Line #7 ShoutOut/DoctorWho


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6	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction "The Edge of Destruction"]]: The First Doctor comments that he got his cloak from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan.
7	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]]: The Doctor complains about the MirrorUniverse UNIT's scepticism about his TARDIS by asking them if they expected "Batman at the controls". Also a TakeThat as, at the time, ''Series/{{Batman\|1966}}'' was what Creator/{{ITV}} was running against ''Doctor Who''.
8	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons "Terror of the Autons"]]: The Time Lord who comes to warn the Doctor about the Master appears dressed in a conventional English suit with a bowler hat and floating in a blue sky with no apparent means of support. The visual reference here is to Magritte.
9	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]]: Harry's disguise is a WholeCostumeReference to Steed in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. Sarah Jane intentionally mixes up her pop culture when she sees him and compares him to... Film/JamesBond.
10	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]]: "Grimwade's Syndrome", a fear of robots, was named after production assistant (later to be both director and writer) Peter Grimwade, who hated to do robot stories. The story also had characters named Ander Poul[[note]]His first name is revealed in the sequel novel ''Corpse Marker''[[/note]], after SpeculativeFiction writer Creator/PoulAnderson, Uvanov (Creator/IsaacAsimov), and Taren Capel (Karel Capek).
11	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"]]:
12	** To ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' ("A hatbox?").
13	** Jago's alliterative speeches are a shout out to Leonard Sachs's turn as the compere in the BBC's music-hall revival show ''The Good Old Days''.
14	** And, of course, the idea of a [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera disfigured maniac hiding under a theatre]].
15	** Li H'Sen Chang is a villainous fictional version of the real-world ([[{{Yellowface}} fake]]) Chinese conjurer Chung Ling Soo.
16	** Litefoot's landlady is named [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Mrs. Hudson]].
17	** The Doctor [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows enjoys messing around in boats]].
18	** The giant rat is also reminiscent of animals grown to enormous size in ''Literature/FoodOfTheGods''.
19	** UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper is mentioned.
20	** Litefoot quotes from ''Literature/ThePilgrimsProgress'' and attributes it to Creator/JohnBunyan.
21	** The Doctor quotes from the monologue ''Literature/TheGreenEyeOfTheYellowGod'', incorrectly attributing it to Creator/HenryChampion.
22	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks"]] shows the Doctor amusing himself by mocking a book by [[Literature/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Oolon Colluphid]].
23	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]]:
24	** In this 1987 serial, the Doctor and a philosophically-minded guard debate the concept that "the semiotic thickness of a performed text varies according to the redundancy of its auxiliary performance codes." This is a direct quote from an academic media studies book entitled ''Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text'', and roughly translates into layman's terms as "the less relevant an in-joke is to the plot, the more cultural significance it has."
25	** Almost every character in that story was named after someone famous to film history.
26	* To Myth/NorseMythology: During the Sylvester [=McCoy=] era, the Doctor battled the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy Gods of Ragnarok]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Wolves of Fenric]].
27	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]]: The Doctor asks [[Creator/DouglasAdams "Who was it who said Earthmen never invited their ancestors to dinner?"]]
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30	[[folder:Expanded Universe]]
31	* The title of the ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe novel ''The Taking of Chelsea 426'' is a triple reference: first (and most obviously) to the movie ''[[{{Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree}} The Taking of Pelham 123]]'', and second to the planet [[Film/{{Aliens}} LV-426]]. Thirdly, the Saturnian city is the new location of the Chelsea Flower Show.
32	** ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Taking of Planet 5'' also homages ''Pelham 123''.
33	* The 2003 webcast [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada "Shada"]], based on a script by Douglas Adams, included a Nutrimat drinks machine and a Ford Prefect car (neither appearing in the original script), both references to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The 2012 novelisation contains several more references, such as a reiteration of the famous digital watches joke, Chronotis switching out the book for "an Earth classic about space and thumbing lifts..." and a scene where the Doctor attempts to communicate with a man in ragged clothes and long hair whose first word is, for no apparent reason, "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus It's...]]"
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36	!New Series
37	[[folder:In General]]
38	* The RunningGag of the Doctor replacing enemies' guns with bananas is a reference to the Creator/BusterKeaton film ''Film/TheHighSign'', where Keaton does the same thing to a policeman.
39	* River's relationship with the Doctor, a woman who falls in love with a time traveller and meets him in the wrong order throughout her life is a pretty obvious shout out to ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''.
40	** There's also a suspicion that Music/VanMorrison is getting a namecheck here: reference his ballad ''Crazy Love'' (and what sort of love could be crazier?)
41	--->''Yet I'm running to her, like a river's song''\
42	''She gives me love, love, love, love - crazy love!''
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45	[[folder:Series 1]]
46	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]: Before becoming a major part of the show's mythology, the Face of Boe was just a throwaway reference to an obscure narrative poem by Creator/RudyardKipling, ''The Ballad of Boh Da Thone''. It's about a bandit/warlord who consistently avoids the British Army's attempts to capture and/or kill him only to be crushed to death when a fat ox driver he's trying to rob falls down off his cart on top of him. Said ox driver then decapitates Boh's corpse and sends his head by parcel post as a gift to an acquaintance who was one of the aforementioned soldiers who'd tried to catch him.
47	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]]: The BillBillJunkBill sequence where the Doctor goes through the uncatalogued alien weapons and dismisses one as being a hairdryer references ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''.
48	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]]: The Lamb and Flag pub from ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' is mentioned.
