Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Physics:dub From: dub@pur-phy.UUCP (Dwight U. Bartholomew) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: The Doctors auto Message-ID: <1231@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 16:45:38 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1231 Posted: Sun Mar 4 16:45:38 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 01:04:42 EST References: <357@t4test.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept. Lines: 27 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