Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest was an annual competition held among the nations of Europe.
Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. The Thirteenth Doctor suggested visiting Vienna in that year to see Eurovision. (PROSE: The Good Doctor)
Martha Jones and the Tenth Doctor visited the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki and watched performances from Scooch and the Slovenian entry. A few weeks later, they watched Lulu win Eurovision Song Contest 1969 on their television. (PROSE: Martha Jones' MySpace blog)
Jack Harkness remembered when ABBA won Eurovision (AUDIO: The Dead Line) in 1974, with Nardole in attendance. (AUDIO: Dead Media)
In an alternate timeline in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had been made immortal, the composer had made several Eurovision entries, none of which were looked on favourably. (AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang)
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Eurovision pastiche in the DWU ===
The Intergalactic Song Contest and its commentator Logan from AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom! spoofed the Eurovision Song Contest Terry Wogan, who commentated the contest from 1971 to 2008.
=== Doctor Who postponements ===
The Eurovision Song Contest was responsible for the one-week delay of two different episodes of the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who. The transmission of series 3's 42 was postponed to 19 May (rather than 12 May) because of the BBC's broadcast of the of the Eurovision Song Contest. The following year, the transmission of series 4's Silence in the Library was too delayed by one week due to the BBC's broadcast of the .
=== Coexistence with Eurovision ===
However, a more common occurrence is a Doctor Who episode simply airing on the day and coexisting with the Eurovision final rather than being delayed by a week.
* Marco Polo: Rider from Shang-Tu aired on the same night as the .
*The Web Planet: The Centre aired on the same night as the .
*The Ark: The Steel Sky aired on the same night as the .
*The Faceless Ones: Episode 1 aired on the same night as the .
*Fury from the Deep: Episode 4 aired on the same night as the .
*The Space Pirates: Episode Four aired on the same night as the .
*The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 1 aired on the same night as the .
*The Claws of Axos: Episode Four aired on the same night as the .
*The Sea Devils: Episode Five aired on the same night as the .
*Planet of the Daleks: Episode One aired on the same night as the .
*The Monster of Peladon: Part Three aired on the same night as the .
* Genesis of the Daleks: Part Three aired on the same night as the .
*The Empty Child aired on the same night as the final of the .
*The Age of Steel aired on the same night as the final of the .
*Cold Blood aired on the same night as the final of the .
*The Doctor's Wife aired on the same night as the final of the .
*The Name of the Doctor aired on the same night as the final of the .
*Oxygen aired on the same night as the final of the .
==="Nul points"===
The Ninth Doctor says "nul points", a phrase used when a Eurovision act is unfortunate enough to receive no points, when the Daleks fail to kill him when they fire at him as he steps out of his TARDIS to meet them in TV: The Parting of the Ways, due to the force field he installed. However, the phrase's connection to the Eurovision Song Contest is not explicitly mentioned within the episode.
===Other matters===
Catherine Tate announced the 12 points given by the United Kingdom for the final of the , exclaiming "allons-y" whilst doing so.
 
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