49	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]]:
50	** There seems to be a reference to ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' with Jack shagging Algy since Jack and Algy (short for Algernon) are main characters in that play.
51	** Not to mention Rose asking the Doctor "I think you should scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock. For once, would it kill you?" Then, later on, she tells Jack that the Doctor is named "[[Franchise/StarTrek Mr. Spock]]", which Jack falls for since he's from the future and unfamiliar with 20th-century science fiction.
52	** Rose is dressed similarly to Jenny Sparks of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority''.
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55	[[folder:Series 2]]
56	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]]:
57	** The Doctor entreats the Sycorax to leave the humans alone. He makes a heartwarming speech about how from the day they arrive on the planet and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to be seen than can ever be seen... whereupon he remarks, "Sorry, that's ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]''."
58	*** He seems to still have the movie on his brain when he tells the defeated Sycorax leader to "Leave this planet, and never return."
59	** A couple to ''Franchise/StarWars'':
60	*** The Doctor, while duelling the Sycorax leader, ends up at one point partly hanging over the edge of the spaceship, with a very long fall below him, after getting his hand cut off.
61	*** Just to double the amputation jokes, he then gets up in the exact same pose from the poster/cover of ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', minus shotgun and woman clinging to his leg.
62	*** Torchwood's ConvergingStreamWeapon, which is used to destroy the Sycorax ship.
63	** A reference to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': "Not bad for a man in his jim-jams. Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man."
64	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]]:
65	** The Doctor, while passing himself off as "Dr. James [=McCrimmon=]", says that he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Dr. Bell. Bell was one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers and a likely inspiration for ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''.
66	** The Doctor refers to Rose as a "tim'rous beastie", a quote from a poem by ''Creator/RobertBurns'' - who famously wrote in Scottish dialect. Seems fitting, as he's adopted one himself.
67	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]]: Creator/AnthonyHead (who played Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), in clear BuffySpeak, calls K9 (a robot dog with a laser cannon) a "Shooty Dog-thing".
68	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace "The Girl in the Fireplace"]]:
69	** The episode was explicitly inspired by ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', to the point where the author later included a reference to ''Doctor Who'' in her sequel.
70	** When the Doctor is PlayingDrunk, he enters the room singing "I Could Have Danced All Night" from ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.
71	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]: Jake compares the Cybus personnel gathering up homeless people for conversion to the Child-Catcher, the intensely creepy villain from ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
72	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]: Pete compares [[LaResistance the Preachers]] to the main characters of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', saying "They even got the van!"
73	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]:
74	** The Wire yells [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors "FEED ME!"]]
75	** [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 "Goodnight children... everywhere."]]
76	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]]:
77	** There's a lot of use of DoomDoors. Given that it involves [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} a gigantic demon possessing people and an archeology dig digging up said demon]], this is most likely intentional.
78	** The idea of being kept in orbit around a black hole by a powerful artificial energy source is reminiscent of ''Film/TheBlackHole''.
79	** The Doctor compares an instance of Ida TemptingFate to saying [[Series/EastEnders "This is gonna be the best Christmas Walford's ever had."]]
80	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]]: The episode is set on a street named after British Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes.
81	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]]:
82	** The Tenth Doctor dons a "triangulation kit" consisting of a power-pack and three TARDIS roundels; the finished getup resembles the Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}' infamous Proton Pack. Cue a brief rendition of Ray Parker, Jr's classic theme tune.
83	--->'''The Doctor:''' [[WhoYouGonnaCall Who ya' gonna call?]]\
84	'''Rose:''' ''[laughing]'' Ghostbusters!\
85	'''The Doctor:''' I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts!
86	** The news show documenting the behaviour of the "ghosts" is called ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}''.
87	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]]: A method of interdimensional travel that destabilizes the universe with each use? [[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Remind you]] [[Literature/HyperionCantos of anything?]]
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90	[[folder:Series 3]]
91	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]:
92	** The Racnoss Empress' Webstar bears a striking resemblance to the Cylon Basestar from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. In addition to the similarity of the names, both ships are made with Y shapes stacked atop one another.
93	** The Empress herself is a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Drider]].
94	** Donna makes a comment about having seen a movie where there were dinosaurs at the centre of the Earth, probably ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth1959''.
95	** The way the Doctor kills the Racnoss children is very reminiscent of the nursery rhyme "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider".
96	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]]:
97	** The plasmavore uses a bendy straw to drink peoples' blood, much like how the [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Yugopotamians]] use straws to eat human brains.
98	** Martha compares the slab drones to the motorcycle guy from the then-current Zovirax ads.
99	** The Doctor faking illness to investigate a hospital is similar to what Literature/SherlockHolmes does in "The Dying Detective".
100	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]]:
101	** New companion Martha remarks that the apparent witchcraft being done "all sounds a bit ''Literature/HarryPotter''", the Doctor enjoins her to wait till she reads the 7th book (which hadn't come out when the episode aired). Later, they and Shakespeare have to, on the fly, say the right words to banish the Carrionites:
102	--->'''Shakespeare:''' Banished like a tinker's cuss, I say to thee... ''[looks to the Doctor]''\
103	'''The Doctor:''' Uhh... ''[looks to Martha]''\
104	'''Martha:''' Expelliarmus!\
105	'''The Doctor:''' Expelliarmus!\
106	'''Shakespeare:''' Expelliarmus! ''[it works]''\
107	'''The Doctor:''' Good old J.K.!
