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DOCTOR OOH
MAD UK #161, c. 1975
w: Geoff Rowley
a: Steve Parkhouse
I never actually saw an episode of Doctor Who until a few weeks ago. I told somebody of my Doctor Who virginity once and they said “Then what kind of nerd are you?” It was on most PBS stations but never on any New York ones when I was a kid. Some people my age grew up without ever having seen Monty Python's Flying Circus so I guess that makes us even. I've seen enough Dr. Who-like things such as the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series to fake it.
Doctor Who was a timelord that travelled throughout time and space in a TARDIS, a British police call box. His companions are Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter). Often they would come across various historical figures.
I'm sure Doctor Who has been parodied to hell and gone, but there's one in particular that's probably worth noting. In 1999, on the BBC's annual Comic Relief charity event, there was a long, elaborate, and fart-filled sketch called Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death.
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It starred Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor, and was written by Steven Moffat, who started writing for the actual show when it was revived in the mid-2000s and went on to run it for about a decade.
Once the sketch wrung all the humor it could out of farts and celebrity cameos, the big punchline [spoiler ahoy!] is that the Doctor reincarnates as a woman, something the actual show only got around to doing recently, right after Moffat left.