David Attenborough was an English broadcaster known for his nature programmes.
He frequently collaborated with Jo and Clifford Jones, one such series they worked together on was Attenborough in the Amazon, where in the first episode they documented the vegetation of the Borneo Basin. In the third episode, Jo and Cliff did not appear, but instead was accompanied by the BBC Natural History Film-Making Unit when he visited Darkest Peru "off the beaten track" from the Amazon. Topics such as whether a lost civilisation was actually visited by "flying-saucer people" and if Attenborough befriended a cockatoo. (PROSE: Greyhound [+]James Goss and Steve Tribe, The Doctor: His Lives and Times.)
Ace compared a visit to the Great Rift Valley to being an extra in a David Attenborough programme. (PROSE: Prelude Birthright [+]Nigel Robinson, 1993.)
On Janus Prime, when the Eighth Doctor pointed out how easily a Janusian moved about the ruins, Sam Jones asked him to leave the David Attenborough bit till later. (PROSE: The Janus Conjunction [+]Trevor Baxendale, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1998).)
After a narrow escape from a tyrannosaurus rex, the Tenth Doctor apologised to Martha Jones and suggested they'd stick to watching David Attenborough in the future. (PROSE: Made of Steel [+]Terrance Dicks, Quick Reads (BBC Books, 2007).)
On Basingstoke, Amy Pond told the Eleventh Doctor that it felt weird standing in a rainforest without a David Attenborough voice-over. (COMIC: Supernature [+]Jonathan Morris, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2010).)
Tegan calls Kamelion "David Attenborough" after he explained about simian-themed attackers were only defending their territory. (AUDIO: Devil in the Mist [+]Cavan Scott, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2019).)
While the "Katy Manning" Iris thought she attended a party, Panda watched an old tape of David Attenborough, about primates. Iris had actually spent the night with Panda, drunk, and a second of an old advert that was taped over created an idea in Iris' subconscious that culminated in a non-material entity called Jimmy the Mandrill, which lured Iris and Panda to the Zona Oscura Festival to eat them. (PROSE: Party Kill Accelerator! [+]Blair Bidmead, The Panda Book of Horror (2009).)
The Master disliked David Attenborough. When reflecting on his time on Glox, the Renegade Time Lord noted that Attenborough would have loved the pink planet's diversity of lifeforms. (AUDIO: I Am The Master [+]Geoffrey Beevers, Short Trips (Big Finish Productions, 2018).)
Behind the scenes[]
David Attenborough narrated Wildlife on One for nearly three decades, from 1977 to 2005.
