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« on: November 05, 2010, 10:54:02 am »

I suppose 'interesting' depends on your point of view but yesterday I was doing some DW reading and came accross loads of cool facts about the show, so I thought we should compile them. Here are a few to get started.

1. Frazer Hines (Jamie) and Deborah Watling (Victoria) originally auditioned for the roles of Ben and Polly, companions to the first and second Doctors, but were turned down.

2. Paul Cornell wrote an episode of Casualty and gave every guest character a name of a character from The Seeds Of Doom

3. Mission to the Unknown is the only Doctor Who episode to feature neither the Doctor nor his companions, however, William Hartnell still received a credit

4. Audience research carried out by the BBC in 1972 found that the show was considered one of the most violent on television

5. Chris Barrie (Rimmer in Red Dwarf) auditioned to become the Tenth Doctor
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2010, 01:07:04 pm »

OMG, Chris Barrie as the Doctor would be fantastic, he needs to be 12 :|

I didn't know about the Cornell Casulty bit either, that's funny XD
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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2010, 01:59:55 pm »

T-O-R-C-H-W-O-O-D contains the same letters as D-O-C-T-O-R-W-H-O

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« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2010, 02:05:09 pm »

Asteroid 3325, a small main belt asteroid discovered in 1984, is named TARDIS after the Doctor's time/space machine.

Julia Sawalha was considered for the role of Ace but had to turn it down because of filming commitments

William Hartnell was the 3rd person asked to play the First Doctor after Leslie French and Cyril Cusack turned it down
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« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2010, 03:48:26 pm »

The part of River Song was originally offered to Kate Winslet but she turned it down
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« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2010, 03:50:16 pm »

Oh, I also read before that a phone number that appearead on screen one time during Tennants run, was rung over 50,000 times. I dont know what episode it was in though. I read it ages ago
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« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2010, 06:39:00 pm »

David Tennant insisted on being credited as The Doctor instead of Doctor Who, as the ones who came before him had
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« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2010, 10:43:58 pm »

I love facts and trivia. I dont have any to add though sorry
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« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2010, 10:46:43 pm »

The part of River Song was originally offered to Kate Winslet but she turned it down

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That would have been........interesting.

That black spandex outfit would have looked just as good Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2010, 12:17:44 am »

The part of River Song was originally offered to Kate Winslet but she turned it down

I read that in The Writers Tale. I think she would have been great but Im glad she turned it down because I dont think she would have done the whole recurring thing
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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2010, 12:26:45 pm »

Not really a fact so much as it is a blooper..

When Jackie informs the authorities about the Doctor in Aliens of London, she mentions that the Doctor called his ship the TARDIS, but nobody actually told her that is was called a TARDIS

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The Fourth Doctors face from the credits made a cameo appearance in the Blue Harvest episode of Family Guy

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« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2010, 03:59:32 pm »

Simon Pegg was meant to play the part of Pete Tyler originally but it was impossible to get the dates sorted so he was recast.
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« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2010, 04:32:42 pm »

Wendy Padbury who played Zoe, the Second Doctor's companion, later became the agent of Matt Smith who plays the Eleventh Doctor after discovering him in a play. She was also the agent of Colin Baker who played the Sixth Doctor, Nicholas Courtney who played the Brigadier and Mark Strickson who played companion Turlough

Jackie Lane who played Dodo, companion to the First Doctor, later became the agent of Tom Baker who played the Fourth Doctor and Janet Fielding who played companion Tegan Jovanka

Janet Fielding who played Tegan Jovanka then went on to become the agent of Paul Mcgann, who played the Eighth Doctor
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« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2010, 11:50:55 pm »

Ha, its all very insestuous Tongue
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« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2010, 03:17:48 pm »

I dont know if this is true, but the idea of how a regeneration plays out was supposedly based around an LSD trip that one of the production team had where they were convinced they had a different face.

Its probably a myth though
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« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2010, 03:33:03 pm »

I dont know if this is true, but the idea of how a regeneration plays out was supposedly based around an LSD trip that one of the production team had where they were convinced they had a different face.

Its probably a myth though

Haha, I heard that too
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« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2010, 05:15:05 pm »

Haha I have this vision of William Hartnell and the rest of the cast rolling around the BBC offices high on tabs Tongue
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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2010, 08:01:15 pm »

Haha that cant be true, surely? Shocked Tongue
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« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2010, 11:52:17 am »

Tim Curry turned down the role of the Eighth Doctor as he was worried he wouldnt be able to play it well
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« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2010, 03:46:41 pm »

Tim Curry turned down the role of the Eighth Doctor as he was worried he wouldnt be able to play it well

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