While his on-screen alter ego may be widely known as a time traveller, nobody anticipated that Doctor Who star Matt Smith could time travel himself! A Doctor look-a-like has been spotted in an old photo of The Beatles – and it seems to have struck a chord with showrunner Steven Moffat!
A fan tweeted the photo to The Moff, jokingly asking if Matt was a real time traveller. The showrunner retweeted the picture, before commenting on it himself.
@HolyFrell Bloody hell!!! Clearly we’re going to make that episode!! Wonder what it will be like.
— Steven Moffat (@steven_moffat) April 24, 2012
The photo is black-and-white and depicts The Beatles in their heyday with a Doctor Who doppelgänger in the bottom right hand corner. The resemblance is amazing – take a look below!
While we might not get a full-length episode based around the photo – unless The Doctor and The Beatles encounter an alien race living in a Yellow Submarine – we can imagine it being a neat little tidbit to flesh out one of the stories, much like the “waving to us from time” sequence in series six’s opening episode. Maybe he could even become the fifth member of the super group!
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