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Recce A recce is a part of the pre - production process which involves key members of staff visiting sites to determine their suitability for location filming . The term is an adaptation of the chiefly military term , " reconnoitre " . Two recces were recorded on the documentary , " Designs on Doctor Who " — one led by Julian Luxton for " Torchwood " and the other by Ed Thomas for " Doctor Who " .
Cultural references to the Doctor Who universe Occasionally , elements of the " Doctor Who " universe are referenced in the broader popular culture . This page exists to throw a spotlight on some of these casual references made in television , comics , films and other media . Out - of - universe references . A number of TV series have made reference to the " Doctor Who " franchise itself :
TCH 56 TCH 56 was a reference book published by Hachette Partworks and Panini UK in 2016 . It was the fifteenth issue of " The Complete History " , and covered the " Doctor Who " episodes " Human Nature " / " The Family of Blood " , " Blink " , " Utopia " and " The Sound of Drums " / " Last of the Time Lords " . Publisher ' s summary . Featuring David Tennant , Issue 15 features four adventures : " Human nature " / " The family of blood " , " Blink " , " Utopia " and " The sound of drums " / " Last of the time lords " Notable features . " to be added " External links . " to be added "
Space Oddity " Space Oddity " was a song . Frobisher sang it to annoy Professor Strut , a hater of music . ( COMIC : " The Gift " ) Tobbs had the line " It ' s time to leave the airlock if you dare " stuck in his head , which he knew probably weren ' t the right words . ( PROSE : " The Hungry Night " ) Behind the scenes . In the real world , " Space Oddity " was written and performed by David Bowie . The title of the song is not named in either story , but can be inferred from the context . The comic story " The Hyperion Empire " refers to Chris Hadfield ' s " singing astronaut schtick " , a reference to Hadfield ' s cover of " Space Oddity " .
Rontan 9 Rontan 9 was a planet where scientists could rent laboratory space to conduct experiments . During the Last Great Time War it was affected by the Dalek ' s Time Destructor . Temporal distortions littered the planet , causing its inhabitants to turn into hostile creatures . The Eighth Doctor landed on the planet in search of mercury to fix his TARDIS . Rontan 9 was destroyed when its sun exploded into a supernova , millions of years before it should have . ( PROSE : " Natural Regression " )
Tony Tyler Tony Tyler was the young child of Jackie Tyler and Pete Tyler and the younger brother of Rose Tyler . In the time between the Battle of Canary Wharf and the first journey to Bad Wolf Bay , Jackie had fallen pregnant . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) Later , after Tony ' s birth Jackie jokingly stated that she had named her son " Doctor " to tease the Tenth Doctor , before admitting his name was Tony . Whilst Jackie was fighting the Dalek s during their invasion of her Earth , she left Pete on the " nursery run " to look after Tony . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) He was evidently named after Jackie ' s uncle Tony . ( AUDIO : " Retail Therapy " , " Wednesdays For Beginners " )
English Pantomime : A Critical Study English Pantomime : A Critical Study was a thesis written by by Professor Ferdinand Archduke . It contained details of the pantomime genre of theatre , along with details of several individual plays , including " Jack and the Beanstalk " , " Cinderella " , " Aladdin " , " Sleeping Beauty " and " Snow White " . The thesis was sent to Professor Bernice Summerfield for review . When the database containing the thesis was compromised by a Perfecton missile , elements of the thesis became the reality for the crew . ( PROSE : " Oh No It Isn ' t " )
Chilly Chillys were students of the New World University . They wore a uniform consisting of a yellow baseball cap bearing the New World University logo and a dark green sweatshirt with the NWU logo in yellow across the front , as well as headphones through which they listened to a hypnotic electronic beat . They had all been possessed by the Great Intelligence . ( HOMEVID : " Downtime " , PROSE : " Downtime " )
April April was a month of great importance to the prosecution of the American Civil War . It was in many ways the month in which the war started in 1861 , thanks to South Carolina ' s passage of a kind of " Declaration of Independence " from the United States . It was also the month in which the war ended , following the surrender of Robert E . Lee to Ulysses S . Grant in 1865 . In the early part of the month , a victorious Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond to address the people of seceded Virginia . He would have been assassinated there , but for the intervention of the Fifth Doctor . It was a short - lived salvation , however , as Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in the middle of the month . Many ordinary citizens wrote letters throughout the month about Lincoln ' s fate , and about the future of the United States and the former Confederacy . Many letters , newspaper articles and diary entries were written by ordinary Americans — such as Will Johnson , Claire Bartlett , Hilary Makepeace and Kenneth Smith — during both of these fateful Aprils . Additionally , Paul LeVal was pressed into service in the Confederate Army , as were many southerners , during April 1961 . ( PROSE : " Blood and Hope " ) History recorded that April was the month in which the Doctor was killed by River Song , specifically on 22 April 2011 . