Doctor Who parodies

Many parodies of Doctor Who have appeared.

1980s

 * A 1986 installment of The Lenny Henry Show included a sketch with Henry as the Doctor, battling the Cybermen and their leader Thatchos, a Cyberman version of Margaret Thatcher, complete with bouvant hair and purse. See Lenny Henry Doctor Who Sketch.

1990s

 * "The Curse of Fatal Death," a multi-part sketch broadcast as part of the Comic Relief charity telethon in 1999, starred Rowan Atkinson as the Ninth Doctor, Richard E. Grant as the Tenth Doctor, Jim Broadbent as the Eleventh Doctor, Hugh Grant as the Twelfth Doctor, and Joanna Lumley as the final, Thirteenth, and female Doctor.

2000s

 * The 2007 series finale of Extras features Ricky Gervais as struggling actor Andy Millman playing an alien opposite David Tennant in a fictional Doctor Who episode. The finale showed a brief excerpt from the episode.