Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing
Type:	Television series
First mentioned in:	Ghost Machine
First appearance:	The Time of the Doctor

Strictly Come Dancing, also simply called Strictly, was a television programme featuring "long-legged ladies" (PROSE: Taking the Cure) who danced. (PROSE: The Way Through the Woods, Dead of Winter)

Martha Jones' grandfather watched Strictly Come Dancing. (PROSE: Wetworld) Carole made her husband Frank take up tango because of Vincent on Strictly Come Dancing. (PROSE: The Way Through the Woods)

On 26 March 2005, Ross Bevan was looking forward to the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. (AUDIO: One Rule)

The tape for Strictly Come Dancing: Slitheen Special. (TV: Chute! Episode 9)

Strictly Come Dancing: Slitheen Special was a special episode of Strictly Come Dancing which eventually fell into the BBC rubbish tip. (TV: Chute! Episode 9)

Tom and Eleri Flanagan watched one of its series finales the night before Gwen Cooper and Owen Harper's visit to their home. The winner was "that newsreader", whom Owen described as having "legs up to her armpits". (TV: Ghost Machine)

When Amy Pond saw the Familiars dancing with the patients of St Christophe, she wondered if they were up against an alien version of Strictly Come Dancing. (PROSE: Dead of Winter)

Jared Ramon, who hated dancing, stopped watched the series after Holly Valance left. (AUDIO: Cortex Fire)

Clara Oswald and her family always watched the show's Christmas special (TV: The Time of the Doctor)

When Clara danced with the Twelfth Doctor during celebrations over the liberation of Paris in 1944, she remarked, "we should apply for Strictly Come Dancing". (COMIC: Trust)

In 1756, Flip Jackson sarcastically mentioned Strictly when Titus Craven invited her to the Grand Ball in Bath. (AUDIO: The Behemoth)

Trinity Wells hoped to appear on Strictly, but was declined as they went for a politician instead, concluding that they were more fun than newsreaders. (AUDIO: Driving Miss Wells)

Dorium Maldovar watched Strictly, as he could not resist "a bit of Brucie". (PROSE: Dorium Maldovar Tells It Like It Is!)

Behind the scenes

Dances

Strictly Come Dancing has featured Doctor Who themed dances on three occasions:

• In 2015, Jay McGuiness danced in character as the Eleventh Doctor with Aliona Vilani to Dr Jazz by Jelly Roll Morton.
• In 2018, Stacey Dooley danced in character as the Thirteenth Doctor with Kevin Clifton as a Cyberman to an original version of the Doctor Who theme.
• In 2022, Tyler West danced in character as the Doctor with Dianne Buswell as a Weeping Angel to the Doctor Who theme by Segun Akinola in a special episode featuring various BBC theme tunes to commemorate the BBC’s centenary.

Other matters

• In Dermot and the Doctor, the Doctor's TARDIS briefly appears backstage on Strictly Come Dancing in the year 2111. There, Dermot O'Leary finds that Bruce Forsyth is "still here".
• The episode playing on Clara's television in The Time of the Doctor appears to be the 2012 Christmas Special. Though unnamed, professional dancer Ola Jordan and her celebrity partner JB Gill are briefly seen on screen.
• In How to Win Planets and Influence People, the Monk states that he once appeared on "that dancing show". When he says it, tango music plays, a clear reference to Strictly Come Dancing. The Fourth Doctor later told him that he voted for him.
• Monk actor Rufus Hound did in fact dance the tango in the 2013 Strictly Christmas special, which he won. Other Strictly contestants with Doctor Who connections include Lynda Bellingham, Mark Benton, Colin Salmon, Verona Joseph, Will Thorp, Felicity Kendal, Zoe Ball, Matt di Angelo, Don Warrington, Davood Ghadami, Sunetra Sarker, Natalie Gumede and Bill Bailey.