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) In reality , the Eleventh Doctor was in the Tesselecta during the murder , and remained unharmed during the whole process . When River attempted to change the events of this fixed point in time , an alternate reality was created in which it was always 5 : 02 PM on 22 April 2011 . This reality was undone once events were allowed to continue . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " )
Meredith ( Misplaced Spring ) Meredith was a student who arrived on the Braxiatel Collection not long after the Fifth Axis occupation of the Collection ended . She arrived on the same transport as Parasiel ; they argued the entire trip and continued the argument once they reached the Collection . ( PROSE : " Misplaced Spring " )
Finicia Portillon Finicia Portillon was a daughter of Squire Claude Portillon of Tranchard ' s Fell and the village healer Agnes Bates . She had a twin brother Lucern . To conceal their illegitimacy , the squire announced that they were born by his wife , who died giving birth . ( In reality she died some time before of pox . ) Even the children themselves did not know who their real mother was . When they were seventeen , Finicia and her brother chanced upon two Varaxil s at the Morris ' s barn . Afraid of being discovered , the Varaxils killed the twins using the WitchStar , which sucked all their life force from them , leaving two unidentifiable grey husks . The Veraxils assimilated their memories in the process and later assumed their appearance to operate freely in the village . ( AUDIO : " The Witch from the Well " )
Ronald Biggs Ronald Biggs was a train robber from the 1960s who escaped to Brazil and remained there in hiding because Brazil and Britain did not have any extradition treaty . The Tenth Doctor likened the Plasmavore ' s escaping to Earth to Biggs ' escape , as the Judoon did not have any jurisdiction over the Earth . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " )
Sahmbekart The Sahmbekarts were , in Daedalus ' opinion , " the wickedest bastards the Enclave [ had ] to offer " . They were humanoid lizard s with large head s , weak arm s , leg s twice as thick as their torsos , ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) and scale s coloured " a glittering jade " . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Originating from the Enclave , the Sahmbekarts received radio signals from the outside universe and became eager to fight and plunder all the people who lived there . A great Sahmbekart fleet was assembled , composed of crafts which were viciously sharp . When Daedalus connected the Enclave to the universe , the Sahmbekart fleet came in conflict with the crew of the " Nepotist " . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) A Sahmbekart was a member of Julia ' s pirate crew on Hyspero . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " )
Sirithgow Sirithgow was a posthuman shoal - person . They travelled in a mobile aqaurium . In the City of the Saved , they lived in Araminta District . Brianna ap t ' Erapi encountered Sirithgow at the beginning of the City of the Saved Civil War . ( PROSE : " Just Passing Through " )
Church of the Sycorax The Church of the Sycorax , also known as the Convent of Saint Sabbas , was a copy of Westminster Abbey located on Shadow Cay . It was created by the Sycorax using magma - sculpting technology , as a shrine to where Fadros Pallujikaa fell to his death in 2006 after the Tenth Doctor defeated him . The Sycorax hypnotised human ity into believing the building was constructed in 1823 . In 2009 , the church was destroyed when the Doctor overloaded the magma - sculptor by having it scan and recreate the whole of Earth on Shadow Cay . ( COMIC : " The Widow ' s Curse " )
William Blake William Blake was an English poet , painter , and printmaker . At his home in Cambridge in 1811 , he fell through a hole in time and found himself trapped in the netherworld of the Yssgaroth . He met the Seventh Doctor when the Doctor went through another hole in the Althosian system . They visited Whitechapel during the Jack the Ripper murder s in 1888 , and 20th century England . Eventually he was returned to his home via the Doctor ' s TARDIS . ( PROSE : " The Pit " ) In 1783 , Blake made an engraving of his brother Robert ' s painting " Approach of Doom " . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) Blake was one of the guests at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane ' s wedding in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010 . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) While in 1963 Switzerland , the Fifth Doctor jokingly told Nyssa that he , along with Walt Whitman , might have been a Time Lord . ( AUDIO : " Winter for the Adept " ) Behind the scenes . Although not openly credited to William Blake , the opening verse of his poem , " The Tyger " , is read aloud by Tommy in the television story " Planet of the Spiders " .
