The science fiction franchise Doctor Who has been referenced in various popular culture media. Some of these references have ranged from cameos, pastiches and by name or word. The series has also been parodied on many occasions.
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Big Hero 6 | A white Dalek toy can be seen among other action figures on a shelf in Hiro's bedroom. | |
Bumblebee | A poster of the Fourth Doctor can be seen in Charlie's bedroom. | |
Cars 2 | When Holly Shiftwell and Finn McMissile are captured and tied up inside Big Ben, Holley determines that she must change the direction of the clock to escape, stating "if I can just reverse the polarity". | |
The Forgiven | While David visits Driss' home, he is given a toy Dalek, which he decides to keep as a "souvenir". This Easter egg was placed deliberately as the film also starred former Eleventh Doctor actor Matt Smith as Richard. | |
Iron Sky | The TARDIS appears in the Earth Fleet scene. | [1] |
The Lego Batman Movie | The Daleks appear in the film where they are referred to as "British Robots" and are trapped in the Phantom Zone with other villains. | [2] |
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | The TARDIS makes a brief appearance in the movie, when Rex Dangervest uses parts from it and other famous time machines to build his own one. | |
Looney Tunes: Back in Action | In the Area 52 scene, two Daleks are seen among numerous monsters and robots from old science-fiction films. | [3] [4] |
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmagedon | A sonic screwdriver can be briefly seen when Lula is rifling through the contents of the spaceship. Later on, a sheep dresses up as a Dalek to get past the farmer, which scares the Fourth Doctor, who can be seen exiting a blue portaloo resembling the TARDIS. | |
Ted 2 | While Ted runs from Donny at New York Comic-Con, a full-size Dalek can be seen in the background among other characters from popular franchises. | |
VeggieTales | In Veggies in Space: The Fennel Frontier, the TARDIS appears when asked, "Who called us in? Who? Who?" Archibald Asparagus comes out and replies, "That's Doctor Who to you! Now if you excuse me, I’m needed in the 19th century. Ta-ta!" | |
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Archer | In Series 5 episode 4 (House Call) of Archer, Sterling Archer refers to the British currency as 'Doctor Who' money. | |
The Avengers | Dalek toys are seen in a department store in the episode "Death at Bargain Prices". The series, like Doctor Who, was created by Sydney Newman, although broadcast on the rival ITV network. | |
Better Off Ted | In the episode, “The Great Repression”, a deactivated Dalek is spotted in the sub-basement where the supposed "Robot Farm" is located. | [6] |
The Catherine Tate Show | Tennant starred opposite Catherine Tate’s Lauren Cooper in a 2007 special as her teacher Mr. Logan. Cooper teases Mr. Logan for his resemblance to "Doctor Who"; eventually, he reveals himself as the Doctor, and uses his sonic screwdriver to shrink Cooper into a 5" Rose Tyler action figure. | |
Chelmsford 123 | In the first episode, "Arrivederci Roma", the TARDIS and a scarf-wearing, silhouetted figure appear briefly in the background as Aulus Paulinus travels through Britain. | |
Community | In the season 3 episode "Biology 101", Britta introduces Abed to the long-running British sci-fi show "Inspector Spacetime", a spoof on Doctor Who, after he suffers a nervous breakdown from running out of episodes of the real life series Cougar Town. Since then, Inspector Spacetime is often referenced throughout the duration of the series, namely in the episode "Conventions of Space and Time", where Abed and the study group attend an Inspector Spacetime convention and meet various actors and super-fans of the series, including one played by Matt Lucas, who would later play Nardole in the series. | |
Coupling | The series was notable for its references to Doctor Who as Steven Moffat, (who would later write and produce episodes for Doctor Who) was an avid fan of the show. In one notable episode, a Dalek appears, voiced by Nicholas Briggs, who would also later go on to provide Dalek voices for the revived series. | [7] [8] [9] |
CSI:NY | In the season 4 episode, "Time's Up", a dying man confesses to a murder 24 hours before it happens. While detectives investigate, they find a body in what is supposedly a time machine, and one of them comments "Paging Doctor Who". | |
Derry Girls | In Series 2 Episode 5, "The Prom", James drops out of going to the school prom (the show is set in the 1990s, only a few years after the original series ended) in favour of a Doctor Who night (he and his stepfather used to watch the classic series when he was a child), or a "creep convention", as dubbed by his cousin Michelle, who thinks that it is considered a definition for "a load of perverts getting together to wank over some fella who fights hoovers and rides aliens in a telephone box". Later, when Erin is stood up by her original date, James decides to go with her, wearing a tuxedo and the same multicoloured scarf as the Fourth Doctor. | |
