Davison or Counterfeit, Truth or Rumour?

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	Following the regeneration, the Doctor's hair is brown and yet the fake Davison is blonde.
	JNT credits the real Davison as "Doctor Who" in Logopolis but cannot bring himself to do the same for the fake and so credits him simply as "The Doctor".
	The Doctor immediately heads for the "Zero Room" - the name clearly implying that there are zero genuine Doctors in the episode.
	The Zero Room later becomes a casket - the fake Davison in a casket is clearly a sign that the real thing had passed away.
	"Portreeve" is a typically JNT anagram mixed with a cunning acronym and obviously means "Peter ROEV" or "Peter Ran Out of Essential Vitality"
	The Tardis crew jettison 25% of the ship in order to escape the hydrogen in rush. Or, to put it another way, one quarter of them went away during the Big Bang. Clearly a reference to Mr Davison's unfortunate departure.
	The cricketing costume was not merely a coincidence - clearly they chose a game where two men play effectively as one to symbolise the Davison name and image combining with his lookalike's body.
	The philosophical discussion of "if" places great emphasis on I.F. as separeate letters. This is obviously meant to signify Intercourse Fatality which was Mr Davison's tragic means of demise.
	The Doctor refers at the very end to a "shipshape" team. Much of a ship is under the water just as a very important part of the Tardis crew was actually underground.
	The scene where the Doctor finds a bottle marked "the solution" and comments that he wishes it was is a direct reference to John Nathan Turner briefly turning to drink after Davison's death and his subsequent orders to hush the whole thing up.
	Tegan saying the words "enormous thrust" with such emphasis do not need any explanation.
	The Doctor floating in the Zero Room is a metaphor for Davison floating up to heaven.
	The BBC video cover for Castrovalva blatantly features several different Peter Davisons

Four to Doomsday

The message of this story is "people aren't always what they look like" and it was the first to be recorded after Mr Davison's replacement.

"I would never interfere with your monopticons" says the fake Davison, the script implying this isn't the Doctor because the Doctor always interferes with things.

The name "Bigon" sounds like bygone which is a thing that is in the past, just like Peter Davison.

The Doctor has a magnifying glass which is a tool used by television detectives when they are looking for clues. This was a deliberate clue that people should look in the story for clues.

The Aborigine thinks the ship is going to heaven. This is a deliberate reference to Peter Davison having lived a good and sin-free life.

Monarch is clearly intended to be the autocratic JNT and he says clearly "We need doubt" which was Nathan Turner's attitude to the Davison cover up.

Many uses of the word "Recreational" draws our attention to it. It is blatantly a twisting of L.A. Recreation or Late Artiste Recreation which is a BBC-ish term for smuggling a lookalike into studio to replace a dead actor.

The Doctor floating in space is obviously meant to signify Peter Davison floating about in the heavens.

The Doctor goes into a trance to save air - his furious panting near the point of death is a clear indicator.

The Doctor survives floating in space thanks to his skill and experience with cricket balls. This is clearly meant to link the Doctor being alive and balls in the mind of the viewers.

The video cover features Peter Davison's face surrounded by clouds.

Peter Davison doesn't even feature on the 1991 Target reprint. Make of that what you will.

The string is a blatant clue as string represents the three Fates of classical Greek Mythology who weave the thread of our lives and then cut it when we die.

Kinda

	The various mentions of boxes are a clear reference to coffins into which dead people are put.
	Karuna: 'How many fathers do the "not we" have?' Doctor: 'Well, on the whole, one!' The implication is clearly that it could be two where a duplicate has been hired.
	Doctor: 'An apple a day keeps the... Ah.' This joke speaks for itself and requires no explanation as it is obvious that the production team that went to so much trouble to find a replacement Doctor most certainly don't want him to keep away, apple or no apple.
	The video cover has two significant clues - firstly that the Doctor doesn't even bother to look like Peter Davison and secondly we see Tegan laughing a mocking laugh just over the "Starring Peter Davison" caption. She doesn't believe it either.
	Even the name is significant - "Doctor Who : Kinda" meaning it's kind of Doctor Who. Almost but not quite the real thing.
	JNT started the rumour that this story was written by Kate Bush as it is an anagram of "beak shut" implying the secrecy they were under.
	The two ghost people Tegan sees at the beginning of her dream talk at length about how you cannot believe something just because you see it. This scene is sandwiched, unsubtly, by two featuring the faux-Davison.
	Hindle actually says "Doctor - you don't fool me I'm afraid" but since Kinda was a parable (or something) the Powers that Be assumed it meant something deeper and more philosophical than a squalid management cover up to prevent a sleazy tabloid sex'n'death exposé.

