The Doctor In The TARDIS

Just found this on Memory Alpha (yes I am a Star Trek fan as well)

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Doctor_Who

It kind of got me thinking about other places I've seen or heard references to DW on TV or in films. This thread is the result. I thought it could be a place where we come to have those OMG moments that I know I feel when I notice DW reference somewhere unexpected.

So we've got the Star Trek ones in the link ...

Also coming quickly to mind was Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory (Season 1 Ep 7) who claims to get up every Saturday morning at the same time to watch Doctor Who on BBC America. On this occasion he can't watch the beginning because Penny is asleep on the sofa and he says 'I'll watch the last 24 minutes of Doctor Who, although at this point it's more like Doctor Why Bother.'

Anyone else got any? I'm sure you have. Share below  :D

I'm not sure if this counts but our very own RTD wrote a wonderful series called Queer as Folk before he joined Doctor Who and that was shamelessly littered with Doctor Who references. Additionally, another 'before they were famous' was a really funny show by Little Britain stars Matt Lucas & David Walliams called Rock Profiles which, again (because Walliams is a massive Who fan) featured loads of little DW references.

Oh yes they count - I haven't seen either but I will be going off to do a bit of research into them now  :)

Queer as Folk will make you smile as it really echoes Rusty's style of writing. Its a bit 18+ in places but it also it really is funny and touching.

I think I can cope with 18+  ;)

Just found this link that covers some of those DW refs in Queer as Folk if anyone fancies a look http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv60/queerasfolk.html

Poprockgeek that is a brilliant find :) I've thought of another Who reference - I am sure there is one tucked away in The Simpsons

Bound to be at least one mention/reference in The Simpsons - fairly certain I've seen a Simpsonised version of the Fourth Doctor.

My desktop is Simpsonised Eleven & co but they haven't featured on the show (yet!)  ;)

Warehouse 13 and Eureka both mentioned the show this year.

Ooh is that Season 2 of Warehouse 13? I'm only 2 episodes into S2 so it will give me something to listen out for. I did clock Claudia saying 'Allons-y' in episode 2 though  :)

This'll give me something to do when I'm watching TV in the evenings. It'll certainly make reviewing more fun :D

I've actually already been doing it on Twitter (not just with DW though) - don't know why I didn't think of putting it on here before.

Just watching an old episode of Inspector George Gently (Gently in the Night) on Alibi and during an interview a suspect was asked to list what was on the TV as he gave watching TV as his alibi - guess what was on peeps? Yes you've guessed it - Doctor Who.

Reminds me that in the episode that was on BBC1 on Sunday Sept 26th (Gently Evil) a family are shown watching what is clearly a Dalek episode of DW & the daughter/granddaughter mentions the Daleks again later when she is interviewed.

:D

@poprockgeek (sorry, I can't quote on my phone) The mention on W13 is the Allonsy one, on Eureka it was Zane asking if they wanted the TARDIS blueprints while he was hacking a top secret site...like the TARDIS would have blueprints lol

Ah cool. A friend of mine suggested I watch Eureka so it's on my never ending list - might just have jumped up it a bit due to a DW reference  ;)

Is there even enough paper in all time-space to blueprint the TARDIS? haha :D

And surely by the time you'd got it all down on paper it would've all changed anyway!!!  ;)

Good point :D

I think the lesson in all this is that even if you had all the paper in existence, you could never blueprint the TARDIS

In the show "Better off Ted" theres a Dalek in the warehouse:

(http://i46.tinypic.com/ng7b5j.jpg)

In "Blue Harvest" The Star Wars Family Guy Special, there is a reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lVlVbsWfZk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lVlVbsWfZk)

The Simpson's one mentioned above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Shht97R93g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Shht97R93g)

There was quite a good sketch on Harry And Paul last night where it showed what Doctor Who would have been like if it was made on ITV in the 70s with the cast of On The Buses.
Unfortunately it was the only remotely amusing thing in the show, so I don't think I'll be bothering to see if they use the idea again next week.

