18 Surprising Facts About Doctor Who

Attendly provides us this list of 18 unknown or little known facts about the Doctor Who television series.

1. 103 episodes of the series are lost
2. Doctor Who began as a children’s educational show
3. Doctor Who employed the BBC’s first ever female producer
4. Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who used to trick pirates
5. Bill Nighy and Benedict Cumberbatch both turned down the role of The Doctor
6. The Tenth Doctor is married to the actress who played his on-screen daughter
7. The creator of Doctor Who wanted a female Doctor
8. The author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a Doctor Who writer in the 70s
9. The Daleks were inspired by the Nazis
10. The Whomobile was added at the request of the Third Doctor
11. Tom Baker joined a monastery at the age of 15
12. The Fourth Doctor’s iconic scarf was created by accident
13. The cliche ‘hiding behind the sofa’ was popularized by Doctor Who
14. Deep Roy is the only Doctor Who actor to also appear in both Star Trek and Star Wars
15. Ridley Scott almost designed the Daleks
16. Stephen Fry wrote a script for Doctor Who that was never filmed
17. The Doctor’s regeneration was introduced to overcome the First Doctor’s ailing health
18. Sylvester McCoy played both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors in his first scene

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