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| Archer | In Series 5 episode 4 (House Call) of Archer, Sterling Archer refers to the British currency as 'Doctor Who' money. | |
| The Avengers | Dalek toys are seen in a department store in the episode "Death at Bargain Prices". The series, like Doctor Who, was created by Sydney Newman, although broadcast on the rival ITV network. | |
| Better Off Ted | In the episode, “The Great Repression”, a deactivated Dalek is spotted in the sub-basement where the supposed "Robot Farm" is located. | [5] |
| The Catherine Tate Show | Tennant starred opposite Catherine Tate’s Lauren Cooper in a 2007 special as her teacher Mr. Logan. Cooper teases Mr. Logan for his resemblance to "Doctor Who"; eventually, he reveals himself as the Doctor, and uses his sonic screwdriver to shrink Cooper into a 5" Rose Tyler action figure. | |
| Chelmsford 123 | In the first episode, "Arrivederci Roma", the TARDIS and a scarf-wearing, silhouetted figure appear briefly in the background as Aulus Paulinus travels through Britain. | |
| Community | In the season 3 episode "Biology 101", Britta introduces Abed to the long-running British sci-fi show "Inspector Spacetime", a spoof on Doctor Who, after he suffers a nervous breakdown from running out of episodes of the real life series Cougar Town. Since then, Inspector Spacetime is often referenced throughout the duration of the series, namely in the episode "Conventions of Space and Time", where Abed and the study group attend an Inspector Spacetime convention and meet various actors and super-fans of the series, including one played by Matt Lucas, who would later play Nardole in the series. | |
| Coupling | The series was notable for its references to Doctor Who as Steven Moffat, (who would later write and produce episodes for Doctor Who) was an avid fan of the show. In one notable episode, a Dalek appears, voiced by Nicholas Briggs, who would also later go on to provide Dalek voices for the revived series. | [6] [7] [8] |
| | In the season 4 episode, "Time's Up", a dying man confesses to a murder 24 hours before it happens. While detectives investigate, they find a body in what is supposedly a time machine, and one of them comments "Paging Doctor Who". |
| Derry Girls | In Series 2 Episode 5, "The Prom", James drops out of going to the school prom (the show is set in the 1990s, only a few years after the original series ended) in favour of a Doctor Who night (he and his stepfather used to watch the classic series when he was a child), or a "creep convention", as dubbed by his cousin Michelle, who thinks that it is considered a definition for "a load of perverts getting together to wank over some fella who fights hoovers and rides aliens in a telephone box". Later, when Erin is stood up by her original date, James decides to go with her, wearing a tuxedo and the same multicoloured scarf as the Fourth Doctor. | |
| Doctors | Sylvester McCoy made a guest appearance in an episode of the ninth series, as a retired actor, Graham Capelli, who played a time traveller in a television show called The Lollipop Man, where he could travel through time with his traffic lollipop stick. | |
| Dracula | In the series premiere, "The Rules of the Beast", after Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to pursue Dracula, he receives a letter from his fiancée Mina, which mentions an “adorable barmaid” working at The Rose and Crown. This is likely a reference to "The Snowmen", in which the character Clara Oswin Oswald was a barmaid at The Rose and Crown. The series was created by former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and writer Mark Gatiss. |
| Family Guy | - The Star Wars Episode IV spoof "Blue Harvest" (2007) used footage from the Tom Baker-era opening credits in the scene to represent the Millennium Falcon entering hyperspace.
- In the episode “420”, Brian states that ratings for Doctor Who have gone up since he legalized marijuana.
- In the episode, “Welcome Back, Carter”, Peter mentions he has an Owl named Doctor Who.
- David Tennant reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor in the episode “Inside Family Guy”, which shows the Griffins watching Doctor Who Farted, a fictional episode where the Tenth Doctor tries to fan out a fart he did in the TARDIS.
- In the episode "Meg Stinks" (2014), Peter loses his hand and says he can regenerate, regrowing his hand similar to The Tenth Doctor in "The Christmas Invasion". Then, the disarmed hand regrows into Retep, another version of Peter, a la "Journey's End".
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| Futurama | - The character of Turanga Leela gets her last name from the companion of the same name.
- The Fourth Doctor makes cameos throughout the series, such as the episode “Möbius Dick”, where he emerges from the stomach of a space whale; he is also briefly seen in “All the Presidents' Heads”, returning to his TARDIS in an alternate timeline where the American Revolution had only been a Colonial Dust-Up.
- In "Assie Come Home", a deactivated Dalek is seen among many robot parts.
