The Eurovision Song Contest was an annual competition held among the nations of Europe.
Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. The Thirteenth Doctor suggested visiting Vienna in that year to see Eurovision. (PROSE: The Good Doctor)
Martha Jones and the Tenth Doctor visited the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki and watched performances from Scooch and the Slovenian entry. A few weeks later, they watched Lulu win Eurovision Song Contest 1969 on their television. (PROSE: Martha Jones' MySpace blog)
Jack Harkness remembered when ABBA won Eurovision (AUDIO: The Dead Line) in 1974, with Nardole in attendance. (AUDIO: Dead Media) The Fifteenth Doctor told Belinda Chandra that he was also in attendance. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Juno Dawson, Doctor Who series 15 (BBC One and Disney+, 2025).)
In an alternate timeline in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had been made immortal, the composer had made several Eurovision entries, none of which were looked on favourably. (AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang)
Belinda Chandra was allowed to stay up late every year as a kid to watch the contest with her parents and vote on the winners. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Juno Dawson, Doctor Who series 15 (BBC One and Disney+, 2025).)
By 2925, there was the galaxy-wide Interstellar Song Contest based off of Eurovision with Rylan Clark being kept in stasis to act as the host every year. The contest in 2925 was the 803rd. However, the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda discovered from a hologram of Graham Norton that it was based on memories of the human race sieved from the rubble of Earth which had been destroyed on 24 May, 2025. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Juno Dawson, Doctor Who series 15 (BBC One and Disney+, 2025).)
Behind the scenes[]
Eurovision pastiche in the DWU[]
The Intergalactic Song Contest and its commentator Logan from AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom! spoofed the Eurovision Song Contest Terry Wogan, who commentated the contest from 1971 to 2008.
Doctor Who postponements[]
The Eurovision Song Contest was responsible for the one-week delay of two different episodes of the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who. The transmission of series 3's 42 was postponed to 19 May (rather than 12 May) because of the BBC's broadcast of the 2007 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The following year, the transmission of series 4's Silence in the Library was too delayed by one week due to the BBC's broadcast of the 2008 edition.
Coexistence with Eurovision[]
However, a more common occurrence is a Doctor Who episode simply airing on the day and coexisting with the Eurovision final rather than being delayed by a week.
- Marco Polo: Rider from Shang-Tu aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.
- The Web Planet: The Centre aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1965.
- The Ark: The Steel Sky aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1966.
- The Faceless Ones: Episode 1 aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1967.
- Fury from the Deep: Episode 4 aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1968.
- The Space Pirates: Episode Four aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1969.
- The Ambassadors of Death: Episode 1 aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1970.
- The Claws of Axos: Episode Four aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1971.
- The Sea Devils: Episode Five aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1972.
- Planet of the Daleks: Episode One aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1973.
- The Monster of Peladon: Part Three aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1974.
- Genesis of the Daleks: Part Three aired on the same night as the Eurovision Song Contest 1975.
- The Empty Child aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.
- The Age of Steel aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
- Cold Blood aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
- The Doctor's Wife aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.
- The Name of the Doctor aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.
- Oxygen aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
- Space Babies and The Devil's Chord aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
- The Interstellar Song Contest aired on the same night as the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
"Nul points"[]
The Ninth Doctor says "nul points", a phrase used when a Eurovision act is unfortunate enough to receive no points, when the Daleks fail to kill him when they fire at him as he steps out of his TARDIS to meet them in TV: The Parting of the Ways, due to the force field he installed. However, the phrase's connection to the Eurovision Song Contest is not explicitly mentioned within the episode.
Other matters[]
Catherine Tate announced the 12 points given by the United Kingdom for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, exclaiming "allons-y" whilst doing so. Ncuti Gatwa was originally slated to announce the points for the United Kingdom in the 2025 contest, but was replaced by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||