108	*** This also doubles as an ActorAllusion (or perhaps CelebrityParadox) since the Tenth Doctor, Creator/DavidTennant, played Barty Crouch Jr. in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
109	** Martha comments how Shakespeare doesn't look much like his portraits. His actor, Dean Lennox Kelly, instead looks strikingly like Creator/KennethBranagh.
110	** The Doctor tells Shakespeare that Martha is from [[Film/DuckSoup Freedonia]].
111	** The Doctor explains the situation to Martha by comparing it to ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
112	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock "Gridlock"]]:
113	** By WordOfGod, the concept of an endless traffic jam in a dystopian city is a nod to Mega-City One in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. The man with the bowler hat is based on Max Normal, a supporting character in the comic.
114	** Sally Calypso is a homage to [[ComicBook/TheBalladOfHaloJones Swifty Frisko]].
115	** Ma and Pa, the AmericanGothicCouple at the beginning.
116	** Apparently, the Doctor's BadassLongcoat was a gift from Music/JanisJoplin.
117	** Brannigan's appearance was based on "Ratz", the CGI disembodied cat's head that was a virtual presenter on CBBC's ''Live and Kicking'' in the early '90s.
118	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]]: The climax in the cathedral is an acknowledged reference to the climax of ''Series/TheQuatermassExperiment''.
119	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]]:
120	** This 2007 episode plays out in real time, à la ''Series/TwentyFour''.
121	** The title, of course, is another ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' reference.
122	** After Martha asks the Doctor about Music/{{Elvis\|Presley}} and Music/{{the Beatles}}, he namedrops "Here Comes the Sun" by the latter.
123	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]:
124	** The Doctor's human alter-ego gives his parents' names as Sydney and Verity. Creator/SydneyNewman was one of the original creators of the show, and Creator/VerityLambert was its first producer... they could very well be considered the "mother and father" of ''Doctor Who''! This is reprised in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], the 2009 Christmas special, with [[spoiler:a cameo appearance by one of Joan Redfern's descendants, who has written a book based on John Smith's journal under the name "Verity Newman"]].
125	** During the fast-forwarded part of the Doctor's instructions to Martha, David Tennant notes that he now has to [[Radio/JustAMinute talk for about a minute "without hesitation, deviation, or whatever the other thing is"]].
126	** Daughter of Mine's red balloon is a reference to [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Rover]].
127	** The green "meteor" and the searchlight sweeping across the common reference ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', set in roughly the same time period.
128	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]]:
129	** [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Someone gets stuck in the past and arranges for a message to be delivered to a friend at the place and time when they disappeared]]. ''Gary'' Sparrow did it in ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart''.
130	** "How did I get here?" "Same way we did! [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel Touch of an angel!]]"
131	** "You live in Franchise/ScoobyDoo's house."[[note]]"For god's sake, I don't ''live'' here!"[[/note]]
132	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]]: Jack labels the Futurekind the Music/BeastieBoys.
133	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]:
134	** [[Film/AceVentura Repeatedly opening and closing a soundproof door with someone screaming on the other side.]]
135	** Some ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' fans were quick to note that the ''Valiant'' looked a lot like Cloudbase. Or the ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} helicarrier from Creator/MarvelComics.
136	** The Master feels like a Shout Out to Caligula in ''Series/IClaudius''. He has a constant sound of drums in his head like Caligula has a sound of galloping in his head. Also, the aged Doctor seems similar to Claudius who is mocked by Caligula. Suitable as in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] the Master is TheCaligula. If you watch the two characters you really feel the similarity between the Creator/JohnSimm Master and Caligula. John Simm had already played Caligula and claims he partially based his performance on this.
137	*** Although, ironically, the Master's previous incarnation was played by [[Creator/DerekJacobi Claudius]].
138	** The Toclafane saying [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Master is our friend!"]] when they find themselves dealing with President Winters instead of the Master.
139	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]:
140	** "Say hello, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]."
141	** The Toclafane bear an uncanny resemblance to the spheres from ''Film/{{Phantasm}}'', right down to [[spoiler:being powered by the brains of the creator's human victims]].
142	** The scene where the Doctor burns the Master on a funeral pyre is reminiscent of Luke doing the same with Darth Vader's armour at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
143	** A woman with bright red fingernails picking up the Master's ring as his laughter is heard in the background nods to the end of the 1980 ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}'' movie.
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146	[[folder:Series 4]]
147	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]]: The collision between the Fifth and Tenth Doctors' [=TARDISes=] nearly results in a hole being torn into the space-time continuum the ''exact'' size of... [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Belgium]].
148	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]:
149	** The episode is set on the ''VideoGame/StarshipTitanic''.
150	** Information: The penultimate security protocol the Doctor tries on the Host before using 1 and getting a result is [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]].
151	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]:
152	** In closeups of Miss Foster during her press conference, all that can be seen of "ADIPOSE INDUSTRIES" behind her is "DUST", the catchphrase of Fat Fighter's Marjorie on ''Series/LittleBritain''.
153	** The Adipose nursery ship looks very similar to the spaceships at Devil's Tower in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
154	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]]:
155	** The Roman characters are named after the Romans from the ''Literature/CambridgeLatinCourse'' textbooks. (Lampshaded in ''The Vault'' tie-in book, where a fake cover from the Cambridge Latin Course books and identical chapter intro images show the Doctor and the characters from both the real coursebook and the show.)
156	** The Doctor explains away Donna's ignorance of what an augur does by saying "[[Series/FawltyTowers She's from Barcelona]]."
