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== Non-Trope Trivia ==
* Of the 253 episodes of ''Doctor Who'' that were produced in the 1960s, 106 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge in the 1970s.
** In addition to 106 episodes that no longer exist, some episodes no longer exist in their original format. Four episodes only survive in an edited state — ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2/E09 The Time Meddler|The Time Meddler]]'': "Checkmate", ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E07 The Celestial Toymaker|The Celestial Toymaker]]'': "The Final Test", and ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E10 The War Machines|The War Machines]]'' episodes 3 and 4. Furthermore, twelve episodes only survive in black and white whilst originally filmed in color — ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S7/E03 The Ambassadors of Death|The Ambassadors of Death]]'' episodes 2, 3, 4 and 7, ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8/E02 The Mind of Evil|The Mind of Evil]]'' (all six episodes), ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10/E04 Planet of the Daleks|Planet of the Daleks]]'': Episode 3, and ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S11/E02 Invasion of the Dinosaurs|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'': Part 1 (also titled "Invasion").
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** And the first to get its own [[Foe Yay]] page.
** A scene in ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' involving Ace inspired the creation of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] section, which dropped the "Crowning" later on.
** First live-action TV show on this site to get its very own [[Gushing About Shows You Like (Sugar Wiki)/Live-Action TV/Doctor Who|gush]] page since it's so beloved.
== Trivia
* [[Acting for Two]]:
** William Hartnell as the Doctor and the Abbot of Amboise in "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve".
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** John Lumic in "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" is [[Only Fools and Horses|Trigger.]] And [[The Vicar of Dibley|Owen.]] Or for international audiences, [[Harry Potter (film)|Barty Crouch, Sr.]].
*** Particularly interesting, considering the Doctor at the time was [[David Tennant|Barty Crouch Jr.]]
** In "Love & Monsters", [[
** The Empress of the Racnoss is played by [[Blackpool|Natalie Holden]].
** "Daleks in Manhattan" has Jo from ''[[Spooks]]'' and [[Highlander (TV series)|Kastagir]]/[[The Phantom Menace|Captain Panaka]].
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*** She was also Alison Chaney, companion to the Ninth Doctor in ''Scream of the Shalka''.
** Mia Bennett from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E16 The Waters of Mars|The Waters of Mars]]" is played by [[Gemma Chan]], who was also in Soo Lin Yao in ''[[Sherlock]]'', Female Sulu and Ivana in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', and Charlotte in ''[[Secret Diary of a Call Girl]]''.
** And of course, Ten is [[Harry Potter and
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** [[David Tennant]] himself is one of these, being such an unrepentant fan of the show that he lent his voice to several [[Expanded Universe]] audio productions and narrated a special documentary aired before the first episode of the 2005 revival, prior to finally landing his dream job.
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*** It has been established that the reason the Doctor has Companions is because he needs emotional support to keep from going truly mad. Thus, the proposed episode “Sealed Orders” would have given him a very [[Sadistic Choice]] to make. Scripted by Christopher Priest (the novelist who wrote ''[[The Prestige]]'') this episode was described as a political thriller where the Fourth Doctor would receive orders from the Time Lords to kill Romana. The story would also involve a few paradoxes, an alternate version of the Doctor, multiple TARDIS-es inside one another, and a non-linear storyline, ending with Romana’s departure. This got as far as a screenplay, but was never produced.
*** Tom MacRae is credited with writing three episodes, the Cyberman two-parter from Series 2, and the iconic “The Girl Who Waited” from Series 4. His third project (also for Series 4) was called “Century House”, which was never produced. This episode was Companion-lite, the Tenth Doctor being on [[Show Within a Show| a paranormal reality show called ''Most Haunted'']], where the Doctor [[Who You Gonna Call?| was investigating sightings of a specter called the Red Widow]] with the only involvement by a Companion being Donna watching the broadcast at home. Executive producer Russel David was unsatisfied with the script and passed it over in favor of “Midnight”, another Companion-lite episode that did rather well.
*** [[Big Creepy-Crawlies| GIANT ANTS!]] Wait, wait, what’s so special about giant ants? After all, the Doctor has dealt with such monsters before, in “The Web Planet”. But, those were actually aliens that looked like ants, and they weren’t very bright. “The Ants”, however, was a different type of plot Based on an idea by Roger Dixon, this would have involved the Second Doctor and Jamie [[Shrink Ray| shrunk to a height of a tenth of an inch tall
*** Doctor Who meets [[Harry Potter]]! Well
*** Paul Abbot - better known for his work on ''[[Shameless]]'' , another popular British show - scripted an episode for series 1 that would reveal (dead serious here, btw) that Rose was not a real human, but had been created by the Ninth Doctor in an experiment to create the perfect companion. The plot would further involve Jack discovering this and facing the moral dilemma of [[Cloning Blues| telling her she wasn’t real or letting her believe the lie]]. This idea actually got pretty far but was cancelled at the last minute, possibly because David figured there wasn’t enough suspension of disbelief among fans to justify that the Doctor (even one as unstable as the Ninth, thank you ''so'' much Time War) would lie and manipulate Rose after creating her to be his plaything. Probably a wise decision
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