The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin was a series which featured Tintin. One book in the series was Explorers on the Moon. (WC: Untitled 3 ^[+]Loading...["Untitled 3 (2021 Paul Magrs webcast)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cast and crew connections[[edit] | [edit source]]

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• Andrew Cartmel, Doctor Who's script editor for seasons 24, 25 and 26. described his aspiration for his period of Doctor Who as to make it a cross between Tintin, the Quatermass serials and the Marx Brothers.
• Steven Moffat wrote the script for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, first of a trilogy of films based on the adventures of Tintin, which was released in 2011 and directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, featured the voices of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones, Daniel Mays, and Tony Curran. Several media outlets, and Moffat himself, (THWR 100) reported that Moffat had turned down an opportunity for further work with Spielberg on the project to serve as executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who.
• Thomas Sangster was to appear as Tintin in The Secret of the Unicorn, but left filming after a major delay.

Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Adventures of Tintin is the series from which Tintin, Archibald Haddock, Milou, and the Moon Rocket. It was created by Hergé.
• The name of Tintin's dog, about whom Owen makes his unsavory insinuations in A Day in the Death ^[+]Loading...["A Day in the Death (TV story)"], is Milou in the comics — although the official English translations rename him "Snowy".
• Although there has never been an official crossover between Doctor Who and any incarnation of The Adventures of Tintin, the iconic Moon Rocket used in the diptych Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon made a cameo in the background of one panel for the multi-Doctor comic story The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic ^[+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"], from 1991.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Adventures of Tintin at the Tintin Wiki