2.4. “Doctor Who” in other shows

The popularity of the series has led to the fact that some of its elements are mentioned in various books, films, TV series and shows:

• The Fourth Doctor has appeared several times in “The Simpsons” and “Futurama”.

• "Green Courage", an episode of Fox Kids' children's action series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, featured an on-screen note claiming that a meteoroid field that had just collided with a planet was located at "ten zero eleven zero zero, by zero two from galactic zero," in the constellation of Kasterborous. In TV Pyramids of Mars, these coordinates are given as the location of Gallifrey.

• In "420", an episode of Family Guy, Brian says that ever since weed was legalised "crime is down, productivity is up and the ratings for Doctor Who is through the roof". Another episode, the Star Wars Episode IV spoof "Blue Harvest", incorporated footage from the Tom Baker-era opening credits in the scene in which the Millennium Falcon enters hyperspace.

• The pilot for the 2000 series The Invisible Man contains at least four references: A doctor named Troughton, a business card reading I.M. Foreman and a magazine cover with the headlines "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space!" and "Playing the game of Rassilon!"

• In Nightshifter, an episode of the series Supernatural, a character is convinced that a "mandroid" is responsible for several crimes and holds up a magazine with a Cyberman on its cover to illustrate his point. In "The Girl Next Door" Sam confronts a Kitsune with the name Amy Pond.

• In the television cartoon, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, there is a recurring background pony named Time Turner who bears a resemblance to The Tenth Doctor. In the episode "The Super Speedy Cider Sqeezy 6000", Time Turner can be seen wearing a tie similar to the tenth doctor's and operating an elaborate hourglass. Another reference is seen on one of the covers of the official comic, in which Time Turner can be seen wearing the 4th Doctor's scarf, holding the FOB watch, and standing in front of a statue that resembles a Weeping Angel, and a street light that bears a resemblance to the TARDIS. On top of all his official trading card says "Time Turner keeps Ponyville's clocks in sync, sets the hourglass for cider competitions, and takes care of all things timey-wimey.". In the episode "One Bad Apple", Time Turner wears a pear costume and a polka-dotted bowtie.

• In Christopher Paolini's novel, Brisingr, a reference is made to a “lonely god” “adrift on the seas of time.” Paolini later admitted in the acknowledgements that he is a massive Doctor Who fan and that he believes the Doctor might have visited his world of Alagaësia at some point.

• In the novel High Wizardry by Diane Duane, part of the Young Wizards series, a "Mysterious Stranger" helps the protagonist out of a sticky situation. He seems oddly familiar.

• Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael contains references to Doctor Who and a cameo appearance by the Fourth Doctor and Leela.

• The TARDIS can be found in the desert in Fallout 2 (the computer game)

• A cosmetic item in the game called "Dr. Whoa" closely resembles the Eleventh Doctor's signature bowtie in Team Fortress 2.

• Sheldon from series “The Big Bang Theory” has said that he wakes up and watches Doctor Who every Saturday morning.

• “The Big Bang Theory” also featured a costume contest hosted by the character Stuart Bloom (who owns the comic book store) dressed up in Fourth Doctor’s garb.

• In another episode of The Big Bang Theory, a poster of Vincent Van Gogh's "The Pandorica Opens" can be seen prominently displayed in a comic book shop.

• A reference to Doctor Who also occurs in the CSI: New York episode "Time's Up". Flack says "Paging Doctor Who." Later in the episode, the time travel machine makes a noise very much like the noise the TARDIS makes.

• In the Disney Channel series Sonny with a Chance, two characters are trapped in a phone box and the title character asks why they built another time machine.

• In the fifth episode of the second season of the ABC television series “Better Off Ted”, the scientists Phil and Lem name the small robot designed to clean up spills in their laboratory Chumbley. This is the name that Vicki gives the robots that Steven, the First Doctor and she encounter in Galaxy 4. Later in the same episode, Phil and Lem enter a room full of used robot parts. A Dalek can be seen clearly in the corner nearest the door.

• In the movie "Mr. Bean" the main character plays with the figure of Dalek

• Also figure of Dalek appears in series “Misfits”