List of titles that reference other works
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The following is a list of story titles that reference other works.
For the sake of simplicity, stories are categorised by the first work that had that title. (e.g. The Maltese Penguin is listed a reference to The Maltese Falcon novel.)
Doctor Who TV stories
Other DWU stories
Novels
Anthologies and collections
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| AUDIO: 1001 Nights | One Thousand and One Nights (pre-9th century) |
| PROSE: One Hundred and One Floors | |
| AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale | The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)[3] |
| PROSE: The Casebook of the Manleigh Halt Irregulars | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) |
| AUDIO: The Casebook of Paternoster Row | |
| TV: Partners in Crime | Partners in Crime (1929) |
Short stories
Plays
Poetry
Music
Films
Television
Radio shows
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| PROSE: Just a Minute... | Just a Minute (1967-present) |
| AUDIO: The Hesitation Deviation | Just a Minute (1967-present): "Panel game in which the contestants are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition on any subject that comes up on the cards" |
Comics and publications
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| PROSE: Keeping up with the Joneses | Keeping Up with the Joneses (1913-38) |
| COMIC: Tales from the TARDIS (series) | Tales from the Crypt (1951-55) |
| AUDIO: Tales from the TARDIS: Volume One / Two | |
| AUDIO: Tales from the TARDIS | |
| AUDIO: Tales from the Vault | |
| COMIC: Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS (series) | |
| AUDIO: Tales from New Earth | |
| WC: Doctors Assemble! | The Avengers (1964) "Avengers Assemble" |
| PROSE: Countdown to TV Action | Countdown / TV Action |
| COMIC: TV Action! | TV Action |
| AUDIO: The Bekdel Test | Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008): The Bechdel test |
| PROSE: Echoes of Future Past | Echo of Futurepast (1984-86) |
Games
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not | "He loves me... he loves me not" (?) |
| AUDIO: Doctors and Dragons | Dungeons & Dragons (1974) |
| COMIC: Space Invaders! | Space Invaders (1978) |
| AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos | Grand Theft Auto (1997) |
| PROSE: Grand Theft Planet! |
Artworks
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| PROSE: The Sleep of Reason | The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (c. 1799) |
| COMIC: The Scream | The Scream (1893) |
| PROSE: The Persistence of Memory | The Persistence of Memory (1931) |
| AUDIO: The Persistence of Dreams |
Non-fiction literature
Religious and legal texts
Quotations
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated | "Divorced, beheaded, died; Divorced, beheaded, survived" (?) |
| AUDIO: Peace in Our Time | Neville Chamberlain (1938): "Peace for our time"[14] |
| AUDIO: Their Finest Hour | Winston Churchill (1940): "This was their finest hour" |
| AUDIO: Human Conflict | Winston Churchill (1940): "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" |
| COMIC: They Think It's All Over | Kenneth Wolstenholme (1966): "They think it's all over! It is now!" |
| AUDIO: One Small Step... | Neil Armstrong (1969): "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." |
| AUDIO: The Memory Cheats | John Nathan-Turner (1980s)[15] |
Proverbs
| Title | Reference to |
|---|---|
| COMIC: A Stitch in Time | "A stitch in time saves nine" (proverb) |
| COMIC: A Glitch in Time | |
| COMIC: A Stitch in Time | |
| AUDIO: The Devil You Know | "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't" |
| PROSE: The Evil and the Deep Black Sky | "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" |
| COMIC: By Hook or By Crook | "By Hook or By Crook" |
| COMIC: Land of the Blind | "In the land/kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" |
| AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Kingdom of the Blind | |
| PROSE: The Kingdom of the Blind | |
| TV: Flesh and Stone | "Flesh and bone" |
| AUDIO: Here There Be Monsters | "Here be Dragons" (or similar) |
| PROSE: Interesting Times | "May you live in interesting times" |
| AUDIO: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish | "Penny wise and pound foolish" |
| PROSE: See No Evil | Three wise monkeys: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" |
| COMIC: Hear No Evil | |
| AUDIO: See No Evil |
Footnotes
- ↑ The man in the iron mask is real figure from history, but this term was seemingly popularised by Alexandre Dumas in this novel.
- ↑ In the film adaptation, the famous phrase was uttered by Dorothy when she clicks her heels to return home to Kansas. In the original novel, however, the quote appears earlier, in a conversation with the Scarecrow, with phrase used to return home instead being "Take me home to Aunt Em!"
- ↑ Each tale in the collection is styled "The [profession]'s Tale"
- ↑ While earlier versions of the story exist, it was given this title in Charles Perrault's version.
- ↑ Added to One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century translation by Antoine Galland.
- ↑ The earliest known version "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" was published in 1734, but it is the 1807 edition which introduces commonly used title in "The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk"
- ↑ Which in turn is inspired by Troilus and Criseyde. In the case of the The Shakespeare Notebooks story, it is clearly referencing the Shakespeare play.
- ↑ While Snow White was originally published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm, the 1912 play was the first to use "and the Seven Dwarfs" in the title, further popularised by the 1937 film of the same name.
- ↑ first recorded by Robbie Burns, but in reality much older.
- ↑ Originally composed by Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941, the Trapp Family were the first to make a recording of the song in 1951
- ↑ Originally published without a title before The Empire Strikes Back was released, later republications postdating the film gave the comic this title.
- ↑ The principle of Occam's razor was attributed to Occam centuries after his death, first in Libert Froidmont's work here.
- ↑ The English language For Beginners series began with Marx for Beginners in 1976, which was a translation of the Spanish language version Marx para principiantes in 1972, itself a sequel to Cuba para principiantes (1960).
- ↑ Commonly misquoted as "peace in our time", which is itself from a passage from "Da pacem Domine" in the Book of Common Prayer.
- ↑ Ding!: "The Memory Cheats?" by Ayd Instone. "It’s a phrase that came from the producer of the programme throughout the 1980s, John Nathan Turner, who had the arduous task of updating the programme for the new decade."
