History ShoutOut / DoctorWho

** 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 Franchise/XMen.

* [[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 ITV was running against ''Doctor Who''.

* [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] is one big shout-out to the Creator/ChristopherReeve Film/{{Superman}} films, with several scenes basically reenactments of sequences from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''.

* For various fans, the Thirteenth Doctor's outfit makes her look like [[Creator/RobinWilliams Mork]] from ''Series/MorkAndMindy''... and ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-09/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-costume-outfit/ noticed it]].

** The Doctor explains the situation to Martha by comparing it to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

** When the Doctor changes history, he sees [[Film/BackToTheFuture changing newspaper headlines]]. There's also [[BurningRubber flaming tire tracks]].

** The Doctor [[Film/BackToTheFuture climbs a stone edifice in a storm in order to do something to a mechanical device]].

* [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]]: The climax was also extremely reminiscent of that of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', with the Doctor on a clock tower and everything.

** The Doctor says that the Architect must be a time traveller because he could [[Film/BackToTheFuture find out exactly when a rare solar storm would hit]].

** A time traveller currently in November 1955 uses [[NewspaperDating a newspaper]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture to cite the date]].

** 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, "Wait, that's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''."

** A man is shocked by his male lover buying him a car as a birthday present. [[Series/QueerAsFolk Now where have we seen that before?]]

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E06TheBellsOfSaintJohn "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.

** Donna makes a comment about having seen a movie where there were dinosaurs at the centre of the Earth, probably ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''.

** Some viewers think the Vinvocci spaceship looks like the ''[[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Heart of Gold]]''. Or ''[[Series/RedDwarf Starbug]]'', or ''[[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]''.

** There's also the Doctor's mention of a species named the Hooloovoo. An eponymous species in [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a certain book series]] is referred to as "an intelligent shade of blue".

*** The episode is set in Bowie Base One on Mars. He did have a song called "Life on Mars", after all.
*** "Space Oddity" 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.

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]]: At one point, Donna and her family gather with their housemates and sing [[Music/{{Queen}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]].

** 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 SkunkStripe, and you have Rogue of the Franchise/XMen.

** The Doctor refers to Rose as a "tim'rous beastie", a now oft quoted phrase from a poem by ''Creator/RobertBurns'' - a poet who wrote in Scottish dialect, fitting as he's adopted one himself.

** The Doctor refers to Rose as a "Timorous Beastie, a now oft quoted phrase from a poem by ''Creator/RobertBurns'' - a poet who wrote in Scottish dialect, fitting as he's adopted one himself.

** The Doctor refers to Rose as a "Timorous Beastie", a now oft quoted phrase from the poem "To A Mouse" by Robert Burns - a poet who wrote in Scottish dialect, leading to a national holiday being named after him.

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]]: 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''.

** So's the [[Film/ANewHope turret gunner scene]] (down to some shots being exactly the same!) with FrickinLaserBeams, and the Lord President of the Time Lords [[LaserGuidedKarma getting his comeuppance by the Master]], with electricity...

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]]: Harry's disguise is a WholeCostumeReference to Steed in ''Series/TheAvengers''. Sarah Jane intentionally mixes up her pop culture when she sees him and compares him to... Film/JamesBond.

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks"]] shows the Doctor amusing himself by [[SnarkBait mocking]] a book by [[Literature/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Oolon Colluphid]].

** Donna shouts an Series/AlanPartridge-style "Back of the neck!" when knocking out a Sontaran.

** 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, "Wait, that's ''Disney/TheLionKing''."

** The Doctor's rejection of one food after another is reminiscent of the scene in ''[[Disney/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.