| In
an episode of Casualty, all the guest cast share character names with The Seeds
of Doom, this being due to Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell scripting that episode
of the hospital drama. |
| During
The Keys of Marinus the four actors Michael Allaby, Martin Cort, Alan James
and Peter Stenson between them played eleven characters.he |
| Two
Play School presenters have been killed by the Daleks! Brian Cant is murdered
by the Daleks in The Daleks Masterplan and Chloe Ashcroft was shot by a
Dalek replica in Resurrection of the Daleks. |
| Barry
Jackson has appeared in Doctor Who on two different occassions playing
two unrelated characters both called Garvey. |
| John
Lee who played Alydon in The Daleks went on to be a film editor and did
the honours for the Tom Baker story State of Decay. |
| The
end credits of The Tenth Planet have accompanying music by Ron Grainer. According
to the credits themselves however his name is 'Byron Grainer'. |
| Two
companions have met their dopplegangers. Nyssa's was called Ann in Black Orchid.
Romana I met hers in The Androids of Tara. However Ian Marter, Jacqueline
Hill and Peter Perves have all played other roles in the series but the Doctor
never mentioned the similarities. |
| William
Hartnell's Doctor and Patrick Troughton's Doctor have both encountered their identical
double in the universe. They were the Abbot in The Massacre and Salamander
in The Enemy of the World respectively. Peter Davison's Doctor met the
spitting image of his future incarnation in the form of Maxil in The Arc of
Infinity. |
| In
The Smugglers, in an odd coincidence for Dad's Army fans, an actor
called Michael Godfrey played a character called Captain Pike. |
| During
The Celestial Toymaker, Carmen Silvera and Campbell Singer each played
three roles each. |
| Jane
(of Rod, Jane and Freddie fame) had a walk-on part in The Gunfighters and
is the daughter of the director of that story. |
| Mission
to the Unknown is the only Doctor Who episode to feature neither the Doctor
nor his companions, however, William Hartnell still received a credit. |
| In
the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Neutral Zone, as
Dianna Troi helps a woman from the past search for living family members the computer
screen flashes up a family tree with the names William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton,
Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker. |
