The long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who has been the subject of many parodies over the years. Following are some of the notable Doctor Who parodies.
Books The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey. (New Media Press, 1985) , first serialized six issues of Enterprise, a Star Trek fanzine. Doctor Whom: or ET Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication by A. R. R. R. Roberts (Gollancz, 2006) Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse by James Goss, illustrated by Russell T. Davies (BBC Books/Ebury Publishing, 2017)
Comic books It's Even Bigger on the Inside by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett (Miwk Publishing, 2015) Whoah! Eight Years of Bizarre Cartoons from the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Jamie Lenman (Miwk Publishing, 2019)
Film shorts Do You Have a License to Save This Planet?, BBV Productions "The Ballad of Russell and Julie", The Hillywood Show, made for the wrap party after David Tennant's last episode Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks (2009), by Andrew Orton Japanese Doctor Who (2014), by filmmaker Joshua Kahan Reign of Turner (1989), by Steven Warren Hill, Jennifer Adams Kelley, and Robert Warnock “The Silurian Disruption”, French and Saunders outtake included in The Curse of Fatal Death (VHS)
Music "Doctorin' the Tardis" by The Timelords (KLF Communications,1988, U.S. reissue 1991) "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek" by The Go-Go's
Radio "Professxor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers" I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, series 7, episode 1–13 (BBC Radio 1 and 2, 1969) "Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?", Whatever Happened to... by Adrian Mourby (BBC Radio, 1994)
Short stories "The Tardis at Pooh Corner" by Peter David, written 1983, published online 2002
Television "Biology 101", Community, season 3, episode (NBC, 2011), introduces a fictitious television, Inspector Spacetime, that is a parody of Tom Baker portraying Doctor Who The Chaser’s War On Everything (ABC TV, 2006), spoof song in series one "Christmas with the Doctor(s), Dead Ringers (BBC Two, 2005) The Curse of the Fatal Death (BBC One, 1999) written by Stephen Moffat as a Comic Relief special "Doctor Who", Tonight's the Night (BBC One, 2009), featured John Barrowman and David Tennant (BBC One, 2009) "Doctor Who Meets The Nerd", Robot Chicken on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network, 2014) Doctor Who Night (BBC, 1999), featured numerous parody sketches, including: "The Kidnappers", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss "The Pitch of Fear", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss "The Web of Caves", David Walliams and Mark Gatiss "The Eurostar", Dead Ringers (BBC Two), parody of Tom Baker "Facing Thatchos", The Lenny Henry Show, series one (BBC One, 1984) The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (BBC Red Button, 2013), created by Peter Davison for the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who "Hello My Dalek", Crackerjack (BBC One, 1975) It's a Square World, season six, episode 3, featured Clive Dunn as (BBC, 1963) "Pakistani Daleks", Q... (1974) by Spike Milligan "Space / Time", Comic Relief (BBC One, 2011) "Time Crash" Children in Need 2007 (BBC One and BBC Two, 2007) "Doctor Time Space and the Continuums", Codename: Kids Next Door, season 3, episode 11b "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." (Cartoon Network, 2004)
Video games Hugo II, Whodunit? (Gray Design Associates, 1991), features a secondary character called the Doctor who has a "sonar screwdriver"
Web series Doctor Whore (2014), pornographic parody How It Should Have Ended (HiShe) "Doctor Who: How Doomsday Should Have Ended", no. 86 (November 18, 2013) "Super Café: Who’s a Hero" season 5, Super Cafe series no. 8 (November 21, 2013) Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time, aka Inspector Spacetime (The Travis Richey Channel on YouTube, 2012), based the fictitious Inspector Spacetime introduced on the television series Community
Further reading
Booth, Paul. Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. p. 102–104. . Valdron, D. G. (1900). A Pirate's History of Doctor Who: the unauthorized stories. Fossil Cove Press. pp. 170–171.
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