Saturday
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Saturday was a day of the week.
Cultural references[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor, in his fourth, (PROSE: Shada) tenth (TV: The Stolen Earth) and eleventh incarnations, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) declared that he liked Saturdays. The Eleventh Doctor called it a "big temporal tipping point when everything is possible." (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) When the Fourth Doctor informed his other incarnations that the Earth was facing "the greatest peril in its history", the Fifth and Seventh Doctors suggested it was Tuesday, to which the Ninth Doctor reminded them not to forget Saturdays. (WC: Doctors Assemble!)
At least some schools, such as Coal Hill Secondary School, were closed on Saturdays. On every such afternoon, Susan Foreman would use the time to babysit Malcolm until the six-year-old's Aunt Junie arrived on 4 April 1963. (PROSE: Time and Relative)
Raoul often spent Saturday nights in Peterborough, going into gay clubs and pubs, looking for people who would be willing to be part of the audience for Glamorama. (PROSE: Hospitality)
By the end of their travels together, the Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts and Nardole regularly took to adventuring in the TARDIS, and answering distress calls, as a "usual Saturday". (TV: World Enough and Time)
Lucie Miller recounted how she didn't feel the cold much when she was out clubbing in Blackpool on a November Saturday night. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks)
Audrey Dudman watched a number of naval war films on Saturday afternoons while growing up. (AUDIO: Dark Convoy)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
On one Saturday evening in March 1943, the Third Doctor discreetly made changes to Niels Bohr's notes to aid the Manhattan Project. (PROSE: Come Friendly Bombs...)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
From 1963-1981, from 1985-1986, from 2005-2017, and since 2023, Doctor Who aired weekly episodes on Saturdays on BBC One and its predecessor BBC TV. One-off episodes including 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"] also fell on a Saturday.
Free Comic Book Day, on which Titan Comics released their yearly specials from 2015 to 2019 and 2022, falls on the first Saturday in May.
