Doctor Who (in-universe)/Non-valid sources

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History

20th century

1960s

By one account, Verity Lambert got the idea to cast William Hartnell as the First Doctor after seeing him in the dreary kitchen-sink drama film, This Sporting Life. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

The 1968 episode, The Mind Robber, a much uglier actor was originally cast to fill in for Frazer Hines in a scene where the Second Doctor would have failed miserably at the "face fit" task. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

1970s

A bubble-bath Dalek was released. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

Tom Baker writes a letter to Mr Cadbury. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

Tom Baker was cast as the Fourth Doctor after he wrote a polite letter to the BBC asking for an acting job. The following day, he wrote a letter to Mr Cadbury, asking for an entire castle made out of chocolate. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

1980s

The series in this decade was the subject of a book called Doctor Who: The Eighties. The Tenth Doctor possessed a copy of this book, which he once tried to use to charge up the TARDIS's last remaining power cell. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah! 375)

1990s

In 1993, the proposed 30th anniversary special, The Dark Dimension, was abandoned after an argument broke out amongst the actors over the size of Tom Baker's part. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

21st century

2000s

A stickleback on set with Billie Piper and Penelope Wilton. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

During the filming of an episode around Christmas 2005, a miscommunication between Russell T. Davies and the BBC Wales design department meant that fifty extras dressed as sticklebacks had to be hastily re-costumed. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

On the set of New Earth, the design department attempted to make the Catkind "ultra realistic" - by taking an actual cat and putting on the head of an extra - an idea that proved impractical. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

Two employees from ITV attempted to knock Doctor Who out of the ratings by nailing planks of wood over the entrance to the BBC Upper Boat studio. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

After seeing the Judoon in Smith and Jones, Stike and Varl chewed out their agent for not getting them the part, which called for a "chunky, militaristic alien race". (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

After the Macra returned to the show, several classic era villains waited around the phone hoping to get the call to return themselves. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

In October 2007, a Children in Need special was filmed. Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann attempted to infiltrate the recording in disguise. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

After the broadcast of two episodes involving UNIT, fans were dismayed that Mikes Yates was absent. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

In 2008, the BBC announced that they had cast both Withnail and I as the Tenth Doctor. (COMIC: Doctor What)

Matt Smith was cast as the Eleventh Doctor, among other reasons, for his incredibly "Doctor Who-ish" hair. Smith admitted in an interview for The Mind Probe that he did not know what they meant by this, not realising his hair was moulded into the shape of a giant question mark. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!, The Mind Probe)

2010s

Due to a typo, the episode, Let's Kill Hitler, briefly became a knockabout comedy called "Let's Kiss Hitler", which was about Amy Pond and Rory Williams chasing him, trying to do exactly as the misspelled title suggested. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

2070s

By 2072, the original copy of the then-lost episodes of the Doctor Who cartoon had been taped over with an episode of Primeval. Cosgrove Hall recreated them with specially-filmed live-action inserts. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!

Undated events

Production on The Destroyers was abandoned when Terry Nation denied himself the rights to use his own Daleks. (COMIC: Doctor Whoah!)

Danny Douglas and Future-Worm during a Disney XD News report on Doctor Who's upcoming appearance on Disney XD. (TV: Breaking News! That Hasn't Broken Yet!)

Danny Douglas once hosted a news report for Disney XD News, where he discussed the upcoming arrival of the "super cool" sci-fi series Doctor Who on Disney XD, as well as a Star Wars Rebels event. Future-Worm, in the future, exclaimed how cool this was. Another report featured Douglas reaffirming his thoughts on Doctor Who's upcoming appearance on the network, referring to the show as "super-rad", and announcing that it would be coming in the Summer. (TV: Breaking News! That Hasn't Broken Yet!)