The most memorable for me was Susan in An Unearthly Child saying that the UK doesn't use the decimal system yet, 8 years before the UK decide to use the decimal system
Yes, I watched as a 7 year old, completely unaware that as a teenager I would be trying to teach my gran that 5p = 1/- I think the writer was inspired to add the line, because Australia announced it was scrapping £sd for A$ at the time of the broadcast
Decimalisation was talked about in the commons in the late 50's, so it isn't hard to add that to a script. I'm pretty sure it was once voted on but didn't get enough votes to move further. But a year or 2 later and the vote came up again.
@@timgorg1919The decimal system is a system of numbers where place values are determined by powers of 10. For example, 1s place, 10s place, 100s place and 1000s place are 10^0, 10^1, 10^2, & 10^3. Other numerical systems are binary (powers of two) and hexadecimal (powers of 16).
At least two from the classic series : 1) "An Unearthly Child" : Susan mentions the (future) decimalization of the British Pound. 2) "The Tenth Planet" : A spaceship with a black astronaut is lost, twenty years before the Challenger disaster.
same! But also (I already posted a comment about it) The prediction of the internet itself was done in Season 3, the the last serial "War Machines". Someone invented a WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) (That part I had to google) There, it was also suspected that multiple war computers could connect to others and form some kind of "network" That was 1966. ARPAnet (the predecessor of the now all knowing internet) went "live" in 1969
@@bernds6587 Two other ones from the same episode : What are "The Keys of Marinus, if not USB keys, some 20 years before their invention ? And one can't help but draw parallels with Blake's 7 with the use of teleportation bracelets. Of course, it helps that Terry Nation was responsible for both this episode and that series.
@@gerardmorvan2232 The keys are "just" placed together, and I don't remember some interface where actual data is stored? And when a fake key was added, it explodes. I don't have exploding USB devices though Admittedly I haven't seen that episode in a while..
One of my favorite "future" moments was in The Invasion in 1968. In the first episode, the Second Doctor calls up a business trying to speak to their head engineer. Unfortunately, he reaches a completely automated telephone answering service! The Doctor shouts "Oh, shut up, you stupid machine!" and slams down the phone.
@TheWesterlyWarlock I hate when I phone up a receptionist to a doctor or a council or to a phone company that they make you wait for well over 30 minutes, god that's bloody annoying because you are either gonna get terrible music to listen to or good music to listen to whilst you wait an eternity to reach someone
From the classic series, in Inferno the Third Doctor invented the car box door remote. And also, in Attack of the Cybermen, the Cryons communicated via a device that looked uncannily like a smartphone.
The "Madame" line was certainly not an ad lib. There was intense debate within the BBC about whether they would be allowed to transmit the line as written, as it would imply the BBC expected one party to win over the other in the next election -- which would go against their non-partisan status. The line was only okayed when both Labour and Conservative ended up with female frontrunners, levelling the playing field and keeping the BBC neutral.
Before I even clicked into this I was hoping you’d bring up city of death 😂 the doctor also clowns on AI art/art made by computers in that episode LMFAO
I have to add to number 5: That serial was quite funny, when they deactivated these worm-like metallic things, the doc says: "seems like they had a metal..breakdown". He got me there! And two things to actually add: The prediction of the internet itself was also done in Season 3, the last serial "War Machines". Someone invented a WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) (That part I had to google) There, it was also suspected that multiple war computers could connect to others and form some kind of "network" That was 1966. ARPAnet (the predecessor of the now all knowing internet) went "live" in 1969 Also, in the very first serial in the first season Susan wonders, why UK doesn't use decimals in terms of coinage. This hints towards she informed herself about the "wrong" time, or they landed a few years too early. That was 1963. UK had its decimal day 8 (!) years later in 1971.
Doctor Who Confidential was meant for all the kids who didn't want to hide behind their sofas, but wanted to understand how a TV show was created for almost 100 episodes we got our imaginations involved in the making of this amazing show.
@@itsalwaysoniontime Because many no longer exist. "Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons-lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights.[1] As a result, 97 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3, 4 and 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters." (Per Wikipedia)
Once BBC 2 started it seemed inevitable that more would follow, although it took several decades. BBC 4's main focus is documentaries, more like the Whoniverse's BBC 3.
