Doctor Who is a BBC science-fiction television series which is frequently referred to in the television series Leverage. In the series the Doctor, a 900-year-old Time Lord, travels through time and space with one or more human companions. His ship is the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), a sentient device which appears to be a 1950's blue British police box, the result of a broken circuit that allows the machine to disguise itself. At times, the Doctor goes where the mood takes him (such as to visit Vincent Van Gogh) or where he is summoned (such as to help Churchill during WWII), and at times the TARDIS seems to take him where he needs to go (such as to Pompeii shortly before the volcano). Self-described as brilliant, he typically finds himself helping the people he encounters at his destination as they battle a variety of alien life forms.

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The Doctor, the last of his kind from a planet called Gallifrey, is capable of regeneration, a process developed to allow the show to change the actor in the role. Originally played by William Hartnell, the current Doctor (the Eleventh) is Matt Smith. Well-known Doctors include Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor, in the role at the time of cancellation), Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor and the longest in the role) and David Tennant (Tenth Doctor).

The show premiered in 1963, and ran until 1989, followed by a film in 1996 (with Paul McGann as the one-night-only Eighth Doctor). It was revived in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, and is currently in its sixth season (32nd overall) with Smith. The revived Doctor Who was originally produced by Russell T. Davies, and is currently written and produced by Steven Moffat. It is a world-wide hit, and is broadcast in the US on BBC America.

Contents 1 References 1.1 Season 1 1.2 Season 3 1.3 Season 4 2 Note

ReferencesEdit

Season 1Edit

• The Mile High Job: Nate uses the alias Tom Baker and Sophie uses the alias Sarah Jane, one of the fourth Doctor's companions. The other aliases available to Nate were Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor) and Sylvester McCoy.
• The Bank Shot Job: Hardison expresses his frustration at the time it took to illegally download the latest episode of Doctor Who. At the time the episode's broadcast, Doctor Who was not on the air in the UK.
• The 12-Step Job - Nate re-uses the alias of Tom Baker. Parker uses the alias Rose, the ninth and tenth Doctor's companion.

Season 3Edit

• The Three-Card Monte Job: Eliot and Hardison use the aliases Moffat and Davies. These are nods to Steven Moffat and Russell T. Davies, two of the executive producers of Doctor Who.

Season 4Edit

• The Ten Li'l Grifters Job: The attorney who hires Nate describes being fired from the law firm McGann, McCoy and Baker, referencing three of the actors who played the Doctor.

• The Radio Job: Parker insists that Nate's father used a time machine to travel back to 1962 while a modified Doctor Who theme plays in the background. In the same scene, Hardison explains he is wearing a bowtie because "bowties are cool," one of the Eleventh Doctor's catchphrases.

NoteEdit

• Steven Moffat, the current executive producer of Doctor Who created the role of Jane Christie, played by Gina Bellman in the British situation comedy "Coupling." He later produced a modern-day revival of "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", in which Bellman played Jekyll's wife. It was her work in this series that brought her to the attention of John Rogers, and resulted in her being offered the role of Sophie Devereaux.