EastEnders

EastEnders was a television show broadcast in the United Kingdom during the 20th and 21st century.

Pete's World did not have Eastenders, much to Jackie Tyler's continued disappointment. The programme was one of the things she missed from the Doctor's universe. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Evelyn Smythe, having left with the Sixth Doctor in the year 2000, had "foreknowledge" of 1990s EastEnders episodes, and made a bit of cash off this, betting for the correct outcome. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness)

The Seventh Doctor claimed to have once had a dream in which all his old enemies chased him around EastEnders' sets. (PROSE: First Frontier)

Among the casualties of the Vore invasion of Earth in 2005 were members of the cast of the series; they had lost more than Coronation Street. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

EastEnders was noted for its depressing festive specials. The Tenth Doctor believed the phrase, "This is going to be the best Christmas Walford has ever had" was among the unluckiest sentences that one could utter. (TV: The Impossible Planet)

In the summer of 2007, with the new "ghost" craze sweeping the planet, one of the killed-off characters, Den Watts, was brought back to the show in ghost form, using one of the ghosts which materialised during that period. The Tenth Doctor flicked through this episode of EastEnders along with Ghostwatch and Trisha Goddard, while investigating the new phenomenon at Jackie Tyler's flat. The ghosts were later revealed to be Cybermen attempting to cross between universes. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

When Amy Pond and Rory Williams suddenly ended up in a doll's house, Rory suggested that the Eleventh Doctor was in an EastEnders-like place. (TV: Night Terrors)

When Rani Chandra had the Berserker pendant she told her father to do Bianca, from EastEnders. Haresh said: "Rick-ay. Whitney. Paaaat." (TV: The Mark of the Berserker)

Sophie was a fan of EastEnders. In 2007 she was watching Ghostwatch and texted them that "Dirty Den" was back. (GAME: Ghostwatch)

During the Twelfth Doctor's imprisonment in the Prison, Clara Oswald taught Class 2A's art class. She asked the students to paint a placard with the slogan "SAVE THE DOCTOR" but instead, they got confused and began to paint "SAVE DOT COTTON". Clara explained to the Governor that Dot Cotton was a "famous Cockney chimney". (PROSE: The Blood Cell)

EastEnders was among the 20th century Earth television shows broadcast by Reef Station One in the New Earth Republic during the 101st century. (PROSE: Synthespians™)

Behind the scenes

• Tony Holland, who played the Third Assistant in The Savages, and Julia Smith, who directed The Smugglers and The Underwater Menace, were the co-creators of EastEnders.

Crossovers with Doctor Who

• Though other stories portray EastEnders as a television soap, the Brief Encounter story Mistaken Identity by Gary Russell and the Doctor Who mini-episode Dimensions in Time cross over EastEnders with the Doctor Who universe. A line in First Frontier dismissed that adventure as a dream.
• The comic adventure Happy Deathday seems to take place, in part, in the EastEnders universe. This is later revealed to be a video game being played aboard the Doctor's TARDIS.
• In the comic Tooth and Claw, the Eighth Doctor refers to "Albert Square", the location of the series (although he might have meant another Albert Square).
• The National Television Awards Sketch 2011 and Sprout Boy meets a Galaxy of Stars are also crossovers with the series.

The Brilliant Book 2012

• According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, William Shakespeare was the head writer of EastEnders in an alternate timeline.

Doctor Who references in Eastenders

• The character Bradley Branning was a fan of Doctor Who, amoung other sci-fi series’. An episode broadcast in early 2008 saw him and Stacey Slater attend a Doctor Who convention. People in Dalek and Cybermen costumes could be seen at the event. In another episode, Bradley claimed he knew the names of all the actors to play the Doctor off by heart.

