor and former diver, known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...
holding a gun and hanging outside the TARDIS on a speed chase with guns and rockets firing at it.
Bottom Live: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour (2003)
In the final stage show based on the comedy show Bottom written by Rik MayallRik Mayall
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall is an English comedian, writer, and actor. He is known for his comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s...
and Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson is an English comedian. He is probably best known for his comedic roles in the television series The Young Ones and Bottom , for which he also wrote together with his long-time collaboration partner Rik Mayall.-Early life:Edmondson, the second of four children, was...
, Richie is concerned about Eddie, whom he hasn't seen for weeks. As it turns out, Eddie has been busy with his latest invention: a time travelling toilet which he names the Turdis. The ship's dematerialisation noise consists of the original TARDIS sound effect with the noise of flatulence and flushing toilets mixed in, and it can only be recharged when someone masturbates inside it.
Chuckle Brothers (2006)
In 2006 the Chuckle BrothersChuckle Brothers
Barry Elliott and Paul Elliott , better known as the Chuckle Brothers, are British comedians. They are best known for their work on their BBC show ChuckleVision, which celebrated its 21st anniversary in March 2010 with a tour called An Audience with the Chuckle Brothers, which started in January...
, a British comedy duo, toured the UK with their show Doctor What and the Return of the Garlics. Russell T Davies, the showrunner of the new Doctor Who series, wrote three episodes of the duo's long-running Children's BBC television series ChuckleVision
ChuckleVision
ChuckleVision is a popular British television series shown mainly on CBBC. New episodes are always first aired on BBC One, and occasionally episodes are shown on BBC Two. The first episode was shown on 26 September 1987. It follows the adventures of the Chuckle Brothers & the Patton Brothers, who...
in 1992.
I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek (1964)
Perhaps one of the first parodies from Doctor Who was a song released the first Christmas after The DaleksThe Daleks
The Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964...
was initially broadcast. The British Go-Go's
The Go-Go's (1960s)
The Go-Go's were a British group from Newcastle. The group is known for their 1964 novelty Christmas single, "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek"....
best-selling Christmas novelty single tried to turn the sinister Dalek
Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals...
s into another version of The Chipmunks
The Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
, and was originally released as one of the many products fueling Dalekmania.
However, as that craze fizzled out the song was largely forgotten, with snippets occasionally appearing in Doctor Who anthological products. It finally resurfaced in its entirety on the October 2000 album, Who is Doctor Who.
Doctorin' the Tardis (1988)
"Doctorin' the Tardis" is a electronic novelty pop single by The TimelordsThe KLF
The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF). The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme music, Gary Glitter's
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s...
"Rock and Roll (Part Two)" with sections from "Blockbuster!" by Sweet
Sweet (band)
Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...
and "Let's Get Together Tonite" by Steve Walsh
Steve Walsh (musician)
Steve Walsh is a singer and songwriter best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock band Kansas.-Introduction:The keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter/producer/percussionist is best known for his visionary work with Kansas...
. The single was panned by critics but became a commercial success, reaching number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and charting in the Top 10 in Australia and Norway. The song was also mashed-up with Green Day's
Green Day
Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
Holiday
Holiday (Green Day song)
7" picture discVinyl Boxset* Live tracks recorded September 21, 2004 at Irving Plaza, New York-Music video:The first half of the video takes place in a car , where Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are partying around the town...
for the album American Edit
American Edit
American Edit is a mashup album released by Party Ben and Team9 under the shared alias Dean Gray. Its primary basis is the Green Day album American Idiot — the name "Dean Gray" is a spoonerism of "Green Day." If the name "Dean Gray" had been spelled as "Dean Grey," it would have been an anagram of...
.
Earthshock, Part Five (2003)
A spoof "episode" included in the Special Features section of the DVD release of EarthshockEarthshock
Earthshock is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 8 March to 16 March 1982...
, rendered in claymation and computer animation
Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....
. It shows Adric
Adric
Adric is a fictional character played by Matthew Waterhouse in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was a young native of the planet Alzarius, which exists in the parallel universe of E-Space. A companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, he was a regular in the...
and the head of a Cyberman
Cyberman
The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more...
surviving the crash of the freighter into Cretaceous
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...
Earth, only for Adric to be eaten by a dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
. The Cyberman head commenting by saying "Excellent!".
Global Conspiracy (2003)
This short reality-style documentary involves Mark GatissMark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock....
as the reporter for an
investigation show, reporting on the weird happenings at Llanfairfach, the location of
the incidents occurring in The Green Death
The Green Death
The Green Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in six weekly parts from 19 May 1973 to 23 June 1973. It was the last to feature Katy Manning as companion Jo Grant in Doctor Who...
. Mark talks to a variety of people, including the actors who played Professor Jones and Stevens, and the son of Stevens' assistant.
Oh Mummy (2004)
A mockumentary looking about the villain Sutekh and what his career after Pyramids of MarsPyramids of Mars
Pyramids of Mars is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 25 October to 15 November 1975.-Synopsis:...
. Features the voice of Gabriel Woolf
Gabriel Woolf
Gabriel Woolf is an English film and television actor.-Career:His roles include Sir Percival in the 1953 film,Knights of the Round Table and Sutekh in the 1975 Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars....
reprising his role as Sutekh and was featured with the 2004 DVD release of Pyramids of Mars.
Eye on ... Blatchford (2005)
A mockumentary about Sardoth who's the Second-to-Last of the Jagaroth who is trying to live in a small community. Featured with the 2005 DVD release of City of DeathCity of Death
-Pre-production:Writer David Fisher had contributed two scripts to Doctor Whos sixteenth season – The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara – and was asked by producer Graham Williams for further story ideas...
.
External links
- TV Ark page on Doctor Who spoof sketches
- Official Dead Ringers site, including some streaming clips of Doctor Who parody
- Stewie from Family Guy is Doctor Stew...!