25 November 25 November 1974 was the fourth day of Professor Alec Palmer and Emma Grayling ' s investigation of the ghost that haunted Caliburn House . That night , the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald visited the Caliburn House , and helped locate the ghost , who was actually a human time travel ler named Hila Tacorien . Using Emma ' s psychic power s , the Doctor crossed a wormhole to get to the pocket universe in which Hila was trapped , bringing her back to N - Space . He later retrieved the Crooked Man from the pocket universe as well , reuniting him with his mate . The day was also notable as the start of the relationship between Alec and Emma , which would later give birth to Hila , their great - great - great - great - great - granddaughter . ( TV : " Hide " )
80 By early 80 , the Caecilius family — whom the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble had saved from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 — had resettled in Rome . Caecilius ' business was successfully re - established . Evelina was returned to a state of health . She was dating boys , to her father ' s consternation . Quintus had given up his dissolute ways to train as a doctor . The Doctor and Donna were worshipped as the family ' s . ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " )
War Lord homeworld The War Lord homeworld was the home planet of the War Lord and his people . It was located in Galactic Sector 973 . The War Lord s also had control over another planet , and could travel between these two worlds . The homeworld was placed behind a force field by the Time Lord s , cutting it off from the rest of the universe forever , when it was discovered that they were taking human s from different points in Earth ' s history to play in their War Games . ( TV : " The War Games " )
Short Trips : Volume 4 Short Trips : Volume 4 was the fourth release in Big Finish Productions ' Short Trips audio line . Publisher ' s summary . Get ready for eight fantastic new adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions , featuring stories from many of Doctor Who ' s most popular authors from the worlds of television , print , comics and audio , as well as new talent and fresh voices . . . and read by your favourite Big Finish actors !
The Official Doctor Who Annual 2013 The Official Doctor Who Annual 2013 was the British " Doctor Who " annual published by BBC Children ' s Books . As with all British annuals , it was actually published in the year prior the cover date prior to the broadcast of series 7 broadcast in 2012 .
