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It’s always nice to show off at a party thanks to your big brain.
So we kind of revise a bit to be ready for the big night.
We want to know the piece of trivia which would impress the audience.
Too bad, we’ll prevent you from showing off as, now,
everybody will know the same anecdotes as you!
No more “do you know…?”
Yes. We know.
Let’s play a game together. Here’s 25 facts about Doctor Who.
Count how many you already knew!
But I won’t be alone today. I call upon the kind of random Doctor Who trivia, Rémi!
Hi, I’m Rémi, from HistWho.
Here’s 25 facts you probably didn't know about Doctor Who!
25 FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR WHO
The first French name for the Cybermen was “Cybernators”, which is dope.
Timelords were first called “Temporels” in the Classic era,
then “Seigneurs du Temps” in the TV movie,
then “Princes du Temps” in “Dalek”
before to come back to “Seigneurs du Temps” in “Doomsday”.
In Doctor Who Magazine #477, when asked what was the colour of the Twelfth Doctor’s kidneys,
Steven Moffat answered… “Froon. This is an entirely new colour, which only the Doctor can see.”
Since 1990, an asteroid discovered in 1984
in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is named “3325 TARDIS”.
The Third Doctor is the only one to have a visible tattoo,
a question mark shaped snake Jon Pertwee got in the Navy.
(And those who dislike the question marks on Fivey's collar are lame.)
Bernard Cribbins, known as Wilfred Motts, Donna Noble’s grandpa,
played in the second Doctor Who movie from the 60s
and was being approached to play the Fourth Doctor.
John, the waiter from “Remembrance of the Daleks”,
is played by Joseph Marcell,
best known as Geoffrey, the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air”’s butler.
Ysanne Churchman, Alpha Centauri’s voice,
is the oldest actress to have played in Doctor Who,
taking back her part at age 92 in 2017.
During the year 1989 took place the musical “Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure”.
The Doctor was played by Jon Pertwee from March to June,
then by Colin Baker from June to August.
On April 29th, Jon Pertwee was replaced by his understudy, David Banks,
who normally played Karl in the musical
and who appeared several times in Doctor Who as Cyber-Leader.
(He also wrote great books about Cybermen.)
During the first series, when a horde of Daleks was shown,
only those on the foreground were real.
Those behind were cardboard silhouettes.
In the first step of pre-production, Susan Foreman, the Doctor’s granddaughter,
was named Bridget, shorted in “Biddy”.
Steven Moffat’s first professional Doctor Who fiction was a short story named “Continuity Errors”,
published in 1996 in the short story collection “Decalog 3: Consequences”.
The Fourth Doctor’s scarf was a happy mistake
as the knitter, Begonia Pope,
used all the wool the costumer James Acheson gave her,
even if he wanted at first a normal sized colorful scarf.
He probably had a lot on his plate.
Doctor Who Magazine #268, released during summer 1998,
was called “No Sex Please… He’s British”
and contained a file on a possible Doctor’s sex shifting
and the Time Lords dirty secrets,
like “is their hearts the only thing that goes by pair?” #Rule34
The first Master, Roger Delgado,
was killed in a car crash while he was on location
to appear in the French and German show “La Cloche Tibétaine”.
Before appearing in the 2016 Christmas Special title,
“Doctor Misterio” was the name of the show in Mexico in the 60s/70s.
In “Face the Raven”, we can read “Delorean” on a wall
written in Aurebesh, a Star Wars alphabet.
Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley in the “Harry Potter” saga,
is the son of Joanna Troughton, Patrick Troughton’s daughter.
Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon,
was partially replaced by Hamish Wilson in The Mind Robber
as he’d got the chicken pox. Sh*t happens.
The last appearance of Anthony Ainley as the Master
was in the video game “Destiny of the Doctors” in 1997.
Yup.
Check out Jon’s let’s play, link in the description.
The animation company Nelvana, known for its adaptation of “Babar the Elephant”, “Little Bear” or “The Adventures of Tintin”,
had a Doctor Who cartoon project in the 80s.
(I talk about it in HistWho Episode I.)
The actor Richard E. Grant, who played Doctor Simeon and the Great Intelligence,
played the Doctor twice.
The first time in 1999 as “The Curse of Fatal Death” Tenth Doctor,
then in 2003 as “Scream of the Shalka” Ninth Doctor.
A third Doctor Who movie with Peter Cushing
called “Daleks vs. Mechons” and based on “The Chase”
was supposed to be made.
The project was stopped because of the second movie poor box office.
(And also because Cushing hated the part)
In “Knock Knock”, Harry was supposed to be introduced
as the Fourth Doctor’s companion Harry Sullivan’s grandson,
but it finally wasn’t say.
-Seems still canon to me, so it counts! -Yup!
Robot, as well as a few other Classic episodes, is available in French and Japanese.
As the BBC didn’t isolated the soundtrack,
most sound effects were remade locally.
That’s why the French and Japanese TARDIS sound different from the original one.
And they didn’t work *** the French one.
Yeah...
When he was younger, way before he played electric guitar on a tank,
Peter Capaldi was the singer and guitarist of the Scottish punk band “Dreamboys”.
There we are, 25!
25, like... 37-2... 12x4...
Like... 0+25.
Can’t wait to receive comments like “I knew all of them!”
“Too much Classic Who!”
“Pepperpot is clickbaiting. Thumb down!”
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Unless your name is Average. Which wouldn't make sense.
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