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The "Men in Black",[source needed] also stylised as "The Men In Black", (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).) was a supposed organisation that existed as part of a conspiracy theory by the 20th and 21st centuries.

There existed a film titled Men in Black (AUDIO: Fire and Ice [+]John Dorney, Between Two Worlds (UNIT: Nemesis, Big Finish Productions, 2021).) which starred Will Smith. (TV: The Vault of Secrets [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).) Furthermore, according to this account and several others, the Men in Black were androids utilised by the Alliance of Shades to prevent humanity from learning that aliens existed. (TV: Dreamland [+]Phil Ford, Doctor Who Animated Special 2009 (BBC Red Button, 2009)., The Vault of Secrets [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).)

History[]

In London, in early June 1953, the Tenth Doctor rhetorically questioned the presence of the men in black after an individual was kidnapped and the car in which they were transported seemingly disappeared, adding that "this is Churchill's England, not Stalin's Russia. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)

The day following the Slitheen's unsuccessful attempt to plung Earth into nuclear war on 6-7 March 2006, (TV: Aliens of London [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005)./World War Three [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) Mickey referred to UNIT as "The Men In Black", among other names, when revealing to the readers of his website the existence of UNIT's website. (PROSE: Hoax This! [+]BBC webteam, Who is Doctor Who? (BBC, 2005).)

In 2022, UNIT agent Miller, when interrogating Cleo Proctor, Abby McPhail, and Shawna Thompson, asked them if they were "just playing at Men in Black". (AUDIO: Interrogation [+]Sasha Sienna, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022).)

Behind the scenes[]

  • According to an article about the Silence on the BBC's website, the appearance of the Silence was "a ghoulish mixture of the figure in Munch's The Scream and creatures from urban mythology known as 'men in black'."[1]

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