Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a BBC television show featuring time travel. It might, just maybe, have something to do with the Doctor.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

After being affected by the interferences of PARD, Starscream's errant video scanner picked up a snippet of a Doctor Who episode, with a mention of the Doctor's enemies, the Daleks, and their "Exterminate" battle-cry. To a Power Unknown!

2005 IDW continuity

Hunter O'Nion told Ratchet that he had plenty of TV shows to catch up on, including Doctor Who. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime enjoyed Doctor Who, despite the show depicting time travel inaccurately. Ask Vector Prime

Bumblebee film

Memo had a pair of Doctor Who posters in his room. Bumblebee

Notes

One of the stills of Tom Baker as the Doctor used in Bumblebee

• Various Marvel UK Transformers creators have written for Doctor Who Magazine, itself a Marvel UK title:
  • Simon Furman wrote several stories at the same time he was writing for the Marvel Transformers comic. This included the first crossover between Death's Head and the Doctor, and a Death's Head story featuring DWM character Keepsake.
  • Dan Abnett wrote a number of Magazine strips in the late 80s and early 90s, as well as The Incomplete Death's Head.
  • Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway are famous in Who fandom for their work on the Magazine, which included a long run of Sixth Doctor strips. Sleepy Stansham is not too far removed from Stockbridge, a sleepy village from Parkhouse's strips.
  • Mike Collins has a lengthy, still-going association with the strip.
• The UK Marvel Generation 1 comic featured Octus, who has a Dalek alt-mode, and the 2017 Transformers annual has a generic Transformer based on the character K9.
• The character Natasha Pyraniac from the Animated adventure Time-Quake seems to be based on / influenced by one of the Doctor's foes, The Rani.
• The Autobot Matrix of Leadership seems to be based on / influenced by the Time Lords' Matrix, which is controlled by their President through a neural uplink and contains the knowledge and wisdom of all their previous leaders, though the Time Lords' Matrix is not a single artefact but more like a superadvanced Internet.
• In the Doctor Who episode The Armageddon Factor, the Doctor unmasks the Black Guardian with the same reasoning that Ironhide would use to identify the fake Optimus Prime. Template:Storylink:A Prime Problem.
• In the Doctor Who episode Planet of the Spiders, the Doctor encounters the titular group of scheming and power-hungry arachnids, which may have inspired / influenced the characterisation of Tarantulas and Blackarachnia in Beast Wars: Transformers. In one scene, the human patsy of one of the spiders turns the tables on the telepathic link it was using to control him; Blackarachnia breaks free of Tarantulas's cyber-link in in a similar way. Template:Storylink:Tangled Web
• Other Doctor Who references in Transformers include Skaro, Trenzalore, the sonic screwdriver, and Verronian Warp Stars.
• The Ask Vector Prime logo is a parody of the Doctor Who logo used from 2010 to 2014.
• In a 2013 episode of Doctor Who, "The Crimson Horror," the character Clara Oswald is shown to have a G1 Galvatron figure.
• Certain episodes of the Generation 1 cartoon feature sound effects taken straight from Doctor Who, such as the sound of the TARDIS dematerializing.

External links

• Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who wiki
• Doctor Who at Wikipedia