157	** The PunnyName RunningGag nods to ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''.
158	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]]: When Solana Mercurio talks about the Ood's voice modifications, one of them says "D'oh!" in a way that sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]].
159	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"]]:
160	** Donna shouts an Franchise/AlanPartridge-style "Back of the neck!" when knocking out a Sontaran.
161	** The ''Valiant'' has been outfitted with a [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star-style]] laser.
162	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]]:
163	** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "I've gathered you all here in the Accusing Parlour..."]]
164	** To say nothing of the number of Creator/AgathaChristie titles dropped into the dialogue ("Well, that's put the ''Literature/CatAmongThePigeons''", "It's a trick, an illusion, ''Literature/TheyDoItWithMirrors''", "''Literature/TheMovingFinger'' points to...", "''[[Literature/WhyDidntTheyAskEvans Why Didn't They Ask — Heavens!]]''").
165	** WordOfGod is that the episode was inspired by the board game ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' ("Cluedo" in the UK).
166	--->'''Professor Peach:''' ''[in the library]'' I say! What are you doing with that lead piping?
167	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]: In the computer system, [[spoiler:Miss Evangelista's]] glitched face is distorted in a manner reminiscent of a [[Creator/PabloPicasso Picasso]] painting.
168	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]:
169	** Dee Dee quotes "Literature/GoblinMarket" at one point, which does ''nothing'' to lessen the creepiness of the situation.
170	** Professor ''{{Hobbes\|WasRight}}'' appears in a story where HumansAreBastards (including him).
171	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]: At one point, Donna and her family gather with their housemates and sing [[Music/{{Queen\|Band}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]].
172	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]:
173	** [[Film/ANewHope Their position's correct, but... no Earth.]]
174	** [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The first to leave Planet Earth ahead of a crisis are the bees.]]
175	** "It's like an outer-space Website/{{Facebook}}!"
176	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]: Captain Jack makes a ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' crack upon being reunited with Mickey Smith.
177	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]]:
178	** Almost all of the episode is a shout out to ''Literature/TheLangoliers'' by Creator/StephenKing. From the vehicle falling through a wormhole into a strange and empty world, to the ominous but vague something lurking on the horizon that turns out to be a horde of creatures that devour everything in their path, to the psychic sensing their approach.
179	** The world on which the bus lands is San Helios, which orbits three suns, similar to the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Elite]] homeworld of Sanghelios, which also orbits three suns. And both stories begin when a human vehicle crash-lands on a strange world.
180	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]]:
181	** To Music/DavidBowie:
182	*** The episode is set in Bowie Base One on Mars. He did have a song called [[Music/HunkyDory "Life on Mars?"]], after all.
183	*** "Music/SpaceOddity" features the line "Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do", which the Flood's intent echoes. The song also involves someone dying in space for reasons that will never be known back on Earth.
184	** The horrific zombie alien virus is called [[Franchise/{{Halo}} the Flood]].
185	** An EldritchAbomination taking the form of a watery liquid that turns people into zombies who want to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt sounds a lot like the modus operandi of the ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness''.
186	** A man is shocked by his male lover buying him a car as a birthday present. [[Series/QueerAsFolkUK Now where have we seen that before?]]
187	** The idea of one drop of water contaminating the global supply seems to come from ''Literature/CatsCradle'' and ice-nine.
188	** The sound the computer makes when it tracks crew members is from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
189	** The door to the com room where Adelaide contacts the Doctor makes ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[DoomDoors door noises]].
190	** A character is infected by a single drop falling onto his eye. [[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater Remind you of anything?]]
191	** When the Doctor changes history, he sees [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture changing newspaper headlines]]. There's also [[BurningRubber flaming tire tracks]].
192	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]:
193	** The Doctor refers to the Master as [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]].
194	** The Master wears a hoodie, makes high super-jumps, has super-strength and eats people. [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Haven't we]] [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} seen this before?]]
195	** And he shoots lightning from his hands and uses it to fly around. [[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} Sound familiar?]] Some found it reminiscent of [[Film/IronMan something else]]... because "yeah, he can fly".
196	** The Master's resurrection scene, with loyal followers sacrificing their bodies and the mortal enemy being brought in for a forcibly taken biological sample, is uncannily reminiscent of that of Lord Voldemort from ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
197	** The scene with Captain Jack is reminiscent of the cantina from ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope''.
198	** So's the [[Film/ANewHope turret gunner scene]] (down to some shots being exactly the same!) with [[SlowLaser Slow Lasers]], and the Lord President of the Time Lords [[LaserGuidedKarma getting his comeuppance by the Master]], with electricity...
199	** Some viewers think the Vinvocci spaceship looks like the ''[[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 Heart of Gold]]''. Or ''[[Series/RedDwarf Starbug]]'', or ''[[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]''.
200	** The Doctor's death, a HeroicSacrifice via massive radiation poisoning whilst sealed in a glass chamber, is rather appropriately reminiscent of the death scene at the end of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
201	** Ood Sigma's last words to the Doctor.
202	--->'''Ood Sigma:''' [[Film/TheNeverendingStory This song is ending, but the story never ends.]]
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205	[[folder:Series 5]]
206	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]:
207	** The Doctor's rejection of one food after another is reminiscent of the scene in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]]'' in which Tigger says "Tiggers like honey/yuck, Tiggers don't like honey." It even sounds similar: "Oh, I love apples" ''[chomp]'' "Yech! I hate apples." It seems to fit the Doctor's personality as a bumbling, manic, impulsive genius.
208	** The guy who's surfing porn on his laptop and needs to get a girlfriend is named [[Series/{{Coupling}} Jeff]].
209	** The Doctor's BadassBoast near the end brings to mind [[Film/ThePrincessBride Inigo Montoya]].
210	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]:
211	** Amy runs around in her nightie and a dressing gown the whole time, a bit like a female version of [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]. Or a reference to Wendy from ''Literature/PeterPan''; a girl who runs off with the mysterious boy to another land in her nightgown the night before she has to "grow up".
212	** Liz 10 says [[Franchise/StarWars "Help us, Doctor, you're our only hope."]] And later, the main characters wind up in a dump where they realize a) [[Film/ANewHope there's something alive down there]], and b) [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack they're IN the mouth of the Beast]].
213	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]]:
214	** A RoboticReveal through the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi loss of a hand]], later replaced with a [[Film/{{Metropolis}} classic]] RedRightHand.
215	** The Doctor explains that Bracewell's memories and personality were uploaded to a [[Creator/IsaacAsimov positronic brain]].
216	** [[Film/WhereEaglesDare "Broadsword calling Danny Boy..."]]
217	** The space Spitfires sequence is more than a little reminiscent of ''Franchise/StarWars: Episode IV Film/ANewHope'', specifically a sequence inspired by WWII movie ''Film/TheDamBusters''.
218	** [[Film/IndependenceDay A lone human aircraft takes on a huge saucer-shaped alien flagship.]]
219	** Bracewell being a bomb echoes the Creator/PhilipKDick short story "Imposter".
220	** At the end, Bracewell's new right hand has a [[Film/DoctorStrangelove black glove]].
221	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels "The Time of Angels"]]:
222	** [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey River throws herself out]] of the ''Byzantium'' to get into the TARDIS.
223	** The sequence with the Weeping Angel slowly emerging from the television screen is quite possibly a reference to ''Literature/TheRing''.
224	** The Angels [[Franchise/{{Predator}} use the voices of their victims to lure in more victims]].
225	** [[Series/CharliesAngels "Hello, Angels."]]
226	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]:
227	** The Doctor gets the Angels to say [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "comfy chairs"]].
228	** In the "Meanwhile in the TARDIS" scene, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJ4Ak2xCkw Eleventh Doctor tells Amy]] he's like, "I dunno, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]! A [[RecycledINSPACE space Gandalf]]. Or the little green one in ''Franchise/StarWars''. ''[lightsaber noise]''"
229	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]:
230	** The look of the vampire girls is a deliberate homage to the Film/HammerHorror era. They also look a bit like the girls of [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Castle Anthrax]].
231	** The Doctor's UV light wand looks and sounds a bit like a [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber]]. And later, Rory makes lightsaber noises while [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing wildly swinging a broom around]] when accosted by Francesco.
232	** Isabella's demise is very similar to the first death in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
233	** Rory's use of crossed candlesticks as a makeshift cross mirrors Van Helsing doing the same in the 1958 ''Film/{{Dracula\|1958}}''.
234	** Rory calls Francesco "WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob\|SquarePants}}".
235	** The Doctor [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 climbs a stone edifice in a storm in order to do something to a mechanical device]].
236	** To stop the doomsday machine, the Doctor only has to [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} flick a small switch]].
237	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]:
238	** [[Film/HotFuzz Elders in a rural village killing residents to keep up their façade, and the heroes facing them off?]]
239	** The Dream Lord appears in the camper van holding [[Series/TopGear a white racing helmet with a dark blue stripe]].
240	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]]: The [[NightVisionGoggles night-vision sunglasses]] the Doctor uses bring to mind similar-looking glasses from ''Film/TheyLive''.
241	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor "Vincent and the Doctor"]]:
242	** [[Film/FieldOfDreams "If you paint it, he will come."]]
243	** The Doctor fights a monster by looking at its reflection, just like [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus fighting Medusa]]. Even better, there's a statue of Perseus with Medusa's head in the museum that the Doctor passes by.
244	** Richard Curtis sneaks in a nod to [[Series/{{Blackadder}} his own series]] with the Doctor mentioning the TARDIS' "friction contrafibulator", referencing Blackadder wishing Samuel Johnson his "most enthusiastic contrafibularities".
245	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]: The Doctor tells the ship's autopilot that he's from [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} International Rescue]].
246	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]:
247	** The "oldest text in the universe" that River uses to communicate with the Doctor near the beginning sounds ''very'' similar in the Doctor's description to God's Final Message to His Creation from ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish''[[note]]although in the book they're only 30 feet high[[/note]]. Especially since, thanks to Creator/DouglasAdams being a ''Doctor Who'' writer and script editor, there's already been a fair amount of crossover and cross-pollination.
248	*** It could also be a shout-out to the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures spin-off novel]] ''Set Piece'', where one of the Doctor's companions uses the same trick to arrange a rescue after being stranded in Ancient Egypt.
249	** The Cyberman head crawling along on tentacles is straight out of ''Film/TheThing1982'' or the facehuggers in ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''.
250	** The knockout dart the Cyberman head fires at Amy looks [[Film/AttackOfTheClones familiar]]...
251	** Of course, the Cybermen and Borg have obvious similarities, but they made it even more obvious when a Cyberman said [[Franchise/StarTrek "YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!"]]
