Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know

List of trivia

• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/1: ... that Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction television series in the world?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/2: ... that Doctor Who spoofs include a Comic Relief special The Curse of Fatal Death?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/3: ... that Torchwood was the first spin-off from Doctor Who since the pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/4: ... that an animated Doctor Who serial, The Infinite Quest, aired as part of the children's magazine show Totally Doctor Who?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/5: ... that although £5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom, tickets were touted on eBay for £250?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/6: ... that the first spin-off of Doctor Who, K-9 and Company only ever had a pilot episode, A Girl's Best Friend?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/7: ... that the War Doctor (played by John Hurt, pictured), introduced in The Night of the Doctor, is a "dark doctor" who will "bring an ancient battle to its devastating conclusion"?

  

• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/8: ... that Douglas Adams convinced John Cleese to appear in the Doctor Who serial City of Death after learning the comedian would be working in BBC Television Centre on the same day of filming?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/9: ... that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same planetary system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/10: ... that "The Unicorn and the Wasp" was the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/11: ... that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/12: ... that the Doctor Who story Planet of Giants was inspired by Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/13: ... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/14: ... that "The Fires of Pompeii", an episode in the British TV show Doctor Who, is the first appearance of Karen Gillan as the Soothsayer?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/15: ... that Roald Dahl Plass, a plaza in Cardiff Bay, has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/16: ... that for his role in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs, actor John Ringham was told to "make all the children in the country hate you"?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/17: ... that the budget for the Doctor Who serial The Daleks allowed for only four Daleks (one pictured) to be made?
  
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/18: ... that actress Carole Ann Ford described her character in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus as "pathetic"?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/19: ... that Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1996?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/20: ... that a rough cut of "Deep Breath", the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/21: ... that the designs for the Doctor Who serial The Sensorites were inspired by Antoni Gaudí's design of the Sagrada Família (pictured) in Barcelona, which has no right angles?

  

• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/22: ... that the entire fourth serial of Doctor Who is missing after being erased by the BBC in 1967?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/23: ... that the Thirteenth Doctor, portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, is the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/24: ... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/25: ... that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/26: ... that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father is Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/27: ... that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/28: ... that the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the launch of the first season of Doctor Who?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/29: ... that the TARDIS's Fast Return Switch featured in the Doctor Who serial The Edge of Destruction appeared to have a label written in felt-tip pen?
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/30: ... that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels (pictured)?
  
• Portal:Doctor Who/Did you know/31: ... that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth?