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!!''Series/DoctorWho''
* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]], Professor Watkins and his daughter Isobel are SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes written in when the actors of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen Professor Travers]] and ''his'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear daughter Anne]] turned out to be unavailable for filming. Professor Travers and Anne are [[PutOnABus said to have moved to America]], and Professor Watkins and Isobel fill their shoes ''extremely'' well. This is quite possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the fact that the Doctor and companions mention repeatedly that they were hoping to meet Travers and Anne before finding out that the pair are gone, even though they are otherwise unimportant to the story.
* Colonel (later Brigadier, later still [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]]) Lethbridge-Stewart resembles Colonel Breen from ''Series/QuatermassAndThePit''. So much so that originally Creator/JulianGlover from the then-recent [[Film/QuatermassAndThePit movie adaptation]] would have played him had the original actor not dropped out.
* The last story of the sixth season featured the War Chief. He's an evil, megalomaniac Time Lord who dresses in a dark Nehru jacket, sports [[BeardOfEvil Facial Hair of Evil]] and knows the Doctor from their days on Gallifrey. He's ''extremely'' camp, has [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace no concept of personal space]] and offers the Doctor [[WeCanRuleTogether a half-share in the universe]]. Fast forward to Season 8, where we are introduced to [[TheMaster a new regular villain]] who's an evil, megalomaniac Time Lord, dresses in a dark Nehru jacket, wears a Beard of Evil and— oh, you get the point. {{Fanon}} has even identified them as the same character.
* Ernst Stavro [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] has been an enduring influence on the Master; what with the Nehru jackets, the kitty-stroking in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", the elaborate deaths for unwary henchmen, etc.
* Harry Sullivan is supposed to be a parody of Literature/BulldogDrummond, according to Creator/TerranceDicks. So was Duggan from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]" later on.
* Jack Harkness has a number of similarities to one of the Eighth Doctor's ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic-strip companions, Fey Truscott-Sade, who like him is a morally-ambiguous secret agent with ExtremeOmnisexual tendencies, who flirts with the Doctor a lot. The only major difference is that Fey is female, although very gender-ambiguous.
* [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: The Hosts, robotic angels who serve as the villain's {{mook}}s, look and act a great deal like the antagonists of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]].
* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]: Antagonist Miss Foster shares more than a few traits with ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' villain Miss Wormwood.
* Companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams share quite more than a few traits with Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]", a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer.
* Lumpy the brain-damaged "good" Time War Dalek in the BBC online game ''The Doctor and the Dalek'' is a clear expy of Rusty the brain-damaged "good" Dalek from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek Into the Dalek]]".
* [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]]: The Ghost is clearly based on ComicBook/{{Superman}} with many of the same powers, ClarkKenting using glasses, and pining for a reporter, who has no idea the bumbling ordinary guy is the masked superhero. Even the origin of his powers is similar. Supes gets his abilities from a yellow sun, while Grant has accidentally swallowed a wish-fulfilling gem made inside a star. And he loved ''Superman'' comics as a kid, so the powers he manifested make sense.
* The Twelfth Doctor's companions in Series 10. Bill Potts, a working-class London girl associated with chips, is similar to the Ninth/Tenth Doctor companion Rose (her name even has some similarities to the name of Rose's actress, Billie Piper). Nardole, a PluckyComicRelief, [[MinoredInAssKicking secretly hyper-competent]] ServileSnarker who is the Doctor's best friend despite being the more minor character, fulfils similar function to the iconic Fourth/Tenth Doctor companion K-9. This was all part of RevisitingTheRoots.
* Graham O'Brien is a soft-spoken working class man in late middle age who has his perspective expanded by travelling with the Doctor. These traits are all shared with Rory's father Brian, also created by Creator/ChrisChibnall.
* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]], Professor Watkins and his daughter Isobel are SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes written in when the actors of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen Professor Travers]] and ''his'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear daughter Anne]] turned out to be unavailable for filming. Professor Travers and Anne are [[PutOnABus said to have moved to America]], and Professor Watkins and Isobel fill their shoes ''extremely'' well. This is quite possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the fact that the Doctor and companions mention repeatedly that they were hoping to meet Travers and Anne before finding out that the pair are gone, even though they are otherwise unimportant to the story.
* Colonel (later Brigadier, later still [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]]) Lethbridge-Stewart resembles Colonel Breen from ''Series/QuatermassAndThePit''. So much so that originally Creator/JulianGlover from the then-recent [[Film/QuatermassAndThePit movie adaptation]] would have played him had the original actor not dropped out.
* The last story of the sixth season featured the War Chief. He's an evil, megalomaniac Time Lord who dresses in a dark Nehru jacket, sports [[BeardOfEvil Facial Hair of Evil]] and knows the Doctor from their days on Gallifrey. He's ''extremely'' camp, has [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace no concept of personal space]] and offers the Doctor [[WeCanRuleTogether a half-share in the universe]]. Fast forward to Season 8, where we are introduced to [[TheMaster a new regular villain]] who's an evil, megalomaniac Time Lord, dresses in a dark Nehru jacket, wears a Beard of Evil and— oh, you get the point. {{Fanon}} has even identified them as the same character.
* Ernst Stavro [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] has been an enduring influence on the Master; what with the Nehru jackets, the kitty-stroking in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", the elaborate deaths for unwary henchmen, etc.
* Harry Sullivan is supposed to be a parody of Literature/BulldogDrummond, according to Creator/TerranceDicks. So was Duggan from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]" later on.
* Jack Harkness has a number of similarities to one of the Eighth Doctor's ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic-strip companions, Fey Truscott-Sade, who like him is a morally-ambiguous secret agent with ExtremeOmnisexual tendencies, who flirts with the Doctor a lot. The only major difference is that Fey is female, although very gender-ambiguous.
* [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: The Hosts, robotic angels who serve as the villain's {{mook}}s, look and act a great deal like the antagonists of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]].
* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]: Antagonist Miss Foster shares more than a few traits with ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' villain Miss Wormwood.
* Companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams share quite more than a few traits with Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]", a story Creator/StevenMoffat wrote before taking over as the head writer.
* Lumpy the brain-damaged "good" Time War Dalek in the BBC online game ''The Doctor and the Dalek'' is a clear expy of Rusty the brain-damaged "good" Dalek from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek Into the Dalek]]".
* [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]]: The Ghost is clearly based on ComicBook/{{Superman}} with many of the same powers, ClarkKenting using glasses, and pining for a reporter, who has no idea the bumbling ordinary guy is the masked superhero. Even the origin of his powers is similar. Supes gets his abilities from a yellow sun, while Grant has accidentally swallowed a wish-fulfilling gem made inside a star. And he loved ''Superman'' comics as a kid, so the powers he manifested make sense.
* The Twelfth Doctor's companions in Series 10. Bill Potts, a working-class London girl associated with chips, is similar to the Ninth/Tenth Doctor companion Rose (her name even has some similarities to the name of Rose's actress, Billie Piper). Nardole, a PluckyComicRelief, [[MinoredInAssKicking secretly hyper-competent]] ServileSnarker who is the Doctor's best friend despite being the more minor character, fulfils similar function to the iconic Fourth/Tenth Doctor companion K-9. This was all part of RevisitingTheRoots.
* Graham O'Brien is a soft-spoken working class man in late middle age who has his perspective expanded by travelling with the Doctor. These traits are all shared with Rory's father Brian, also created by Creator/ChrisChibnall.