252	** The Cyberman re-attaching its head is very similar to a scene in ''Film/TheFaculty'' or a certain death-scene from the game ''Franchise/DeadSpace''.
253	** The idea of agents/replicants who do not know their true nature and, on a signal, activate their attack goes back to ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' (hence the ManchurianAgent trope) and ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (Rory's shock as he activates and tries to march off is similar to the TomatoInTheMirror Cylons).
254	** The various ships zoom around Stonehenge like the alien ships around Devil's Tower in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
255	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]:
256	** The Doctor's OnlyMostlyDead quote is a clear homage to ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
257	** The universe is saved using the principle behind the [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Total Perspective Vortex]].
258	[[/folder]]
259
260	[[folder:Series 6]]
261	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]] features FBI agent Canton Everett Delaware III, played by Mark Sheppard. Previously, Sheppard had played the Space-British crime lord Badger on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', a series whose fandom will pretty much burst into song at the mention of the word “Canton” due to the episode "Jaynestown" and the in-universe bar song celebrating “The Hero of Canton”, Jayne Cobb.
262	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]]: WordOfGod has confirmed that the scenes of Amy and Rory running through the TARDIS [[spoiler:while it is possessed by House]] are a "very intentional" reference to Creator/HarlanEllison's "Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream". [[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/25715283482/i-just-watched-your-lovely-doctor-who-episode-the]]
263	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]]:
264	** The Doctor explains the configuration of a prison, [[Film/{{Cube}} with multiple rooms changing shape and form and new threats to face each time]]. Then he flicks up a Rubik's cube and comments "Well that's just rude."
265	** Foreshadowing the hotel rooms, one character says "[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Here comes a candle to light you to bed; here comes a chopper to chop off your head]]". It's more likely an allusion to a traditional nursery rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons", which predates ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' by quite a few years.
266	[[/folder]]
267
268	[[folder:Series 7]]
269	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks "Asylum of the Daleks"]] has a possible reference to ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' when Rory asks, "What colour?" because all the good questions were gone. Similarly, in "The Man with Two Legs", Patrick asks Jeff — [[ItMakesSenseInContext who has fallen in love with a girl's leg]] — "Left or right?" When Steve stares at him, he protests "It's a leg! What else is there to ask?" The others look shocked at him when he queries about the colour. It's also possibly a reference to the backlash against the brightly coloured Paradigm Daleks in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]].
270	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]]: When the Doctor and Clara find themselves on a crashing plane, the conversation about how neither of them knows how to fly it, ending with the Doctor saying "Fine, we'll do it together" is a reference to a conversation in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' where Zaphod establishes that neither he, Ford nor Trillian know how to pilot the ''Heart of Gold'' manually.
271	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]]: Neil Cross was apparently having a lot of fun with references.
272	** The episode contains an array of new species. One of these seems to be a reference to {{Wrestling/CHIKARA}}, as not only are they called the Ultramanti (meaning the singular is Ultramantis), but there is a resemblance between them and one Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}}.
273	** There's also the Doctor's mention of a species named the Hooloovoo. An eponymous species in [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy a certain book series]] is referred to as "an intelligent shade of blue".
274	** Clara, being a newbie on the TARDIS team, refers to the Doctor's signature gadget at one point as a [[{{Series/Community}} "spanner"]]. He politely corrects her with "screwdriver".
275	** There are homages to works like the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' film series (the Doctor's IndyHatRoll moment with the screwdriver, MalevolentArchitecture and traps in an ancient temple, Ravenwood being the maiden name of Clara's mum, even the poster for the episode) and ''Film/BladeRunner'' (the shot of Clara's eyes reflecting a stylised scenery, the Doctor's and Clara's speech in the finale having similarities to Roy Batty's famous final monologue). Interestingly enough, an interview with Jenna Coleman at the time had her mentioning that Matt Smith recommended she watch ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' before filming Series 7.
276	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide "Hide"]]: Another episode written by Cross, with references such as:
277	** The setup of the episode, with a group of ghost hunters in the 1970s using period technology to detect paranormal activities, is a nod to British horror films like ''Film/TheStoneTape''.
278	** Clara asks where they're going with the TARDIS and the Doctor insinuates that [[JustForFun/InspectorSpacetime the question isn't where, but when]].
279	** The Doctor quotes some lines from a Music/ColePorter song in the epilogue.
280	** The cold spot and the music room being "the heart of the house" are direct references to ''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'' by Creator/ShirleyJackson (it was the nursery in the book).
281	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]]:
282	** There's [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 a galaxy-spanning human empire, with an emperor that they revere as a god, who is engaged in a Robot War and destroys entire planets if it means stopping the enemy]].
283	** To store their knowledge, the Cybermen also have an artificial shared consciousness at their disposal — called ''Literature/TheCyberiad''.
284	[[/folder]]
285
286	[[folder:50ᵗʰ Anniversary Specials]]
287	* [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]: As the Doctors enter the TARDIS to return to the present day from the 1500s, the 11th Doctor says "Right then, Franchise/BackToTheFuture."
288	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]]: The climax was also extremely reminiscent of that of ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', with the Doctor on a clock tower and everything.
289	[[/folder]]
290
291	[[folder:Series 8]]
292	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]]'s restaurant scene is similar to the one in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': In Victorian London, a highly intelligent, gorgeously-costumed girl meets an eccentric genius in a restaurant who proceeds to insult her (they make up later). Then, it turns out all the patrons were in on the bad guy's plot; they get up simultaneously and leave the girl to her fate (though Clara fares better than [[spoiler:Irene]]).