What about the War Machines? In that story WOTAN was a computer linked to, and able to communicate with other computers throughout the world. Internet anybody?
I mean, it's obvious that the UNIT adventures take place in the 1980s. The Abominable Snowmen takes place in 1935; The Web Of Fear takes place in 1975 (Professor Travis mentions to his daughter that it's been *40* years since he's met the Doctor, and this was the first appearance of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart; The Invasion takes place in 1979, because Alistair, now the Brigadier, mentions that he's met the Doctor four years back; So, since Spearhead From Space, the UNIT stories take place in the beginning of 1980s.
@@FreeTheDonbas yeah but they were smaller than the Bluetooth ones at the time, a bit like inbetween what we had then and what we have now, I was also thinking the names are similar, plus these days with virtual assistants you can control your phone using your voice, back then all you could do was phone calls.
I don't think it's a prediction, because Air Pods clearly drew direct influence from Doctor Who's ear pods. That creepy dystopian "cyborg" design is unmistakeble.
The 3rd Doctor made an incredibly accurate prediction in 1993 in the "Dimensions In Time" special. He told Noel Edmonds he'd just returned from the year 2010 and Noel was still on television then. Quite amazing because very few TV presenters from 1993 were still on TV in 2010. But Noel did enjoy continued success and was in the height of his Deal or No Deal success in 2010.
City of Death also takes its premise from an urban legend about the time the Mona Lisa really did get stolen in 1911. The actual thief, a handyman at the Louvre, kept the masterpiece hidden in his apartment, only getting caught 2 years later when he finally attempted to sell it to an art dealer. Then in the 1930s there spread a story in the newspapers that a master con man was claiming to have hired the original thief in the first place, and bragged that he used the 2 years of the Mona Lisa's absence to sell 6 forgeries of the Mona Lisa in black market deals, convincing the buyers it was the real deal. The forgery story has never been proved, and more than likely totally made up. 😀But it was such a brilliant criminal mastermind style of an idea, the Mona Lisa forgeries concept got regularly recycled into books and tv. I remember Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes series had Moriarty using the whole concept for his latest crime in The Final Problem.
In the 1980s we had a TV with BBC3, BBC4, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 buttons (but no channel 4 button... And no remote) It must have been made before 1982 (hence no C4 button) and had buttons 'futureproofing' for channels yet to be started. Being an analogue TV each button was tuned to a channel (or at least 4 of them were anyway). When we got a VCR a 5th button was tuned to that... I'm feeling very old typing this...
That episode where you had best be smiling and happy or the robots would kill you, is a PERFECT prediction of the insane correct thinking or else you destroy your life online. It isn't robots, it's people doing it. The episode was titled SMILE
The first one is a bit of a reach - suggesting the inclusion of a then already popular TV quiz show is predicting it's future reboot. You might as well say that An Unearthly Child accidentally predicts Doctor Who because it features a titular character called the Doctor who travels in time and space in a blue police box that is bigger on the inside than the outside - which is the exact same premise as the currently popular sci fi show (and even has the exact same name).
One thing in the annual of the Whoinverse we've seen come true is 3-dimensional printing in an early episode of Doctor Who there's a machine that a scientist created a silver dice which in turn became a power source for a ship when explained it uses silicon imprints of gold wiring that becomes a solar battery. The scientist addressed it as a 3D print of copper into a program to the Doctor and this was 30 years before 3D printing was created. And nothing in Doctor Who is something we all use to let us into cars today the remote key unlocker for cars but there is something the Doctor used to start Bessie was a remote control for her and late in The Who Mobile as well though that was in a comic. I know it's not a key but the 8th Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver first to start Bessie in Battle Front and another. And if memories sure didn't the 9th used the sonic to start a few things as well so technically the sonic has been around since the second doctor.
Yes I remember William Hartnell's Dr Who. Susan came home from school having done badly at her homework. She had forgotten that decimalisation hadn't happened yet🤦
What'ya mean "accidentally?" It's a time travel show, of course they know about the future! It's just that they have to couch their revelations so people don't get suspicious, Jeez.
