Favorite minor classic references in New series?

[diankra]

Another fine reference, but you forgot another from that same conversation: The Eternals (as seen in Enlightenment).

The Enternals get a mention in Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday too they have a name for the void (The howling?)

Which is a slightly odd one, as in Enlightenment the eternals do mention the void, but not the howling!

 

[Mr. Sin]

One I forgot-one of the lost planets in The Stolen Earth was one seen or mentioned in The Pirate Planet.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Callufrax Minor was one of the lost planets, while Callufrax was one of segements of the Key to Time.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Ice Warriors were mentioned in Waters of Mars.

 

[Captain Pike]

I tend to view old/new Who as one long contiguous show. As such I don't notice continuity porn as much as I would with, say, Star Trek. The references aren't quite as incongruous, and so some I don't even notice.

Having said that, some of the better ones have been the cyberman's head in Dalek, the doctor using the alias "Jamie McCrimmon" in Tooth & Claw and the 2 (or have there been more?) Ice Warrior referrences.

 

[Bones2]

^
I can only remember the WoM reference. What was the other?

 

[Captain Pike]

I think it was in The Christmas Invasion wasn't it? The UNIT bloke saying that they already knew what Martians looked like..

 

[Bones2]

Ah yes. I remember that (having seen it recently), but never really made the connection.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Oooh, I'm annoyed I didnt get the Jamie reference until now.

This thread just makes me all the more annoyed that the Beeb won't repeat the old shows (see my recent thread on the topic).

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

My favorite is the Doctor using James McCrimmon as an alias in "Tooth & Claw." I wish there were more references to old companions like this. (I imagined this scene some time during one of the Tennant specials where he would be pacing around the TARDIS with his cell phone calling up a bunch of his old companions to ask them if they were up for one more adventure but all of them either turn out to be busy (Captain Jack, Sarah Jane), have had their memories erased (Zoe), or were left in a time period where they don't have a phone (Jamie). "What do you mean you're busy? It'll take 2 seconds. I've got a time machine!")

It's not a delibrate reference, but The Age Of Steel pays homage to The Five Doctors - Above, Between, Below.

In the same story Lumic's bogus company is named after Tobias Vaughn's from the Invasion, and the whole script rips off the Dalek Invasion Of Earth in several ways.

And in many ways, "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" is also a rip-off of the 7th Doctor novel "Loving the Alien."