The Visitation

	"I feel as if you've just killed an old friend" says the Doctor when the sonic screwdriver is destroyed. Those were the words allegedly spoken by JNT to Sandra Dickinson the first time he saw her after Davison passed away.
	JNT cleverly managed to disguise the presence of Death in this story by covering him with costume jewellery. BBC Management were shallow enough not to see past the glittering gems.
	The DVD cover famously had a picture of the real Peter Davison replaced by a photo of the impostor. But, being the BBC, it was done rather badly.
	The Doctor is seen to pass through a wall in the manner of a ghost.
	The Android is killed using a very sexual vibrating machine just as Peter Davison was (his, of course, answered to the name "Sandra")
	The end of episode two has the Doctor facing death and he remarks "not again". Some claim this refers to Four to Doomsday's identical cliffhanger but I believe he is empathising with JNT having to find a third lookalike were the replacement to perish.
	Eric Saward wrote a very lengthy opening sequence which did not feature the Doctor. This is clearly a subtle hint that Doctor Who could manage without the real Peter Davison.
	The director for this story was Peter Moffat, Peter Davison's real name was Peter Moffat. Imagine how confusing it would be to have two Peter Moffats in one studio. It would be bloody insanity. Luckily it never happened.
	The addition of "Pudding Lane" to the script was Nathan Turner's decision. He was, by this stage, beginning to enjoy the job of concealing the deception and "Pudding Lane" is an anagram of "Add Glen I Pun" which is a definite clue (assuming the replacement's name was Glen).

Black Orchid

	Someone pretends to be the Doctor as happened in real life.
	The story is based around a handy duplicate of Nyssa which is the important difference which enabled the storyline to get past the BBC's cover up department.
	Black is the colour of death and orchids are flowers. Flowers are closely related to both sex and funerals. Both of which occurred near the end of Peter Davison's life.
	The fact that JNT brought the rarely seen two-part story back is a definite clue which signifies the cutting short of Mr Davison's life.
	Peter Davison played Tristan in "All Creatures Great and Small" and got a reputation as being both bland and young. It is therefore no coincidence that "Black Orchid" is a phonetic spoonerism for "Lack bore kid"
	People spend a good chunk of the tale wearing masks which is a direct reference to the plastic surgery that the faux-Davison probably had before taking the job.
	The Amazon chappie has his bottom lip sticking out. This is what children do when they're really sad at the death of a pet.
	"Terence Dudley" - writer of this story - is an anagram of "celery dud teen" which implies that the Davison replacement was even younger than the original.
	Stock footage was used of steam trains from a documentary series called "God's Wonderful Railway" which has to be a reference to going to heaven which is, as previously mentioned, the saintly Mr Davison went.

Earthshock

	The Cyberleader says "This one calls himself the Doctor" instead of "This is the one called the Doctor" which obviously is intended to suggest that it is not the real Doctor.
	The black androids are clearly intended to represent mourners at a funeral and serve no real purpose in the story that couldn't be achieved with two Cybermen and a can of paint.
	Earthshock is an anagram of "cork the ash" which implies Davison was cremated, possibly during production, which is why no one has ever found his grave.
	"Peter Davison" on the Earthshock commentary says that Beryl Reid appeared on his This Is Your Life because there were so few other guests. This is not surprising as he'd only been Peter Davison for a few months and how many friends can you make in that time?
	The Doctor's speech about things that make life beautiful inexplicably includes "eating a well prepared meal" at the expense of "having sex with a pretty blonde" which we presume is because of the way Peter Davison passed away.
	The silent credits over the remains of a star are too much of a coincidence given that the real Peter Davison was a household name.
	All the women in this story are made to look either manly or frumpy to avoid "Peter Davison" becoming aroused and potentially leaving them with yet another literal stiff to dispose of.

Time-Flight

	"Kalid" is an anagram of "Dalik" which is obviously meant to imply a badly produced copy of a Doctor Who favourite.
	Concorde is the most phallic of planes so it disappearing shortly after a supersonic bang isn't the most subtle allusion to Mr Davison's expiration.
	The final scene - a woman left behind by Peter Davison - clearly replicates Sandra Dickinson's abandonment following Peter's athletic demise.
	The entire story revolves around people imagining things that aren't real and believing themselves to be doing things which are more exciting than what they are actually doing. An obvious allusion to sex during marriage which is what killed Peter Davison.
	Towards the end of one episode, Kalid tries to prevent Nyssa and Tegan reaching the end of their journey by imagining the presence of Matthew Waterhouse. A trick Peter Davison may well have tried and which could've contributed to his amazing stamina on that fatal night.
	The Master's Tardis is a large and apparently lifeless column. A miraculous power source needs to be transported to its heart in order for it to come back to life. You don't need to be Poirot to see the hidden truth in that plot point.
	"Plasmatons" is an anagram of "a.m. pant loss" which undoubtedly refers to the sudden silence which befell the bedroom in the early hours when Davison's ecstatic groans were snuffed out.
	Yet again the BBC video cover shows Peter Davison surrounded by clouds as though he art in heaven. Which no doubt is as he lead a blameless (if not entirely stainless) life.
	The Doctor programming an inhibition factor into the temporal limiter was a clear reference to JNT's wish that Peter Davison had shown more inhibitions and not undertaken the sexual odyssey that was to so limit his own temporality.