"Saturday Night Live"- one sketch had Paris Hilton dressing up with various sci-fi inspired accessories including a Fourth Doctor scarf.

Of course, there are all those "Dead Ringers" sketches I saw on YouTube with costumed impressions and spoofs of the various Doctors, and Torchwood.

There were a few references to Doctor Who on the BBC's "Life on Mars," fitting in with the theme of different eras meeting!

These are all excellent guys - keep them coming  :D

As I have no broadband atm I'm watching some stuff I have on the hard drive to see me through the cold evenings.  I went back to Leveridge last night (kinda like a poor mans Hustle, but with sexy lawyer from Angel, whose name I forget, in).  One of the team was complaining how slow the internet service was at the place they were staking out and he said that it took him over an hour to download the latest Doctor Who ep.  Made me smile :D

I was watching an rerun of Extras the other day and though they didnt mention DW, they did have a Dalek model in the office they were in

Still counts Doc - good spot  ;)

Ah the criminally cancelled Better Off Ted - utter brilliance

As for Who references in shows:

In the Knight Rider remake Halloween episode, Billy dresses as Captain Jack (technically he refers to Torchwood but close enough!)
Doctor Where on Maths Trail
Lots of comedy sketches - the Spike Milligan Dalek one, Dr Eyes from End of Part One, The Lenny Henry one, the Real McCoy cybermen one, probably 20% of John Culshaw's output(!) and I think Dr Emu from Emu's Broadcasting Company

Andrew mentioned Doctor Who on one of the Buffy episodes I watched last week. Cant remember which one of the top of my head though

Slight hijack, but Leverage is a great show.
I wouldn't call it a poor man's Hustle, but that's maybe cos I've never watched Hustle - other than Napoleon Solo I didn't like the cast.

PS @Sigryn - it's Christian Kane aka Lindsey "evil hand" McDonald - guy is a legend.

Yeah Torchwood is more than close enough, but as Capt Jack has frequently been in DW too it's a double win  :)

It was season 6. When Spike found out he could hurt Buffy. Andrew, Jonathan and Spike were waiting for the results on Spikes chip. Andrew was trying, and failing, to make small talk. He aslo references Red Dwarf. Two of my fave shows mentioned in one scene. I was in heaven lol. :P

That's it, I have a crap memory for names I'm afraid, lol.

There was another Who mention in the episode I watched this afternoon, when looking through his fake ID cards that he had on him the lead actor said the ones he had were Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy or Tom Baker  ;D

This one is slightly more random (but I started the thread so I can tweak the rules  :P ) - this is from a concert though it has had a TV broadcast.

In her Showgirl Homecoming Tour late 06/early 07 Kylie Minogue had this section:

Act 7: Dance of the Cybermen
"Space Prequel" (Instrumental Interlude)
"Can't Get You Out of My Head" (contains excerpts from "Rise of the Cybermen" along with elements of the "Doctor Who Theme")
"Light Years"(contains excerpts from "Turn It Into Love" along with elements of the TARDIS dematerializing)

The dancers costumes were styled after the Cybermen (though mainly the headwear). I found these 2 vids - one for each song if you want to check it out (don't feel you have to - I know Kylie is not to everyone's taste!)


Love that she showed love for DW even before she appeared in the show.

Well that was the reason she got the gig. Her tour manager (or someone like that) is DW obsessed, and joked to RTD about getting her a part, and it went from there

Yeah Will Baker I believe - he was her stylist but he does a bit of everything these days.

Love the TARDIS dematerialization sound effect at the beginning of the second video

Me too - I have the album of this concert & it sounds fab through my MP3 headphones. Makes me smile every time - even if I'm walking down the street. People round here may think I'm mad!!! Which I am so ...

Just watching Phone Shop and the episode is called Doctor Who, but I have a feeling this one was mentioned already

I don't remember seeing it mentioned before, but even it was it doesn't matter - bound to happen as the thread gets longer  :)

In the most recent episode of Family Guy, there was another DW reference.

Peter wanted to bring his owl to his in-laws. Lois said no. He asked his mother-in-law if they could have accommodated an owl she said yes. Peter says to Lois:

"You owe Doctor Hoo an apology!"