I wish in the power of three there was a reference to the 10th doctor holding the Olympic torch. Maybe have a scene where whilst the doctor is doing his activities we see 10 on the TV running with the torch
Great video! I always find it quite freaky how doctor who sort of predicted the covid 19 virus in the series 3 episode Gridlock. In the episode the inhabitants of the planet New Earth have taken to using mood patches to enhance their moods to allow them to feel a particular way. For example happy, sad, anger and forget. One of the mood patches that got slightly out of hand was called Bliss. It created a virus which spread and killed every living creature on the surface of the planet in seven minutes flat, leaving the remaining members of the population trapped underneath the motorway for 24 years until the doctor and the face of boe saved them. Scary! 😂😊
In the Jon Pertwee story "Doctor Who and The Silurians" (someone screwed up with that title) a chatacter gets infected with a new, highly infectious and deadly disease. Another character gets infected but leaves before everyone gets quarantined, which results in the disease spreading all over London and quickly reaching France. Everyone is being given antibiotics while the Doctor is doing his best to find a proper cure. Well, everyone except this one douchebag who refuses, because he has decided that the epidemic is just a conspiracy and therefore nonexistent. So, basically an anti-vaxxer. And of course he gets infected and dies. The craziest part about this is that the story was broadcast between January 31st and March 14, 1970. That's pretty much exactly 50 years before the time when the pandemic was really ramping up.
Speaking as one of the people who attended the opening of the 2012 Olympics, I'm quite glad that part did not turn out to be a prediction! Although no one anticipated the Queen parachuting from a helicopter!
Even if the 11th Doctor's actor was doing the torch run in real life, so guess Doctor Who predicted a Doctor running with the torch, just not the actor that played that incarnation shown in the episode Fear Her
In The Mutants there's a bit where Geoffrey Palmer's Administrator is giving a speech and refers to a "Strong and stable system of government", thereby predicting a bland Tory election slogan by a good 45 years
Perhaps all the youth content from our BBC3 is included in Doctor Who's BBC1 and BBC2? After all, those channels will have less of their own content, since they cannot feature Doctor Who, or possibly any shows with Doctor Who actors.
@@Scripture-Man You say that, but Doctor Who was on TV in Remembrance of the Daleks, as an actual show within the universe. And actors show up in various roles multiple times, so its not out of the question their characters have dopplegangers who are actors on TV.
John Cleese in Doctor Who? Well, you learn somert new every day! And the irony is, of course, is that that is what BBC4 actually is today and hey, I loved Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps! Got it on DVD at a car boot sale! And Pluto is a planet! Change my mind!
I asked ChatGPT what it thought of "The Ice Warriors". It didn't like it... ;-P Other computer-ruled societies: The Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave"... Star Trek-TOS: "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon"...
Guess the Doctors actors were allowed to bring ideas on what their character should eat that goes well with the actor, it's the same with clothing since I read that Tennant was the one to pick out his out outfit that his two incarnations should wear
Great compilation! 😊Although you have the opposite with Big Finishes Stranded 🤣 Fabulous series but who could have forseen planning stranding the Doctor in 2020 would need a bit of tweaking after a global pandemic broke out after recording 😮
Sometimes, shows just get it right. (Anyone else remember the February 12, 1968 episode of "Laugh In" that talked about what President Reagan would be doing in 1988? People laughed at the very idea that Ronald Reagan would be president.)
You mean like how The Simpsons has predicted pretty much everything that has happened years after the episodes first aired, even Family Guy has predicted things that end up happening
Is the Brig referring to Thatcher or Shirley Williams? After all, the SDP thought they were the coming thing in the 1980s. A bit like when things splintered after Brexit.
quick question. how can you "accidently" predict something? i understand the concept of accidently, kevlar, for instance, was a happy accident. microwave cookers were again an accident. but if you predict something, how can that possibly be an accident if it just happens to come true?
In "Genesis of the Daleks"(1975), the 4th Doctor said that the first Dalek invasion of Earth occurred in the year 2000. Hmmmm... must've missed that invasion... oops... ;-)
How is that predicting the future when the weakest link was currently on air when the episode came out. Now if the weakest link already went off the air let’s say around 2001, 4 years before the episode came out, and then it came back in 2021, then yeah, that would have been a prediction of it coming back. But not if it was currently on the air when the episode aired, that’s more like a satire of current events.
