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116 Popular Culture Review locations, all the big touristy-type settings in the background.’ (454) In addition to serving as a virtual tour of England, these iconic images also help affirm the Britishness of the series, reminding everyone where the show is rooted. Using more creative narrative devices, writers and producers have found other ways to incorporate their culture into the program. For instance, during one journey to a satellite roughly 200,000 years in the future. Doctor Who manages to use the medium of television itself to include contemporary British pop-culture in the episode. The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack land in three deadly versions of current British reality shows {Doctor Who “Bad W olf’). It is interesting to no