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Colin Baker's iPad homescreen

The homescreen of Colin Baker's iPad, reading "12:02 Tuesday 18 June". (WC: The Trial)

Tuesday was a day of the week.

Opinions[]

According to the Fourth Doctor, "Nobody does anything of importance on a Tuesday." (PROSE: The English Way of Death) The Eleventh Doctor, similarly, listed Tuesdays in his list of "boring stuff", along with Sundays and Thursday afternoons. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) When the Fourth Doctor informed his other incarnations that the Earth was facing "the greatest peril in its history", the Fifth Doctor asked if it was Tuesday, to which the Seventh Doctor concurred that it "sound[ed] like a Tuesday". (WC: Doctors Assemble!)

History[]

The Eleventh Doctor once arrived at a newly-formed Earth on a Tuesday "around six billion years ago." (TV: Hide)

Susan Foreman, while attending Coal Hill School in March 1963, had physical education on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and was forced to wear plimsolls. (PROSE: Time and Relative)

The Doctor, in his first incarnation, met his first human companions, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, on a Tuesday in November 1963. (TV: An Unearthly Child)

Geoff Cliff met the Ninth Doctor in an HMV on a Tuesday in early 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)

The members of LINDA met in basement unit 4b beneath the old library on Maccateer Street on Tuesdays. (TV: Tardisode 10) Victor Kennedy took over LINDA and absorbed Bliss on a Tuesday night in March 2007. (TV: Love & Monsters)

Richard Lazarus demonstrated his hypersonic soundwave manipulator on a Tuesday, two days prior to the 2008 United Kingdom general election. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac)

The newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor planned to take Rose Tyler to the planet Barcelona on 6PM of a Tuesday in October 5006, his previous incarnation having told her that she would've "love[d] it" immediately prior to his regeneration. However, he cancelled this to take her back home to the Powell Estate on Christmas Eve 2006. (TV: Born Again)

According to Colin Baker's iPad, his trial over a parking fine occurred at roughly 12:02 on Tuesday, 18 June. (WC: The Trial)

The arrival of Chief Nagata's team on Le Verrier after it had gone silent was on a Tuesday in the 38th century. The Twelfth Doctor detected the day of the week by taste. (TV: Sleep No More)

Cultural trends[]

Pancake Tuesday, as evidenced by its name, always took place on a Tuesday. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten)

Sunset Strip, a market visited frequently by gang members, was most busy on Tuesdays. (COMIC: Gangster's Paradise)

Other references[]

The Rolling Stones wrote a song named "Ruby Tuesday." (AUDIO: The Dark Husband)

Behind the scenes[]

Episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures typically aired in the UK on Mondays and Tuesdays.

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