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56 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.

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.

Cloford Quarry

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

Courtney Pine

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

Dick Mills

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

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

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

Doctor Who: A Celebration

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

Doctor Who: Children in Need

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

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 3

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

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 5

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

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.

Just like the other four albums preceding it, the soundtrack’s vocal numbers were largely performed by Melanie Pappenheim, Yamit Mamo and Dorie Jackson, while the fully orchestral pieces were performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Doctor Who: Podshock

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

Doctor Who: The Music

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

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".

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

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.

Ernie Vincze

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

First Doctor comic stories

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

Fourth Doctor comic strips

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

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.

Group captain

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

Happy number

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

Harry Wheatcroft

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

High Holborn

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

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.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

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

Legend Films

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

Martin Stenersen

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

Mirador del Río

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

Nant Ffrancon Pass

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

Ninth Doctor comic stories

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

Norse funeral

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

Penllyn Castle

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

Physician, heal thyself

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

Recap sequence

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

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.

Telluric current

Telluric currents are also used as a means of travel by the woman Hsien-Ko and her minions in the Doctor Who "Missing Adventures" novel, The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, by David A McIntee.

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

Third Doctor comic stories

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

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).

Yellow Peril

A 1977 Doctor Who serial, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, builds a science fiction plot upon another loose Fu Manchu pastiche.

Z with stroke

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


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.

Alf Joint

On television he appeared in Doctor Who, Dick Turpin, Return to Treasure Island, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Space: 1999, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (for which he plunged 430ft into the Reichenbach Falls doubling for Eric Porter) and London's Burning.

Barry Tourist Railway

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

Bindya Solanki

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

Bristol VR

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

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.

Camille Coduri

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

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: The Eternity Clock

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

Doctor Who: The Music

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

Donald Sumpter

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

Elizabeth Shaw

Liz Shaw, fictional character from the television series Doctor Who

Face of Boe

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

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.

Fifth Doctor comic stories

The Fifth Doctor comic stories is a collection of the offscreen adventures of the fifth incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi 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.

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.

Jeremy Silberston

During the 1980s he was Production Manager of the Nanny Series 1 (1980), Smiley's People (mini TV Series) (1982), Doctor Who The Five Doctors (1983), My Cousin Rachel (mini TV Series) (1983), Bleak House (mini TV Series) (1985), two episodes of EastEnders (1986) and two episodes of Casualty (1988-1989).

John Abineri

His extensive television performances included a regular role in Survivors (as Hubert Goss) and four performances on Doctor Who - in Fury from the Deep, Death to the Daleks, The Power of Kroll, and, most notably, as the misguided General Carrington in The Ambassadors of Death.

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).

Learners

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

Leena Dhingra

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

Lennie Mayne

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

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).

MacCrimmon

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

Martin Slavin

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

Michael Kilgarriff

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

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.

Peter Birrel

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

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 Jewell

Robert Jewell (1920 – 10 May 1998) was an Australian actor who mostly worked as a Dalek or other robot operator on Doctor Who in the late 1960s, also playing a cameo as Bing Crosby in the serial The Daleks' Master Plan.

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.

Sheila Ruskin

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

The Deviant Strain

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

The Taking of Planet 5

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

The Two Jasons

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

The Unquiet Dead

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

Tim Preece

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

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.

Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud

Maupertuis had already appeared as a character in Lane's Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, All-Consuming Fire.