Lol

Just watched the episode of The Big Bang Theory that was broadcast in the UK last night (The Justice League Recombination) and spotted comic book store owner Stewart's costume at the New Year's Eve Party. No mention was made of the show or the character but I think it was quite clear who he is meant to be  :)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yPWyFZEdY0s/TQ-yIb9fKPI/AAAAAAAATZo/WkwjMn5iDhw/s400/who-bigbangtheory.jpg)

He wasn't sufficiently geeky about it, though.  He claimed to have seen every episode which, unfortunately, he couldn't have.

Incidently, there was a reference in the article to both shows having a planet Vulcan.  At one time (I think off the top of my head it was late 19th or early 20th century) there was believed to be a planet inside the orbit of Mercury that was given the name Vulcan.  It was seen a few times, then disappeared, so maybe it was an asteroid being pulled into the sun, or something.

Ah, I noticed that! I watched it on 4oD this week :)

I really should start watching TBBT again. It got renewed for another 3 years last week!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZib32Bjz0&feature=player_embedded

That show is stupid!

Speaking of stupid shows, here's a good one from Time Gentlemen Please. Just over a minute in. Okay so they don't quite mention it, but it's obvious what they mean - especially considering who they've got playing 'Professor Baker'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tJSQ657Aeg


Edit: and I've only just noticed this, but he appears to be dressed almost exactly like his most recent successor, cool bow-tie and everything!

I know it's not new and they didn't exactly mention DW but I saw the episode of Vicar of Dibley today where the vicar gets married and Alice as her maid of honour is dressed up as 10 :D Oh and her bridesmaids were daleks O0

I remember Alice dressing like 10, but I totally forgot about the bridesmaids. Great stuff  :D

Despite having watched a million times, I discovered last night on a rewatch of Little Britain series one that in some of the sketches there is a character called Michael Craze who is a talent scout who has to deal with a desperado called Matthew Waterhouse who is always coming up with stupid inventions and ideas in a bid to get noticed.

Michael Craze of course is the name of the actor who played companion Ben Jackson and Matthew Waterhouse is the name of the actor who played Adric

 O0

Doctor Who is currently a question on 'The Chase' on ITV to find out who was the first Doctor. Have to wait until after the break to find out if William Hartnell is the correct answer :P

In 'House'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN87OHO9jro&feature=player_embedded

House is always cool- that's just made it cooler :P

There was a fourth season episode of CSI:NY where the victim thought he was a time traveller, I think it was Flack who made the DW reference.

From tonight's 'Becoming Human'

Matt: All I'm saying is now I'm out of the running because I'm ...

Adam: A fat Doctor Who fan?

Matt: Dead!

From today's episode of The Weakest Link:

In the episode of Doctor Who called Bad Wolf the character Rose Tyler is forced to play a futuristic version of which game show?

The guy got the answer right. Can't imagine what the Anne-droid would've said if he'd got it wrong!  :P

You are the weakest link?

:P

The real Ann Robinson's far scarier than the droid 8)

Just watching the episode of Spaced where Tim rips into a kid who wants to buy a Jar Jar Binks toy - for anyone who hasn't seen it Tim hates The Phantom Menace - after the kid runs out crying his boss, Bilbo, calls him into his office for a chat. There is a very familiar 'Police Public Call Box' sign over his office door  :)

Ok I know I created this thread for film & TV refs to DW but I've already tweaked the rules slightly to include concerts/music so I'm bending them again because ...

I was reading book 3 of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series 'The Well of Lost Plots' this morning & stumbled across this on page 75:

'You have centaurs here?'
'And satyrs, troglodytes, chimeras, elves, fairies, dryads, sirens, Martians, leprechauns, goblins, harpies, aliens, Daleks, trolls - you name it.'

I was already loving this series, but now I love it even more  :D

I was watching Miranda the other night and she was talking to a guy who said he was a doctor, so she asked him if he came to town in his TARDIS. Does that count?