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| Heartbeat | The episode "State of Mind" contains a subplot in which David Stockwell deals with a police box he claims won't stop disappearing. | |
| Holby City | In the episode, "How Drew You Do", John Barrowman and Jo Martin share a scene as their characters Drew Nicholson-Heath and Max McGerry, with the former giving a salute to McGerry and sarcastically saying "Doctor," referencing Martin's performance as The Doctor and Barrowman's role as Jack Harkness (both of them appeared in "Fugitive of the Judoon" but did not share a scene). | [9] |
| I'm Alan Partridge | In a 2002 episode, Alan recalls how his purchase of the rights to K9 contributed to a mental breakdown, with him driving to Dundee barefoot while gorging on Toblerone. | |
| The Daleks appear in scenes where series lead Ritchie Tozer (Olly Alexander) is cast in a fictional Doctor Who story called Regression of the Daleks. The series was written by Russell T Davies, who served as the showrunner for the first 4 series and series 14 onward. | [10] |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | In a 2010 episode, a Dalek was a “guest” on the show sitting off to the side and keeping a watchful eye on Ferguson. It never spoke, but occasionally moved around. This was a lead-up to having Matt Smith as a real guest on the show. | |
| Legends of Tomorrow | In the episode, "Necromancing the Stone", while referencing their need to locate "a spaceship floating through a temporal stream" Constantine states that "[his] business card says, Master of the Dark Arts, not Doctor Ruddy Whats-His-Face." To which both of the people he is addressing say, "Who?" and he replies, "Exactly." | |
| Milo Murphy's Law | A recurring gag in the show is Doctor Zone, a show-within-a-show which heavily parodies Doctor Who. | |
| Mr. Bean | In the episode "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", Mr. Bean plays with a toy Dalek in the nativity set inside the store. | |
| NCIS | In the episode, "Power Down", McGee compares the unexpectedly spacious interior of a cargo container to the TARDIS, after he explains the meaning to DiNozzo, he asks, “Doctor Who – who watches that?" | |
| Neighbours | The character of Mark Brennan is known to be a massive Doctor Who fan and makes many references to it over the years. When Mark went into witness protection, he used the name Matt Smith after the actor that played The Eleventh Doctor. The actor who plays Mark admitted to have no interest in the show. A miniature TARDIS model was seen in the house of Sheila Canning for years after Zeke Kinski had given it as a gift to Mark. The character of Ed Lee was also once spotted with Dalek clothing. The references were included because the fact that writer and producer, and also Doctor Who fan Pete McTighe, was involved with a lot of Neighbours episodes during that time, and he later went on to write a few episodes of Doctor Who. | |
| The Orville | In the episode "New Dimensions", while stuck in a two-dimensional space, LaMarr proposes they create a "quantum bubble" allowing the Orville to preserve its three-dimensional space, to which Ed Mercer compares to the TARDIS. | |
| Phineas and Ferb | The show made several references to Doctor Who, one example being in “Mission Marvel”, which featured a dimensionally transcendental room which, according to Ferb, was made possible by "a little British sci-fi technology". | |
| Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | In the episode, “Green Courage“, an on-screen note claimed that a meteoroid field just collided with a planet located at "ten zero eleven zero zero, by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborous. In Pyramids of Mars, these coordinates are given as the location of Gallifrey. | |
| Queen of Oz | In the episode "There's a New Queen in Town", when Catherine Tate's character Queen Georgiana is told by her P.A. about the time difference in Australia, moving her speech to tonight instead of the next day, she asks if he's a "fucking Time Lord now" who "just got back from the planet of the tiny doll hands". In the episode "Royal Tinder", Daniel Lapaine's character says, "Well, isn't this wizard?", a nod to a phrase first said by Tate's character Donna Noble and then later repeated by the Meta-Crisis Doctor in the fourth series of Doctor Who. | |
| Queer as Folk | Created by Russell T. Davies, Queer as Folk has the character Vince Tyler, a fan of Doctor Who, who makes numerous references to the show, such as:- In episode 1, Vince has a Dalek toy in his fish tank. He watches the cliffhanger to episode one of Pyramids of Mars.
- In episode 2, Vince is at a pub with coworkers. One makes references to Star Trek while Rosaline says she did watch Coronation Street instead of Doctor Who.
- In episode 3, Vince says Mickey Blake got him episode three of Planet of the Daleks in colour and can get him episode four of The Tenth Planet.