Shared actors

Actor	Primary DWU role	First apperance	Primary Eastenders role	Duration	Notes
Zahra Ahmadi	Missy	TV: Nightmare in Silver	Shabnam Masood	2007-2008	Fellow DWU allumni Rakhee Thakrar took over the role of Shabnam in 2014.
Daniel Anthony	Clyde Langer	TV: Revenge of the Slitheen	JJ	2004
Lucy Baker	Young Nyssa	TV: Mawdryn Undead	Lisa Fowler	1998-2003, 2010, 2017
Lynda Baron	Wrack, Val	TV: Enlightenment, TV: Closing Time	Linda Clarke	2006, 2008-2009, 2016
Gary Beadle	Paul Langer	TV: The Mark of the Berserker	Paul Trueman	2001-2004
Nigel Betts	Frank Armitage	TV: Into the Dalek	Craig	2018	Betts also appeared as an unnamed desk sergeant in a 2004 episode of the soap.
Ace Bhatti	Haresh Chandra	TV: The Day of the Clown	Yusef Khan	2010-2011
William Boyde	Subject One	AUDIO: The Harvest	James Willmott-Brown	1986-1989, 1992, 2017
Sharon Duncan-Brewster	Margaret Cain	TV: The Waters of Mars	Trina Johnson	2009
June Brown	Lady Eleanor	TV: The Time Warrior	Dot Cotton/Branning	1985-1993 and 1997-present	Brown also portrayed Dot in NOTVALID: Dimensions in Time and NOTVALID: Dermot and the Doctor.
Sharon D Clarke	Grace O'Brien	TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth	Kendra Stanley	2011
Michelle Collins	Kathryn McDonnell	TV: 42	Cindy Beale	1988-1990, 1992-1998
Lauren Crace	Jemima	AUDIO: The Two Masters	Danielle Jones	2008-2009
Anita Dobson	Eileen Klint	AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks	Angie Watts	1985-1988
Alex Ferns	Parks	AUDIO: Clean Sweep	Trevor Morgan	2000-2002
Jamie Foreman	Eddie Connolly	TV: The Idiot's Lantern	Derek Branning	2011-2012
Don Gilet	Lance Bennett	TV: The Runaway Bride	Lucas Johnson	2008-2010 and 2016	Gilet also appeared as a minor one-off character in an earlier episode of the soap.
Leslie Grantham	Kiston	TV: Resurrection of the Daleks	Den Watts	1985-1989 and 2003-2005
Jill Halfpenny	David's mam	AUDIO: Imaginary Boys	Kate Mitchell	2002-2005
Jo Joyner	Lynda Moss	TV: Bad Wolf	Tanya Branning	2006-2013, 2015, 2017-2018
Bonnie Langford	Melanie Bush	TV: Terror of the Vervoids	Karmel Kazemi	2015-2018
Tracy Ann Oberman	Yvonne Hartman	TV: Army of Ghosts	Chrissie Watts	2004-2005
Michael Obiora	Billy Shipton	TV: Blink	Ellis Prince	2009
Himesh Patel	Dendry	AUDIO: Day of the Vashta Nerada	Tamwar Masood	2007-2016
Mike Reid	Greek soldier, guard, worker & soldier (all uncredited)	TV: The Myth Makers, TV: The Massacre, TV: The War Machines	Frank Butcher	1987-2000, 2002, 2006	Reid also portrayed Frank in NOTVALID: Dimensions in Time
Lee Ross	Boatswain	TV: The Curse of the Black Spot	Owen Turner	2006, 2009-2010
Michelle Ryan	Christina de Souza	TV: Planet of the Dead	Zoey Slater	2000-2005
Abdul Salis	Kel	TV: Fear Her	Caden	2019
Madhav Sharma	Patel	TV: Frontier in Space	Arshad Ahmed	2018-present
Sara Stewart	Control (voice)	TV: The End of the World	QC	2014
Rakhee Thakrar	Bliss	AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus	Shabnam Masood	2014-2016	The second actor to portray Shabnam, after fellow DWU allumni Zahra Ahmadi.
Nina Wadia	Dr. Ramsden	TV: The Eleventh Hour	Zainab Masood	2007-2013
Rudolph Walker	The War Games	TV: The War Games	Patrick Trueman	2001-present
Jason Watkins	Webley	TV: Nightmare in Silver	Gerry Fairweather	1987-1988
Timothy West	Ronald Turvey, Dr Magnus Soames, Kai Tobias	AUDIO: Cuddlesome, AUDIO: House of Blue Fire, AUDIO: Phobos	Stan Carter	2014-2015
June Whitfield	Minnie Hooper	TV: The End of Time	Sister Ruth	2015 and 2016
Barbara Windsor	Peggy Mitchell	TV: Army of Ghosts	Peggy Mitchell	1994-2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016	Windsor portrayed her Eastenders character in a fictional episode of the soap briefly featured within the story.