Doctors | Sylvester McCoy made a guest appearance in an episode of the ninth series, as a retired actor, Graham Capelli, who played a time traveller in a television show called The Lollipop Man, where he could travel through time with his traffic lollipop stick. | |
Dracula | In the series premiere, "The Rules of the Beast", after Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to pursue Dracula, he receives a letter from his fiancée Mina, which mentions an “adorable barmaid” working at The Rose and Crown. This is likely a reference to "The Snowmen", in which the character Clara Oswin Oswald was a barmaid at The Rose and Crown. The series was created by former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and writer Mark Gatiss. | |
Family Guy |
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Heartbeat | The episode "State of Mind" contains a subplot in which David Stockwell deals with a police box he claims won't stop disappearing. | |
Holby City | In the episode, "How Drew You Do", John Barrowman and Jo Martin share a scene as their characters Drew Nicholson-Heath and Max McGerry, with the former giving a salute to McGerry and sarcastically saying "Doctor," referencing Martin's performance as The Doctor and Barrowman's role as Jack Harkness (both of them appeared in "Fugitive of the Judoon" but did not share a scene). | [10] |
I'm Alan Partridge | In a 2002 episode, Alan recalls how his purchase of the rights to K9 contributed to a mental breakdown, with him driving to Dundee barefoot while gorging on Toblerone. | |
It's a Sin | The Daleks appear in scenes where series lead Ritchie Tozer (Olly Alexander) is cast in a fictional Doctor Who story called Regression of the Daleks. The series was written by Russell T Davies, who served as the showrunner for the first 4 series and series 14 onward. | [11] |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | In a 2010 episode, a Dalek was a “guest” on the show sitting off to the side and keeping a watchful eye on Ferguson. It never spoke, but occasionally moved around. This was a lead-up to having Matt Smith as a real guest on the show. | |
Legends of Tomorrow | In the episode, "Necromancing the Stone", while referencing their need to locate "a spaceship floating through a temporal stream" Constantine states that "[his] business card says, Master of the Dark Arts, not Doctor Ruddy Whats-His-Face." To which both of the people he is addressing say, "Who?" and he replies, "Exactly." | |
Milo Murphy's Law | An recurring gag in the show is Doctor Zone, a show-within-a-show which heavily parodies Doctor Who. | |
Mr. Bean | In the episode "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", Mr. Bean plays with a toy Dalek in the nativity set inside the store. | |
NCIS | In the episode, "Power Down", McGee compares the unexpectedly spacious interior of a cargo container to the TARDIS, after he explains the meaning to DiNozzo, he asks, “Doctor Who – who watches that?" | |
Neighbours | The character of Mark Brennan is known to be a massive Doctor Who fan and makes many references to it over the years. When Mark went into witness protection, he used the name Matt Smith after the actor that played The Eleventh Doctor. The actor who plays Mark admitted to have no interest in the show. A miniature TARDIS model was seen in the house of Sheila Canning for years after Zeke Kinski had given it as a gift to Mark. The character of Ed Lee was also once spotted with Dalek clothing. The references were included because the fact that writer and producer, and also Doctor Who fan Pete McTighe, was involved with a lot of Neighbours episodes during that time, and he later went on to write a few episodes of Doctor Who. | |
The Orville | In the episode "New Dimensions", while stuck in a two-dimensional space, LaMarr proposes they create a "quantum bubble" allowing the Orville to preserve its three-dimensional space, to which Ed Mercer compares to the TARDIS. | |
Phineas and Ferb | The show made several references to Doctor Who, one example being in “Mission Marvel”, which featured a dimensionally transcendental room which, according to Ferb, was made possible by "a little British sci-fi technology". | |
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | In the episode, “Green Courage“, an on-screen note claimed that a meteoroid field just collided with a planet located at "ten zero eleven zero zero, by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborous. In Pyramids of Mars , these coordinates are given as the location of Gallifrey. | |
Queen of Oz | In the episode "There's a New Queen in Town", when Catherine Tate's character Queen Georgiana is told by her P.A. about the time difference in Australia, moving her speech to tonight instead of the next day, she asks if he's a "fucking Time Lord now" who "just got back from the planet of the tiny doll hands". In the episode "Royal Tinder", Daniel Lapaine's character says, "Well, isn't this wizard?", a nod to a phrase first said by Tate's character Donna Noble and then later repeated by the Meta-Crisis Doctor in the fourth series of Doctor Who. | |