- In episode 5, Vince and a man he brings home for a one-night stand end up watching his Genesis of the Daleks tapes. In the same episode, Cameron comments on "the one with the shop dummies" and "that one with the maggots". He said the show scared him as a kid.
- In episode 7, Vince receives a replica of K9 for his birthday. (When asked where he got K9, Davies confirmed, "It was the original K9 from the BBC!")
- In episode 8, Vince ends up breaking up with Cameron when he can't list "all the Doctor Whos". Stuart, Vince's long-time friend, can list all 7 actors in order, even remembering that, according to Vince, "Paul McGann doesn't count."
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| Regular Show | In the episode, "Terror Tales of the Park V", Pops dresses as the Fourth Doctor for Halloween. | |
| Rick and Morty | "Heavily inspired" by Doctor Who, Rick and Morty uses various references and similarities from the series in multiple episodes. | |
| Robot Chicken | One short skit in Season 2, entitled "Do You Get It?" (2006), featured the Fourth Doctor standing on first base in the middle of a baseball field, asking the audience "Do you get it?" The joke being (Doctor) Who's on first (base). | |
| Rugrats | In the season 2 episode "Toy Palace", pink Dalek toys can be seen on the store shelves. The show's animator, Gábor Csupó, featured the reference as he is a fan of Doctor Who. | |
| Sesame Street | In the 2014 episode "Numeric Con", one of the characters is dressed up as the Fourth Doctor with the TARDIS appearing, two Cybermen and two Dalek-like Aliens saying "Enumerate". | |
| Shaun the Sheep | In the episode “Party Animals”, one of the sheep is dressed as a crude version of a Dalek trying to get up some stairs but failing because of the suit. | |
| Sherlock | In the Series 4 episode, "The Lying Detective", a postcard with the Torchwood logo can be seen on the mantelpiece where Sherlock keeps the “things he can’t figure out”. | |
| The Simpsons | - In “Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming” the Fourth Doctor appears as one of the representatives of television.
- In "Mayored to the Mob", the Fourth Doctor is one of several guests seen attending a local sci-fi convention.
- In "Treehouse of Horror X", the Fourth Doctor is one of several pop culture figures seen stored in aluminized PET film bags within the Collector's lair.
- In the episode, "Co-Dependents' Day", two Daleks are seen in the Galactic Senate from the in-universe science-fiction film Cosmic Wars: The Gathering Shadow (a reference to ).
- In "My Big Fat Geek Wedding", a man dressed as the Fourth Doctor can be seen at Comic-Con.
- In "Springfield Up", Homer calls Declan Desmond "Dr. Who", stating "Check with me in 8 years, Doctor Who, I'll be kicking your ass with a golden boot!".
- In "The Day the Earth Stood Cool," an outline of a Dalek can be seen on the bottom drawer of T-Rex's dresser when Bart discovers his action figures.
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| South Park | The episode entitled "Funnybot" featured a new character, "Funnybot". Funnybot was designed by the Germans to prove that they were a funny people, after what the students of South Park Elementary had to say about them. Funnybot was obviously based on the Daleks, albeit with Gatling guns in lieu of a death ray, even shouting "Exterminate!" at one point. | |
| In the episode, “The Neutral Zone”, the names of the first six Doctor actors (William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison (incorrectly spelled as “Davidson”), and Colin Baker are seen on a screen. These names were replaced in the remastered Blu-ray version. | |
| Supernatural | In the episode, "Nightshifter", a character is convinced that a "mandroid" is responsible for several crimes and holds up a magazine with a Cyberman on its cover to illustrate his point. In the episode "The Girl Next Door", Sam confronts a Kitsune using the alias "Amy Pond". | |
| Top Gear | A Dalek, the Sixth Doctor, and a Cyberman appeared alongside Darth Vader, Ming the Merciless, and a Klingon, in a 2003 episode, to see who was "Master of the Universe" with a lap around their test track in a racing modified Honda Civic. The Dalek could not get into the car, so it exterminated the other drivers (with the exception of the Klingon and the Doctor; who had apparently fled beforehand as they were not present); the Cyberman was eventually declared the winner by the hosts. | |
| Vision On | The Daleks appear in an episode performing a short ballet sequence to the music of Manuel de Falla's "Ritual Fire Dance". | [11] |
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| | During the "Turnabout Serenade" case, if you examine the top hat in the Wright Anything Agency on the 2nd day, Trucy Wright states that her hat is "like a little universe! Bigger on the inside than on the outside | " Apollo muses that this reminds him of a sci-fi show he used to watch. | [12] |
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| Beneath a Steel Sky | When the welding robot body is placed onto Joey and when talked to, he'll say "EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE | " mimicking the Daleks. | [13] |
