5 Classic Doctor Who Easter Eggs Only True Whovians Figured Out, Ranked
Doctor Who is a show with a long history, which has to be addressed (at least to give the oldies something to talk about).
Here are five clever classics Easter eggs in the New Who that you might have missed.
5. International Electromatics
The Cybermen make their grand return to Doctor Who in 2006’s The Rise of the Cybermen, where the men of steel originate on Earth. International Electromatics is the company that kidnaps homeless people to “upgrade” them into Cybermen. It is also the company that helps another iteration of the Cybermen in 1968’s The Invasion.
4. The Great Intelligence
The legendary classic villain comes back in 2012’s The Snowmen, set in Victorian London. The title is a callback to the character’s first appearance in 1967’s The Abominable Snowmen, but that’s not all.
The Doctor realizes that he is meeting the Great Intelligence before their encounter in the London Underground in 1968’s The Web of Fear. The Doctor understands that he needs to keep the timeline intact, so he remarks that the tube is a weak point and even shows the villain a map of the ‘60s underground, planting the idea into the Great Intelligence’s head.
3. The TARDIS’ New Design
In The Day of the Doctor, the Tenth sees the Eleventh’s TARDIS and exclaims, “You’ve redecorated… I don’t like it!” This is a reference to the Second Doctor’s words in The Three Doctors (where he echoes the sentiment, remarking, “I can see you’ve been doing the TARDIS up a bit. I don’t like it.”) and The Five Doctors (where he says the Tenth’s exact phrase).
2. The Brigadier
The iconic classic character has been referenced several times in the New Who episodes, and his daughter Kate continues his legacy as the new leader of UNIT. In 2017’s Twice Upon a Time, the fans are introduced to the Brigadier’s grandfather, Captain Archibald Lethbridge-Stewart, played by Mark Gatiss himself.
1. Doctor Who’s Roots
In 2007’s two-parter story on the Family of Blood, the Doctor has to disguise himself as a human with a made-up biography. However, one detail about his fake past is true – he says that his parents were called Verity and Sydney. This is a nod to Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert, the people who created the show in the first place.
Have you noticed anything else?