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From: dub@pur-phy.UUCP (Dwight U. Bartholomew)
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Subject: Re: The Doctors auto
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 16:45:38 EST
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   Each of the incarnations of the Doctor has particular fancies.
Tom Baker's Doctor had the scarf and other clothes.  (For all of
the Doctors, their clothes have been different and tend to be their
trade-marks.)  
	Many Doctors have "things" as trademarks also.  The 2nd
Doctor used to always carry around a wooden flute (it has another
name, i know) and the 3rd Doctor came up with the sonic screwdriver
(that Tom Baker's Doctor continued to use .)
Jon Pertwee (#3) also had Bessy, his modified turn-of-the-century
car.  I just loved the way that at the flip of a switch Bessy would
go into overdrive and pass the Brigedear's jeep.  In Jon Pertwee's
last episode, "Planet of Spiders", we even see another of the Doctor's
tinkerings, a futuristic flying car.  When Tom Baker took over, the
producers, I gather, most have thought that if the Doctor was going
to be galavanting across the universe, he couldn't be constantly
dragging Bessy around and so Bessy no longer appeared in the shows.
	With Peter Davidson's Doctor (#5), we see him put on new
clothes (exit the scarf, although I recall that it was often being
ripped up or burned apart in Baker episodes so it may yet return,
we can only hope), chuck the sonic screwdriver and pick up
a cricket club.
	I really have no idea of what the first Doctor had for
trademarks.  Anybody have any ideas?

			D. Bartholomew