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 ".

* Enlightenment ( Doctor Who ), a 1983 Doctor Who serial

The role of Rost in the Doctor Who serial " Attack of the Cybermen " was meant for her but she allegedly had a disagreement with the production team over her fee and was replaced by Sarah Greene.

* In the Doctor Who serial Snakedance, A Punch and Judy show is briefly recreated despite the alien setting.

He was originally assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures.

It is possible that the screwdriver had appeared before Fury from the Deep without the Doctor referring to it by that name: the prop used there appears to be one used by the Doctor in many earlier stories, including the First Doctor's sabotage of Dalek equipment as early as the second serial.

The sonic screwdriver was written out of the series late in season 19, in the Fifth Doctor serial The Visitation.

The newly married Martha Smith-Jones and Mickey Smith are seen being chased by a Sontaran sniper in the last Tenth Doctor serial The End of Time, for unknown reasons.

The Doctor implies in this serial, with his protestations of being " bugged ", that the TARDIS is not normally connected to the Matrix in this manner.

The Doctor attempts to repair the circuit in " Logopolis " and " Attack of the Cybermen ", but the successful transformation of the TARDIS into the shapes of a pipe organ, a painted Welsh dresser ( much to the amusement of Perpurgilliam " Peri " Brown and the Sixth Doctor's annoyance ) and an elaborate gateway in the latter serial was followed by a return to the police box shape.

The Doctor Who serial " The Deadly Assassin ", first broadcast in 1976, introduced a dream-like computer-generated reality, known as the Matrix.

The cave was used for the filming of episodes of the BBC TV series Doctor Who: the serial Revenge of the Cybermen ( 1975 ) starring Tom Baker.

These include the Doctor Who serial The Time Warrior, broadcast in 1973 – 74, and a 1991 movie of Robin Hood starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death ( 1979 ) alongside John Cleese as art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris.

" Later, she had a more substantial guest role in another Doctor Who television serial, Revelation of the Daleks ( 1984 ).

The genesis of the novel was in two Doctor Who serials written by Adams, City of Death, ( in which an alien tries to change history at the cost of erasing humanity from existence ), and in particular the cancelled serial Shada, which first introduces a Cambridge professor called Chronotis who is hundreds of years old.

Pemberton had previously served as script editor of Doctor Who and had penned the serial “ Fury from the Deep ”.

* Dreamland ( Doctor Who ), a 2009 animated serial based on Doctor Who

Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil ; antagonists such as the Green Goblin, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Galactus, and the Red Skull.

References to the experiment can be found in many other works, including an episode of The X-Files entitled " Død Kalm ", Sanctuary, The Triangle, the Doctor Who audio drama The Macros, the collaborative science-fiction novella Green Fire, and the novels The Spy who Haunted Me, Ship of the Damned, and Retromancer.

Comic book supervillians such as the Joker, Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Green Goblin, Loki, Doctor Doom, Scarecrow, Riddler, Two-Face, the Penguin, Doctor Octopus, Venom and Carnage are well known in popular culture and have been adapted in several films.

Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes ' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato, and Batman's Robin.

He is a parody of Doctor Doom with his glider being a parody of Green Goblin's glider.

The mini-series leads directly into the formation of a brand new JLA roster with Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Donna Troy, Dick Grayson as Batman, Doctor Light ( Kimiyo Hoshi ), Mon-El, Cyborg, Starfire, Congorilla, Guardian, and Mikaal Tomas.

The JLA consisted of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern ( John Stewart ), the Flash ( Barry Allen ), the Atom ( Ray Palmer ), Doctor Light ( Kimiyo Hoshi ), Hawkman, and Firestorm ( Jason Rusch ).

She had many encounters with villains Spider-Man fought like Venom ( as Eddie Brock ), the Hobgoblin, Doctor Octopus, Morbius, the Chameleon ( who was imitating Anna Watson ), Tombstone, Green Goblin, the Scorpion and the Shocker.

The team initially included Doctor Fate, Hour-Man ( as it was then spelled ), the Spectre and the Sandman, Atom, the Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman.

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The show features most of Spider-Man's classic villains, including the Kingpin, the Green Goblin, the Lizard, the Scorpion, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio, Shocker, the Rhino, the Vulture, the Chameleon, and Venom.

* Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, fictional supercomputer in the Doctor Who television serial The Green Death

The Punisher has been using technology derived from super-villains and other costumed characters, such as the Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs, a modified Goblin Glider, and a Doctor Octopus tentacle that he can shrink down for easy storage via Pym Particles.

In " Gangland ," Doctor Octopus tries to call Kraven for backup, but Doctor Octopus ' phone becomes jammed by the Green Goblin.

Doctor Octopus is not seen again for the remainder of the series, as the gang war has ended and the next few episodes focused on the Green Goblin's return.

* Doctor Octopus appears in the Robot Chicken episode " Tapping a Hero " voiced by Seth Green.

The 1985 Doctor Who television serial " Revelation of the Daleks " is loosely based on " The Loved One " and " Soylent Green ," as noted by scriptwriter Eric Saward on the 2005 DVD commentary for the story.

There, he meets fellow genetically altered criminals Norman Osborn ( Green Goblin ), Dr. Otto Octavius ( Doctor Octopus ), Max Dillon ( Electro ) and Kraven the Hunter.

In the opening cinematics, Sandman alongside Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, and Venom are abducted by the P. H. A. N. T. O. M. s and end up under the control of Mysterio.

She appeared in Doctor in Charge, Anne of Green Gables and the BBC serial David Copperfield as the mother of Copperfield's best friend – James Steerforth.

Douglas then wrote Forgive Us Our Trespasses ; Precious Jeopardy ; Green Light ; White Banners ; Disputed Passage ; Invitation To Live ; Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal ; The Robe, and The Big Fisherman.