293	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek "Into the Dalek"]] features a dark Shout-Out to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' and/or ''Manga/CryingFreeman'' when Clara suggests that Danny Pink "shoots people and then cries about it".
294	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood "Robot of Sherwood"]]: The ''Robin of Sherwood'' theme [[ShoutOut carries an unmistakable riff]] from the theme of ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', likely intended to underline just how ridiculously stereotypical Robin is.
295	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]]:
296	** In the "Making Of" featurette, Jenna mentions that this episode was inspired, at least in part, by ''Film/OceansEleven''.
297	** The Doctor says that the Architect must be a time traveller because he could [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 find out exactly when a rare solar storm would hit]].
298	** [[Film/DieHard The hacker opens all the locks to the vault except one, which is opened when an outside event cuts the juice.]]
299	** Psi seems like a fusion of several '90s cyberpunk tropes: His memory powers recall Film/JohnnyMnemonic, and his stuttering is very reminiscent of Series/MaxHeadroom.
300	** In an episode that heavily features psychic abilities and the threat of fire, the main antagonist is named [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Delphox]].
301	** You've got an "Architect", someone who can change their face, a conversation about how impossible it is to [[ThoughtAversionFailure not think about something]], and the phrase "You'll be old and full of regret". [[Film/{{Inception}} Sound familiar?]]
302	** Saibra is a mutant, whose powers allow her to assume another's personality and likeness via touch. However, this also dooms her to never being able to touch another living being as she can't shut the powers off. Tweak the powers a smidge, and give her a skunk stripe, and you have Rogue of the ComicBook/XMen.
303	** Clara's outfit. It's a simple black and white suit with a thin black tie. Being worn for a bank heist. Still haven't put it together? She was wearing it for her date with a man called... [[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Pink]].
304	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline "Flatline"]]: The registration on the train that's going to crush the TARDIS is [[Creator/PixarRegulars A113]]. (That one is ''definitely'' deliberate, as correct headcodes start with a digit, not a letter.)
305	** The Doctor's hand dragging the miniaturized Tardis along the tracks was done as a visual shoutout to ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' 's the Thing, a disembodied hand that lived in a box.
306	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight "In the Forest of the Night"]]:
307	** Although it isn't seen that way in the episode, the angle from which the Trafalgar Square lion's head is seen in the episode's main publicity shot (see above) makes it look a lot like the face of ComicBook/SwampThing. Which is appropriate given the resemblance between the fairy-dust entities and "the Green" in ''Swamp Thing''.
308	** The [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimm's Fairy Tales]] of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' and ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'' get explicitly referenced with Maebh's red coat, the wolves wandering around the woods, and Maebh dropping items to make navigation around the forest easier. The Doctor even namechecks both fairy tales.
309	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater "Dark Water"]]:
310	** The Doctor owns a copy of ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', one of Creator/StevenMoffat's favourite books.
311	** When the Doctor shows his psychic paper to Dr. Chang, Chang sees the ID of [[ActorAllusion a government inspector who uses a lot of... colourful language]]...
312	--->'''Dr. Chang:''' Why is there [[Series/TheThickOfIt all this swearing?]]\
313	'''The Doctor:''' Oh, I've got a lot of internalised anger.
314	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven "Death in Heaven"]]: One character directly compare the ''Valiant'' to Cloudbase (though he initially misidentifies it as being from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''), leading to a follow-up shout out to Creator/SylviaAnderson.
315	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas "Last Christmas"]]:
316	** The Twelfth Doctor learns there's a horror movie called ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and thinks that's "''really'' offensive". [[Creator/JohnHurt The War Doctor]] [[ActorAllusion may have thought otherwise, however]]. Likewise with [[Film/Alien3 the Eighth Doctor]].
317	** When Shona wakes up, she looks at her Christmas Day itinerary, which includes watching ''Alien'', ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'', ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'', and a ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Thrones]]'' marathon. Faye Marsay went on to play the Waif on ''Game of Thrones'' in season 6.
318	[[/folder]]
319
320	[[folder:Series 9]]
321	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]: The Tenth Doctor got his trademark trenchcoat from Music/JanisJoplin, and while it's not officially canon, Creator/PeterCapaldi's suggested that Twelve's guitar may be a gift from Music/JimiHendrix (his personal [[{{Fanon}} headcanon]] is that the Doctor at least helped Jimi figure out some problems with feedback, and Jimi, in turn, helped the Doctor work out some licks he was having trouble with).
322	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore "Sleep No More"]] is an homage to the "found footage" genre of horror film popularized by ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.
323	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]]: Clara and Ashildr's TARDIS, like how the Doctor's is stuck as a Police Box, is permanently stuck as a Route 66 diner. As they're both immortal, they decide to go to Gallifrey by going "the long way around", i.e. travel around the Universe until enough time has passed that they arrive physically on Gallifrey at the moment they left. Since Gallifrey is now situated near the end of the Universe, this means that their TARDIS will eventually be [[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse a diner at the end of the Universe]].
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:Series 10]]
327	* [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] is one big shout-out to the Film/SupermanFilmSeries, with several scenes basically reenactments of sequences from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''.
328	* The opening line of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]] is [[Franchise/StarTrek "Space. The final frontier."]]
329	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars "Empress of Mars"]]: Bill is surprised to discover that the Doctor is unfamiliar with ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/TheThing1982'' or ''Film/TheVikings''. Later on the Doctor directly references ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}''.