Dear Member of Parliament, please note that I no longer require the assistance of the Military Police as there was indeed a mention of Mycotic Protein. Most Pleasing!
I mean maybe she said it right since even though the word is spelt the same, it can be spoken differently, it's the same with tomato vs tomato, AT-AT vs AT-AT and GIF vs GIF either way there will be arguments on how it's supposed to be said
Apparently the VHS for some reason (you can tell because it still has some scratches on it). Not sure why they apparently had no copies of the DVD available, I must say.
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The most memorable for me was Susan in An Unearthly Child saying that the UK doesn't use the decimal system yet, 8 years before the UK decide to use the decimal system
Yes, I watched as a 7 year old, completely unaware that as a teenager I would be trying to teach my gran that 5p = 1/-
I think the writer was inspired to add the line, because Australia announced it was scrapping £sd for A$ at the time of the broadcast
Just what I was going to say! 😄
Decimalisation was talked about in the commons in the late 50's, so it isn't hard to add that to a script. I'm pretty sure it was once voted on but didn't get enough votes to move further. But a year or 2 later and the vote came up again.
I'm not from UK, and English isn't my native language. What is the decimal system?
@@timgorg1919The decimal system is a system of numbers where place values are determined by powers of 10. For example, 1s place, 10s place, 100s place and 1000s place are 10^0, 10^1, 10^2, & 10^3.
Other numerical systems are binary (powers of two) and hexadecimal (powers of 16).
The doctor carrying the torch at the Olympics is less a prediction and more of a self fulfilling prophecy.
this.
I still would have let David carry it, since he already knew how to use it.. I guess.
yeah! it happened because they knew people wanted to see it
At least two from the classic series : 1) "An Unearthly Child" : Susan mentions the (future) decimalization of the British Pound. 2) "The Tenth Planet" : A spaceship with a black astronaut is lost, twenty years before the Challenger disaster.
I expected to see "An Unearthly Child" too!
same! But also (I already posted a comment about it)
The prediction of the internet itself was done in Season 3, the the last serial "War Machines".
Someone invented a WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) (That part I had to google)
There, it was also suspected that multiple war computers could connect to others and form some kind of "network"
That was 1966.
ARPAnet (the predecessor of the now all knowing internet) went "live" in 1969
@@bernds6587 problem is the Darpanet is after the UK National Physics Laboratory paper in 1965 for a national commercial data packet switching.
@@bernds6587 Two other ones from the same episode : What are "The Keys of Marinus, if not USB keys, some 20 years before their invention ? And one can't help but draw parallels with Blake's 7 with the use of teleportation bracelets. Of course, it helps that Terry Nation was responsible for both this episode and that series.
@@gerardmorvan2232 The keys are "just" placed together, and I don't remember some interface where actual data is stored? And when a fake key was added, it explodes. I don't have exploding USB devices though
Admittedly I haven't seen that episode in a while..
One of my favorite "future" moments was in The Invasion in 1968. In the first episode, the Second Doctor calls up a business trying to speak to their head engineer. Unfortunately, he reaches a completely automated telephone answering service! The Doctor shouts "Oh, shut up, you stupid machine!" and slams down the phone.
Amazing how this one hits not only the prediction that phone services would be automated but also our reactions to them!
lots of chat about micro-monolithic circuits in Invasion - what we now call (silicon) chips! Also Zoe 'hacking' the receptionist!!!
@TheWesterlyWarlock I hate when I phone up a receptionist to a doctor or a council or to a phone company that they make you wait for well over 30 minutes, god that's bloody annoying because you are either gonna get terrible music to listen to or good music to listen to whilst you wait an eternity to reach someone
The predictions in these comments are better than the ones in the video.
From the classic series, in Inferno the Third Doctor invented the car box door remote. And also, in Attack of the Cybermen, the Cryons communicated via a device that looked uncannily like a smartphone.
All the predictions in these comments are way better than the ones in the actual video!
The "Madame" line was certainly not an ad lib. There was intense debate within the BBC about whether they would be allowed to transmit the line as written, as it would imply the BBC expected one party to win over the other in the next election -- which would go against their non-partisan status. The line was only okayed when both Labour and Conservative ended up with female frontrunners, levelling the playing field and keeping the BBC neutral.
