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{{First pic|Doctor_and_Izzy_in_Blue_Peter_garden.jpg|The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]] briefly visit the Blue Peter garden in an alternate timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'')}}

[[Ace]], who left [[Earth]] in [[1987]], wore two ''Blue Peter'' badges on her jacket: one standard blue badge and one silver. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') One of them had been awarded for heroic achievement. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')

In [[2006]], an [[Slitheen craft|alien ship]] crashed into the [[Thames]]. ''Blue Peter'' presenter [[Matt Baker]] did a feature on how to make an alien ship cake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]'')

In [[2008]], [[Maria Jackson]] watched an episode in which the presenters [[Gethin Jones]] and [[Konnie Huq]] promoted the [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]]'s [[Bubble Shock!]] soft drink. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane]]'')

During the time the series ''[[Surrender, Earthlings!]]'' aired on the [[BBC]], ''Blue Peter'' did a feature on how to make a [[Xyz]] from toilet-roll holders, Blu-Tak and two boiled [[egg]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]'')

[[Laurence (Telling Tales)|Laurence]] recalled that the Doctor had a companion whose name was the same as a girl on ''Blue Peter''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Telling Tales]]'')

See article ''[[List of Doctor Who segments of Blue Peter|List of Doctor Who segment of Blue Peter]]'' for more information

The actor [[Sophie Aldred]], had won two ''Blue Peter'' badges in her youth and was entitled to wear them on-screen, according to the BBC's strict regulations regarding the use of ''Blue Peter'' badges. ([[BBC DVD]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]'')

A 1973 instalment of ''Blue Peter'' marking the tenth anniversary of ''Doctor Who'' included many excerpts from the [[William Hartnell]] and [[Patrick Troughton]] eras; due to the BBC's then-ongoing practice of junking old episodes, these clips are in many cases the last surviving remnants of these episodes. These include such significant moments as the death of [[Katarina]] in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' (which was aired on ''Blue Peter'' primarily because it featured then-co-host Peter Purves during his tenure as companion), and the [[regeneration]] of the [[First Doctor]] into the [[Second Doctor|Second]] from ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]''.

''Blue Peter'' has run contests over the years involving ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The design for the [[Abzorbaloff]] from 2006's ''[[Love & Monsters]]'' originated in a ''Blue Peter'' "design your own monster" competition, won by nine-year-old William Grantham. Contrary to rumour, the [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]] did ''not'' originate in a 1967 competition; a design-a-monster competition was held on ''Blue Peter'', but the winning design did not appear on ''Doctor Who''.

In late 2009-early 2010, a ''Blue Peter'' contest invited viewers to submit designs for a new TARDIS control console to be featured in an upcoming episode. On 17th February 2010, [[Matt Smith]] chose twelve-year-old [[Susannah Leah]]'s design as the winner; it was announced that [[Neil Gaiman]]'s episode in [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] would feature this design in some way. However, the episode's funding ran out of money and it was pushed back to Series 6, when it appeared as ''[[The Doctor's Wife]]'' and featured Leah's design as the [[Junk TARDIS]] console. [http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-peter-competition-winner-announced.html] [http://www.denofgeek.com/television/880521/neil_gaiman_interview_all_about_writing_doctor_who.html] [http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-doctors-wife-bts-new-clip-19842.htm]

* [[Janet Ellis]] played [[Teka]] in ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]''.

* [[Sarah Greene]] was unrecognisable as [[Varne]] in ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''.

* [[Gethin Jones]] played a [[Cyberman]] and [[Dalek]] in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' and ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End]]'' respectively.