Diggery-dum

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• First off, the drums are clearly beating along to the Doctor Who theme tune, probably the arrangement introduced in season 18. Certainly not the current arrangement.


• Second, John Simm makes a good Master, but I wasn't overly impressed with the episode as a whole. Not quite as dark as I might have liked.


• USS Valiant is quite clearly the Helicarrier from S.H.I.E.L.D., which opens up a whole bunch of UNIT/S.H.I.E.L.D. crossovers.


• The Master watching the Teletubbies is a rather sweet homage to the Master watching the Clangers


• "Oh no, not another invasion of creatures from another dimension intent on eliminating humanity"

Comments

More directly than that.

[ah-see-argh.livejournal.com]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency also borrowed a chunk out of "City of Death", I doubt that "Shada" being finished would have stopped Douglas Adams reusing chunks of it;-)

Re: More directly than that.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Good call - I'd been trying (and failing) to remember the name of the other Who story he borrowed.