List of Doctor Who parodies

The long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who has been the subject of many parodies over the years.^[1][2][3] Following are some of the notable Doctor Who parodies.

Books

• The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey. (New Media Press, 1985) ISBN 0-8095-8102-7, first serialized six issues of Enterprise, a Star Trekfanzine.^[4][5]
• Doctor Whom: or ET Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication by A. R. R. R. Roberts (Gollancz, 2006) ISBN 0-575-07928-2^[6]
• Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse by James Goss, illustrated by Russell T. Davies (BBC Books/Ebury Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-1-78594-271-6^[7]

Comic books

• It's Even Bigger on the Inside by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett (Miwk Publishing, 2015) ISBN 978-1908630414^[8]
• Whoah! Eight Years of Bizarre Cartoons from the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Jamie Lenman (Miwk Publishing, 2019) ISBN 978-1-908630-73-5^[9]

Film shorts

• Do You Have a License to Save This Planet?, BBV Productions^[3]
• "The Ballad of Russell and Julie", The Hillywood Show, made for the wrap party after David Tennant’s last episode^[10][11]
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks (2009), by Andrew Orton^[1][12][13]
• Japanese Doctor Who (2014), by filmmaker Joshua Kahan^[1]
• Reign of Turner (1989), by Steven Warren Hill, Jennifer Adams Kelley, and Robert Warnock^[14]
• “The Silurian Disruption”, French and Saunders outtake included in The Curse of Fatal Death(VHS)^[2]

Music

• "Doctorin' the Tardis" by the The Timelords (KLF Communications,1988, U.S. reissue 1991)^[1][3]
• "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek" by the The Go-Go's

Radio

• "Professxor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers" I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, series 7, episode 1–13 (BBC Radio 1 and 2, 1969)^[15][16]
• "Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?", Whatever Happened to... by Adrian Mourby (BBC Radio, 1994)^[3]

Short stories

• "The Tardis at Pooh Corner" by Peter David, written 1983, published online 2002^[3]

Television

• "Biology 101", Community, season 3, episode (NBC, 2011), introduces a fictitious television, Inspector Spacetime, that is a parody of Tom Baker portraying Doctor Who^{[2][3][17][18]}
• The Chaser’s War On Everything (ABC TV, 2006), spoof song in series one ^[2]
• "Christmas with the Doctor(s), Dead Ringers (BBC Two, 2005)^[2][19][20]
• The Curse of the Fatal Death (BBC One, 1999) written by Stephen Moffat as a Comic Relief special^{[1][2][3][19][21]}
• "Doctor Who", Tonight's the Night (BBC One, 2009), featured John Barrowman and David Tennant (BBC One, 2009)^[22][23][24]
• "Doctor Who Meets The Nerd",Robot Chicken on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network, 2014)^[2]
• Doctor Who Night (BBC, 1999), featured numerous parody sketches, including:^[2]
  • "The Kidnappers", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss^[2]
  • "The Pitch of Fear", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss^[2]
  • "The Web of Caves", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss^[1][2]
• "The Eurostar", Dead Ringers (BBC Two), parody of Tom Baker^[1][2]
• "Facing Thatchos", The Lenny Henry Show, series one (BBC One, 1984)^[19]

• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (BBC Red Button, 2013), created by Peter Davison for the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who^[2]
• "Hello My Dalek", Crackerjack (BBC One, 1975)^[19]
• It’s a Square World, season six, episode 3, featured Clive Dunn as (BBC, 1963)^[25]
• "Pakistani Daleks", Q... (1974) by Spike Milligan^[19]
• "Space / Time", Comic Relief (BBC One, 2011)^[19]
• "Time Crash" Children in Need 2007 (BBC One and BBC Two, 2007)^[19]
• "Doctor Time Space and the Continuums", Codename: Kids Next Door, season 3, episode 11b "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." (Cartoon Network, 2004)^[26]

Video games

• Hugo II, Whodunit? (Gray Design Associates, 1991), features a secondary character called the Doctor who has a "sonar screwdriver"^[27][28]

Web series

• Doctor Whore (2014), pornographic parody^[29][30]
• How It Should Have Ended (HiShe)
  • "Doctor Who: How Doomsday Should Have Ended", no. 86 (November 18, 2013)^[31]
  • "Super Café: Who’s a Hero" season 5, Super Cafe series no. 8 (November 21, 2013)^[31]
• Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time, aka Inspector Spacetime (The Travis Richey Channel on YouTube, 2012), based the fictitious Inspector Spacetime introduced on the television series Community^{[3][32][33][17]}

See also

Further reading

• Booth, Paul. Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. p. 102–104. ISBN 9781609383190.
• Valdron, D. G. (1900). A Pirate's History of Doctor Who: the unauthorized stories. Fossil Cove Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-1-990860-24-9

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