BBC? Non partisan? LMAO!!!!
If that's true then how is this a "prediction"? What did the show predict that wasn't known at the time?
Looking back at gridlock it's actually quite similar to the 2020 lockdown
Before I even clicked into this I was hoping you’d bring up city of death 😂 the doctor also clowns on AI art/art made by computers in that episode LMFAO
I have to add to number 5:
That serial was quite funny, when they deactivated these worm-like metallic things, the doc says: "seems like they had a metal..breakdown". He got me there!
And two things to actually add:
The prediction of the internet itself was also done in Season 3, the last serial "War Machines".
Someone invented a WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) (That part I had to google)
There, it was also suspected that multiple war computers could connect to others and form some kind of "network"
That was 1966.
ARPAnet (the predecessor of the now all knowing internet) went "live" in 1969
Also, in the very first serial in the first season Susan wonders, why UK doesn't use decimals in terms of coinage. This hints towards she informed herself about the "wrong" time, or they landed a few years too early.
That was 1963. UK had its decimal day 8 (!) years later in 1971.
Doctor Who Confidential was meant for all the kids who didn't want to hide behind their sofas, but wanted to understand how a TV show was created for almost 100 episodes we got our imaginations involved in the making of this amazing show.
I don’t understand why BBC Three doesn’t re-air episodes, or why it was axed.
@@itsalwaysoniontime Because many no longer exist. "Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons-lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights.[1] As a result, 97 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3, 4 and 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters." (Per Wikipedia)
@@jad43701 Ahh yes
I'm stunned that ice volcanoes have turned out to be a thing! I've always held it up as an example of ridiculous "science" in Doctor Who!
They're all over the outer solar system
Thanks Ellie, in the Ice Warriors yes the dangers of over reliance of technology but does show what could be seen as smartwatches and MS Teams/zoom.
Once BBC 2 started it seemed inevitable that more would follow, although it took several decades. BBC 4's main focus is documentaries, more like the Whoniverse's BBC 3.
What about the War Machines? In that story WOTAN was a computer linked to, and able to communicate with other computers throughout the world. Internet anybody?
Good one!
I suppose with 1000's of futuristic events, statistically some have to come true.
I never noticed the reference to sinking the Belgrano.
Although it appears that was actually the correct move.
If you think about it number 7 made two predictions BBC3 and the TV show time team. A series dedicated to archaeology
I mean, it's obvious that the UNIT adventures take place in the 1980s.
The Abominable Snowmen takes place in 1935;
The Web Of Fear takes place in 1975 (Professor Travis mentions to his daughter that it's been *40* years since he's met the Doctor, and this was the first appearance of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart;
The Invasion takes place in 1979, because Alistair, now the Brigadier, mentions that he's met the Doctor four years back;
So, since Spearhead From Space, the UNIT stories take place in the beginning of 1980s.
For years, I've considered "Vengeance on Varos" to be a prediction of where Reality TV could head if we're not careful.
Thanks Ellie!
5:22 Did you just call the Governor of Varos a 'production assistant'?
But I seriously doubt the 6th doctor would have encouraged carrots...
In Rise of the Cybermen, there was the ear pods, 10 years later Apple released the air pods
the ear pods were more similar to bluetooth, which was all the rage at the time.
@@FreeTheDonbas yeah but they were smaller than the Bluetooth ones at the time, a bit like inbetween what we had then and what we have now, I was also thinking the names are similar, plus these days with virtual assistants you can control your phone using your voice, back then all you could do was phone calls.
I don't think it's a prediction, because Air Pods clearly drew direct influence from Doctor Who's ear pods. That creepy dystopian "cyborg" design is unmistakeble.
The 3rd Doctor made an incredibly accurate prediction in 1993 in the "Dimensions In Time" special. He told Noel Edmonds he'd just returned from the year 2010 and Noel was still on television then. Quite amazing because very few TV presenters from 1993 were still on TV in 2010. But Noel did enjoy continued success and was in the height of his Deal or No Deal success in 2010.
Absolutely brilliant as always keep it up 😊😊🎉
City of Death also takes its premise from an urban legend about the time the Mona Lisa really did get stolen in 1911. The actual thief, a handyman at the Louvre, kept the masterpiece hidden in his apartment, only getting caught 2 years later when he finally attempted to sell it to an art dealer.