Certainly does  :)

Subtle reference in Family Guy

(http://i52.tinypic.com/30bdbwh.jpg)

This week's Have I Got News for You did a bit on the Daleks being "retired" - they suggested they'd all be going off to old-people's homes and sit around reminiscing about when they fought the Doctor.

I'll have to iplayer that - don't watch HIGNFY anymore.

The copy of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' I read was the film tie in version & in an interview in the back Sam Rockwell mentions having seen a little bit of H2G2 along with Doctor Who as a kid.

The TARDIS was mentioned on Escape To The Country, she talked about the house being like one haha

There was a Cyberman in the episode of Supernatural I watched last night. They were talking about 'man-droids' and the camera focused in on a magazine with a Cyberman on the front

Little exchange that popped up on p 137 of 'First Among Sequels' by Jasper Fforde:

"'And you are here now ... because?'
'Landen said he'd videotape Dr Who* for me, & the Daleks are my favourite.'
'I'm more into Sontarans myself,' said Miles.
'Humph!' said Joffy. 'It's what I'd expect from someone who thinks Jon Pertwee was the best Doctor.'
Landen & I stared at him, unsure of whether we should agree, postulate a different theory - or what.
'It was Tom Baker,' said Joffy ending the embarassed silence. Miles made a noise that sounded like 'conventionalist', & Landen went to get the tape."

That's the second time I've noticed Fforde directly reference the show & I've noticed other things that could be nods to it. Starting to suspect he may be a fan  :)

Oh, and if you're interested it transpires that the recording was of 'Remembrance of the Daleks.'

*Not me mispelling the title of DW - that's how it's written in the book.

I was watching Dead Set yesterday and Doctor Who was one of the things they listed that they would miss now that the Zombies had taken over

Oucho from Ed and Oucho's excellent inventions was reading DWM

The Casualty next week's preview has a little:
Girl: Who are you.
Dylan: Doctor
Girl: Doctor Who
Dylan: Don't call me that.

As a regular Radio 4 listener <cough>YESI'MGETTINGOLD<cough> I've noticed that there's rarely a day goes by without someone, on something, mentioning DW.  Must be the most frequent indirectly plugged thing on there.

The award-winning afternoon play, 'Every Child Matters', which they repeated a few weeks back, had a scene where a disgraced social worker is talking to her former colleague (and lover), and he mentions if only they could turn back time...and she says if he could do that, he'd be Cher...and he says no, he'd be the Doctor and take her away somewhere in the TARDIS.

And I laughed when there was a reference in The Archers where Jill Archer was in the newsagents telling someone how much Freddie (Pargeter, her grandson) liked a particular unnamed magazine 'because it's about his favourite TV show - he loves the robots and monsters....' they didn't say which TV show but, well, you know. ;D

There have been various things on Woman's Hour (I think) and some other programs...can't remember, but I'll pop on here if I hear any more.

Watching the (rather abysmal) Improvisation My Dear Mark Watson on Dave, they began improvising a sketch based on Doctor Who, until Rufus Hound demanded that it be stopped because Doctor Who is just too important to mock.  8)

Another Radio 4 mention today.  You and Yours was looking at the Harry Potter movie and talking to some of the crew who worked on it, and they asked one of the costume guys how he got started, and he said his first job was on Doctor Who.  Pity I didn't catch his name, could have looked him up...

SFX Magazine are looking to collect references to Doctor Who on TV or the radio that occur between Saturday 9th & Friday 15th July 2011. They want:

• Jokes involving Doctor Who in sit coms and comedy shows (we can almost guarantee one in The Now Show every week)
• Casual references by presenters to, “It’s just like A TARDIS.”
• Mentions of Doctor Who in dramas
• Questions about Doctor Who in quiz shows
• Any random plays of Doctorin’ The TARDIS on music radio
• Use of the TARDIS sound effect when something needs to appear out of thin air…
• Random use of the Doctor Who music

Full information & details of where to send any references can be found here: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/07/06/doctor-who-spotting-week/

And don't forget to tell us if you see/hear any too  :)

Two mentions in two consecutive episodes of One Foot In The Grave the other day. One where Margeret described something as looking like an alien from Doctor Who and the other was when Victor had a glass accidently glued to his forehead and said he looked like a deformed Dalek

Today's Radio 4 afternoon play was 'Best Interests'.  It was about what happens when a young man collapses at a tube station, gets taken into hospital, and decisions about his care turn awkward because it turns out he has learning difficulties...but he's also a Doctor Who fanatic, and there are a lot of familiar references.   It's still on BBC iplayer for the next week if anyone's interested in listening.

