10 Doctor Who Easter Eggs Hidden In Plain Sight
1. Verity Newman
Verity Lambert was the very first producer of Doctor Who, back when Sydney Newman was head of programming. The story of the creation and early days of the show are fantastically realised in the drama An Adventure In Time And Space. However, in the show itself, there is a touching tribute to the two people who effectively created the longest-running sci-fi show of all time.
In The End of Time, while the Tenth Doctor is visiting all of his friends as he undergoes the second slowest regeneration of them all, he arrives at a bookstore where an author is doing a signing. The author is played by Jessica Hynes, who had previously appeared in the series as Joan Redfern, the woman who loved John Smith, the Doctor's human alter-ego in Human Nature and The Family of Blood.
The author's name is Verity Newman, a combination of the names of the two extremely important people in Whovian history. The book is called A Journal of Impossible Things, which is both the name of John Smith's journal but also a knowing wink at the dream that is Doctor Who itself.