Sex appeal

The Tenth Doctor wonders if he is sexy. (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])

Bernice Summerfield believed that the Seventh Doctor, unlike his next incarnation, did not have sex appeal. (PROSE: The Dying Days ^[+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"]) The term "sexy" was used by an individual to describe another who they thought was sexually attractive. (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])

Whilst confronting the Sycorax within their spaceship, the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor openly wondered if he was sexy whilst winking at an amused Rose Tyler. (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) In a possible future stemming from the Eighth Doctor's life, (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows ^[+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"]) the Tenth Doctor described himself as sexy. (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death ^[+]Loading...["The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)"])

When his TARDIS shown him a new control room, the Eleventh Doctor, himself recently regenerated, said "you sexy thing". (TV: The Eleventh Hour ^[+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) When the TARDIS matrix was transfered to a humanoid body, Idris, the TARDIS recalled "I think you call me Sexy" when the Doctor asked her for her name. The Doctor claimed that he only did this when they were alone; when she noted that they were alone, he conceded "come on then, sexy", later addressing her as "you sexy thing". Upon meeting Amy Pond and Rory Williams in this form, the TARDIS introduced herself "I'm Sexy". (TV: The Doctor's Wife ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) The Doctor later described the TARDIS as "tough, old, sexy", with his Ganger concurred "tough, dependable, sexy." (TV: The Almost People ^[+]Loading...["The Almost People (TV story)"]) The Doctor referred to the Saturnyns as "sexy fish vampires". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War ^[+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"])

The newly regenerated Twelfth Doctor addressed a Tyrannosaurus rex as a "big, sexy woman". (TV: Deep Breath ^[+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) He once addressed Rona Bellows as "sexy one". (TV: Last Christmas ^[+]Loading...["Last Christmas (TV story)"])

Gwen Cooper described herself as a "very sexy lady". (TV: Adrift ^[+]Loading...["Adrift (TV story)"]) She said that her boyfriend Rhys Williams looked sexy when he was wearing what she called his "pulling top". (TV: Combat ^[+]Loading...["Combat (TV story)"])

After hearing how Toshiko Sato stopped a man from killing his wife and son, Mary announced to Tosh that "You do something unbelievably brave and sexy, I have to kiss you. I don't make the rules." (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts ^[+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"])

Whilst at Torchwood Cardiff, Captain John Hart disclosed having worked with a woman who was "beautiful, clever, sexy, yadda yadda yadda". (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts ^[+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"]) Rhys observed that Gwen's Torchwood colleagues, namely Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones and Owen Harper, were all "sexy young men". Gwen assured him that there was only one from where she sat before kissing him. (TV: Meat ^[+]Loading...["Meat (TV story)"])

Sexy was a name which Cindy Wu gave to one of the Wu Diaspora. (COMIC: Vortex Butterflies ^[+]Loading...["Vortex Butterflies (comic story)"])

When Plark told his subordinate to make their simulation of Joseph Serf smile at Sarah Jane Smith, the Skullion made him give a "sexy smile", only to be told by Plark to give him a "thoughtful smile, not sexy smile". (TV: The Man Who Never Was ^[+]Loading...["The Man Who Never Was (TV story)"])

"Is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?" (TV: Asylum of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"])

When the Eleventh Doctor asked Oswin Oswald how she could "hack into everything", she replied "[Was] there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?" The Doctor answered "Doctor. You call me the Doctor." Oswin responded that she "[saw] what [he] did there." (TV: Asylum of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"])

After hearing the Twelfth Doctor mention Clara Oswald, Missy suggested that it would be sexy if she shot him in a jealous rage. (TV: Dark Water ^[+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"]) She said that a space station should be "all coppery-smelling round the edges" and "a tiny bit sexy" before finding that what appeared to be the interior of a space station was actually Skaro. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"])

River Song opined that King Hydroflax's mobile life support was sexy, asserting that it was "absolutely sexy" when the Twelfth Doctor disagreed. The Doctor questioned "why [was] everything sexy now?" (TV: The Husbands of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"])

Nardole, when asked by the Twelfth Doctor, told him that he could of "course" hack CCTV, adding that he was not "just sexy." (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World ^[+]Loading...["The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)"])

Whilst mistaking Graham O'Brien for an incarnation of the Doctor, Jack Harkness described him as "kind of distinguished yet still sexy." (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon ^[+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"]) Sonya Khan described herself as sexy. (TV: Once, Upon Time ^[+]Loading...["Once, Upon Time (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• As disclosed in The Writer's Tale - The Final Chapter, Russell T Davies decided that "Midshipman Blane" in Voyage of the Damned ^[+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"] "should be sexy as hell", quickly suggesting Russell Tovey for the role. He then opined that "Blane [was] not a sexy name" and announced that he would change it, with the character ultimately being called Alonso Frame.
  • Upon learning from Davies that Sarah Lancashire had been cast as Miss Foster in Partners in Crime ^[+]Loading...["Partners in Crime"], Benjamin Cook responded "that's going to be one sexy mother foster!"
  • Davies envisioned the introduction of the eponymous character in The Doctor's Daughter ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)"] as a "great big sexy Amazon of a woman standing there, loaded with guns and say[ing]... 'Hello, dad!'
  • Davies conceived the character of Lady Christina de Souza in Planet of the Dead ^[+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"] as a "sexy cat burglar", noting that "there [weren't] many actors who [could] carry that off."
• The script for New Earth ^[+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"] features an ultimately omitted exchange in which Lady Cassandra, whilst in the body of Rose Tyler, blows a "sexy kiss" to the Duke of Manhattan, to which Frau Clovis insists that "Any intimacy expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a promise of physical interaction." In response, Cassandra quips "story of your life, sweetheart."
• The script for Love & Monsters ^[+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"] presented Jackie Tyler "at her most sexy", wearing a "sexy top", when she tried to seduce Elton Pope.
• The script for The Shakespeare Code ^[+]Loading...["The Shakespeare Code (TV story)"] described William Shakespeare as sexy.
• The script for 42 ^[+]Loading...["42 (TV story)"] described both Kath McDonnell and Riley Kincaid as sexy.
• The script for The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"] described the Master, as Harold Saxon, as "very New Labour, but sexy".
• The script for Silence in the Library ^[+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"] described River Song as "attractive, definitely sexy - but maybe just a little grizzled, a bit hardened."
  • The script for The Time of Angels ^[+]Loading...["The Time of Angels (TV story)"] introduced the woman, soon revealed to be River, as "dressed for a party - sexy, dangerous, 1940's femme fatale."
  • The script for The Angels Take Manhattan ^[+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"] described Melody Malone as "a very sexy lady detective - all cleavage and guns and a detective hat."
• The script for The Next Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Next Doctor (TV story)"] described Mercy Hartigan as sexy.
• The script for The Hungry Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Hungry Earth (TV story)"] described Tony Mack as "sexy in a hands-on-older-man way".
• The script for The Snowmen ^[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"] described Clara Oswin Oswald as "young, sexy, so cheeky".
• The script for Robot of Sherwood ^[+]Loading...["Robot of Sherwood (TV story)"] described Robin Hood as a "devastatingly sexy young man".