Tie in Websites

The Doctor · Tie in Websites

Well apparently there are going to be dozens of them and there are quite a few already. You remember those numbers last year which everyone thought were really important and turned out to be a red herring. Well they are appearing again on some of the sites. red herring or otherwise?

Deako

Der Martin

Doctor, Can you remind us of which numbers they were/are exactly?

thx

Deako

The Doctor

Yep sorry

23 6 801

Deako

I still don't have a clue what this is about! Confused

The Doctor

No, it wasn't widespread its just if you look caqrefully in s1 eps u can see them.

Deako

Ah right! Its like Bad Wolf except they are only red herrings! I get it now! Very Happy

The Doctor

Adding fuel to the Bad Wolf speculations were the numbers 23, 6 and 801, noticed in the "Whospy" behind-the-scenes galleries on the BBC Doctor Who website. The numbers appeared at on the sign at a bus stop, a Psalm board in a church (Father's Day) as well as in Dr Constantine's diary (The Empty Child). It also appears on the Geocomtex website as their phone number. Various theories also surrounded this, ranging from a clue to the Bad Wolf 801 seconds into Part Six of Season 23 (no such clue existed) to a date and time to be referenced (23 June at 8.01 pm, although no such reference was ultimately made). As finally revealed on the BBC website, it was a mistake on the Psalm board — there is no 801st Psalm — that the production team decided to turn into a small running joke to misdirect fans.[1]

However, when the Millingdale Organic Ice Cream website was produced claiming that an ice cream shop was opened on June 23, 1981 (23/6/81 in the British calendar), it was speculated that a further significance would be attatched to the figures. In addition, Cheapserve, a fictional web host created by the BBC contained a hidden file at http://www.cheapserve.co.uk/members/236801.

The Deffry Vale School website gives the buses travelling through the area as 333, 23, 06, 801. The Deffry Vale website also contains the bus numbers in one of is images as well as having the numbers scrawled across the playground in another.