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| Borderlands 2 | After blowing up the dam in the side mission "Hell Hath No Fury", Handsome Jack will read a list of names of the week's construction casualties which are Hartnell, W. Troughton, P. Pertwee, J. Baker, T. These are references to the actors William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker; respectively, who had played the role of the Doctor. | [14] |
| The player can travel to a version of London called Albion, where the appearance of the extraterrestrial main character, Crypto, causes its citizens to scream phrases like, “Someone call The Doctor!” or “Where the hell’s the bleedin’ TARDIS?". | |
| EverQuest | A non-player character named Tavid Dennant, a reference to actor David Tennant who played the Tenth Doctor, can be found in the Guild Hall, who was previously named Flavin Deepockets until the release of the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction. When talking to him, he will ask the player to find his long colorful scarf, a reference to the Fourth Doctor's scarf, and also claims to have a watch which he cannot recall where he got it but believes it is a part of him, a possible reference to the chameleon arch fob from the episode "Human Nature". | [15] |
| Fallout | One of the random encounters the player may come across features the TARDIS from the series. Upon approaching it, it will disappear. | [16] |
| Fallout 2 | The Navarro base has a damaged robot dog known as K9, with speech patterns similar to the Doctor Who character. When repaired, K9 is willing to join the character's party as a companion. | |
| - Two Weeping Angels can be found in the game. The first can be found outside the Hall of Doom, and the second can be found in a cave during the level, "Jailhouse Nok". Every time the camera moves away from them, its hands move away from its face and back again.
- When on the Moon, a double decker bus can be seen in a crater, a reference to the episode, Planet of the Dead.
- In the level, "Space Suits You, Sir", there is a shadowy area, that when Illuminated, reveals 3 small planets, which once destroyed, can be rebuilt into a red London police box that quickly disappears, referencing the TARDIS.
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| Lego Marvel Super Heroes | When travelling to Asgard during the level, "Bifrosty Reception", the player goes through a portal similar to the time vortex from 2005 to 2007. | |
| The exit for the "Shadow Tribe" level is resembles the TARDIS. | |
| Life is Strange | There are several references to Doctor Who. Amelia Pond is the name of a server on a receipt for the dry cleaners. Max sees an owl and calls it Doctor Hoo. They mention it in conversation about time-travel as well and the TARDIS appears as a email account icon. Doctor Who appears in a list of pirated media that Warren has on his USB stick. River S and Rory W are also shown on a card. Warrens signs off emails and texts as 'The Doctor'. | |
| Pokémon Platinum | The character Looker is a reference to the Tenth Doctor. He features almost the same attire as the Tenth and refuses to reveal his true name similar to the Doctor. In the game, his goal is stop Team Galactic from taking over the universe. | [18] |
| RuneScape | In the town of Burgh de Rott, two characters named Rory and Amelia can be found, references to Rory Williams and Amy Pond; respectively. If the player claims to be the hero in their stories, they will accuse the player of lying and state that the player character is not wearing a "cool bow tie" like their hero. During the Ratcatchers Quest the player's cat screams "Exterminate! Exterminate
| " referencing the Daleks. | [19] |
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| The Secret World | In "The City Before Us" mission involving time travel, Saïd, an ancient mommy speaking in a very old unknown language refers to the name "Tardis" when inviting the character to enter the stone room that will transport the character in Ancient Egypt. | |
| When all sandwiches are collected in a level, a blue phone box with a flashing blue light will arrive to take Taz to a bonus challenge. Inside the box also have the classic TARDIS interior. | [20] |
| Team Fortress 2 | The bow tie item "Dr. Whoa" is a reference to the show and in particular the Eleventh Doctor who was synonymous with bow ties. | [21] |
| Terraria | A wearable vanity set exists made up of The Doctor's Shirt and The Doctor's Pants, styled after the Eleventh Doctor. The Fez item also contains the tooltip 'Fezzes are cool', a reference to the Eleventh Doctor's description of fezzes in The Big Bang. The Wizard NPC will sometimes say 'I once tried to bring an Angel Statue to life. It didn't do anything.', a reference to Weeping Angels. | |
| To the Moon | The TARDIS is mentioned by Dr. Watts, as being able to lift a piano. | |
| The DedSec underground base in London has a TARDIS in it covered in photos and graffiti. | |
| Outside the church near Lindenvale, there are two angel statues that when you turn away will have moved from where they were standing, a reference to the Weeping Angels. | [22] | |
