Doctor Who Club of Australia

montypython · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

Okay, this isn't exactly a Doctor Who reference, but it's close enough. This is a question taken from the TV Week online quiz.

3. In Charmed, which character does actress Kaley Cuoco play?

Phoebe
Billie
Piper
Paige

Coincidence? I think not.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

Doctor Who was mentioned in last night's episode of Teachers:
http://drwhoaustralia.org/board/viewtopic.php?p=16887#16887 and scrolled down to the post on December 21 2006. Earlier Doctor Who references in Teachers is also in that thread.

montypython · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

The other night in Australian Princess, Paul was describing how one of the girls spoke during a speech.

"She was like a Dalek."

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montypython · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

The other night in The Simpsons Comic Book Guy exited a shop with 100 tacos, saying he was going to eat them during a Doctor Who marathon.

Sulp Niar · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject:

Was it?!

Dearie me, talk about chinese whispers... from the way my friends talk, I've always thought it was Star Trek he was watching. Man, that's weird. Funny that, because as a kid I think I remember laughing in scorn at him. Ha.

Even though I really don't like the show, I noticed on That 70's Show that they mentioned a sonic screwdriver. Which means they'd be watching Tom at the time. See, I didn't pay attention to the show, just tried to fit in when Doctor Who would be airing in America. Boy, am I sad.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

As a result of what Sulp Niar said I decided to look up sonic screwdriver in Wikipedia and this is what I found:
"A very similar pen-shaped multipurpose device called a "servo" was used by the intergalactic superspy Gary Seven in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Assignment Earth".
The The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game parodies the sonic screwdriver with tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl.
In the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous, there is a parody of the sonic screwdriver in the sonic crowbar. "

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

On Sci Fi, the channel has small features between programs called Front Row which look at behind the scenes of the shows they are showing and three hours ago just before Earth 2 they showed an interview with David Hewlett from Stargate Atlantis about his character on that show. It was during this interview that he mentioned that he grew up watching sci fi and it was mainly Doctor Who! Now I knew that he is a Doctor Who fan but this is from what I read on the Internet. So therefore this is the first time I have heard him mention Doctor Who and it was quite a lovely surprise.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

Last month it was reported that an Andrew Simpson built a Dalek to scare off students:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=28101&in_page_id=2

Well this piece of news was reported in The Scoop which I saw on Sci Fi today. The Scoop is hosted by Jonathan Llyr and he reports on news in a comedic way. When he reported this news about the Dalek he expressed amazement about the British students reactions to it by saying "This is British students that we are talking about" or something like that.

I don't exactly remember in detail what he actually said as it really took me by surprise.

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

An apparent Doctor Who reference in the free preview DVD from 10 that was available in yesterday's Sydney Sunday Telegraph.

The DVD had an introduction from two people from The Wedge with one of them being Mark who has trouble reading things from a piece of paper. It was during this introduction that Mark said "Doctor Who-sie" when he was suppose to say Dr House!!!

charlie · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

I can't find the famous people who like who topic so Ill put this here.

Its official. Kylie likes Who.
On her concert right now she is in some space age bit and all through it the TARDIS can be heard and the backup dancers move like and are dressed like cybermen.

montypython · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

I was watching The Rich List last night and there was a question to name the actors who've played the Doctor. As a devoted Who fan it was painful to watch as the guy spoke: Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee ... then he was trying to remember the name of the fifth (I forgot it myself *lowers head in shame*, yes I know it's Peter Davison now), anyway he ended up saying Steven Donaldson! Then of course it went to the other team, and the girl had no idea, but at least the guy said William Hartnell.

That was painful. Just about as painful when there was this question on Australia's Brainiest Kid: Tom Baker, Paul McGann and (someone else) have all played which sci fi character who travels through time and space in a blue box? And the kid didn't know ...

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

Last night I was preparing to record Desperate Housewives on 7 for my sister and I caught the last few minutes of The Rich List when all of a sudden Doctor Who came up.

Host Andrew O'Keefe asked the contestants to name television actors who played Doctor Who. The contestants decided to name three. The three that they came up with were Tom, Jon and Bill. One contestant had Peter's face in his mind but had trouble thinking of his name and said instead Stephen Donaldson!

When the other Doctors' names were shown on-screen O'Keefe pronounced Pat's last name as "trot-ton" instead of "trout-ton".

The fact that none of the contestants mentioned either Chris or David makes me to come up with one conclusion - they have not been watching the current series.

montypython · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

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montypython · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

Tonight's episode of Supernatural, Episode 11 of season 2 on 10 at 8:30pm is the first of two episodes that should be of interest to us Who fans based on remarks made at the Supernatural thread.
The other episode is the one that comes after it, however that won't be on next week as a repeat will be shown instead.

Supernatural thread:
http://drwhoaustralia.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=1345

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 3916

For those who did not see the Supernatural episode Playthings last night I explained why it is of interest to us in the Supernatural thread.

Dazzler · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:52 am Post subject:

I was playing an old Amiga CD32 game called Liberation last night and I noticed some of the characters in the game looked exactly like Daleks... then I saw one that looked just like K9. It was unmistakably them. Yet this game has nothing to do with Doctor Who at all, so I'm guessing it was a tribute or something.