Then in the 1930s there spread a story in the newspapers that a master con man was claiming to have hired the original thief in the first place, and bragged that he used the 2 years of the Mona Lisa's absence to sell 6 forgeries of the Mona Lisa in black market deals, convincing the buyers it was the real deal. The forgery story has never been proved, and more than likely totally made up. 😀But it was such a brilliant criminal mastermind style of an idea, the Mona Lisa forgeries concept got regularly recycled into books and tv.
I remember Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes series had Moriarty using the whole concept for his latest crime in The Final Problem.
In the classic episode the chase Vicky who came from the future talk about a beatles museum in Liverpool.
These are all SO GOOD, better than the predictions in the video!
In the 1980s we had a TV with BBC3, BBC4, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 buttons (but no channel 4 button... And no remote) It must have been made before 1982 (hence no C4 button) and had buttons 'futureproofing' for channels yet to be started.
Being an analogue TV each button was tuned to a channel (or at least 4 of them were anyway). When we got a VCR a 5th button was tuned to that...
I'm feeling very old typing this...
Wait that was a thing back then?
Live archaeology on TV sounds a lot like Time Team.
Ice can be molten. It's called "water".
Super underrated comment.
That episode where you had best be smiling and happy or the robots would kill you, is a PERFECT prediction of the insane correct thinking or else you destroy your life online. It isn't robots, it's people doing it. The episode was titled SMILE
I remember it being discovered that what was thought to be a tenth planet was actually a moon of Pluto.
lmao the picture you used of thatcher was Meryl Streep
Great list!! Thanks for sharing
The first one is a bit of a reach - suggesting the inclusion of a then already popular TV quiz show is predicting it's future reboot. You might as well say that An Unearthly Child accidentally predicts Doctor Who because it features a titular character called the Doctor who travels in time and space in a blue police box that is bigger on the inside than the outside - which is the exact same premise as the currently popular sci fi show (and even has the exact same name).
or the doctor carrying the olympic flame. That's more of a self fulfilling prophecy.
One thing in the annual of the Whoinverse we've seen come true is 3-dimensional printing in an early episode of Doctor Who there's a machine that a scientist created a silver dice which in turn became a power source for a ship when explained it uses silicon imprints of gold wiring that becomes a solar battery. The scientist addressed it as a 3D print of copper into a program to the Doctor and this was 30 years before 3D printing was created. And nothing in Doctor Who is something we all use to let us into cars today the remote key unlocker for cars but there is something the Doctor used to start Bessie was a remote control for her and late in The Who Mobile as well though that was in a comic. I know it's not a key but the 8th Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver first to start Bessie in Battle Front and another. And if memories sure didn't the 9th used the sonic to start a few things as well so technically the sonic has been around since the second doctor.
Yes I remember William Hartnell's Dr Who. Susan came home from school having done badly at her homework. She had forgotten that decimalisation hadn't happened yet🤦
What'ya mean "accidentally?" It's a time travel show, of course they know about the future! It's just that they have to couch their revelations so people don't get suspicious, Jeez.
I wish in the power of three there was a reference to the 10th doctor holding the Olympic torch. Maybe have a scene where whilst the doctor is doing his activities we see 10 on the TV running with the torch
Great video! I always find it quite freaky how doctor who sort of predicted the covid 19 virus in the series 3 episode Gridlock. In the episode the inhabitants of the planet New Earth have taken to using mood patches to enhance their moods to allow them to feel a particular way. For example happy, sad, anger and forget. One of the mood patches that got slightly out of hand was called Bliss. It created a virus which spread and killed every living creature on the surface of the planet in seven minutes flat, leaving the remaining members of the population trapped underneath the motorway for 24 years until the doctor and the face of boe saved them. Scary! 😂😊
In the Jon Pertwee story "Doctor Who and The Silurians" (someone screwed up with that title) a chatacter gets infected with a new, highly infectious and deadly disease. Another character gets infected but leaves before everyone gets quarantined, which results in the disease spreading all over London and quickly reaching France. Everyone is being given antibiotics while the Doctor is doing his best to find a proper cure. Well, everyone except this one douchebag who refuses, because he has decided that the epidemic is just a conspiracy and therefore nonexistent. So, basically an anti-vaxxer. And of course he gets infected and dies.
