Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh was a fictional character.

Lucas Seyton quoted Winnie the Pooh to the Second Doctor when he agreed to help rescue Jamie and Zoe from killer androids. This threw the Doctor a bit, as it was usually he who quoted Winnie the Pooh. (PROSE: Fallen Angel)

Wallis Simpson had a collection of Winnie the Pooh books in her drawing room. They had belonged to her second husband. (PROSE: Players)

Susan Foreman was familiar with Winnie the Pooh, writing in her diary, "I live under the name Foreman like Winnie-the-Pooh lives under the name Sanders." (PROSE: Time and Relative)

When Clare Keightley first encountered the Fourth Doctor, she felt a wave of familiarity and trust, "[as though] he was as familiar as Father Christmas or Winnie-the-Pooh", mainstays from her childhood. (PROSE: Shada)

Ace once wore a Winnie the Pooh pin while traveling with the Seventh Doctor. (TV: Dimensions in Time)

When the Eighth Doctor was split into three personalities, Charley Pollard, in order to differentiate between them, decided to call the more exuberant one "Tigger" and the more irritable one "Eeyore" after characters in Winnie the Pooh. The Doctor said that Tigger was his favourite character from the books. (AUDIO: Caerdroia)

When Fitz Kreiner questioned Anji Kapoor's knowledge of bear behaviour, she retorted that the last bear book he had read was Winnie the Pooh. (PROSE: The City of the Dead)

Rose Tyler tried to make a toga out of a bedsheet in preparation for her visit to 2nd century Rome. The Tenth Doctor pointed out that Roman girls probably wouldn't wear togas that had Winnie the Pooh on them. (PROSE: The Stone Rose)

The Tenth Doctor suggested meeting Winnie the Pooh in the Land of Fiction. (AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross)

Yasmin Khan claimed that when the Thirteenth Doctor got excited, she started bouncing around like Tigger. The Doctor replied that it could be worse; she could be Piglet. (PROSE: Molten Heart)

One of Pan's tattoos was of Winnie the Pooh. (PROSE: Combat Rock)

Behind the scenes

The anthology book Now We Are Six Hundred is based on the Winnie the Pooh poetry book Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, with many of the poems found within being inspired by poems from said book. Likewise, the setting and characters found in the book's first and penultimate chapters Beforwards and Afterwords are clear parodies of those found in Winnie the Pooh.

Connections

Susan Sheridan voiced Christopher Robin in the 1986 video game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.

David Warner narrated 1997's Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, 1998's A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving, and 1999's Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You.

John Hurt narrated 2000's The Tigger Movie.

John Cleese narrated the 2011 movie simply titled Winnie the Pooh.

The 2018 live-action film Christopher Robin featured Peter Capaldi as the voice of Rabbit, Sophie Okonedo as the voice of Kanga, and Toby Jones as the voice of Owl, along with Hayley Atwell, Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Amanda Lawrence, and Paul Chahidi in live-action roles.

Outside of Winnie the Pooh media released by Disney: Stephen Fry, Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer and Janet Fielding voiced Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Kanga respectively in two audio drama adaptations of the stories in the 1990s.