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Doctorish Characters in Fiction

Ford Prefect from the original Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy TV show was Doctorish. He even dressed like a version of #5.
Who created Ford Prefect and the Hitchhiker's Guide? Douglas Adams. He was story editor on Doctor Who during Tom Baker's era after all so it's no surprise that the Doctor Who element appeared in Hitchhiker's. Same with Dirk Gently. The Krikkit Wars were a storyline he wanted to do in Doctor Who after all.

Wasn't Slartibartfast in that storyline just a stand-in for the Doctor?
 
Not intentional at all, but it looks to me like Malcolm McDowell's character in 'Star Trek: Generations' is trying to get into Amy's Crack.
 
I felt for a while that Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch was very Doctor like.. Not that fact that Moffat writes that show but there was a lot of things that made me think that Sherlock would have made a good Doctor..

In fact fan made video this is but hell I would love such a show to exist. Enjoy

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If I remember correctly, there was a plotline in 80's Avengers comics which had Hank Pym-who had briefly stopped using his growth powers/superhero identity, and became Dr. Pym, the "scientific adventurer." He wore a hat and long scarf...
 
I'm assuming "Amy's Crack" is a reference to the Nexus looking a bit like the crack in series 5.
 
It's more apparent in the TV series because he's the experienced mentor character who's been at it for a while, but Noah Wyle's character Flynn Carson in The Librarian(s) TV movies and spin-off series is very 11th Doctory, except his adventures are based around a magical library and its artifacts rather than a TARDIS. The concept that every Librarian has a Guardian (usually a beautiful, sassy, ass-kicking woman) is also modelled after the Doctor/Companion relationship, though with lots more romantic connotations.
 
It's more apparent in the TV series because he's the experienced mentor character who's been at it for a while, but Noah Wyle's character Flynn Carson in The Librarian(s) TV movies and spin-off series is very 11th Doctory, except his adventures are based around a magical library and its artifacts rather than a TARDIS. The concept that every Librarian has a Guardian (usually a beautiful, sassy, ass-kicking woman) is also modelled after the Doctor/Companion relationship, though with lots more romantic connotations.


I recently got all 3 of the movies and you know what, they are cheesy and I love them to bits..

The library itself is like the TARDIS being somewhat infinite in size inside.
 
It's more apparent in the TV series because he's the experienced mentor character who's been at it for a while, but Noah Wyle's character Flynn Carson in The Librarian(s) TV movies and spin-off series is very 11th Doctory, except his adventures are based around a magical library and its artifacts rather than a TARDIS. The concept that every Librarian has a Guardian (usually a beautiful, sassy, ass-kicking woman) is also modelled after the Doctor/Companion relationship, though with lots more romantic connotations.

Apparently the TARDIS actually appears in a cameo in one episode
 
Ah well, then, from 1963 onward:

Professor Wagstaff in A Hitch in Time (1978) -- Patrick Troughton plays a human Doctor-like character. His last film I believe.

Hey, maybe after The War Games the Timelords exiled the Doctor to Earth didn't force him to regenrate but fobwatched him instead like in Human Nature and Professor Wagstaff was actually The Second Doctor
 
Colin Baker's The Stranger was clearly meant to be the Doctor, without the name TARDIS or anything else owned by BBC.

More likely an exiled or self-exiled Doctor than one who mislaid the TARDIS.
 
Can you tell me more about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(video_series)

6 DVD's and 4 audios done by a company called BBV. The "movies" had Colin Baker in all 6, Nicola Bryant in a few, Louise Jameson and David Troughton in one. About the same quality as 1980's Doctor Who.

They also did The Airzone Solution (Pertwee, Davison, C. Baker, McCoy) and some licensed and other unlicensed Doctor Who stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Ben_Video#Licensed_Doctor_Who_spin-offs
 
Talking of Marvel there was Professor Gamble-presumably Marvel's main company didn't realize it's UK subsidiary had the rights to do Dr Who stories
 
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