The craziest part about this is that the story was broadcast between January 31st and March 14, 1970. That's pretty much exactly 50 years before the time when the pandemic was really ramping up.
@@jokkemursula8731 It made it very eerie when I was watching it weekly *for* its 50th anniversary; I’ll tell you that for nothing!
Speaking as one of the people who attended the opening of the 2012 Olympics, I'm quite glad that part did not turn out to be a prediction! Although no one anticipated the Queen parachuting from a helicopter!
Even if the 11th Doctor's actor was doing the torch run in real life, so guess Doctor Who predicted a Doctor running with the torch, just not the actor that played that incarnation shown in the episode Fear Her
The one about The Weakest Link could also include how the US has their own The Weakest Link game show
In The Mutants there's a bit where Geoffrey Palmer's Administrator is giving a speech and refers to a "Strong and stable system of government", thereby predicting a bland Tory election slogan by a good 45 years
When trance humanism starts turning people into Cybermen, I guess we can say they predicted that too.
Oh so Doctor Whos BBC3 is in reality, BBC4
Perhaps all the youth content from our BBC3 is included in Doctor Who's BBC1 and BBC2? After all, those channels will have less of their own content, since they cannot feature Doctor Who, or possibly any shows with Doctor Who actors.
@@Scripture-Man You say that, but Doctor Who was on TV in Remembrance of the Daleks, as an actual show within the universe.
And actors show up in various roles multiple times, so its not out of the question their characters have dopplegangers who are actors on TV.
You are great ellie
Mose of these are REALLY stretching it. You really have to think hard to connect Jagaroth's scheme to NFTs.
"Another celestial body in our galaxy"? There are only 100 billion stars in that . . .
You should do a top 10 list where it’s Doctor who predicting Doctor who’s future
All my tokens are non-fungible. My doctor gave me some medicated powder for them... ;-P
John Cleese in Doctor Who? Well, you learn somert new every day! And the irony is, of course, is that that is what BBC4 actually is today and hey, I loved Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps! Got it on DVD at a car boot sale!
And Pluto is a planet! Change my mind!
Quorn was invented during WW2 so predated Dr Who by decades so not a prediction
Loved two pints of lager and a packet of crisps and being human and The Mighty Boosh
I asked ChatGPT what it thought of "The Ice Warriors". It didn't like it... ;-P
Other computer-ruled societies:
The Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave"...
Star Trek-TOS: "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon"...
Each regeneration has different diets, 9 liked Steak and chips in boom town, and the meat with the children in The Empty Child
Guess the Doctors actors were allowed to bring ideas on what their character should eat that goes well with the actor, it's the same with clothing since I read that Tennant was the one to pick out his out outfit that his two incarnations should wear
Great compilation! 😊Although you have the opposite with Big Finishes Stranded 🤣 Fabulous series but who could have forseen planning stranding the Doctor in 2020 would need a bit of tweaking after a global pandemic broke out after recording 😮
Well, even a rloken clock's right twice a day.
Whenever I watch a Cybermen episode, I ask myself how an invasion of Cybermen isn't going to happen in real life in the future.
I never thought about the NFT thing before. Wow.
Sometimes, shows just get it right. (Anyone else remember the February 12, 1968 episode of "Laugh In" that talked about what President Reagan would be doing in 1988? People laughed at the very idea that Ronald Reagan would be president.)
"Of course the president would have to be an actor, he needs to look good on television!" - Doc Brown.
You mean like how The Simpsons has predicted pretty much everything that has happened years after the episodes first aired, even Family Guy has predicted things that end up happening
Anne Robinson also hosted the original US version of The Weakest Link
Really, I though it was that actress who played a character from Glee that is hosting a US version of The Weakest Link
@@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay There was a US version before Glee existed
Always another enjoyable video ❤
ok im disappointed that i didn't notice it was matt smith carrying the torch in 2012 until just now
Is the Brig referring to Thatcher or Shirley Williams? After all, the SDP thought they were the coming thing in the 1980s. A bit like when things splintered after Brexit.
Oh man, I'd forgotten John Cleese's appearance in that Tom Baker episode!
