Doctor Who reference on Leverage

[TemporalFlux]

Surprised this wasn't mentioned yet, but the January 8 episode of TNT's Leverage, "The Radio Job", featured a big Doctor Who reference. The crazy thief character has a flash of imagination to pay off a running joke of the episode, and she envisions Tom Skerritt's character walking out of a building with a hand held time machine. He sets it to travel back to 1962 (?), and during the entire scene they're playing the Doctor Who theme. As we come back to reality, the crazy thief notices that the tech guy is suddenly wearing a bow tie. He explains that bow ties are cool.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Every other episode of Leverage has a nod to Doctor Who.

It's good chicken.

 

[Methos]

yup... it's a running gag on Leverage...

Hardison talks about downloading episodes of Doctor Who, and Parker yells at him saying 'illigal downloading is wrong' lol

Nate has cover alias of Tom Baker regularly through the show

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[Australis]

Love Leverage. Loved the references too.

 

[Christopher]

Nate has cover alias of Tom Baker regularly through the show

I just started watching TNT's reruns of the show from the beginning, and it first crops up in episode 8, "The Mile High Job." They're improvising their scam as they go, drawing on the fake IDs and such that they happen to have on their persons, and Nate is going through his list of available aliases: "I've got a Peter Davison, a Sylvester McCoy, and a Tom Baker." And Sophie happens to have an ID for a Sarah Jane Baker.


You should also check out the pilot episode of the 2000 series The Invisible Man, available on Hulu. There are a number of Who in-jokes in that, including a group of doctors/scientists introduced with such names as Hartnell, Troughton, and Baker; a business card for I. M. Foreman in Totters Lane; and a cover to a science magazine with headlines including "Time and Relative Dimension in Space" and "Playing the Game of Rassilon."

 

[Guy Gardener]

There was also an episode where "Zoe Herriot" popped up.

 

[MacLeod]

DW is getting quite a few referrences in American shows, these days.

 

[Prydonian]

There's another episode where Eliot and Hardison pretend to be a pair of cops going by the names "Moffat" and "Davies".

The commentaries on the DVDs mention more than once that several of Leverages's writers (and producers?) are big Doctor Who fans.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

That reference was awesome! I laughed out loud and my sister looked at me like I was crazy.