There was also a reference the other day to an art exhibition in an ex-nuclear bunker in Bosnia, and someone described said bunker as being like the TARDIS.

You can't escape it, can you? :)

Nope it really is everywhere  :D

Bit oblique this one but a DW reference nonetheless.

Brisingr, page 204:

"Arya signed a stop to the sentence she had been writing on the ground. Bending over, Eragon read, Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, uphlding the laws of the stars above.
'What does it mean?'
'I don't know,' she said, & smoothed out the line with a sweep of her arm."

She returns to randomly writing on the ground again on p 207:

"With a flourish, she completed the latest sentence she had been working on. He tilted his head & sidled closer in order to decipher the glyphs she had inscribed. They read: The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of the balance, he of many faces who finds life in death & fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
'What prompted you to write this?'
'The thought that things are not what they appear.' "

I've got to admit if I'd just read it without knowing I probably would have missed it. Christopher Paolini makes it clear in his acknowledgements though:

"Also for those who understood the reference to a 'lonely god' when Eragon & Arya are sitting around the campfire, my only excuse is that the Doctor can travel everywhere, even alternate realities.
Hey, I'm a fan too!"

Today's University Challenge had a music round consisting of pieces of Murray Gold's music from Doctor Who, and the contestants had to guess which character's motifs they were.  I'm afraid I didn't get any right  :-\

The Fourth Doctor was in Futurama this week

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kLwIWBCKXYU/TjxmSp2p-1I/AAAAAAAADr4/sAZntF1RmcE/s1600/fmo3.jpg)

I am LOVING that screen grab :) I am fancying a t-shirt print of that :)

They mentioned it on an episode of Big Bang I was watching last night. I'm also sure there are Doctor Who DVDs on the shelf in Sheldons room

Very probably, Sheldon admitted he is a Doctor Who fan some time during the first series  :)

A comment just seen on Twitter concerning the conflicting rumours about Gadaffi -

CONFIRMED Gaddafi is dead! CONFIRMED Gaddafi is alive! CONFIRMED Gaddafi is a prisoner! UNCONFIRMED Gaddafi is wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

From page 112 of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon:

"But he was being stupid, too, because if you look at the pictures you can see that the fairies look just like fairies in old books & they have wings & dresses & tights & shoes, which is like aliens landing on the earth & being like Daleks from Doctor Who or Imperial Stormtroopers from the Death Star in Star Wars or little green men in cartoons of aliens."

Listening to Radio 2 this morning Ken Bruce discussed the old title sequence of Doctor Who declaring that when the titles first came on they looked like "Doctor OHO"

I scored 30 on pop master as well this morning.

On this week's QI, Stephen Fry commented on a photo of a scientist with a neatly trimmed beard and a sinister expression that he looked as if he was auditioning as the Master.

Well nothing in the media, but at my kid's group I'm a leader at a 4yr old said to me: "Knock Knock...."
and he was like "DOCTOR WHO" and had a massive giggle fit!

I was watching something over the weekend where someone mentioned wanting to dress as a Dalek for Hallowe'en but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

Been reading the latest Thursday Next book from Jasper Fforde (One of Our Thursdays is Missing) & yet again he has made mention of the show.

Page 318:

"The combinations were unusual, too, & although I had not personally supposed Thursday might battle the Daleks with Dr Who in a literary landscape, in here it was very much business as usual."

In Season 8 Episode 4 of Grey's Anatomy, there is a patient who was crushed and lost his ear because TARDIS's signed by RTD (but had the Moff-era Doctor Who logo on ::) - silly Greys producers) were being given to the first 50 or so people at this convention, and he was caught up in the rush.

