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If you know any references I've missed (sure to be some, this dude is quoted EVERYWHERE), please let me know! Trying to be as comprehensive as I can :)

Oscar Wilde references

True Appearances

• Dead Man's Hand: First appearance chronologically, though Bat Attack! has an earlier flashback
• Beautiful Things
• The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel: He doesn't formally appear, but is present on the periphery throughout.
• The Importance of Being Strax: The Importance of Being Earnest premiere. Notably, confirms in-universe two quotes that are referenced elsewhere come from the play. Already fully summarized on page.
• Bat Attack!

Mentions of Life Events

• Assassin in the Limelight: Impersonated by Robert Knox. The Importance of Being Earnest is referenced. referenced and the Sixth Doctor mentions he attended the premiere (see The Importance of Being Strax). The Doctor mentions Wilde was only a child in 1865. The Doctor also references The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Chronoclasm: Wilde is questioned by the police (regarding the metal orb thingies). George Litefoot at mentions that he knows him.
• The Gallifrey Chronicles: Hosted a party, attended by the Eighth Doctor and George Bernard Shaw (March 1895)
• Falls the Shadow: Seventh Doctor mentions Wilde calling him "the life of the party" at some point.
• The Silurian Gift: Eleventh Doctor mentions going out on the town with him (and getting totally smashed LOL)
• Predating the Predators: Benny visited him while in prison (see Bat Attack! for more prison details)
• The Scarlet Empress: The Doctor (1-7) and Iris Wildthyme spend a day with Wilde in Paris, after his imprisonment
• The Mary-Sue Extrusion: Description of his tomb (meaning he dies at some point :P)

Resemblance to Eighth Doctor

• Vampire Science
• Mordieu: This one also has references from his writing. See below.
• Autumn Mist
• Camera Obscura: The Doctor mentions walking down Picadilly with a lily (apocryphal story about him that he nonetheless quite enjoyed that people believed)
• Genocide

Quotations from work

• The Green Death: Paraphrasing a Lady Bracknell line from Earnest. See Strax, where the same line is first said on stage, though not precisely how Wilde wrote it, thanks to Strax :P
• Twin Piques: As Oscar said “a good king is the worst enemy of democracy” - Second Doctor, quotes Vera, refers to Oscar by first name (He usually does this if he knows someone sow FWIW probably met during or before this incarnation, though can't put that kinda speculation in article.)
• The Emerald Tiger: Cyril Haggard quotes Lady Windermere’s Fan while dying "We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."
• Love and War: Benny adapts this line also "A Styhian beggar helped me out of the gutter. I told him that we were both looking at the stars" (also appears in the audio version of Love and War but can't recall at moment if it's phrased exactly the same, will have to double check)
• Spiral Staircase: Dorothy Bell quoted An Ideal Husband “When the Gods Punish Us They Answer Our Prayers”
• Special Occasions: 3. Better Watch Out, Better Take Care: The Doctor quotes Earnest - "always have something sensational to read on long journeys"
• The Unquiet Dead: Little Nell statement references Wilde's comment to a friend that "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing." when he tells Dickens the scen cracks him up
• Shining Darkness: Tenth Doctor quotes Wilde/The Picture of Dorian Grey “you know what Oscar Wilde said about being talked about”
• Industrial Evolution: The Sixth Doctor quotes Dorian Grey ("I can resist anything but temptation")
• Sting of the Zygons: Tenth Doctor quotes Wilde “The unspeakable in the pursuit of the uneatable”
• The Blue Angel: The Doctor says “Oscar Wilde once said anyone thought to be missing will be found eventually in San Francisco. As he said it he was fiddling with the exquisite cuffs of a new silk shirt made in Paris for him by the same woman who made mine” - Eighth Doctor... the Doctor talks like this was something he witnessed, but then dismisses that it could have happened.
• Mordieu: Bill comments on how the Doctor dresses/looks like Oscar Wilde. The Doctor (even while amnesiac) remains familiar with Wilde’s works, references/quotes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Dorian Grey
• History 101: Fitz resisted the urge to paraphrase Oscar Wilde
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang reference to "a handbag" line from Earnest.
• The Seeds of Doom: Another reference by the Fourth Doctor to the "handbag" exchange.
• Excelis Rising: "A handbag" is referenced again.
• The Destroyer of Delights: Yet another reference to "a handbag!"
• Eldrad Must Die!: Turlough is likened to Dorian Grey (portrait)

Miscellaneous references

• The Clanging Chimes of Doom: The Fourth Doctor mentions "dear old Oscar" and namedropping.
• The Sword of the Chevalier: Tenth Doctor refers to Oscar as “my old friend” and says he was a namedropper
• Bad Therapy: Jack Bartlett took out two Oscar Wilde books, and its's implied his books are homoerotic
• The Forgotten: Tenth Doctor jokes (falsely) that he got his cane in an adventure with Oscar Wilde
• Echoes of Grey: Zoe read the complete works of Wilde in one day when she was eight. The Second Doctor is familiar with The Picture of Dorian Grey
• The Brilliant Book 2012: Friends with Dickens in River Song’s world
• Happy Deathday: Wildean Wit Enforcers punish the use of bad puns. The word "Wildean" is used is something else too but can't remember what was the moment.
• The Last Fairy Tale: Turlough calls this one guy Oscar Wilde sarcastically
• The Glamour Chase: Narrator described Christopher Maginn as “quoting Oscar Wilde and chatted to the younger farmhands a little too much for her comfort”
• Dead Romance: Narrator describes “People who think they’re the kind of people who’d be close friends of Oscar Wilde if they’d been born nearly a hundred years earlier”
• Return to the Fractured Planet: narrator mentions “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde”
• Timewyrm: Revelation: “Like Oscar and his green carnations” - Seventh Doctor (a reference that might take a bit to explain)
• The King of Terror: The Doctor calls control “Witty Wilde”
• The Hollow Men: Rebecca and Trevor used to recite Keats, Shelley, Wilde, together
• EarthWorld: Fitz Went to see Oscar Wilde play with his mother (Lady Windermere's Fan, based on the plot described)
• Genocide: The Eighth Doctor talks about Oscar on first name basis, The Strand Magazine, “He knows everyone”, “at least he dressed better than you” “wouldn’t be caught dead in fancy dress” (reference to his costume outfit... also a personality indicator)
• The Reaping: The Doctor jokingly calls Peri Oscar Wilde.