Star Wars

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Star Wars was a film series, the American premiere of the first part of which the Doctor and Frobisher attended at Mann's Chinese Theatre in 1977. The Doctor claimed to prefer the Special Editions and noticed that Peter Cushing who had played Grand Moff Tarkin looked familiar. (PDA: Mission: Impractical)

Minor references

Clyde may have meant this as a humorous reference to Luke's first name.

Behind the Scenes

  • Peter Cushing, of course, had played both Dr. Who and Grand Moff Tarkin.
  • The duel on the Sycorax asteroid in The Christmas Invasion may take some cues the duel between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back. In both scenes, the hero (the Doctor in this case) loses a hand and the weapon holding it. Later, the destruction of the Sycorax asteroid by the Jathaa weaponry is similar to the Death Star's destruction of Alderaan in A New Hope.
  • Star Wars creator, George Lucas is an avid fan of the original Doctor Who series.
  • Actor Harrison Ford (Han Solo) was offered the role of the Eighth Doctor in the 1986 Doctor Who television movie but turned it down rather than have a television commitment tie him down. (At the time, the movie's producers hoped to make it the pilot for a re-launched Doctor Who series.)

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