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 * In the fifth episode of the second season of the ABC television series {{wi|Better Off Ted}}, the scientists Phil and Lem name the small robot designed to clean up spills in their laboratory [[Chumbley]]. This is the name that [[Vicki Pallister]] gives the robots that she, [[Steven Taylor]] and the [[First Doctor]] encounter in ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]''. Later in the same episode, Phil and Lem enter a room full of used robot parts. A [[Dalek]] can be seen clearly in the corner nearest the door.
 * [[File:American Dad! sonic screwdrivers.jpg|thumb|Various [[sonic screwdriver]]s appear in ''[[Wikipedia:American Dad!|American Dad!]]''.]]In one episode of {{wi|American Dad!}}{{Which}}, set on a spacecraft, a [[Dalek]] and several [[sonic screwdriver]]s can be seen in the background.
-* Several episodes of the 2008 series {{wi|The Middleman (TV series)|The Middleman}} include references to elements of the ''Doctor Who'' universe or lines from the TV series. In one episode a character is identified as "[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]]". Only twelve episodes were produced, with the decision made not to produce a thirteenth. That episode, ''The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalpyse'', also contained several references to ''Doctor Who'', most notably having the Middleman recite the [[First Doctor]]'s farewell speech to [[Susan Foreman]] in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' ("There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties..."). The script for this unmade episode was performed by the cast in a "read through" at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon, and adapted into a graphic novel by Viper Comics, both with the Doctor's speech intact. Given the series' acknowledged debt to ''Doctor Who'', the fact that the lead character is never referred to by name, only as "the Middleman", is probably a reference to the fact that the Doctor's real name is never revealed. (The final episode, however, does reveal the Middleman's real name.)
+[[File:The Middleman Ep11-Benton-Herriot.jpeg|thumb|The Middleman "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol".]]
+* {{wi|The Middleman (TV series)|The Middleman}} include references to elements of the ''Doctor Who'' universe or lines from the TV series. In episode 11 ''The Clotharian Contamination Protocol'' the Middleman and Wendy Watson show passes (and the Middleman introduces them) as "Commander [[John Benton|Benton]]" and "Specialist [[Zoe Heriot|Herriot]]", later in the same scene another character is identified as "[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]]". Later in the episode the "Treaty of [[Peri Brown|Periperpegilliam]]" is mentioned, and also in the same episode a "[[zygon]]-rated" facility is mentioned. Only twelve episodes were produced, with the decision made not to produce a thirteenth. That episode, ''The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalpyse'', also contained several references to ''Doctor Who'', most notably having the Middleman recite the [[First Doctor]]'s farewell speech to [[Susan Foreman]] in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' ("There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties..."). The script for this unmade episode was performed by the cast in a "read through" at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon, and adapted into a graphic novel by Viper Comics, both with the Doctor's speech intact. Given the series' acknowledged debt to ''Doctor Who'', the fact that the lead character is never referred to by name, only as "the Middleman", is probably a reference to the fact that the Doctor's real name is never revealed. (The final episode, however, does reveal the Middleman's real name.)
 * In the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess" (2006) of the Disney Channel series {{wi|The Suite Life of Zack & Cody}}, the title characters travelled to a parallel universe via a phone box called the the P.U. (Parallel Universaliser).
 * The {{wi|Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat}} episode "State of Mind" contains a subplot in which David Stockwell deals with a [[police box]] that he claims keeps [[The Doctor's TARDIS|mysteriously disappearing]].