10 Best Times Star Wars Appeared In Other TV Shows

5. Doctor Who

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With Doctor Who and Star Wars being two of the biggest sci-fi properties in the universe, it would be a genuine shock if they didn't cross paths at some point.

But of course, they have - and in some rather surprising ways too.

From Bossk's outfit in The Empire Strikes Back being a recycled Doctor Who prop, to some visible Aurebesh text (one of the most prolific languages in the Star Wars world) in the Who episode Face the Raven, there are dozens of connections between these two juggernauts, spanning the last several decades of pop-culture.

There's a particularly cool and easy-to-miss nod in The Rings of Akhaten, an episode featuring the Eleventh Doctor (who, in a bonus scene from the fifth series, also describes himself as "the little green one in Star Wars"). The space mopeds used by the Doctor and Clara in this story were inspired by the speeder bikes used on Endor in Return of the Jedi.

The alien marketplace in this episode also took its cues from Star Wars, with the wide variety of creatures mingling together intended to echo the many alien species seen in the Mos Eisley cantina.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.