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Post by matthewsee on Dec 15, 2021 8:40:03 GMT -5
TV WEEK (Australia) of December 4-10 2021 has a special feature with The Best of British on BritBox. This includes The Doctor Who Collection: "From the moment Doctor Who first appeared in the 1960s we've been fascinated by his (and then her) adventures. Jumping through time and space, The Doctor has stepped in to save humanity from any number of enemies and disasters. And now, with BritBox assembling the largest collection of Doctor Who episodes in the galaxy - featuring all 13 Doctors, from the black-and-white classics of the 1960s through the one-off films to the present - it's the perfect opportunity to travel back in time and relive it all."
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 1, 2022 8:42:24 GMT -5
In the final episode of A Vintage Year for Scoundrels, the first volume of Big Finish remake of Adam Adamant Lives!, Georgina Jones Dies! is that it included music that was played on the radio performed by John Smith and the Common Men. What curious about this is that it is a fictional band and it first came to audiences in the very first episode of Doctor Who in 1963. So does this mean the Big Finish remake of Adam Adamant Lives! is set in the Whoniverse.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 23, 2022 1:22:01 GMT -5
Saw my wife Karen in A Little Late with Lilly Singh which came on February 25 2020. Singh uploaded three videos of this on Youtube which together comprises nearly all of Karen's appearance on the show and one of which has some Amy Ponds turning up at 3.03: Karen Gillan Apologizes to Tom Holland for Lighting Spider-man on Fire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=26k8Zmktm_0
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 28, 2022 13:43:30 GMT -5
Legends of Tomorrow 7.10 is called The Fixed Point. No doubt The Fixed Point is something got taken from fellow time travel series Doctor Who as the Doctor often says what he considers as a fixed point in time. This episode title is a twofold reference that of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which sparked World War I and the name of a bar that exists in another realm of reality.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 3, 2022 4:57:49 GMT -5
Taskmaster season 9 opener Join Our Cult from 2019 included a strange rendition of the Doctor Who theme and the materialisation of the red telephone box as it got styled as a red TARDIS and came out contestant David Baddiel dressed as the Thirteenth Doctor!
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 7, 2022 10:54:34 GMT -5
I was looking through TV WEEK (Australia) of February 12-18 2022 when to my surprise I found included in its regular Out Now - The Best of Entertainment feature that of the Doctor Who book The Ruby's Curse by Alex Kingston. Along stating the recommended retail price of $19.99 (Australian) it provides this description: "Can't get enough Doctor Who drama? In The Ruby's Curse, realities and alter-egos collide on a new mission that traverses time and worlds. In 1939 New York, private eye Melody Malone is hired to find The Eye Of The Horus, a stolen ruby that holds the secret location of Cleopatra's tomb. In another reality, River Song - the author of the Melody Malone series - is hired to find the same gem. Suddenly, River is teaming up with the very character she created." This is the first time that I have seen a Doctor Who book included as a piece in TV WEEK.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 15, 2022 17:11:45 GMT -5
The animated movie Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019) had Donnie telling Batgirl that his user handle is "Bo staffs are cool". A possible reference to "Bow ties are cool" from Doctor Who, perhaps.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 19, 2022 4:06:02 GMT -5
The penultimate of Call The Midwife season 11 saw Doctor Who turned up on the TV showing the title sequence. This marks Doctor Who’s return to Call The Midwife as Doctor Who on television has previously been featured in 8.3. In 8.3 it was an episode of The Aztecs on the TV but for this episode 11.7 it is not known what episode came on as all is shown is the title sequence. 8.3 had Sister Monica Joan becoming an instant Doctor Who fan so it was no surprise that she is watching Doctor Who here in 11.7. Also watching Doctor Who are a couple of kids while the Doctor Who theme is briefly heard when Shelagh has a talk with Timmy.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 5, 2022 6:02:06 GMT -5
The Rookie 4.4 Red Hot had cops John Nolan (Nathan Fillion), Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil) and Tom Bradford (Eric Winter) getting into a house for an investigation and Nolan in remarking on the strange atmosphere of this house says that it feels smaller on the inside. Tim then follows this up by saying like a reverse TARDIS. Tim then gets a look from Lucy when he said that. and says that he does not only watch sports!
Incidentally among Winter's past work was that of Viva Laughin the American remake of Blackpool and his character's counterpart in Blackpool was played by none other than David Tennant.
Also in The Rookie episode is that of a Faraday cage.
The Faraday cage is a real thing and had been seen in Doctor Who in Under The Lake/Before The Flood.
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Post by matthewsee on May 17, 2022 2:10:59 GMT -5
TV WEEK (Australia) of May 21-27 2022 mentioned Doctor Who in two of its features.
The first is with the Steven Moffat adaption of The Time Traveler's Wife which is on Binge and refer to Moffat as Doctor Who writer.
The other feature is for Couch Confidential with questions asked to Ryan "Brickman" McNaught from Lego Masters.
The penultimate of these questions was: "If I could have one item from any TV character, I'd like:" and the answer is: "Dr Who's [sic] TARDIS".
Accordingly to this response it has a publicity photo of Matt Smith as the Doctor by the TARDIS with the caption: "Ryan covets Dr Who's (Matt Smith) TARDIS..."
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Post by matthewsee on May 30, 2022 2:21:43 GMT -5
Saw the Thundercats episode Dr Dometone. On being introduced to the said Dr Dometone (Bob McFadden), Lion-O's (Larry Kenney) reaction to this name was "Doctor Who?" This came on October 7 1985 and it may or may not be intended to be a reference to Doctor Who.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 7, 2022 9:35:38 GMT -5
I listened concurrently to two episodes of the Grindbin podcast which talks about Grindhouse and exploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s.
The two episodes I had listened to was about the movie Malibu Express (1985) and the Freddy's Nightmares TV series episode The Bride Wore Red and they came out on April 28 2021 and February 10 2022 respectively.
Given these two episodes came out almost 9 1/2 months apart they both coincidentally has someone mentioning Doctor Who with someone saying that it was like something out of old Doctor Who with what they are seeing!
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 23, 2022 13:08:49 GMT -5
Saw the first episode of the Inside Legoland documentary series from 2020 which is about the Legoland theme park in the UK when all of a sudden it showed a portrait of the Tenth Doctor with the word TARDIS above it!
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 24, 2022 4:17:14 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph Binge Guide of July 24-30 2022 has a piece on Doctor Who as it starts streaming on Binge on Thursday July 28 with a picture of Jodie in a pose with the sonic in a publicity photo of Spyfall: "Before Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa takes the helm of the TARDIS from Jodie Whittaker, why not travel back in time to where it all began (again)? In great news for sci-fi fans, Binge is screening all 12 seasons* of the revamped series, which brought the time-travelling alien out of retirement in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor, for a new generation to enjoy."
Evidently not taking series 13 Flux into account.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 25, 2022 22:25:20 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph The Binge Guide of August 21-27 2022 has as its cover story Matt Smith's new show House Of The Dragon. In the piece entitled Into The Lair by Jonathan Moran, Doctor Who gets a mention with Moran referring to Smith as the Doctor Who and The Crown veteran.
Also in this same paper is this crossword question: "Played The Doctor's companion Rose (______Piper)" with a picture of he said companion in Boom Town.
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