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| When Tom Baker was cast as the Doctor, costume designer James Acheson picked up a load of wool and asked a knitter called Begonia Pope to knit a scarf for Tom. She inadvertently used all the wool Acheson had given her, resulting in a scarf that was some twenty feet long. This unusual scarf was well received by the cast and crew and after being shortened slightly, it was worn by Baker beginning on "Robot." The scarf in its original form was used in "Robot" and "Sontaran Experiment," which was actually taped right after Robot. |
| About That loooooong Scarf |
| About the Dr.Who theme |
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| Hey!...Did you know........... |
| from "Ark In Space" |
| Over the course of Tom Baker's tenure as The Doctor, the scarf underwent many changes. Bits had to be cut off, holes appeared, and eventually two other scarves served their time with the time lord. |
| for a full detailed history of the scarf, and details on how to make your own copy...please visit this site: |
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| The Dr. Who theme was a landmark in the music industry...It was the first |
| time that a totally electronically produced score was employed in this capacity. Over the years, there have been several versions of the song used, variations on a theme one might say...(sorry...couldnt help myself there)....but they are all the same electronically made format, and instantly recognizable for what they are!. |
| About the first episode of Dr. Who..... |
| It is a popular myth that the first ever Doctor Who story (broadcast on 23 November 1963) was delayed by 10 minutes due to news of the assassination of US President John F Kennedy the day before. This is not the case: the first ever episode of Doctor Who WAS delayed, but only by some eighty seconds, due to the previous programme ("Grandstand") overrunning. The source of the myth seems to have originated from the fact that, due to power cuts blacking out several TV transmitters, the first ever episode of Doctor Who ("A Unearthly Child") was repeated a week later (30th November 1963) immediately before the first ever broadcast of Part 2 ("The Cave of Skulls"). |
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| William Hartnell 1963-1966 |
| About the "Lost" episodes..... |
| Entry In 1972, the BBC began a "purge" of its archives to save costs, and amongst the shows selected for disposal were all 268 black-and-white episodes of Doctor Who first broadcast between November 1963 and April 1969. Since 1978, cast, crew, and fans of the show have recovered many episodes tagged "missing believed wiped". After 25 years of effort, 109 of the 268 episodes have not been found. |
| Before the BBC committed itself to Doctor Who, a pilot episode was made in September 1963. Once approval was given for a 13-week series of Doctor Who, the pilot episode was remade as part one of the first-ever Doctor Who stories. The pilot episode was intended purely for internal use at the BBC and NOT for transmission. However,unusually, the pilot episode somehow survived on film, was located,, and was broadcast on BBC TV on 26th August 1991, as part of "The Lime Grove Story"...a series of shows commemorating the BBC's Lime Grove TV Studios, which closed in 1991. It has since been made available on Video. |
| About Dr. Who & The Beatles..... |
| Such was the popularity of Doctor Who in Britain in the mid-1960s that even THE BEATLES wanted to make an appearance in the show. So a scene was written into "The Chase" to allow them to appear. The idea had been devised of including a scene on the Time and Space Visualiser depicting a Beatles fiftieth-anniversary concert in 2015, with the Fab Four dressed up as old men. John, Paul, George, and Ringo themselves were interested in the proposition, but it was vetoed by their manager, Brian Epstein. It was then thought that an appearance by the Beatles on 'Top Of The Pops' might be used instead, but no such footage was available. Fortunately, the Beatles were scheduled to perform 'Ticket To Ride' at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith on April 10th, 1965, and that footage was used instead. |
| The original pilot episode was rediscovered in 1978 in a mislabeled film can |
| Bits - n - Pieces..... |
| When the script called for him to recite coordinates to program the TARDIS, Tom Baker would sometimes rattle off a string of digits that was actually the telephone number to the "Doctor Who" production office; no one ever caught on. |
| The word "dalek" became so familiar to British audiences in 1960s that it was added the Oxford English Dictionary. |
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| Quotable Quotes..... |
| First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again. I always like to do the unexpected, it takes people by surprise. I think you'll find, Sir, that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. Don't worry. I always leave things until the last moment. To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained. This is a situation that requires tact and finesse. Fortunately, I am blessed with both. A little gratitude wouldn't irretrievably damage my ego. Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered. Yes, yes, I know. Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Incredible power, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera. Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another. Gods don't use transceivers. You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering. You're a classic example of the inverse relationship bewteen the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. If the freighter crashes into Earth with you onboard, won't that make it rather difficult for you to carry out your task? I mean, you would be very crumpled. A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely-tuned response to the situation. The best way to find out where you are from is find out where you are going and work backwards. |
| A lot of years equals a lot of quotes. Here are just a few samples that show the doctor's wit and wisdom. |