The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) episode is a blue-and-silver model as first seen in 1963. Clara, upon deducing the Doctor's location and intent, says "Do not go gentle into that good night", the first line of the titular poem by Dylan Thomas. When the Doctor spies Clara and Missy, he plays the opening notes to Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman". The Doctor's playing electric guitar and teaching medieval people the term "dude" echoes the movies "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", films featuring two rocker teens who travel back in time – in a telephone call box – and teach
The Gentle Vultures order someone else to do so. Unable to solve this dilemma, the Hurrians are forced to return home, plagued by the visions of humans conquering space. Algis Budrys said that the "gentle story, told by a gentle man" was "not quite enough. For the reader is very liable to say: 'True. Too True. Now what?'". The Gentle Vultures "The Gentle Vultures" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the December 1957 issue of "Super-Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the 1959 collection "Nine Tomorrows". The story is one of a number