Colin Baker?

[Nerdius Maximus]

Okay, I watched my first Colin Baker episode, "Timelash." WTF is up with his outfit? It's ridiculous to the point of distraction. Way goofier than John Pertwee's Austin Powers getup. And while we're on the subject, why does Peter Davison have a celery stalk pinned to his jacket?

 

[The Nightmare Doctor]

The Technicolor Dreamcoat is part of The Sixth Doctor's erratic personality (at least, that's how I've always looked at it). I actually don't mind it all that much at this point. It's just another side of The Doctor's eccentricity.

As for the celery stalk, that's answered in The Caves of Androzani, The Fifth Doctor's final story.

 

[Shawnster]

Actually, Colin Baker was my favorite Doctor until the most latest two.

I've not seen any of Davison or McCoy's episodes though.

 

[Captain Pike]

Okay, I watched my first Colin Baker episode, "Timelash." WTF is up with his outfit?

JNT

 

[The]

I think this gives a much rounder explanation to Colin Baker's Doctor, and coat, from the man himself.

Also, Timelash? That's not exactly the story I would have started out with. Not one of the best, really. Vengeance on Varos, Mark of the Rani, both are out for DVD, and I'd suggest either over Timelash...

 

[Rarewolf]

I've just got his action figure - only reached the shelves 22 years late... still better late than never However its the yellow trousers that stand out more than the coat to me.

 

[matthunter]

And while we're on the subject, why does Peter Davison have a celery stalk pinned to his jacket?

That particular incarnation is allergic to certain gasses in the Praxis range. If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.

More worrying is the fact that the Doctor's celery shouldn't actually exist - he takes one piece from Castrovalva, a world built entirely from Adric's mind, and later replaces it with one from the Eternals' ship in Enlightenment, which is similarly illusory!

 

[diankra]

Okay, I watched my first Colin Baker episode, "Timelash." WTF is up with his outfit? It's ridiculous to the point of distraction. Way goofier than John Pertwee's Austin Powers getup. And while we're on the subject, why does Peter Davison have a celery stalk pinned to his jacket?

Onscreen explanation: the Doctor picked it out while he was still delirious post-regeneration, and this particular incarnation is too insecure (which he over-compensates for with apparent arrogance) to admit it's a disastrous blunder.

Offscreen explanation: The then producer wanted an outfit that shouted "I'm alien, with different values and tastes to you," (but which just happened to echo his own taste for garish shirts...), and also made the Doctor this bright, shining beacon of hope and fun amid the gloomy dark corridors where evil lurked (this didn't work, because the TV cameras could only cope with a limited range of colour contrast, so if the Doctor's costume was bright and garish, the sets had to be bright and garish too).

 

[Tomalak]

Way goofier than John Pertwee's Austin Powers getup.

That was cool in the seventies! Supposedly when Pertwee got the part, he turned up with the coat and cape combo which had been his Edwardian grandfather's. The first two Doctors had both worn dated Victorian-style outfits, so Pertwee was just following on from that.

 

[Winterwind]

And it's hardly an Austin Powers get up when Pertwee came first.

As for Colin's outfit... first, I don't mind it. It's just another example of the Doctor's eccentricity and the onscreen reason for hosing it is good enough.

I felt more sorry for Sylvester and that hideous sweater JNT made him wear. Poor guy. And just when he'd finally convinced JNT to let him ditch the sweater for the next season... the show was canceled.

 

[ClayinCA]

I agree completely, but Sylvester's Season 26 brown jacket did look a little better. I just wish he could have had his TV Movie costume in the series - he looked great in that.

 

[Tomalak]

In a way, I thought the jumper wasn't as bad as the lapels. I could just about accept that McCoy's eccentric professor type might find a funny jumper in a charity shop and proceed to wear it. Even though it was covered in question marks, it was at the same time more subtle. The lapels just made it look like a superhero's costume, like he was the Riddler or something. They almost work on Colin's costume, as obviously there are far greater crimes, but they ruined Davison's otherwise good outfit.

 

[The Nightmare Doctor]

That's funny because I'm the reverse. I don't mind the lapels (I kind of them, actually), but it's the jumper that I think was a bit too much.

 

[Stevil2001]

And while we're on the subject, why does Peter Davison have a celery stalk pinned to his jacket?

That particular incarnation is allergic to certain gasses in the Praxis range. If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.

In the audio drama Omega, the Doctor claims that waving celery around is a good way to test for dimensional instability-- if it changes into a pineapple, he knows he's in trouble.

"What do you do then?"
"Eat the celery."

 

[Marc]

And while we're on the subject, why does Peter Davison have a celery stalk pinned to his jacket?

That particular incarnation is allergic to certain gasses in the Praxis range. If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.

In the audio drama Omega, the Doctor claims that waving celery around is a good way to test for dimensional instability-- if it changes into a pineapple, he knows he's in trouble.

"What do you do then?"
"Eat the celery."

Gas detecting, detection of dimensional instability and good for his teeth - who knew that celery was that good

As for Colin Baker he describes his ideal costume for the 6th Doctor as the one "Christopher Bloody Ecclestone" got but it came in handy for keeping Nicola Bryant warm between takes.

Also watched some of the other videos on youtube - Sophie Aldred his holding up well in her 40s and looks good with the hair colour.

 

[ClayinCA]

As for Colin Baker he describes his ideal costume for the 6th Doctor as the one "Christopher Bloody Eccleston" got

Fixed the spelling of Eccleston's last name for you.

And it's funny that Colin Baker says that about Eccleston's costume, 'cos McGann says virtually the same thing in the interviews on the latest Big Finish Eighth Doctor CD, The Vengeance of Morbius. Only McGann ups the ante, to include Eccleston' hair style as also being the one Paul wanted!

 

[The]

Like so...

 

[Worf2DS9]

^ What's that McGann pic from, by the way? It almost looks Doctor Who-ish, perhaps holding an alien crystalline entity inside a bland "futuristic" laboratory set.

 

[Tomalak]

Looks like it's from a convention or something, inside a TARDIS set.

 

[The]

^ What's that McGann pic from, by the way? It almost looks Doctor Who-ish, perhaps holding an alien crystalline entity inside a bland "futuristic" laboratory set.

I think Tomalak is right. I remember seeing it in a DWMonthly, and I'd bet the pic was taken at a Who exhibit or convention.

And the "bland futuristic laboratory set" is a facsimile of the original TARDIS interior, as seen below...

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