Uganda Uganda was a country in central Africa . It was a natural habitat of the mountain gorilla . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) While in medical school , Mike Thomson studied for an elective in Uganda . ( PROSE : " The Sleep of Reason " )
2379 In 2379 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown encountered Sil on Thoros Beta . Peri fell victim to Sil - sponsored experiments . For a time , the Doctor believed she had been killed by them . The Doctor later learned Peri had gone to the planet Krontep this year after falling in love with the warrior king Yrcanos . ( TV : " Mindwarp " , " The Ultimate Foe " )
Oskar Steinmann Oskar Steinmann was a Nazi colonel who oversaw the occupation of Guernsey during World War II . He obtained Bernice Summerfield ' s diary which she left on Guernsey . He tried to warn others about the future events described in it , but failed in altering history . ( PROSE : " Just War " ; AUDIO : " Just War " ) Following the end of the war , he was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials . In 1969 , after more than two decades in prison , he was released on medical grounds . He died in 1972 . ( PROSE : " Just War " )
Floor 13 Floor 13 was the top level of Thames House . As it was the London headquarters for MI5 , Thames House was the most secure building in Britain . When the 456 sent instructions to the British government in 2009 for an environment chamber , it was constructed on Floor 13 . ( TV : " " )
Distractions ( comic story ) Distractions was a Seventh Doctor comic strip published in " Doctor Who Magazine " . It served as the second prequel to " The Mark of Mandragora " . Summary . The Doctor is brooding when Ace asks him about his old study , which they head for . He wonders why he hasn ' t been able to take the TARDIS away from Earth recently , and why they ' ve encountered creatures that should never have been there . When they arrive at the study , its actually the secondary control room , and he remembers when he previously used it . After all this time , a part of the Mandragora Helix is still aboard the TARDIS , and the Doctor fears it is now powerful enough to direct the path of the TARDIS as well as draw other forces to Earth . As , he and Ace leave the control room , helix energy crackles into life . Plot . " to be added "
Ron Turner Ron Turner was one of the artists for " The Dalek Chronicles " comic strips in " TV Century 21 " . With his agent , John Lawrence , he also would create two new Dalek Chronicles for " Doctor Who Magazine " , although the second remained incomplete at the time of his death on 19 December 1998 . ( DWM 276 )
15 November On 15 November 1966 , Perpugilliam " Peri " Brown , companion to the Fifth and Sixth Doctor s , was born . ( AUDIO : " Peri and the Piscon Paradox " ) In 1807 , Mannering Caversham died . ( AUDIO : " The Darkness of Glass " ) In 1859 , there were exactly 1 , 000 , 300 , 558 human s on Earth . ( AUDIO : " The Pursuit of History " ) Behind the scenes . Peri ' s birthday in " Peri and the Piscon Paradox " is a likely reference to a production error in " Planet of Fire " where Peri ' s passport was actually made for another production . As such , her name is listed as Sydney and her birthdate is listed as 15 November 1940 .
The Long Step Backward ( short story ) The Long Step Backward was the fourth short story in the Short Trips anthology " " . It was written by Mike W . Barr . It featured the First Doctor , Vicki and Steven Taylor . Summary . The Doctor , Vicki and Steven visit Charles University in Prague for its one - thousandth anniversary . They are welcomed by Professor Fox and several graduate students , including Jane Childress , who is wearing a necklace that Vicki admires , but Jane won ' t let her look at it . A monkey appears out of nowhere , and Jane coaxes it to come to her with some fruit from her pocket . She offers to take the monkey to the tower of the Astronomical Clock so the caretaker , Jimson , can look after it . The Doctor sends Steven to accompany her . Inside the clock tower , Steven finds Jimson ' s empty uniform , and Jane hits him over the head with a piece of wood . Meanwhile , the Doctor is suspicious of Jane ' s actions and orders Vicki back to the TARDIS . When the clock strikes , the Doctor realises something is happening . Everyone starts to change , " devolving " into monkey s , gorilla s or ape s ( with the exception of the Doctor , who devolves into something with tentacle s ) . The Doctor retains enough consciousness to head to the clock tower , where Jane , seeing him , starts to boast . She has long been ignored over her fellow , younger , graduate students , and she has built a " devolving " machine as revenge . Soon , she will be the smartest person on the planet . What ' s left of the Doctor destroys her machine , but she has a handheld device . She points it at the Doctor , but the monkey that used to be Jimson grabs it from her . At first , she thinks she ' s safe , as her necklace will protect her , but the Doctor reveals that he has taken her necklace . Jimson points the device at her and presses a button , and she slowly devolves into a flash of light . The Doctor turns off the device . Later , everyone has returned to normal . The Doctor explains to his companions what happened , telling them that his people evolved over a much longer time period than humans , so he was able to retain consciousness long enough to stop Jane . Notes . " to be added "
Norman Stanley Norman Stanley played , disguised as a Telephone Mechanic , in the " Doctor Who " television story " Terror of the Autons " . This was the first and only time that one of the Master ' s disguises had involved employing another actor . Stanley ' s other credits included roles on and " Z - Cars " . He also had a role in the film .