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:Series 11]]
333	* For various fans, the Thirteenth Doctor's outfit makes her look like [[Creator/RobinWilliams Mork]] from ''Series/MorkAndMindy''... and ''Radio Times'' [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-09/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-costume-outfit/ noticed it]].
334	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]'s title is a reference to the Walter Tevis novel ''Literature/TheManWhoFellToEarth'', and the Music/DavidBowie [[Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth film adaptation]] of the same name.
335	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]]:
336	** The episode begins with the main characters flung into the vacuum of space, and [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy getting picked up by spaceships that arrived just in time]]. Later, the Doctor says "Don't panic."
337	** Upon learning that Epzo's ship has "manual stabilizers", the Doctor quips that it's so old it could be on ''Series/AntiquesRoadshow''.
338	** Ryan believes that his expertise playing ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' (in the Brazilian dub, it's changed to ''VideoGame/GoldenEye'') gives him the skills to take on the [=SniperBots=] with one of their own guns. The next shot even features a mock-up of the first-person view typically seen in FPS games.
339	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa "Rosa"]]:
340	** A time traveller currently in November 1955 uses [[NewspaperDating a newspaper]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 to cite the date]].
341	** Graham's excuse for staying in a motel in Montgomery? He's there to pitch an invention which [[IProduct is a phone which also takes pictures, displays the date, plays music, and sends messages]]. [[ImMrFuturePopCultureReference His name?]] ''Creator/SteveJobs''.
342	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]:
343	** The episode is named after the Music/SexPistols song "Anarchy in the UK".
344	** After saying "the spider mother in the ballroom", the Doctor comments that the phrase sounds like "the best novel Edith Wharton never wrote."
345	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]]:
346	** When everyone gathers in the diagnostics room, the Doctor says that they must be wondering why she's gathered them all here, and then wonders if the statement is too [[Literature/HerculePoirot Poirot]].
347	** The Doctor mentions having seen all 900 casts of ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''.
348	** Graham is a big fan of ''Series/CallTheMidwife''.
349	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam "Kerblam!"]]: When the group splits up to go to their new jobs, the Doctor asks Ryan if she's "ever told [him] about a man [she] met called [[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Roger Wilco]]". This is immediately before Graham learns that his new job is as, essentially, a space janitor — Wilco's original employment in the ''Space Quest'' series.
350	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders "The Witchfinders"]]: At the end, just before leaving in the TARDIS, Graham quotes ''Film/PulpFiction'' (although King James assumes he's quoting ''Literature/TheBible''), and the Doctor recites Creator/ArthurCClarke's famous [[ClarkesThirdLaw Third Law]] about SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology.
351	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E10TheBattleOfRanskoorAvKolos "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"]]: Graham quips [[Film/DieHard "Yippie ki yay, sniperbots!"]] while blowing up robots with a bomb.
352	[[/folder]]
353
354	[[folder:Series 12]]
355	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]]:
356	** This spy-themed story has a title that fittingly nods to the ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. The Doctor later introduces herself as [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond "Doctor, the Doctor"]], and a Bond-style version of her leitmotif from [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]] plays during the car chase.
357	** Upon being given the cover name "Logan", Ryan worries that [[Film/XMenFilmSeries he doesn't look like]] Creator/HughJackman.
358	** [[spoiler:The Master describes his TARDIS, disguised as a house, flying alongside the plane as "a bit [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]]".]]
359	** [[spoiler:The Master now carries his miniaturized victim around with him, much like his parody Doctor Klench in ''Radio/{{Nebulous}}''.]]
360	** The [[spoiler:"use the whole human race as computer hardware"]] plan was apparently [[spoiler:the original plan for what the Machines would be using humanity for in ''Film/TheMatrix'', but which was dropped due to ExecutiveMeddling that thought it would be too complicated an idea for a mainstream audience.]]
361	** [[spoiler:The Master]] sums up his plan as "ComicBook/MaximumCarnage", before acknowledging that of course the Doctor wasn't going to get it.
362	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]:
363	** [=Hyph3n=], the CatFolk greeter at Tranquillity Spa, strongly resembles Barf from ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''.
364	** Ryan swatting away imaginary bats nods to a scene from ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''.
365	** The twin reveals that [[spoiler:the Dregs breathe CO₂ and exhale oxygen, and that Orphan 55 is a post-nuclear war Earth with Tranquillity Spa as an engineered haven from the toxic outer world]], echo [[spoiler:''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', in which the heroine learns that the creatures inhabiting the polluted outer world have adapted not only to survive and thrive in it, but are actually cleaning up the mess humans made.]] Sadly, the conflict here does not come to such a hopeful point.
366	** The setup is also quite reminiscent of [[spoiler:''Literature/TheTimeMachine'', in which the upper class barricade themselves away from radiation sweeping the planet while the lower class are left to mutate into the monstrous Morlocks, who then take their revenge by luring the humans outside and eating them.]]
367	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]]:
368	** Initially mostly unfamiliar with UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, Ryan mentions the electric car company named after him.
369	** Graham calls Tesla and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison "Music/{{ACDC}}" when telling them to stop arguing given the current situation. (Pun ''not'' intended.)
370	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: In order to impress a tourist outside Gloucester Cathedral, Ruth mentions that the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' movies were filmed there.
371	* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]]: Victims developing crusts on their skin and exploding into dust is similar to the time-delayed death of an apparent survivor of an alien attack in the final ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}'' series.
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