Doctor Dolittle or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. Doctor Dolittle has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. The animal team includes Polynesia (a parrot), Gub-Gub (a pig), Jip (a dog), Dab-Dab (a duck), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Too-Too (an owl), the Pushmi-pullyu, and a white mouse later named simply "Whitey". One inspiration for his character appears to be the Scottish surgeon John Hunter. "The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar
Silurian (Doctor Who) Journal of Astrobiology", in which the authors discuss the detectability of past industrial civilizations in Earth's geologic record, makes reference to the "Silurian Hypothesis" in its title. The Sea Devils also feature in an animated version of ‘Dr Poo’, a character from scattological adult comic Viz based on Tom Baker’s portrayal of Doctor Who. Silurian (Doctor Who) The Silurians are a fictional race of reptile-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The species first appeared in "Doctor Who" in the 1970 serial "Doctor Who and the Silurians", and were created by Malcolm Hulke. The first