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>>Should I be glad I don't get it?
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>It's relatively trivial. The Doctor was confined to Earth for a few
>seasons, and UNIT created the identity of "Dr. John Smith" for him.

That's not actually what Bob was referring to - he was making a reference to Doctor Zachary Smith, the cowardly, sniveling villain of the piece in Lost in Space (whose catchphrase was "oh, the pain") - but it's true that "Dr. John Smith" is a long-standing alias of the Doctor's. (It's also the name he used when he was hiding out as a 20th-century human schoolteacher in the 2007 two-parter "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".)

The middle initial used here, of course, is because "J" is the tenth letter of the modern Basic Latin alphabet.

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