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Post by matthewsee on Feb 8, 2013 0:32:18 GMT -5
In the Leverage finale The Long Goodbye Job, one of the regular characters Parker impersonated a police detective and introduced herself as Detective Tennant. It is plausible that this is a reference to David Tennant since Leverage has had Doctor Who references in some of its past episodes. Appearing in the Leverage finale was Mark Sheppard in his recurring role as Sterling and a situation that was presented here was akin to one presented in Doctor Who: Day of the Moon which had featured Sheppard as Canton Delaware III. There is one difference however is that unlike Canton in the said Doctor Who episode, Sterling in the Leverage finale was not in on the plan shared by the regular characters.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 18, 2013 23:58:23 GMT -5
Supernatural 8.13 is called Everybody Hates Hitler and I am fairly certain that the episode title is a variation on Doctor Who’s Let’s Kill Hitler because among this Supernatural episode writer Ben Edlund’s previous episodes for Supernatural was 2.12 Night-Shifter which featured an article on Cyberman, in fact Night-Shifter & Everybody Hates Hitler both have the same director in Philip Sgriccia. Two other Supernatural episodes have Doctor Who references. In the episode that preceded Night-Shifter, Playthings it featured characters called Rose and Tyler and in 7.3 The Girl Next Door had a character taking the name of Amy Pond. Whereas Doctor Who’s Let’s Kill Hitler had a brief appearance from Hitler, Supernatural’s Everybody Hates Hitler in contrast was a Hitler no-show but both these episodes did not fail to feature Nazis in them although in the case of the Doctor Who episode they were only there as window dressing to the main plot.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 10, 2013 9:34:54 GMT -5
It looks like Billie Piper got referenced in Castle 5.10 Significant Others. In this episode it has a character called Billy Piper (the variation in the spelling is because this character is a man) and had a wife called Leanne and Billie Piper was born Leian Paul Piper.
At the end of this episode Castle’s ex-wife Meredith used the analogy of soufflé to describe her ex-husband. Whether it is a coincidence or not Oswin was making soufflé in Asylum of the Daleks.
If these were indeed Doctor Who references in this episode of Castle then it came a few episodes after 5.6 Final Frontier which had a sci fi convention as a setting but despite this setting had completely failed to have Doctor Who references in it.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 20, 2013 3:29:48 GMT -5
Glee has become the latest US show to have caught the Doctor Who reference bug: It happened in 4.15 Girls (and Boys) On Film and it was made, out of all people, by Santana when she called Adam, Doctor Who due to the fact that he is British.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 22, 2013 23:59:32 GMT -5
The Simpsons 24.12 Love Is a Many Splintered Thing featured a brief appearance by the TARDIS. The main guest star in this episode was Zooey Deschanel. Zooey Deschanel being in the same Simpsons episode with the TARDIS certainly for me makes up for the fact that she was in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 17, 2013 20:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 28, 2013 21:34:18 GMT -5
The penultimate episode of The Hour season 1 may have had a disguised Doctor Who reference. At the beginning of this episode a radio programme was on and when it was switched off the radio host pointed out a man in the audience one who was wearing a bow tie someone that the viewer did not get to hear speak due to the radio being switched off. Now the current Doctor wears a bow tie and that could easily have been him in the audience in the radio programme depicted in this Hour episode not to mention that Doctor Who & The Hour are both BBC shows.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 9, 2013 18:10:46 GMT -5
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph included an article on Queen Elizabeth officially opening the new headquarters of the BBC. Although the writer of the article made no mention of Doctor Who in it, the accompanying picture did have the TARDIS with the Queen and some of the BBC personnel standing in front of it. As I know that she herself was at this event, Jenna-Louise Coleman seems to be in the picture as well but her face has been blocked by the Queen wearing her hat.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 25, 2013 19:22:41 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 25, 2013 20:16:37 GMT -5
At the same time of completing my latest rewatch of The Fires of Pompeii featuring Vesuvius saw Monroe 2.2 which coincidentally had a reference to that aforementioned volcano.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 31, 2013 2:32:12 GMT -5
Doctor Who got referenced in Sydney Sunday Telegraph’s Nick Dent review of the movie The World’s End starring Doctor Who guest star Simon Pegg: “The World’s End follows in the paranoid footsteps of novels like John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos, movies such as The Wicker Man, and TV series including The Prisoner and Doctor Who. These are stories that amplify our fears of assimilation.”
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 9, 2013 2:23:43 GMT -5
There was a Doctor Who reference or more specifically a Dalek reference in Nikita in 3.2 Innocence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRsmjs1MnY Coincidentally this episode was shown on Australian television on 9 on the morning of Tuesday August 6, two days before Terry Nation's birthday on August 8.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 14, 2013 22:37:13 GMT -5
Just finished seeing Community 4.3 Conventions of Space and Time and from the episode title I thought it would be an episode that I would take a liking to and I was right. The episode has the main characters going to an Inspector Spacetime convention. Inspector Spacetime is a long running gag in Community as the Inspector in question is a parody on Doctor Who and when a proposed Inspector Spacetime web series did not get off the ground, Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time came about instead.
Conventions of Space and Time has Matt Lucas as a Special Guest Star. Also appearing were BSG alum Tricia Helfer and Beverly Hills 90210 alums Luke Perry and Jennie Garth.
For Lucas he has already appeared in a production of Doctor Who in the Big Finish Sixth Doctor story The One Doctor. As for Helfer, Perry and Garth their appearance in the Community episode is the closest for now that they have gotten to appear in Doctor Who.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 31, 2013 19:18:42 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 3, 2013 18:20:00 GMT -5
In the Sydney Sunday Telegraph in her usual column Lisa Power talked about the embarrassments inflicted on her by her children including one that was caused by her son and this how she described how people reacted to this embarrassment: “Like Cybermen, the crowd turned as one to stare at me in silent reproach.”
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