10 Doctor Who Characters Who Appeared Outside The Show
1. The Cybermen In Top Gear
Much like Doctor Who, Top Gear was a long-running BBC show that was given a new lease of life when it got revamped in the early 21st century. Although, nobody’s been fired from Doctor Who for punching a producer… yet.
In one of its first series back from the grave, the motoring show held a gimmicky race to determine who was the “Master of the Universe”. The segment consisted of several famous sci-fi characters doing laps in a car to see who could do it the fastest, with Darth Vader, Ming the Merciless, and a Klingon all getting some screen time.
Doctor Who was very well represented too. A Cyberman and a Dalek are in the initial line-up, but the Mondasian killing machine’s lap gets interrupted when the TARDIS materialises in the middle of the track. And it’s only bloomin’ Colin Baker at the controls, appearing on TV as the Sixth Doctor almost 20 years after he was first cast.
Unfortunately, when the Dalek gets a go, it can’t fit in the car. It handles this situation by exterminating all the contestants. Bloody sore loser.
This segment has been cut from the version of the episode on BBC iPlayer, presumably due to rights issues. Or maybe the Daleks exterminated it out of shame?