Fun Facts About Doctor Who
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Fun Fact Found: Doctor WhoA great mystery to its fans, Doctor Who is our favourite TV series for 50 years. Independent from time and space, Doctor Who can be anywhere, any time. Here are some interesting facts about Doctor Who that you might not know;
- Look at this relation in Doctor Who! David Tennant is married to Georgia Moffett, who played the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny. Georgia is also the real-life daughter of the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
- Steven Moffat created The Weeping Angels, and he was inspired by a carved figure in a graveyard that he used to see when he went on family holidays. The graveyard was marked “dangerous”.
- Many episodes of the series were destroyed by the BBC in the 1960s and 70s for mostly saving space.
- There are some collectors and broadcasters around the world helping to re-build the collection of missing episodes.
- Verity Lambert was the former production assistant of the creator Sydney Newman, and the first woman BBC employed as a producer.
- Bill Nighy and Benedict Cumberbatch turned down the role of The Doctor. Benedict Cumberbatch was offered the role of The Doctor following David Tennant’s tenure. He turned it down because of the high-profile coming with being part of such an enormous franchise. Bill Nighy also turned down the coveted role for the same reason.
- The Daleks’ creator, Terry Nation, originally based the aliens on the Nazis, creating them as the unhearing, unthinking, blanked-out face of authority that will destroy you because it wants to destroy you.