Queer as Folk | Created by Russell T. Davies, Queer as Folk has the character Vince Tyler, a fan of Doctor Who, who makes numerous references to the show, such as:
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Regular Show | In the episode, "Terror Tales of the Park V", Pops dresses as the Fourth Doctor for Halloween. | |
Rick and Morty | "Heavily inspired" by Doctor Who, Rick and Morty uses various references and similarities from the series in multiple episodes. | |
Robot Chicken | One short skit in Season 2, entitled "Do You Get It?" (2006), featured the Fourth Doctor standing on first base in the middle of a baseball field, asking the audience "Do you get it?" The joke being (Doctor) Who's on first (base). | |
Rugrats | In the season 2 episode "Toy Palace", pink Dalek toys can be seen on the store shelves. The show's animator, Gábor Csupó, featured the reference as he is a fan of Doctor Who. | |
Sesame Street | In the 2014 episode "Numeric Con", one of the characters is dressed up as the Fourth Doctor with the TARDIS appearing, two Cybermen and two Dalek-like Aliens saying "Enumerate". | |
Shaun the Sheep | In the episode “Party Animals”, one of the sheep is dressed as a crude version of a Dalek trying to get up some stairs but failing because of the suit. | |
Sherlock | In the Series 4 episode, "The Lying Detective", a postcard with the Torchwood logo can be seen on the mantelpiece where Sherlock keeps the “things he can’t figure out”. | |
The Simpsons |
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South Park | The episode entitled "Funnybot" featured a new character, "Funnybot". Funnybot was designed by the Germans to prove that they were a funny people, after what the students of South Park Elementary had to say about them. Funnybot was obviously based on the Daleks, albeit with Gatling guns in lieu of a death ray, even shouting "Exterminate!" at one point. | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation | In the episode, “The Neutral Zone”, the names of the first six Doctor actors (William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison (incorrectly spelled as “Davidson”), and Colin Baker are seen on a screen. These names were replaced in the remastered Blu-ray version. | |
Supernatural | In the episode, "Nightshifter", a character is convinced that a "mandroid" is responsible for several crimes and holds up a magazine with a Cyberman on its cover to illustrate his point. In the episode "The Girl Next Door", Sam confronts a Kitsune using the alias "Amy Pond". | |
Top Gear | A Dalek, the Sixth Doctor, and a Cyberman appeared alongside Darth Vader, Ming the Merciless, and a Klingon, in a 2003 episode, to see who was "Master of the Universe" with a lap around their test track in a racing modified Honda Civic. The Dalek could not get into the car, so it exterminated the other drivers (with the exception of the Klingon and the Doctor; who had apparently fled beforehand as they were not present); the Cyberman was eventually declared the winner by the hosts. | |
Vision On | The Daleks appear in an episode performing a short ballet sequence to the music of Manuel de Falla's "Ritual Fire Dance". | [22] |
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney | During the "Turnabout Serenade" case, if you examine the top hat in the Wright Anything Agency on the 2nd day, Trucy Wright states that her hat is "like a little universe! Bigger on the inside than on the outside!" Apollo muses that this reminds him of a sci-fi show he used to watch. | [23] |
Beneath a Steel Sky | When the welding robot body is placed onto Joey and when talked to, he'll say "EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!" mimicking the Daleks. | [24] |
Borderlands 2 | After blowing up the dam in the side mission "Hell Hath No Fury", Handsome Jack will read a list of names of the week's construction casualties which are Hartnell, W. Troughton, P. Pertwee, J. Baker, T. These are references to the actors William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker; respectively, who had played the role of the Doctor. | [25] |
Destroy All Humans! 2 | The player can travel to a version of London called Albion, where the appearance of the extraterrestrial main character, Crypto, causes its citizens to scream phrases like, “Someone call The Doctor!” or “Where the hell’s the bleedin’ TARDIS?". | |
EverQuest | A non-player character named Tavid Dennant, a reference to actor David Tennant who played the Tenth Doctor, can be found in the Guild Hall, who was previously named Flavin Deepockets until the release of the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction . When talking to him, he will ask the player to find his long colorful scarf, a reference to the Fourth Doctor's scarf, and also claims to have a watch which he cannot recall where he got it but believes it is a part of him, a possible reference to the chameleon arch fob from the episode "Human Nature". | [26] |
Fallout | One of the random encounters the player may come across features the TARDIS from the series. Upon approaching it, it will disappear. | [27] |
