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Homework was work assigned to students to complete away from classes and lectures. It could also refer to pre-planning work ahead of a situation or event. (TV: Boom Town [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)

In Farringham in November 1913, Hutchinson similarly forced Tim Latimer to do his homework for him. (TV: Human Nature)

Susan Foreman's poor homework in 1963 was part of the reasoning behind Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton following her home to 76 Totter's Lane. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Anthony Coburn, adapted from The Pilot Episode (Anthony Coburn), Doctor Who season 1 (BBC tv, 1963).)

In the 1970s when the Master visited Farrel Autoplastics Rex Farrel praised his research of their operations commenting that he'd "done your homework". (TV: Terror of the Autons [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 8 (BBC1, 1971).)

While rambling to Dorium Maldovar (albeit only his head) about how time never affected him, the Eleventh Doctor claimed he could help a young Rose Tyler with her homework. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

In 2005, Sally Sparrow wrote an essay about her Christmas holiday and her conversation with the Ninth Doctor, who already had read the finished essay, through a video cassette recorded in 1985. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow)

In 2007 Victor Kennedy set homework for LINDA to use the Torchwood files to investigate the Doctor. (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)

In the early 21st century, Janie used Graphon Narmolis, disguised as a pencil, to write her homework on the Solar System. (COMIC: Pencil Pusher)

In the early 21st century, the Twelfth Doctor helped Evie Hubbard, a Year Seven student at Coal Hill School, with her homework, which was to write an "imaginary" interview with Winston Churchill. The Doctor had cheated, and the interview he helped with wasn't imaginary. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)

In 2023 Donna Noble chastised her daughter Rose Noble that she should be doing her homework, not operating her business selling toys. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One, 2023).)

On Gallifrey, Anzor forced the young First Doctor to do his navigational homework. (AUDIO: Mission to Magnus)

On Mechanus, musing on utilising the Dalek's time machine to return to Earth one of the things Ian Chesterton thought of that he missed was ink-stained homework. (PROSE: The Chase [+]John Peel, adapted from The Chase (Terry Nation), Target novelisations (Target Books, 1989).)

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