"The Idiot's Lantern" is the seventh episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast...

the 2006 Doctor Who, episode "The Idiot's Lantern" and featured as a racist taxi driver in The Football Factory (2004). Foreman played Basta in the 2008...

cathode-ray tube used on most TVs until the advent of flat-screen TVs. Another slang term for the TV is "idiot box." Facsimile transmission systems for...

played "Sean the Irish bastard" (1983), and Bergerac (1988), Sharpe (1994) and Doctor Who, "The Idiot's Lantern" (2006). He was in the BBC's The Complete...

/ "The Age of Steel", Rory Jennings, Margaret John, and Maureen Lipman in "The Idiot's Lantern", Claire Rushbrook in "The Impossible Planet" / "The Satan...

Inspector Bishop in the Doctor Who episode "The Idiot's Lantern." His face can be found on one of the Trading Cards in the Doctor Who - Battles in Time Exterminator...

remained for the first two serials of season 4. The Second Doctor featured for the remainder of the season from the third serial, The Power of the Daleks....

Standing in the Dark album. It was used as the opening line in the film The Others. In the Doctor Who episode "The Idiot's Lantern", the malign alien...

villain, The Wire, in the 2006 series of Doctor Who in the episode entitled "The Idiot's Lantern". She has also appeared on Just a Minute, The News Quiz...

Dixon in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 27 July to 7 September 2007. Jennings was born in London, England. He has been acting since the age of 10...

Cybermen" and "The Idiot's Lantern" as a basic DVD with no special features. It was also released in the complete series 2 box set and the Doctor Who Cybermen...

Gillett is an English actress who has appeared in productions including The Witches, Chimera, Truckers, Casualty, Just William, Dalziel and Pascoe, Spooks...

First Lady, The Troubleshooters, Softly, Softly, The Mike Yarwood Show, Doomwatch, Blake's 7, Secret Army, Lovejoy, My Family, High Hopes, The District Nurse...

each other before: "The Idiot's Lantern" mentions Minogue as a real person; and Baker, a fan of Doctor Who, included aspects of the classic series in Minogue's...

for the 2005 revival of the show. His first, "The Unquiet Dead," was the third episode of the revived series in 2005; the second, "The Idiot's Lantern,"...

which debuted in "The Idiot's Lantern" and recurs throughout the revival series, is shown as the shop where Bill watches one of the Doctor's broadcasts...

Kingdom. Archive footage of the original BBC series was shown on a television set in the 2006 Doctor Who story "The Idiot's Lantern". Muffin was invited to...

throughout the series (unstyled in "The Christmas Invasion", a 1950s-style quiff in "The Idiot's Lantern", and flattened forwards in "The Runaway Bride"...

human (Terror of the Zygons, Genesis of the Daleks, "Aliens of London", "The Christmas Invasion", "The Idiot's Lantern", "Evolution of the Daleks" and spin-off...

"The Impossible Planet" is the eighth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast...

"The Idiot's Lantern" (2006) is set in Muswell Hill, during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. The Madness song "Driving in My Car" includes the...

carrying the torch. Comparing the episode to "The Idiot's Lantern" in terms of plot, he felt that the latter was "far more entertaining" and that "Fear...

construct. In the 2006 episode of Doctor Who entitled The Idiot’s Lantern, the Tenth Doctor beats the episode’s main enemy and entraps her for all eternity...

in the episode "The Idiot's Lantern". The name often appears on electronic equipment throughout the series, such as Martha Jones' television in "The Sound...

in "The Idiot's Lantern" (2006). Graham Leaman appeared previously as the Controller in The Macra Terror (1967) and later as a Time Lord in The Three...

in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations It has been incorporated and sampled by many artists and musicians; for instance, in the episode "The Idiot's Lantern"...

"The Idiot's Lantern". The episode also continues the story arc of the crack pattern, where it appears at the end of the episode on the side of the Starship...

was better than Gatiss' previous episodes "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Victory of the Daleks". He praised the guest cast, but wished "their characters had...

moved at a fast pace and the plot was similar to "The Idiot's Lantern" (2006) but was "very well done". She especially praised the chemistry between Smith...

it the sixth most watched programme of the week.[citation needed] This episode was released together with "The Age of Steel" and "The Idiot's Lantern" as...