Doctor Who: 10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About The Doctor
8. The Doctor Always Travels With A Young Female Companion
Comedy sketches about Doctor Who have existed for almost as long as the show itself. Hell, the first known parody was broadcast just over a month after An Unearthly Child, when the TV show It's a Square World featured a sketch with Dad's Army actor Clive Dunn as William Hartnell.
Since then, there have been many more, and most of them are based on some well-worn and inaccurate interpretations of what Doctor Who actually is.
One of the most common of these is that the Doctor always travels with a young female companion that they want to get jiggy with. This is one of the gags in Lenny Henry's Doctor Who sketch from 1985, the main gag in a sketch from A Kick Up The Eighties in 1982, and Steven Moffat went there (because of course he did) in The Curse of Fatal Death.
David Tennant even dressed up as a sexy Doctor Who companion to face off against Alan Carr on the Friday Night Project - however, the history of Doctor Who's weird and wonderful companions is a far richer vein for comedy than these sketches suggest.
A clapped-out shapeshifting android? An overgrown schoolboy? A robot dog? Then again, perhaps those were deemed to be beyond parody.