Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton was an English writer contemporary with Agatha Christie. Following the Tenth Doctor's assertion that he didn't want "PC Plod" investigating an alien criminal, Donna Noble realised the absurdity of Agatha Christie in the middle of a murder mystery. She claimed it would be like them driving across country to find that Blyton was having tea with her character Noddy. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Zack Henderson, behind his tough disguise, frequently read Blyton's books, in which he claimed fourteen-year-old spies were not unusual. Embarrassed, he claimed that he read them to his little sister. (PROSE: Time and Relative)

The Tenth Doctor tells Martha Jones that he had met once met Blyton and that she was an odd woman with unusual ears. She was the author of the Famous Five and the Secret Seven. The Doctor asserts that Annette Billingsley "ripped off" Blyton's series with her Troubleseekers series. (PROSE: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage)

Behind the scenes

 * The planet Mal Oreille with its boarding school in PROSE: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille is a reference to Blyton's  series.