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21 April 2011 3:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Why is it that years after his death, Tricky Dicky remains a fixture of television fiction?

President Richard M Nixon (1913-94) never had a very strong grasp of popular culture – once appointing Elvis Presley as a special agent in the war against narcotics at a ceremony in which the singer was out of his skull on drugs – but, since his death, popular culture has strongly grasped the former president.

Apart from the opera (John Adams's Nixon in China) and movies (Nixon, Frost/Nixon), he has become a regular reference in TV dramas and comedies, a startling posthumous apotheosis continued this weekend when the president, played by Stuart Milligan, turns up in the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who.

In The Impossible Astronaut, the Tardis arrives at the White House in 1969, throwing the time lord into a plot involving the moon landings. The script is by Steven Moffat, »

- Mark Lawson

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