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(Current version is still misleading, though. I think it's fairly clear that Gandalf isn't "a name for the Doctor" but a figure who is compared to him, if only from the Eleventh Doctor's line in "Meanwhile in the TARDIS". So… is this better?) |
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{{wikipediainfo}}'''Gandalf''' was a | {{wikipediainfo}} | ||
'''Gandalf''' was a name used to refer to [[the Doctor]]. When {{Simm}} sent a message to [[Martha Jones]] via a [[television]] broadcast, he showed her the aged [[Tenth Doctor]] and sarcastically said, "Say hello, Gandalf." ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] compared himself to the character, saying he was "the outer [[space]] Gandalf". ([[TV]]: ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS (TV story)|Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
[[File:Gandalf Lego Dimensions Doctor Who level.jpg|thumb|Gandalf as he appears in ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]''.]] | [[File:Gandalf Lego Dimensions Doctor Who level.jpg|thumb|Gandalf as he appears in ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]''.]] | ||
Revision as of 23:03, 25 October 2018
Gandalf was a name used to refer to the Doctor. When the Saxon Master sent a message to Martha Jones via a television broadcast, he showed her the aged Tenth Doctor and sarcastically said, "Say hello, Gandalf." (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
The Eleventh Doctor compared himself to the character, saying he was "the outer space Gandalf". (TV: Meanwhile in the TARDIS)
Behind the scenes
Gandalf as he appears in LEGO Dimensions.
- In the real world, Gandalf is a character from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Televised Doctor Who never explicitly makes this connection.
- Ian McKellen played Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy; he later provided his voice for the Great Intelligence in The Snowmen. He also made a cameo as himself in costume as Gandalf on the set of The Hobbit in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
- Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker was briefly considered for the part of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy; coincidentally, Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy would later be cast as Gandalf's fellow wizard Radagast the Brown.
- Gandalf appears as one of the main characters in LEGO Dimensions.
