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Post by matthewsee on Oct 3, 2013 20:30:05 GMT -5
Saw the penultimate episode of TekWar, Redemption which had the saying of “reverse the polarity’ and not long after watching this saw Cars 2 and that coincidentally also had that saying.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 4, 2013 18:58:44 GMT -5
Young Justice 2.6 Invasion: Bloodlines has someone from the future arriving in the present and inadvertently makes references in the future and saying “Spoilers”. I have no doubt that this is a reference to what River says in Doctor Who since Bloodlines was written by Doctor Who fan Peter David and one of his episodes in season 1 Insecurity included a portal that looks like the TARDIS in it.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 20, 2013 20:41:23 GMT -5
In the DVD commentary of Robin of Sherwood 3.5 The Sheriff of Nottingham, Mark Ryan (Nasir) made a funny remark of how he looked like a Dalek in one scene he was in.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 8, 2013 0:54:01 GMT -5
A Doctor Who reference may have crept up in The Vampire Diaries. In 5.6 Handle With Care, Katherine said “doctor whoever”. Then again it might have been just a clarification on a doctor’s name.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 13, 2013 15:49:12 GMT -5
The Vicar of Dibley: The Christmas Lunch Incident: www.tv.com/m/shows/the-vicar-of-dibley/the-christmas-lunch-incident-74684/trivia/Jim: Knock knock. Geraldine: Who's there? Jim: Doctor. Geraldine: Doctor Who? Jim: Yes! To add to all this, this episode of The Vicar of Dibley featured the second of two appearances by future Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi which makes his appearance in this episode with a Doctor Who reference quite prophetic. As this is a Christmas episode, this has Capaldi going through a revolving door of Christmas episodes between The Vicar of Dibley & Doctor Who. As the The Vicar of Dibley Christmas episode was the last time that he had appeared in The Vicar of Dibely and notwithstanding his guest stint as a different character in The Fires of Pompeii, the upcoming 2013 Doctor Who Christmas Special would be the first time that Capaldi appears as the Doctor. Incidentally The Vicar of Dibley episode has Orla Brady playing Capaldi’s fiancée and this is a case of Torchwood meets Fringe, two similar shows, as Capaldi was John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth and Orla Brady was Walter’s wife and Peter’s mother in Fringe. Orla Brady is the only principal female cast member of UK Mistresses who has not performed in Doctor Who either in the TV series or on Big Finish and obviously someone at the BBC or Big Finish needs to rectify this.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 18, 2013 0:27:34 GMT -5
Doctor Who got a reference in Castle 6.5 Time Will Tell when Esposito says Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver and then Castle asked him if he watches Doctor Who but Esposito did not get to answer the question when their attention was directed elsewhere. Time Will Tell is about someone Simon Doyle (Joshua Gomez) claiming to be a time traveller and I have read that this character has indeed been inspired by Doctor Who. Also in this episode is someone who has experience with time travel not in Doctor Who but in Star Trek and that is Voyager alum Tim Russ. The episode itself was the latest that was directed by Rob Bowman who himself was a director on Star Trek: The Next Generation. So for these Star Trek alums Russ and Bowman, this episode with the Doctor Who reference is as close they have come to be involved in Doctor Who. Included in the Castle regular cast was another Star Trek alum Penny Johnson (DS9) but she was not in this episode.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 29, 2013 0:51:57 GMT -5
The Escape section of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph has a blue telephone booth on the cover. For a moment I thought I was looking at the TARDIS before realising what it was and then saw a little headline on the page which says “Time Lord – Doctor Who Wants You! [P12]”.
