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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
The episode was where the people were trapped in the Library
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The owner of The Library - or at least his descendant - was a fat faced man with a dimpled chin. That was Steve Pemberton, one of my favourite actors/ writers/ crushes. Just so you know.
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus
I've never seen Dr. Who. How does it compare to Spaced?
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Originally Posted by DanaC
...The people who made Spaced were very influenced by Who (Pegg's a huge fan and has played in quite a few Doctor Who audios).
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Edgar Wright (Director of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is also a huge Who fan. At the time Spaced was written/ broadcast, we were still in a Who desert. Therefore there are far more references to Star Wars - Tim was supposed to be an obsessive but not completely a geek. Or at least not such a hopeless geek that he revered a programme that had burnt out (during the first series of course - second series addressed the new trilogy of Star Wars).
Had Dr Who not been on hiatus during Spaced I'm sure there would have been more references. But as Dani says, they are horses of a completely different colour.
The League of Gentlemen (shoehorned in again) for example were all fans (Pemberton is a Gent) but never referenced it. Mark Gatiss has written Dr Who novels, episodes and appeared in one (as Professor Lazurus) but still, in a series heavy on film and TV references from their childhoods, there was no Who. But if you listen to their commentaries (esp the guest commentary on The Blood on Satan's Claw which makes me laugh even now) you can tell what a big fans Gatiss and Dyson are.