Fallout 2 | The Navarro base has a damaged robot dog known as K9, with speech patterns similar to the Doctor Who character. When repaired, K9 is willing to join the character's party as a companion. | |
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham |
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Lego Marvel Super Heroes | When travelling to Asgard during the level, "Bifrosty Reception", the player goes through a portal similar to the time vortex from 2005 to 2007. | |
Lemmings 2: The Tribes | The exit for the "Shadow Tribe" level is resembles the TARDIS. | |
Life is Strange | There are several references to Doctor Who. Amelia Pond is the name of a server on a receipt for the dry cleaners. Max sees an owl and calls it Doctor Hoo. They mention it in conversation about time-travel as well and the TARDIS appears as a email account icon. Doctor Who appears in a list of pirated media that Warren has on his USB stick. River S and Rory W are also shown on a card. Warrens signs off emails and texts as 'The Doctor'. | |
Pokémon Platinum | The character Looker is a reference to the Tenth Doctor. He features almost the same attire as the Tenth and refuses to reveal his true name similar to the Doctor. In the game, his goal is stop Team Galactic from taking over the universe. | [29] |
RuneScape | In the town of Burgh de Rott, two characters named Rory and Amelia can be found, references to Rory Williams and Amy Pond; respectively. If the player claims to be the hero in their stories, they will accuse the player of lying and state that the player character is not wearing a "cool bow tie" like their hero. During the Ratcatchers Quest the player's cat screams "Exterminate! Exterminate!" referencing the Daleks. | [29] [30] |
The Secret World | In "The City Before Us" mission involving time travel, Saïd, an ancient mommy speaking in a very old unknown language refers to the name "Tardis" when inviting the character to enter the stone room that will transport the character in Ancient Egypt. | |
Taz: Wanted | When all sandwiches are collected in a level, a blue phone box with a flashing blue light will arrive to take Taz to a bonus challenge. Inside the box also have the classic TARDIS interior. | [31] |
Team Fortress 2 | The bow tie item "Dr. Whoa" is a reference to the show and in particular the Eleventh Doctor who was synonymous with bow ties. | [32] |
Terraria | A wearable vanity set exists made up of The Doctor's Shirt and The Doctor's Pants, styled after the Eleventh Doctor. The Fez item also contains the tooltip 'Fezzes are cool', a reference to the Eleventh Doctor's description of fezzes in The Big Bang. The Wizard NPC will sometimes say 'I once tried to bring an Angel Statue to life. It didn't do anything.', a reference to Weeping Angels. | |
To the Moon | The TARDIS is mentioned by Dr. Watts, as being able to lift a piano. | |
Watch Dogs: Legion | The DedSec underground base in London has a TARDIS in it covered in photos and graffiti. | |
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | Outside the church near Lindenvale, there are two angel statues that when you turn away will have moved from where they were standing, a reference to the Weeping Angels. | [33] |
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“Doctorin' the Tardis” | This 1988 novelty single by the KLF (known then as The Timelords), featured many references to Doctor Who. | [34] |
“Exterminate Annihilate Destroy” | Daleks were sampled by the German electronic band Rotersand in their 2005 single "Exterminate Annihilate Destroy". | [35] |
“Exterminate, Regenerate” | Written by the trock band Chameleon Circuit for their eponymous album, the song illustrates the conflict between the Doctor and the Daleks. | |
“Her Daddy Was a Dalek, Her Mummy Was a Non-Stick Frying Pan” | This song written by Martin Gordon from his album "The Joy of More Hogwash", includes numerous references to the Daleks. | [36] |
“I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek” | This 1964 song was the first known musical reference to Daleks, written by the Go-Go's, it was released during the 1960s' "Dalekmania" fad. | [37] |
“The Main Character” | The second verse of this 2023 Will Wood song features the lyrics “Daleks in high collars monologue and I outsmart them with a ray gun and a tweet.” | [38] |
"Remote Control" | This song by The Clash includes the lyrics, ("Repression—gonna be a Dalek / Repression—I am a robot / Repression—I obey.") | [39] |
“Shakespeare’s Tacklebox” | Samples of Dalek voices uttering the phrases "the prisoners have escaped" and "exterminate them" appear in this song by the Australian band Spiderbait on their 1993 debut LP "ShaShaVaGlava". | [40] |
“Smile” | This song by the Supernaturals includes the lyrics, ("I feel like a Dalek inside/ Everything's gone grey but used to be so black and white"). | [41] |
"Up on the Ladder" | This song by British rock band Radiohead from their 2007 album In Rainbows disk 2, starts with the verse "I'm stuck in the TARDIS". | [42] |
“Weathercade” | This song, by the Creatures, includes the lyrics "The Dalek drones are drowning". | [43] |