Quite funny and cool seeing the little TARDIS in Greys!

I watched Looney Tunes Back In Action a few days ago and they had two retro Daleks in it being kept in an alien laboratory but then they escaped and started shooting and shouting 'Exxterminate'

I'm slowly catching up with Eureka as they have been showing it all from the beginning on Syfy. In the ep I watched yesterday from Season 3 this little exchange happened:

Zoe: Duncan is her gorgeous Dr. Who.
Vincent: Oh my god! I love that show.
Lexi: Oh no, World Health Organization.

 :D

Reading Justin Langer's autobiography (Australian Test Cricketer for those who are unfamiliar) he says that his old dressing room "Was just like Doctor Who's TARDIS".

He might have over 7500 test runs and be part of one of the greatest cricket teams of all time but I think someone should tell him that it is "The Doctor's TARDIS" not "Doctor Who's TARDIS".

I hope someone got sacked for that.

Right back near the start of this thread it was mentioned that Zane offered to find TARDIS blueprints whilst hacking a top secret website in a Season 4 episode of Eureka.

A few eps on from that he mentions our favourite blue box again:

Zane: Didn't know you were building a TARDIS house.
Jo: A what?
Zane: Big on the inside, tiny on the… never mind.

I think the character may be a fan  :)

I was watching a rerun of Celebrity Juice last night and in it, Keith Lemon materialised in a TARDIS at the beginning of the show. I thought perhaps there would be a guest from the show on the panel, but it was just random and not mentioned again.

There were at least two DW references in the fourth book of Eragon "The Inheritance".

The first was Solembum saying : "I have seen things that defy belief: whirlwinds of light spinning in caverns deep below the ground, men who age backward, stones that speak, and shadows that creep. Rooms that are bigger on the inside than the outside..."

And the second near the end. Angela i knitting a hat (or at least a thing looking like a hat in blue and white) and when Eragon asks her what the runes on it mean, there is this piece of conversation: "'It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?' 'Raxacori - Oh, nevermind. It wouldn't mean anything to you anyway.'"

Also, but I don't know it for sure, because I only read the german translation and couldn't find the original sentence, but I think some mysterious woman answered the question who she is with: "A stranger passing through" which also reminds me of DW.

You'll find loads of places online where there are links between the two. Many people have speculated/theorised that one of the characters, Angela I think, is intended to be an old companion of the Doctor, or something like that. I think the author is a fan

I haven't read the series, but quite a few people who have reckon he's essentially cut and pasted all his favourite stories, so that wouldn't be too surprising.

I was watching a repeat of Miranda last night and she was being awkward around a hunky guy and when he said he was a Doctor she asked if he arrived in his TARDIS. Smooth ;D

A rather cool, and quite funny reference from this weeks new Big Bang Theory. Amy is such an awesome character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1d21C3fBuo

Don't quite remember what we were talking about but one of the lecturers at Aberystwyth uni said "trust me, I'm a Doctor" I had to have a little giggle to myself!

A recent episode (Friday's I think) of the quiz show Eggheads had a question on who played the Doctor in City of Death - it's done as a choice of three, and the wrong answers were Pertwee and McCoy.  The contestant guessed it right on the basis that TB was in more than the others 8)

Just listening to the Matilda musical soundtrack... and they mention the TARDIS :D :D

Noticed this in my book this morning & I've checked that the author actually meant it as a DW ref - she did  :D

Page 310 of Pale Demon by Kim Harrison:

"So all those buttons are different restaurants?" I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.

In my book I'm reading. I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk "how many pockets did he have in there? His jacket was like the TARDIS"

Just getting stuck into the latest Thursday Next novel, The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde and he's referencing DW again.

First up a pic at the front of the book shows Thursday's daughter Tuesday with what is unmistakeably Eleven's sonic screwdriver in her pocket.

