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61 unusual facts about Doctor Who


2013 in Scottish television

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

2058

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

3325 TARDIS

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

Alistair Appleton

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

Ambassador Magma

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

Anthony Read

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

Audio signal processing

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

AudioGO

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

Dickie Burnell

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

Doctor Who: A Celebration

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

Doctor Who: Children in Need

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

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 3

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

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 5

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

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

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 6

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

Doctor Who: Podshock

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

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

Doctor Who: Return to Earth

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

Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time

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

Doctor Who: The Music

Dick Mills is credited with "special sound" on tracks 3 - 18

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

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

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

Doctor Who: Worlds in Time

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

Doctor's Daughter

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

Don't Mug Yourself

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

Eighth Doctor comic stories

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

Elizabeth Shaw

Liz Shaw, fictional character from the television series Doctor Who

Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan

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

Glen McCoy

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

Group captain

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

Happy number

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

Hedingham Omnibuses

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

High Wizardry

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

Hound Tor

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

Javier Calvo

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

Lee Binding

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

Martin Slavin

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

Michael Pertwee

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

Mirador del Río

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

Nant Ffrancon Pass

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

Ninth Doctor comic stories

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

No Man's Land Fort

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

Oljato–Monument Valley, Utah

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

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Seventh Doctor comic stories

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

Shaun Ley

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

Shaun Sutton

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

Sixth Doctor comic stories

The Sixth Doctor comic stories is a range of off-screen adventures featuring the sixth incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sci-fi series Doctor Who.

Spitting Games

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

Stephen Wyatt

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

Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet

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

The Dead Line

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

The House Between

The House Between has been compared to Doctor Who in its early black and white days, by radio host Howard Margolin on Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction.

The Stones of Venice

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

Titus Crow

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

Trogir

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

Watford DC Line

This power station was used for both internal and external scenes in an early episode of the BBC series Doctor Who in which the building can be seen substantially as it was at the time of closure but after the wooden cooling towers had been removed.

White Darkness

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

Wise old man

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


1993 in Australian television

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

Bindya Solanki

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

Bruno Langley

Since leaving Coronation Street, he has played roles such as the part of Adam Mitchell in the 2005 series of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper, appearing in two episodes, "Dalek" and "The Long Game", and provided an audio commentary for the DVD of these episodes.

Button Moon

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

Daniel Blythe

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

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

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

Donald Sumpter

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

Emotional Chemistry

Emotional Chemistry is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Ernie Vincze

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

Fallen Gods

Fallen Gods is an original novella written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Flannan Isle

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

Gerald Flood

Perhaps Flood's best known work, was in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who as the voice of the robot companion Kamelion in two serials — The King's Demons and Planet of Fire as well as a brief scene in the regeneration between Peter Davison's to Colin Baker's Doctor.

Glynneath

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

Hamish Wilson

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

I am a Dalek

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

John Baskcomb

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

Joseph Furst

Furst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace.

Leena Dhingra

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

Leslie Schofield

Other sci-fi appearances include two Doctor Who stories, The War Games (1969) and The Face of Evil (1977), and as prison ship officer Raiker in the Blake's 7 episode "Spacefall" (1978).

Martin Stenersen

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

Michael Kilgarriff

He also appeared in the series as an Ogron (1973) and as the eponymous K1 Robot in the story Robot in 1974.

Nick Tilsley

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

Penny Broadhurst

The title is the French for "Let's go!", which reflects the tone of the EP and is also a common utterance by the Tenth Doctor as played by David Tennant in Doctor Who.

Philip McGough

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

Planet of the Spiders

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

Rawdon, West Yorkshire

Frazer Hines ex Doctor Who actor, and ex-Emmerdale star, used to live in the Little London area of Rawdon.

Richard Jeperson

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

Robert Banks Stewart

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

Robert Taylor incident

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

Secret Histories

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

The Companions of Doctor Who

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

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

The Dead Men Diaries

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

The Deviant Strain

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

The Story of Martha

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

The Unquiet Dead

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

Titan Entertainment Group

The newest division of TEG, Titan Merchandise produces high-quality licensed merchandise for global properties, including Marvel Comics, Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, and Hammer Horror.

Valentino Musetti

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

Warriors' Gate

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

Yorkshire pudding

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