The Doctor, who is famously a pacifist that does not use weapons, fucking kills a giant spider with a gun and tells it to die (1967)

The CIA and MI5 (allegedly) develop a way of hacking civilian Samsung TV devices (allegedly) in order to secretly record conversations in living rooms (allegedly). They (allegedly) name the malware after the Weeping Angels from an obscure show called ‘Doctor Who’ (2014)

The greatest Doctor Who companion of all time is introduced - a shape shifting, mystery solving talking penguin named Frobisher (1984)

Jon Pertwee swears at his car (1983)

…ok (2025)

Sylvester McCoy gets a little bit peeved (1989)

The Rani actually, finally, for real, returns to Doctor Who, ending a decade and a half of speculating/theorising which mysterious character would turn out to be her all along (2025)

A Dalek smokes a cigar to cope with it’s inability to climb the stairs (1980s)

Flowers are revealed to be the Cybermen’s weakness (1967)

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart somehow knows who Sonic the Hedgehog is in 1989, two years before the first ‘Sonic’ game actually released (1997) [Crossover with @historysonic.bsky.social]