The 1st doctor seemed to take real joy in his namedropping

When the Fifth Doctor said he met Drake, I thought he meant the singer which would have been quite a prediction long before the twenty first century.

Jo calling the Doctor "name dropper" 😂😂

13:17 kinda wish instead of "Father Christmas" you put "Jeff" lol

Crazy that some people see the Doctor's namedropping trait as a nuwho thing when its as old as the hills.

Love that the wet hot summer with Houdini was with one of the first three doctors

Wow, putting this together must’ve been a task.

Whovians, say the thing.


Wait, WHO are you?

Mao Zedong, 3rd Doctor says he was given personal permission to use his name.

Love the differences between Matt smith and Peter capaldis “he fancied me” delivery lmao

I'm certain that the Doctor sometimes lies about his encounters with historical figure, but I do believe 11 completely when he says that he knows Father Christmas, despite that being the most probable lie of them all. I also headcanon that 12's skepticism of Santa and Robin Hood were both acts for Clara's benefit and his ego.

10:47 Oh, Doctor, you should enroll Bill on a biology course, algae ARE living things.

Beethoven also mentioned in Music of the Spheres.

I watched through all of modern Who with a friend and they complained about 13 name dropping historic figures/celebrities because it all ''clearly never happened'' and insinuated it was out of character for the Doctor... lmao

Its interesting Two had only well two name drops, both very early on. Maybe it was an attempt to distance Troughton's take from Hartnell's; along with the dropping of the historical of basically any sort. I suppose with Three it was a way to remind people he was a time traveler now that he was mostly Earthbound and mostly in (Insert UNIT date here). At which point it just became part of the character.

With the notable exception of Seven. Maybe at first as a way to distance McCoy's take from Colin... but I also wonder given the political leanings of Seven's writers and the greater focus on having the Doctor interact with everyday people it was also an active attempt to move away from Great Men take of history? Or at the very least tone down the idea of the Doctor always rubbing shoulders with the top class. I suppose we may never know.

i wonder which incarnation met who 🤔

Good thing you didnt do the big finish 8th doctor stories, he never stops name dropping

5:38 So….Judging by what happened in Wild Blue Yonder, did the fourteenth Doctor knock his previous incarnation off that tree?

lost the opportunity to use "death is the only answer" to the einstein bit too

4th had his scarf made my madam nostradamus "the witty little knitter". He also mentions 'old isaac' again in Shada.

3 mentions meeting Mao, im fairly certain during Mao's early long march days.