10 Doctor Who Characters Who Appeared Outside The Show
8. The Twelfth Doctor In Newzoids
When it was announced that Peter Capaldi would be taking on the role of the Twelfth Doctor, there was some concern that his previous roles would affect how viewers saw him.
One part in particular was singled out as being very un-Doctory – Capaldi’s turn as swearaholic political spin master Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It. Tucker was conniving, underhanded, and just about the rudest person in television history. Basically, he was everything the good-hearted time traveller should never be.
While Doctor Who itself never brought attention to Capaldi’s past life as an icon of post-watershed television, another show did.
Newzoids was a satirical sketch show that ran from 2015 to 2016, and depicted various celebrities as animated puppets. Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor likeness was used across the series, with a healthy serving of Malcolm Tucker's foul language thrown in for good measure.
One highlight was a sketch where the Twelfth Doctor met... the Twelfth Doctor! Both then travel back in time to when Doctor Who was "much simpler and cheaper" – cue a Dalek made of a bin, a whisk, and a plunger.
Though Capaldi doesn't voice himself in Newzoids, the heightened riff on his famous Scottish tones works well for a ridiculous comedy show about talking puppets.