Queen Elizabeth II In Sci-Fi

Doctor Who

“The Idiot’s Lantern”

Right at the start of her reign, aliens were causing trouble for Queen Lizzy 2. Taking advantage of that newfangled telly contraption, and a nation’s desire to see the first televised Coronation in 1953, an energy-based creature called The Wire possesses the airwaves and sucks viewers’ faces off.

The Queen doesn’t have a speaking part, but she’s there, in stock footage form, taken from that historic live broadcast.