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1 D avid Campbell provides the resistance with a box of apples apparently looted from a department store and Barbara helps hand them out. 2 I n Episode 2 Pike says, “The choicest apples, top of the barrel, innkeeper?” ³ General Cutler assures the crew of Zeus 4 that he will get them b ack to Earth safely, “sure as God made little apples.” (He doesn’t.) ⁴ Jamie and Lieutenant Carstairs eat apples in Episode Seven. ⁵ Stuart Hyde thinks his research grant will be withdrawn and he’ll lose his fellowship, “As sure as God made little green apples.” ⁶ The Doctor w arns Jo that her apple lacks protein. ⁷ The Doctor has an apple core in his waistcoat pocket in Part Three. ⁸ The Doctor gives Leela an a pple, to throw not to eat. ⁹ The Doctor claims, falsely, that the tracer with which he locates segments of the Key to Time can “peel your a pples.” 1 0 The Doctor claims to have dropped an apple on the head of Isaac Newton before explaining the theory of gravity to him over dinner. 1 1 The Doctor thinks the Megara should offer him a last toffee apple before his execution. 1 2 Bigon offers the Doctor and his c ompanions a simple vegetarian meal of citrus fruits, apples, nut, avocado pears and grape juice. 1 3 On Deva Loka, aka Planet S14, Tegan drops apples on Aris. 1 4 Tegan recalls dropping apples on Aris’ head. 1 5 The Second Doctor has an apple in his pocket (and a catapult, bag of s weets and Galactic Glitter firework). 1 6 In Part One Peri eats an apple, from which the Doctor takes a bite. 1 7 The Doctor is given an apple w hich Mel repeatedly stops him from eating. 1 8 The year 5,000,000,000 is also known as the “5.5/apple/26”. 1 9 The titular child is distracted b y an apple falling to the floor. 2 0 Jackie Tyler’s friend Howard keeps an apple in his dressing gown for when he gets hungry in his sleep. 2 1 “Apple Grass” grows on planet New Earth in the galaxy M87 in the year 5,000,000,023; Cassandra-Rose refers to the “Apple and pears”, m eaning stairs. 2 2 In the year 5,000,000,053, Cheen knows that the air of New Earth smells of Apple Grass. 2 3 Apples are mentioned in the s ong My Angel Put the Devil in Me, which plays in the alien bar where Captain Jack Harkness sees the Tenth Doctor for the last time. 2 4 The newly regenerated Doctor craves apples but finds they taste disgusting; Tabetha Pond cut faces into apples so that her daughter A melia would eat them. 2 5 Mandy Tanner lives at 54a, Apple Sesame Block, Deck 207, Starship UK. 2 6 The Doctor helps himself to an apple from a bowl in the “hotel”. 2 7 The Doctor wrongly deduces from Simeon’s collar stud that he has “an apple tree and a wife with a limp”. 2 8 The Doctor bites into an apple then, suspicious, scans it with the sonic. 2 9 The Doctor’s UNIT security visa number is “710 apple 00”, a nd he later gives an apple to Bennett when he demonstrates the co-ordinates of Orion’s Belt. 3 0 Among the things the Doctor teaches Bill Potts is “linking apple and alpha”. 3 1 A bowl of apples is seen on a table. 3 2 The Doctor gives Alit an apple to throw at the Cybermen. 3 3 The Doctor goes apple-bobbing in the opening scene.

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