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* In "420", an episode of ''Family Guy'', Brian says that ever since weed was legalised "crime is down, productivity is up and the ratings for ''Doctor Who'' is through the roof". Another episode, the ''Star Wars Episode IV'' spoof "Blue Harvest", incorporated footage from the Tom Baker-era opening credits in the scene in which the ''Millennium Falcon'' enters hyperspace. | * In "420", an episode of ''Family Guy'', Brian says that ever since weed was legalised "crime is down, productivity is up and the ratings for ''Doctor Who'' is through the roof". Another episode, the ''Star Wars Episode IV'' spoof "Blue Harvest", incorporated footage from the Tom Baker-era opening credits in the scene in which the ''Millennium Falcon'' enters hyperspace. | ||
* Several episodes of the 2008 series {{wi|The Middleman (TV series)|The Middleman}} include references to ''Doctor Who''. In one episode a character is identified as "[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]]". Only twelve episodes were produced, with the decision made not to produce a thirteenth. That episode, ''The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalpyse'', also contained several references to ''Doctor Who'', most notably having the Middleman recite the [[First Doctor]]'s farewell speech to [[Susan Foreman]] in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' ("There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties..."). The script for this unmade episode was performed by the cast in a "read through" at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon, and adapted into a graphic novel by Viper Comics, both with the Doctor's speech intact. Given the series' acknowledged debt to ''Doctor Who'', the fact that the lead character is never referred to by name, only as "the Middleman", is probably a reference to the fact that the Doctor's real name is never revealed. (The final episode, however, does reveal the Middleman's real name.) | * Several episodes of the 2008 series {{wi|The Middleman (TV series)|The Middleman}} include references to ''Doctor Who''. In one episode a character is identified as "[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]]". Only twelve episodes were produced, with the decision made not to produce a thirteenth. That episode, ''The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalpyse'', also contained several references to ''Doctor Who'', most notably having the Middleman recite the [[First Doctor]]'s farewell speech to [[Susan Foreman]] in ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' ("There must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties..."). The script for this unmade episode was performed by the cast in a "read through" at the 2009 San Diego ComicCon, and adapted into a graphic novel by Viper Comics, both with the Doctor's speech intact. Given the series' acknowledged debt to ''Doctor Who'', the fact that the lead character is never referred to by name, only as "the Middleman", is probably a reference to the fact that the Doctor's real name is never revealed. (The final episode, however, does reveal the Middleman's real name.) | ||
* In the fifth episode of the second season of the ABC television series {{wi|Better Off Ted}}, the scientists Phil and Lem name the small robot designed to clean up spills in their laboratory [[Chumbley]]. This is the name that [[Vicki]] gives the robots that [[Steven Taylor|Steven]], the [[First Doctor]] and she encounter in ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]''. Later in the same episode, Phil and Lem enter a room full of used robot parts. A [[Dalek]] can be seen clearly in the corner nearest the door. | * In the fifth episode of the second season of the ABC television series {{wi|Better Off Ted}}, the scientists Phil and Lem name the small robot designed to clean up spills in their laboratory [[Chumbley]]. This is the name that [[Vicki]] gives the robots that [[Steven Taylor|Steven]], the [[First Doctor]] and she encounter in ''[[Galaxy 4 (TV story)|Galaxy 4]]''. Later in the same episode, Phil and Lem enter a room full of used robot parts. A [[Dalek]] can be seen clearly in the corner nearest the door. | ||
* Several episodes of ''Leverage'' reference ''Doctor Who'', including one in which Nathan Ford is asked what ID's he has on him so that he can board an airplane. He replies, "I've got a Peter Davidson, Sylvester McCoy and a Tom Baker." Sophie adds, "I've got a Sarah Jane Baker." Hardison pronounces them man and wife. Another episode had Hardison mentioning that he had been torrenting the latest episode of ''Doctor Who''. | * Several episodes of ''Leverage'' reference ''Doctor Who'', including one in which Nathan Ford is asked what ID's he has on him so that he can board an airplane. He replies, "I've got a Peter Davidson, Sylvester McCoy and a Tom Baker." Sophie adds, "I've got a Sarah Jane Baker." Hardison pronounces them man and wife. Another episode had Hardison mentioning that he had been torrenting the latest episode of ''Doctor Who''. | ||
