History Trivia / DOCTORWHO

* Several versions of the theme tune were used over the years, with the most famous being used from 1963 to 1980 (albeit with a slight rearrangement and the addition of an echo chamber effect being added in 1966). A disco version of the tune became a hit in the UK in 1978, and in 1988, The Timelords (later to be famous as the art rock/techno act the KLF) had a #1 hit with "Doctorin' the Tardis", a song that mashed the theme song together with Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll Part 2".

** In a wierd, but fitting, piece of coincidence, DavidTennant was starring in a modern day LiveEpisode homage to Quartermass the day when he learned that he had been cast as the Tenth Doctor.

* Of the 253 episodes of "Doctor Who" that were produced in the 1960s, 108 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge in the 1970s. The most recent episode to be recovered as of 2009 is a print of the 1965 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]: Day of Armageddon", returned by a former BBC engineer in January 2004.

* The music playing when the Fifth Doctor visits the Brig in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]" is a traditional English dance melody called "Madge Upon A Cree".

* Although a number of spin-offs were considered throughout the course of the programme (including vehicles for the Daleks, for UNIT, and for the Jago and Litefoot characters from the Tom Baker serial "The Talons of Weng Chiang"), only one was ever produced before the show's 2005 return. "K-9 and Company" (aka "A Girls' Best Friend"), aired initially as a Christmas special in 1981. Although the pilot fared well in the ratings, the BBC decided not to proceed with a series. ''After'' the 2005 return of the series, three spinoffs were made--''{{Torchwood}}'', ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' and ''{{K-9}}''.

** In ''Terror of the Vervoids'' Professor Lasky is [[TheAvengers Cathy Gale]]. To Australian viewers of a certain age, Commodore Travers is immediately recognisable as the star of the medical drama ''G.P.''

** In "The Girl in the Fireplace", [[{{Merlin}} Guinevere]] is Reinette's friend Katherine.

In ''Terror of the Vervoids'' Professor Lasky is [[TheAvengers Cathy Gale]]. To Australian viewers of a certain age, Commodore Travers is immediately recognisable as the star of the medical drama ''G.P.''

** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Giles]] is the headmaster in ''School Reunion''

Pat Gorman, who made a career out of performing stunts and playing monsters and bit parts, actually appears in more episodes than Peter Davison. Some other frequently recurring faces in the Whoniverse are actors Michael Sheard, Bernard Horsfall, Philip Madoc, and John Scott-Martin. And wait...[[CrazyAwesome James Bond is the ruler of the Time Lords?]] [[FridgeBrilliance It all makes sense...]]

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Gabriel Woolfe, who voiced the Beast in ''The Impossible Planet'', also voiced Sutekh in the much older episode ''Pyramids of Mars'' (as well as the ''FactionParadox'' spinoff series). Coincidentally or otherwise, the Doctor mentions that Sutekh was also known as Set and later {{Satan}}. Also Molasar in 'The Keep'. Peter Hawkins and Roy Skelton both performed many monster and Dalek voices over the life of the classic series, a position now filled by Nicholas Briggs.

* Of the 253 episodes of "Doctor Who" that were produced in the 1960s, 108 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge in the 1970s. The most recent episode to be recovered as of 2009 is a print of the 1965 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' tMaster Plan]]: Day of Armageddon", returned by a former BBC engineer in January 2004.

* Of the 253 episodes of "Doctor Who" that were produced in the 1960s, 108 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge in the 1970s. The most recent episode to be recovered as of 2009 is a print of the 1965 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]: Day of Armageddon", returned by a former BBC engineer in January 2004.

* At one point the TARDIS's design was trademarked. The police sued, but lost because they forgot to trademark the police box and the fact that more people regonize a police box as the TARDIS.
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* Michael Jayston, a Shakespearian actor, played an "intermediate" future incarnation of the Doctor known as the Valeyard who existed between the Doctor's twelfth and thirteenth incarnations.

* StevenMoffat, who took over ''DoctorWho'' in 2010, is the first straight guy to produce the show since ''1979''. Nothing really wrong with that, it's just...odd. Queer, you could say. ''QueerAsFolk'', even.[[hottip:*:Sorry]]

*11th doctor Matt Smith ironiclly guest started on an episode of billie piper's, who played Rose Tyler, show SecretDiaryOfACallGirl before getting the part as as a shop keep who ends up bedding pipers charicter.