George III ' s mammoth In 1774 , George III was gifted the last living mammoth in Europe by Catherine II . George III , not understanding the beast ' s value , organised a hunt for the creature . Some of the last surviving members of Faction Paradox came to London to win the King ' s favour by winning the hunt , ( COMIC : " Political Animals " ) but they were distracted when the American ambassador ' s gift to George III , Mayakatula , escaped into the city . While busy tracking Mayakatula , Mother Francesca and her acolyte sensed that they had lost their chance at gaining a foothold in history by killing the mammoth . While it was alive , the mammoth was kept in the royal stables . Its handlers were unaware of what George II planned to do with the creature . ( COMIC : " Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses " ) Isobel helped care for the mammoth and feed it . Snaddon told her that it was a gesture from Catherine II that she was ready to share her secrets with George III . ( COMIC : " Political Animals " ) According to rumours heard by Lucia Cailloux , the mammoth was killed not in a hunt , but in a fight with George III ' s pit - dog s . ( PROSE : " Grass " ) In 1782 , Scarlette told the Eighth Doctor that she had ridden George III ' s mammoth . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) Due to Chris Cwej ' s interference in the Faction Hollywood production of " " , filmed with a GCI processor , a scene was added to the movie depicting the child of one of the film ' s main characters tending to " a live oriental mammoth owned by the King of England " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Behind the scenes . Due to Image Comics cancelling the " Faction Paradox " series , the storyline involving the hunt of the mammoth was left unfinished . The preview for the third issue included at the back of FP 2 depicted the mammoth wearing armour .
Jenny Jenny has several meanings pertinent to the " Doctor Who " universe and the real world . They are listed below in alphabetical order by surname . If no surname is available , alphabetisation occurs by the disambiguation term — that is , the bit between the parentheses in a title like Waitress ( Random Shoes ) .
World Apart ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . If you ’ re reading this , it ’ s too late . There ’ s no way off this planet . You will never escape Nirvana . Plot . " to be added " Notes . " to be added "
Sociable A Sociable was a type of carriage . Messrs Thorn had a quantity of second - hand carriages for sale , including Sociables , for shipper s and merchant s . An advert by Messrs Thorn appeared in an 1890s copy of " The Times " . ( TV : " Deep Breath " )
Artron oxidant Artron oxidants were a kind of exotic particle . They accumulated in the bodies of time travel lers . Carmodi Litian was addicted to them , getting a contact high when she was near someone with them in their system . She kidnapped Fitz Kreiner due to the massive amounts of them he had . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Still " )
The Dying Days ( novel ) The Dying Days was the final release of the Virgin New Adventures line of " Doctor Who " novels and the only one featuring the Eighth Doctor . After this novel was published , Virgin Books forfeited the rights to produce novels featuring the Doctor to BBC Books . This marked a transition to a new series of novels featuring Bernice Summerfield as the main character while BBC Books made their own series of novels featuring the Eighth Doctor . Publisher ' s summary . " 6 May 1997 " " The Dying Days of the Twentieth Century " On the Mare Sirenum , British astronauts are walking on the surface of Mars for the first time in over twenty years . The National Space Museum in London is the venue for a spectacular event where the great and the good celebrate a unique British achievement . In Adisham , Kent , the most dangerous man in Britain has escaped from custody while being transported by helicopter . In Whitehall , the new Home Secretary is convinced that there is a plot brewing to overthrow the government . In west London , MI5 agents shut down a publishing company that got too close to the top secret organisation known as UNIT . And , on a state visit to Washington , the British Prime Minister prepares to make a crucial speech , totally unaware that dark forces are working against him . As the Eighth Doctor and Professor Bernice Summerfield discover , all these events are connected . However , soon all will be overshadowed . This time , the Doctor is already too late . Plot . " to be added "