List of Doctor Who parodies. The long- running science fiction television series Doctor Who has over the years been the subject of many comedy sketches and specially made comedy programmes, from Spike Milligan's "Pakistani. Dalek" to the Comic Relief episode Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.

There have been occasional parodies and references to Doctor Who on American TV shows such as Community, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Robot Chicken, and The Colbert Report. What follows below is a chronological list of Doctor Who parody, categorized by medium: Television[edit]It's a Square World (1. An early televised Doctor Who spoof was on the Michael Bentine sketch show It's a Square World in December 1.

Season 6, Episode 8, broadcast on New Year's Eve, featured Clive Dunn playing a scientist called Doctor Fotheringown ("Doctor Who?" / "No, not Doctor Who, Doctor Fotheringown!"), for which Dunn wore William Hartnell's First Doctor costume and wig. The sketch, which was recorded on 1. December 1. 96. 3, also featured Wilfrid Brambell and Patrick Moore.[2]Big Night Out (1.

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Hosted by Mike and Bernie Winters, Big Night Out was an ITV variety show. A skit entitled Doctor Shmoo, featuring Bernie as the Doctor and Mike as his unnamed companion together facing two stylised Daleks, began the edition that aired on 7 April 1. Both males are referred to as "Earthlings" by one of the Daleks, while the Doctor calls the TARDIS a rocket. The overlaid graphic for the skit's title used a font very similar to that employed for Doctor Who's own title graphic, with the standard theme music being used unchanged at the start of the sketch.

Dave Allen at Large (1. The sketch/sitdown comedy series starring Irish comic Dave Allen featured several Who parodies throughout its long run. Watch The Collection Online Flashx.

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A prominent example originally aired in the early 1. Irish country priest is tidying up his church, then quickly becomes aware that the baptismal font (which is roughly cylindrical, with a wide base and a domed top) is following him. As the cleric quickens his pace down the nave, the font charges after him screaming in metallic tones, "Exterminate! Exterminate! Annihilate!

Destroy!" The priest ducks behind the pulpit, which then dematerializes (accompanied by the familiar TARDIS sound effects).[3]Crackerjack (1. This children's game/comedy sketch show featured several Who parodies, notably 1. Ello My Dalek!, including Don Mac.

Lean as the Fourth Doctor and Peter Glaze as Lethbridge- Stewart, and notably no appearance from Harry Sullivan as he is "having his duffle- coat surgically removed". Pakistani Dalek (1. Spike Milligan's television sketch show Q contained a memorable sketch in which a Dalek returns to its suburban home from a bad day at work and proceeds to exterminate things that irritate, including commuters on the tube – even demanding that his wife, in the trademark Dalek staccato, to "Put [the family dog] in the curry!"The Goodies (1.

In the British comedy series The Goodies, there were Doctor Who spoofs in at least two episodes. In the episode "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", Tim tells Graeme that he must telephone home, and Bill points to a telephone box floating past (actually the Doctor's TARDIS). In the episode "U- Friend or UFO?", when Graeme asks his robot EB- GB, "How do you speak to aliens?", EB- GB replies "Exterminate!" in a Dalek voice. Emu's Broadcasting Company (1. In the British children's comedy series, there was a Doctor Who spoof in at least two episodes. In the segment "Doctor Emu and the Deadly Dustbins", Rod Hull and his puppet Emu appear dressed as the fourth Doctor, who travel in a normal red British public telephone box.

They land on Earth and deal with a race of public dustbins, which eat people (in a way which was later seen in the series itself when Mickey Smith is consumed by a wheelie bin in the episode "Rose"). In a later series, the pair starred in "The Return of the Deadly Dustbins".[4]End of Part One (1. In the British comedy series End of Part One, the one- off "Doctor Eyes" sketch parodied the low- budget nature of Doctor Who featuring bad special effects and poor acting. Ironically, End of Part One director Geoffrey Sax would later also direct the Doctor Who Movie. The Two Ronnies[edit]An episode of the long- running comedy show The Two Ronnies spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch called "The Adventures of Archie". Ronnie Corbett, as the eponymous character, becomes trapped in the past but is able to return to the twentieth century in the TARDIS after the Doctor turns up.

Ronnie Barker played Jon Pertwee's Doctor as the scarecrow. Worzel Gummidge, Pertwee's other famous television role.

In another sketch, parodying Star Wars, both Ronnies portray robots which claim that, once filming is over, "we'll end up as walk- ons on Doctor Who"; they are then chased ("Redecorate! Redecorate!") by two enormous cans of Dulux paint that have acquired the mind and appendages of Daleks. The Krankies Elektronik Komik[edit]An episode of "The Krankies Elektronik Komik" spoofed Doctor Who in a sketch. They land on a planet in the TARDIS, encounter an alien, and sing a song. Ian Tough played "Dr.

Why", while Janette Krankie played his companion. The Lenny Henry Show (1.

A sketch on The Lenny Henry Show featured Lenny Henry as the (newly regenerated) Doctor alongside Peri. The two land on Earth in the year 2. Cybermen and their leader "Thatchos" (a Cyberleader with a Margaret Thatcher wig and handbag); the Doctor's response is to "run up and down lots of corridors". This sketch was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death and also on the Trial of a Time Lord DVD release. French & Saunders (1. An unaired sketch filmed for French & Saunders featured Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders as bored extras in Silurian costumes during the filming of a Doctor Who serial that resembles The Trial of a Time Lord. They eventually disrupt filming so much that the floor manager tells them that all Silurians can have a tea break.

Unfortunately, their version of the Inquisitor also happens to come from the planet Siluria, and walks off the set as well. The spoof was recorded on the set for "The Trial of a Time Lord". George Layton played the Doctor, which had the look of the Fourth. The segment was included as an extra on the video release of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death and also on the Vengeance on Varos special edition DVD release. Victoria Wood As Seen On TV (1.