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Animalia by Graeme Base | A Dalek appears on the pages with objects starting with the letter D. | [44] |
Broadway Revival | Doctor Who was revived in 2063 for its 100th anniversary, running for another ten years. Several episodes involved The Doctor encountering Rippers, a group of time travellers who conduct historical research in the past. | |
The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman | Lady Jennifer Buckingham from The War Games appears. | |
The Condition of Muzak | “Doctor Who” and a Dalek appear amongst other fictional characters. Author Moorcock was himself an admirer of Doctor Who. | |
High Wizardry by Diane Duane | The Fifth Doctor makes an unnamed cameo as a stranger in a bar who helps the protagonist out of a sticky situation. A decade later, Duane confirmed the stranger's intended identity to a fan. Duane later ended up writing Goths and Robbers, an official Fifth Doctor short story for the Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership . | [45] |
Ishmael | This Star Trek novel contains numerous references to Doctor Who, including cameo appearances by the Second and Fourth incarnations of The Doctor on pages 154 and 13, Metebelis crystals from the serials The Green Death and Planet of the Spiders are mentioned on page 57, and on page 200, Kirk recalls legends of a planet of stagnant time-travellers in the Kasteroborous galaxy. | |
Later by Stephen King | Jamie Conklin mentions Torchwood , thinking it's not "cool", but watches it because he gets to stay up an hour past his bedtime. | |
Outlander series | Series protagonist Jamie Fraser is based on the companion Jamie McCrimmon. | [46] |
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ALF | In issue #38, a Melmacian named Doctor Whozonfirst appears dressed like the Fourth Doctor. He claims to be a "Slimelord" from "Gallifree" and travels in a "TARDIS Gras" | |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | In issue #6 of Season Eight, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler can be seen in London. | [47] |
Excalibur | Excalibur Vol. 1 6 (1989) introduces Professor Alistaire Stuart and Brigadier Alysande Stuart of the Weird Happenings Organisation (W.H.O., a nod to UNIT and Doctor Who). | |
Fantastic Four | In Vol. 3 9 (1998), Johnny Storm knows that Reed Richards got a second-hand phone booth that is bigger on the inside from his "weird 'doctor' friend”. The Seventh Doctor had previously appeared in crossovers with the Fantastic Four back when Marvel Comics had the comic license for Doctor Who. | |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century | A Dalek can be seen during a psychedelic hallucination by Mina Murray. | [48] |
Power Man and Iron Fist | In issue #79, Iron Fist and Power Man encounter J. A. Gamble and the Dredlox, who are pastiches of the Doctor and the Daleks. Writer for the comic Jo Duffy was a fan of the show and described the story as her "love letter to Doctor Who". | [49] |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged |
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Epic Rap Battles of History | The Tenth Doctor appears in the 24th episode, having a rap battle with Doc Brown from Back to the Future . Near the episodes end, he gets shot by a Dalek, regenerating into the Fourth Doctor. | [50] |
"Why The Web Is Such A Mess" | A Vote Saxon poster appears in this video by Tom Scott, which was posted on November 23, 2020, Doctor Who's 57th anniversary. | [51] |
Death Battle | The Tenth Doctor was featured in the 185th episode of Death Battle, where he fought against Rick Sanchez From Rick and Morty, in which the Doctor ultimately won. | |
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If you talk to Joey after placing the welder robot shell on him, he'll say during conversation "EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!", mimicking the Daleks from the science-fiction series Doctor Who.
In the side mission "Hell Hath No Fury", after blowing up the dam, Handsome Jack will read out a list of the week's construction casualties which are: Hartnell, W. Troughton, P. Pertwee, J. Baker, T. This is a reference to the actors William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, all of who played in respective order the character 'the Doctor' in the science fiction series Doctor Who.
In the Hall of Doom, a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who can be found. Every time you move the camera away from it, its hands will move from its face and then cover it back.
After collecting all the sandwiches in a level, a blue phone box with a flashing blue light will appear which will take Taz to a bonus challenge. This is a reference to the TARDIS from Doctor Who, as the box features the classic TARDIS ship interior.
The bow tie "Dr. Whoa" is a reference to the science fiction series "Doctor Who" and is often associated with the main character 'the Doctor', particularly the 11th incarnation. The bow tie can be worn by either the Medic or Spy and was created through the Steam Workshop by the user "TauVee".