10 Classic Doctor Who Spoofs That You Have To See

By Paul Driscoll /

8. Allo My Dalek (1975)

€œNo, it€™s not Doctor Who. It€™s Friday, it's 5 o'clock and it€™s Crackerjack.€ This is how the presenters of Crackerjack opened the show in March 1974, their faces superimposed onto the Season 11 opening credits. The children€™s entertainment show first lampooned the Doctor in 1966 with Leslie Crowther as the First Doctor and Peter Glaze as the Second in a musical number, but it was 1975's Allo My Dalek that is best remembered. Don Maclean enters the TARDIS console room dressed in Fourth Doctor-like attire, still knitting his scarf as it gets trapped in the door. There, he meets Peter Glaze€™s Brigadier and Jan Hunt€™s Sarah Jane. After pointing out that the Brig should not be in this particular series, Glaze explains that he is standing in for Ian Marter€™s Harry Sullivan. Despite early appearances by Ronnie Corbett and a guest hosting gig for Little and Large, Glaze and Maclean were Crackerjack€™s stand out comedy duo. Their silent sketches have even been released on a separate DVD. When Maclean left in 1978 to be replaced by Bernie Clifton, the show quickly began to lose quality and popularity. At one stage Basil Brush was even a host of Crackerjack. The wily old fox has himself parodied the show - the first time encountering the Yeti in a sketch which appears on The Mind Robber DVD and the second time in his ill fated Basil does Swap Shop revival. The time, Basil plays Doctor Who with a Kylie Minogue as Astrid lookalike (in drag) and an alien flappy colourful bird, something of a cross between The Time Monster and Ken Dodd. Seriously. A brief clip from the 1975 Crackerjack sketch appears on the More Than Thirty Years In The TARDIS documentary. Sadly the earlier Crowther/Glaze feature is missing from the archives.