Russell T Davies
"Dark Season" contained some similarity to "Doctor Who", which Russell T Davies revived in 2005. Most notably, Marcie occupies a similar narrative space to the Doctor, with Reet and Thomas as her companions. Nevertheless, this broad structural similarity to "Doctor Who" has been categorically denied by Russell T Davies as intentional. Davies has claimed that the only direct reference to so-called "classic" "Doctor Who" is a scene in which Reet uses a yo-yo to test gravity.