Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

* The Ark ( Doctor Who ), a 1966 Doctor Who serial

The 2012 Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play The Wrath of the Iceni starring Tom Baker takes place during Boudica's uprising against the Romans.

In September 2010, MIT students attempted to put a TARDIS, the time machine from the BBC's Doctor Who, onto a roof.

The Fifth incarnation of Doctor Who, Peter Davison, was noted for wearing a stalk of celery on his lapel, claiming it at one point to be an excellent restorative, though the human olfactory sense was comparatively weak.

" He, too, has become a noted writer of his own high-profile television drama programmes, including Queer as Folk and the 2005 revival of Doctor Who.

In 1966, Kit Pedler, a medical scientist, created the Cybermen for the TV program Doctor Who, based on his concerns about science changing and threatening humanity.

* The Daleks, Cybermen and Toclafane from Doctor Who.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

* " Conspiracy ", third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Romans

* The episode " The Stones of Blood ", of the 16th season of Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor encounters the Ogri, a silicon-based life form, and in the same sub-plot, the Megara, who are made entirely out of an unknown substance, possibly energy, and they uphold the word of the law, and execute all who break the law with a beam of energy.

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* Deimos ( Doctor Who audio ), an audio drama

Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Cast in the role of Davros was Michael Wisher, who had previously appeared in several different roles on Doctor Who and had provided Dalek voices in the serials Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks.

During Doctor Who Confidential Russell T Davies explained how he believes Davros to have survived the Crucible's destruction in some way, not specifically showing his death for this reason.

Doctor Who Magazine printed several comics stories involving Davros.

Speaking with the Emperor, the Doctor addresses him as Davros, but the Emperor responds " Who is Davros?

Paul Cornell's dark vignette in the Doctor Who Magazine Brief Encounters series, " An Incident Concerning the Bombardment of the Phobos Colony " occurs sometime between " Resurrection of the Daleks " and his assumption of the role of Emperor.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

The Doctor's granddaughter Susan described her home world ( not named as " Gallifrey " at the time ) as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky at night ( The Sensorites, 1964 ), features that the Tenth Doctor reiterates in the episode " Gridlock " ( 2007 ).

At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructs, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War.

In the Doctor Who episode " The Sound of Drums ", The Master says to the American President, " Anything I could do?

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

* Latveria appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode " The Private War of Doctor Doom.

In the recent Waters of Mars ( an episode set on the planet itself ), the Tenth Doctor implies that the Ice Warriors have become extinct.

The Doctor Who episode Battlefield suggests that Arthurian legend in our world is influenced by actual events in a parallel world, and that the Doctor is himself Merlin.

* 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who ( starring William Hartnell ) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.

* The Romans ( Doctor Who ), an episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who

In an alternate future episode, " Endgame ", the Doctor adopts the name Joe, and marries a human female, named Lana ( played by Amy Lindsay ).

The " Emergency Command Hologram ", aka " ECH ", is first coined by the Doctor in the episode, " Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy ", in which he creates a program that allows him to daydream.

In the episode " Renaissance Man ", against the wishes of the crew, the Doctor uses his ECH program to eject the warp core.

" Though initially saddened at the loss of the screwdriver, the Doctor obtains a new one at the conclusion of the episode.

* The Doctor Who episode Waters of Mars the Doctor mentions that the humans begin their diaspora across the stars when Earth colonises nearby star systems in 2100 ( still technically in the 21st century ).

* The Waters of Mars episode of Doctor Who takes place in 2059.

She received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, and has been on the faculty at the latter two schools and at Florida Community College at Jacksonville.

* According to the Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars, the first manned mission to Mars will set up a base there.

* The 2009 Doctor Who episode " The Waters of Mars " is set on November 21.

The Next Doctor aired on 14 March 2009 and Planet of the Dead aired on 25 July 2009, Waters of Mars aired later in the year and the End of Time two-parter aired 2 January 2010.

' Doctor Hanray ' contains a recurrent theme of reconciling with the past that is evident in the most autobiographical of Richter's novels, The Waters of Kronos ( 1960 ).

( 1991 ), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO / BBC / RAI series Rome ( 2005 – 2007 ), and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special " The Waters of Mars " ( 2009 ).

He also played an Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over in the November 2010 Doctor Who special " The Waters of Mars ".