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'''Six[[pence]]''' was a unit of [[currency]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. | '''Six[[pence]]''' was a unit of [[currency]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. | ||
The [[Twelfth Doctor]], accompanied by [[Bill Potts]], | The [[Twelfth Doctor]], accompanied by [[Bill Potts]], paid sixpence to a [[waterman]] to enter the [[1814 frost fair]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'') | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed to [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] that [[Rose Tyler]] was a [[feral child]] who he had purchased for sixpence in old [[London Town]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | The [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed to [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] that [[Rose Tyler]] was a [[feral child]] who he had purchased for sixpence in old [[London Town]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 5 May 2019
Sixpence was a unit of currency in the United Kingdom.
The Twelfth Doctor, accompanied by Bill Potts, paid sixpence to a waterman to enter the 1814 frost fair. (TV: Thin Ice)
The Tenth Doctor claimed to Queen Victoria that Rose Tyler was a feral child who he had purchased for sixpence in old London Town. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
During the London Event, Gwynfor Evans asked Jamie McCrimmon if he had a sixpence to purchase a bar of Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate from a vending machine they had found. Though Jamie responded in the negative, Evans tried the machine without inserting any money and discovered, to his surprise, there was a chocolate bar in the machine's open compartment. (TV: The Web of Fear)
Behind the scenes
As promoted in the Walls' Sky Ray lollies advertisement, sixpence (6d) was the price of a Sky Ray lolly.
