10 Times Doctor Who Appeared In Other TV Shows - Commenter Edition

8. Milo Murphy's Law

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As mentioned in our article on Doctor Who movie references, Disney appears to have quite a number of Whovians in its stable, with Encanto, Cars 2, and Big Hero 6 all containing some kind of Doctor Who nod.

On the TV side of things, the people who made Disney Channel's animated series Milo Murphy's Law are also clearly Doctor Who fans, as evidenced by the ongoing mentions of a sci-fi franchise called Dr. Zone.

The character of Dr. Zone - an eccentric time-traveller with a very Doctor-esque fashion sense - has appeared in various movies and TV shows within the Milo Murphy's Law universe. Milo and his friends are big Dr. Zone fans, even having a marathon of The Dr. Zone Files in the season one episode of the same name.

Even just by looking at it, it's clear that the Dr. Zone franchise is a riff on Doctor Who, and other, more specific details - like the Trashcandroids resembling Daleks, mentions of Dr. Zone being around for over 50 years, and the fact that one episode of Milo Murphy's Law involves Dr. Zone's missing, black-and-white pilot episode from 1965 - only hammer the parody home.

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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.