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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
''[[Doctor Who]]'' was used to promote Weetabix in 1975 and 1977. | ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was used to promote Weetabix in the 1975 ''[[Doctor Who And His Enemies (series)|Doctor Who And His Enemies]]'' and the 1977 ''[[Weetabix Doctor Who Action Game (game)|Weetabix Doctor Who Action Game]]''. | ||
The 1977 promotion included a television advert featuring a modified [[Dalek Supreme (Planet of the Daleks)|Dalek Supreme]] from [[Terry Nation]]'s collection. This advert, in which the Supreme ordered all [[Dalek]]s to find and exterminate all packs of Weetabix containing secret messages from the [[Time Lord]]s, was suggested to be "the true beginning of the [[Time War]]" in ''The Dalek invasion of pop culture'', published as part of ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]''. | The 1977 promotion included a television advert featuring a modified [[Dalek Supreme (Planet of the Daleks)|Dalek Supreme]] from [[Terry Nation]]'s collection. This advert, in which the Supreme ordered all [[Dalek]]s to find and exterminate all packs of Weetabix containing secret messages from the [[Time Lord]]s, was suggested to be "the true beginning of the [[Time War]]" in ''The Dalek invasion of pop culture'', published as part of ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]''. | ||
[[Category:Foods and beverages from the real world]] | [[Category:Foods and beverages from the real world]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:44, 18 August 2023
According to the Twelfth Doctor, particle beams "probably taste[d] like Weetabix" to the Umbra. (COMIC: The Eye of Torment)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who was used to promote Weetabix in the 1975 Doctor Who And His Enemies and the 1977 Weetabix Doctor Who Action Game.
The 1977 promotion included a television advert featuring a modified Dalek Supreme from Terry Nation's collection. This advert, in which the Supreme ordered all Daleks to find and exterminate all packs of Weetabix containing secret messages from the Time Lords, was suggested to be "the true beginning of the Time War" in The Dalek invasion of pop culture, published as part of Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe.