Secondly on page 267 the result of an experiment to uncover more about Dark Reading Matter (read the books to find out more about that. I mean really do, these books are amazing IMO) using dodos is Daleks. This either means that:
1. The DRM 'might contain all forms of lost or discarded storytelling endeavour' - ie the missing episodes among many other things,
or
2. the dodo in question is obsessed with Daleks!

In this month's Sky at Night, they're discussing Curiosity, described as a nuclear-powered, laser-equipped robot on Mars, and Patrick comments "It's pure Doctor Who".

This came up in Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch - I think it's around p. 22 (I read it on my Kobo so it's hard to tell!):

"The man was wearing what looked like a Smurf hat and what I recognized as an Edwardian smoking jacket--don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like; let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that."

Probably not a surprise really as he has written for the show in the past.

I watched an episode of Supernatural the other day where one of the characters was going under the alias of Amy Pond

There is a Dalek story in the latest Beano comic.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma18j4xHaH1rfplx0o1_500.jpg)

Off-topic, but I love the ad for the free air guitar - no strings attached 8)

There was an inflatable Dalek on the first float of the Olympic & Paralympic Victory Parade  :D

Tonight's Mastermind featured a contestant doing Doctor Who (classic series) as his specialist subject.  It's on iplayer if you want to test yourself.  I got ten right.

:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc58e-vgCu0

I never think of doing that  8)

I don't remember what it said, but there was a TARDIS reference in I Heart Hollywood by Lindsey Kelk

From page 34 of Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch:

" ... and the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up & tell them to stop."

One edition of the current series of Celebrity Eggheads had a team of actors, including Frances Barber and Derek Jacobi, who referred to playing the Master as one of the high spots of his career.  Although, since the other one he mentioned was narrating In The Night Garden, I'm not sure what to make of that  :D

So many references, so little time.  ^-^
I guess the animators of Rugrats were Doctor Who fans.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhovtg8oBTY (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhovtg8oBTY)

I was just about to post this. I saw it a few days ago ;D

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyttqckxRM1qijoeyo1_500.jpg)

I can't remember if it was mentioned when it was originally on, but in a rerun of QI that was on the other day, Stephen Fry described a picture of a sinister-looking scientist as looking as if he was auditioning for the part of the Master in Doctor Who (he did have a slightly Delgado-ish look)

Couple of cool TARDIS references in the episode of The Big Bang Theory I watched this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEwmSkdSCGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U576KHGaUY

They're rerunning Masterminds from 2004, and someone today did Doctor Who (obviously, all classic).  He got 15, I got 13.  Unfortunately, for some reason they're not being put on iPlayer.

In Community there's a running gag involving "Inspector Spacetime" who is basically the Doctor, only he uses a red British telephone box etc

In the latest episode (4x03) they go to an inspecticon. Lots of Who nods  O0

There was a female inspector, but apparently she sucked haha

And he has a quantum spanner instead of sonic screwdriver ;)

Can I give any of you more reasons to watch Community?

That was an amazing episode.  Don't be such a Minerva! (reference to the female Inspector that no one liked.  "Not because they're sexist but because she sucks")

This is slightly cheating because it's me mentioning Doctor Who  8)  I'm publishing a series of articles on the Fantasy Faction website about The Chaotic Champion, a new way of looking at heroes.  The instalment that went up today, about The Wandering Hero, includes a bit about the Doctor.

http://fantasy-faction.com/2013/the-chaotic-champion-part-two-the-wandering-hero

Ooh. I shall give that a look  :)

A couple of mentions on this month's Sky at Night.  They were with a bunch of amateur astronomers at the Rollright Stones (scene of The Stones of Blood) and one was dressed in a Fourth Doctor hat and scarf.  Also, Jon Culshaw claimed to have found the outline of a Cyberman on the Moon.

One of the episodes of Eggheads this week (I think it was Thursday's, but I'm watching them late on iPlayer) featured a team from a Glasgow DW society - the team called themselves Yartek Thistle (full marks if your get the reference 8)).

My latest post on my blog (mostly to do with writing fantasy) is a review of series 8 (or, more correctly, series 34).

http://nyki-blatchley.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/review-of-doctor-who-series-8-or-34.html