So I turned to page 12 read the article “Be transported into the wonderful world of Gallifrey”. Written before the broadcast of The Day of the Doctor, the article’s writer John Lee makes its very obvious that he is a Doctor Who fan as he writes about the 50th anniversary celebrations in the UK. To explore things Whovian in the UK, Lee suggested to start with Britain’s top Whovian pilgrimage spot, the Doctor Who Experience describing it as part interactive adventure and part museum. Lee interviews fellow fan Kevan Looseley who runs The Who Shop with his wife Alexandra. As Lee writes, Kevan Looseley has appeared as an extra in Doctor Who stage and screen productions. Looseley says he has high hopes about The Day of the Doctor: “I’m looking for a celebration of everything that’s great about the show. For me, Doctor Who is almost perfect escapism”.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 10, 2013 21:04:57 GMT -5
In the Sydney Sunday Telegraph Neala Johnson compiled a list of Christmas movies that are so bad that they are almost good and one of these movies is Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger starring David Tennant and she says that the worst bit of this movie is: “That it’s not David Tennant in a Doctor Who Christmas Special”. It looks like that Ms Johnson has just outed herself as a Whovian. Looking this film up on Wikipedia, found out that Tennant play twin brothers here and it was released on November 23 2012, the 49th anniversary of Doctor Who. Read from the Wikipedia article that playing the wife of one of the Tennant twins was Joanna Page and she and Tennant would get married again exactly a year later in the 50th anniversary Doctor Who special The Day of the Doctor.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 29, 2013 3:07:53 GMT -5
There was a Doctor Who reference in fellow time-travel series Crime Traveller in episode 6 Death Minister as noted by IMDb: “Notice the Dr. Who music that is played in the background when Slade notices the police box as he leaves the Big Box Co.” Slade was played by Michael French who smiled upon seeing the police box. However French has yet to grace himself with an appearance in Doctor Who. The presence of a police box perhaps marks the closest that the other main Crime Traveller cast member Chloe Annett who would later play Kristine Kochanski in Red Dwarf came to appearing in Doctor Who. This plus the fact she had Mary Tamm (Romana I) playing her aunt in earlier Crime Traveller episode A Death In The Family. Crime Traveller was originally shown in 1997 a year after the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie did not result in a new Doctor Who TV series. There has been perceptions that Crime Traveller was conceived as a new time travel series by the BBC in place of Doctor Who but unlike Doctor Who, Crime Traveller was not destined to have a long-term future as it ended just two episodes after Death Minister.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 16, 2014 21:48:21 GMT -5
In the DVD commentary for Robin of Sherwood 3.7 Cromm Cruac, Jason Connery (Robin) said that the Cybermen had scared him and recalled his own appearance in Doctor Who in Vengeance On Varos but did not think he was good in it.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 28, 2014 0:45:03 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 15, 2014 20:07:57 GMT -5
Last week’s Sydney Sunday Telegraph in its Escape section included an article by David May on the upcoming celebrations of William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday on April 23 and he mentioned David Tennant and stating “formerly of Doctor Who” and wrote that Tennant was playing Richard II in the main Royal Shakespeare Theatre. However there was no mention of The Shakespeare Code, the Doctor Who episode in which Tennant as the Doctor met Shakespeare.
May also mentioned the new Sam Wanamaker Theatre which was named after actor and director Sam Wanamaker, the father of Doctor Who guest star Zoe Wanamaker. Zoe played Cassandra in The End of the World & New Earth, the latter with the aforementioned Tennant.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 19, 2014 18:01:01 GMT -5
In the Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s tv guide’s mini-review on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie it has been given the following description: “Magical sci-fi comedy, embracing a Doctor Who-meets-Monty –Python vision.”
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 20, 2014 19:07:20 GMT -5
From the Doctor Who News Page on January 12 2014: Katy Manning had watched the middle episode of Sherlock season 3 The Sign of Three when she spotted a heavy reference to the final scene of her Doctor Who swansong The Green Death with Sherlock’s downbeat departure of the wedding reception of the newly married Watsons as it echoed that of the Third Doctor’s (Jon Pertwee) exit from the engagement party of Katy Manning’s companion character Jo Grant. The Sign of Three was co-written by Sherlock co-creator and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss. It is well known at least to Doctor Who fans that The Green Death is Gatiss’ favourite Doctor Who story. After seeing the Sherlock episode Katy Manning tweeted Gatiss about it.
KatyManning : Was it just me but end of Sherlock ( sooo. Brilliant ) a tiny pang of JP [Jon Pertwee] at end of Green Death ? xx Mark Gatiss: A tiny pang, my dear Jo? It's a tribute to the most emotional trauma of my childhood! x
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 7, 2014 18:36:52 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Samantha Maiden mentioned the “factional Daleks” which was included as part of a 2006 speech by then ALP Senator Robert Ray as a description of fellow ALP Senators Stephen Conroy and Kim Carr.
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