The Doctor: "Don't ya think she looks tired...?"
Uh... "if ice can be molten."? Uh... what is water, Alex? ;-P
The wisdom of any BBC executive decision is automatically called into question nowadays... ;-P
The very first one also predicted Big Brother's return
Amusing and always lovely to see you... but some of these make tenuous links feel like gospel truth.
quick question. how can you "accidently" predict something? i understand the concept of accidently, kevlar, for instance, was a happy accident. microwave cookers were again an accident. but if you predict something, how can that possibly be an accident if it just happens to come true?
So doctor who became the Simpsons favourite thing to do by predicting the future I see.
Thx Ellie, great job.
It was amazing when Doctor Who predicted that everybody in the audience of the 2012 Olympics would spontaneously disappear.
Did they predict the same with the 2020 Olympics?
“Just in time for RTD’s return” coincidence? I think not!
In "Genesis of the Daleks"(1975), the 4th Doctor said that the first Dalek invasion of Earth occurred in the year 2000. Hmmmm... must've missed that invasion... oops... ;-)
Doctor who and the Silurians predicting 2020
How is that predicting the future when the weakest link was currently on air when the episode came out. Now if the weakest link already went off the air let’s say around 2001, 4 years before the episode came out, and then it came back in 2021, then yeah, that would have been a prediction of it coming back. But not if it was currently on the air when the episode aired, that’s more like a satire of current events.
Thanks for the video, Ellie.
If Qorn isn't on this list, I'm writing to my M.P.!
Dear Member of Parliament, please note that I no longer require the assistance of the Military Police as there was indeed a mention of Mycotic Protein. Most Pleasing!
It kind of is. I mean, it's mentioned.
@@GabePuratekuta Absolutely - I've withdrawn my formal complaint!
"Who said Nation was a lazy writer"
Says no one ever.
What about the internet in the War Machines?
I mean, The Doctor IS a time lord-
If you ever do more predictions, you could include Series 1 episode Dalek predicting the 2012 US Presidential election going to a Democrat.
I wouldn’t say that they were all predictions because someone could have saw it and just copied it
The War Machines predicted The Rise of AI and The Use of EMP weaponary.
The Matrix too if you will, The War in Ukraine (FLUX episode 2)
Isn't molten ice just water?
didnt they predict airpods and facetime in age of steel
You mean the episode set on Parallel Earth?
@@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay yes!
"deadlier robot version" Still sounds like Anne Robinson.
3:01 John Cleese in Doctor Who??? OK, sure, why not? But I wasn't aware he ever was on this show.
It was only for that scene, though. He and a woman were discussing what the TARDIS symbolized as they thought it was an art installation.
He was in a cameo in City of Death. I'm italian, but that much I know.
@@GabePuratekutaIt was not just "a woman", it was Eleanor Bron.
@@sabrinatirabassi3529 Joke's on me for forgetting her name, huh.
you've never seen City of Death?
What about waters of mars?
Some of these are a little bit of a stretch but still a great video
They killed BBC3 because In the Flesh was too good
'accidently'
I was sure I read once that an ‘80s episode of Doctor Who had featured a Queen Diana Spencer, but now I can’t find any record of it.
Because it never actually happened.
You said Xena wrong Ellie!
I mean maybe she said it right since even though the word is spelt the same, it can be spoken differently, it's the same with tomato vs tomato, AT-AT vs AT-AT and GIF vs GIF either way there will be arguments on how it's supposed to be said
@@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay ALL of those are the same except tomato!
@DMSProduktions how so?
@@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay Well HOW DO you pronounce your other examples?
@@DMSProduktions that would be hard because everyone says those words differently even though they are spelt the same
Solar system, not galaxy. There are a lot more than ten planets in our galaxy. NFTs are a "current craze"? How long ago was this video made?
The female PM referenced in Terror of the Zygons was supposed to be Shirley Williams, not Margaret Thatcher.
The Anne Droid is about the most groan worthy pun that Doctor Who ever created
But too obvious to miss out. I thought it was brilliant!
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Where did you find the footage of the tenth planet from?
Apparently the VHS for some reason (you can tell because it still has some scratches on it). Not sure why they apparently had no copies of the DVD available, I must say.