The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

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.

However, a number of writers of the novels and audio plays are also writing for the new television series, and Russell T Davies refers to the comic strips, audio plays and novels in an essay describing the Time War, written for the Doctor Who Annual 2006.

Television series executive producer Russell T Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine # 356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.

* Placebo Effect ( Doctor Who ), an original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who

For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called " retcon "; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as " retconning ".

Russell T Davies, responsible for the latest Doctor Who revival in its earlier seasons, began working in the BBC children's department in the 1990s.

* Russell T Davies, revived the Doctor Who franchise and created its spinoffs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

* In an untitled story by Gary Russell featured in the first issue of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comic book ( published February 2008 ), the Tenth Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to destroy a sword and later sacrifices it in order to defeat a Sycorax hunter.

* Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944

In the Past Doctor Adventures novel Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell, a young Mortimus is portrayed as a friend of the Doctor's, and a member of a cabal of rebellious young Gallifreyans at the Academy known as " the Deca ".

In the Doctor Who Annual 2006, a section by Russell T Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships ( used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war ), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel " Damaged Goods ", written by Davies ).

* Although working from the original Adams script, portions of the Big Finish version were reworked by Gary Russell to make the story fit into Doctor Who continuity.

The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood.

* Russell G Mawby, BS PhD Michigan, MS Purdue Chairman Emeritus, W K Kellogg Foundation ; Hon DSc California State University, NUI ; Hon DL North Carolina, Tuskagee Institute, Michigan ; Hon DCL Newcastle ; Hon Doctor of Agriculture, Purdue.

) This is a small, yet significant piece to the series, as six years later Russell T Davies revived Doctor Who.

An article by Russell T Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 states that Skaro, like Gallifrey, was devastated at the end of the Time War.

While the canonical status of the novels is uncertain, Russell T Davies intimated in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 article that various Dalek stories take place as parts of the Time War, such as Genesis of the Daleks, which he refers to as " the first strike ".

In his " Production Notes: Doodles in the Margins of Time " in 2007, Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies cites " The Zeppo " along with Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Lower Decks " as an influence on his 2006 Doctor Who episode " Love & Monsters ".

* Writer Russell T Davies introduced Captain Jack Harkness, of British series ' Doctor Who and Torchwood, with the intention of properly introducing bisexuality to the British public.

In the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose cultures were recently linked to the UK, the title Doctor generally applies in both the academic and clinical fields.

Surgeons in the USA and elsewhere continue to use the title " Doctor ", although New Zealand uses the titles of Mr and Doctor, in the same way as the United Kingdom.

Lynch earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1974, a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.

In 1792, he was presented with the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ).

In May 2011, The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, New York, made her a Doctor of Divinity honoris causa at its annual Commencement.

Menzies was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of New South Wales.

Giuliani eventually decided to forego the priesthood, instead attending New York University School of Law in Manhattan, where he made law review and graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor in 1968.

In 1966 the University of New South Wales awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters ( D. Litt ).

* The Seventh Doctor regained his sonic screwdriver in the Virgin New Adventures novels, with its first reappearance in The Pit.

They appear in 2009, in the novella The Sontaran Games by Jacqueline Rayner, featuring the Tenth Doctor and appeared in the New Series Adventures ( Doctor Who ) book The Taking of Chelsea 426 by David Llewellyn, featuring the Tenth Doctor, fighting both times against the Rutan Host.

" The Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt records Susan telling the First Doctor that she gave him the idea when he was, implicitly, the " Other ".

Most recently, unforeseeable problems again befell a Gilliam project when actor Heath Ledger died in New York City during the filming of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

* Frank Corner, ( MA, Honorary Doctor of Laws ) New Zealand diplomat, public servant

* Gillian Whitehead, ( BMus ( Hons ), Honorary Doctor of Music ) New Zealand composer

* The Village Horse Doctor West of the Pecos, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1971

He received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1969, Princeton University in 1985, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1990 in connection with an international symposium in his honor organized by John Corcoran.

The fiftieth Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel Happy Endings by Paul Cornell features a Polari-speaking Silurian musical duo from the 30th century called Jacquilian and Sanki.

The village of Rhossili appeared as a location in the 2006 Doctor Who episode " New Earth ".

In Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War, the Doctor uses a similar method to read the mind of his companion Bernice Summerfield.

Whitfield appeared in the Doctor Who two-part episode, " The End of Time ", that aired over the Christmas / New Year period of 2009 – 10.

During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.