Tales of a Timelord.

[johnnycanuck]

Has anyone ever tried to track down what hat Tom Baker wore in the Doctor Who series? Indiana Jones colour but really tall with a really wide brim.
Johnny

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

No idea, but I'd sure love to borrow his TARDIS for some hat, suit and car shopping.

 

[Cobden]

No idea, but I'd sure love to borrow his TARDIS for some hat, suit and car shopping.

You would come back to the present afterwards!? [huh]

 

[johnnycanuck]

But you have to fit it threw the door!

Car shopping in the TARDIS? What would you buy? a Mini or a bubble car? The door is not that big. For thoes of you who have no idea what I am talking about here is a link to some pictures.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/fourthdoctor/index.shtml

Johnny

 

[Matthew Dalton]

A little time with a TARDIS, it's fun to think about...

What about a Ford Model T? I know nothing about cars, but didn't they start as a kit? You could perhaps take the parts through individually?

 

[Magus]

It looks a bit like this hat from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.


http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0311429/Ss/0311429/L-73.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0311429

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Car shopping in the TARDIS? What would you buy? a Mini or a bubble car? The door is not that big. For thoes of you who have no idea what I am talking about here is a link to some pictures.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/fourthdoctor/index.shtml

Johnny

You could always disassemble it. Worth the trouble, right?!?

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I have no idea what the hat is, but I have always suspected that it was a Herbert Johnson. Once again, I have no proof.

Here is an interesting story about the scarf, if you don't know it; they wanted a multi-colored scarf for Tom Baker, so the producers went out and bought yarn and gave it to the wardrobe department. They essentially said, make a multi-colored scarf out of this yarn. So, the wardrobe department used all of the yarn and came up with the long scarf.

 

[Bargepole]

The Doctor's Hat

Don't know about the others, but the burgundy-coloured velours one is Herbert Johnson, from the days when they were in Old Burlington Street. I had just been appointed to the staff of the late and intermittently lamented "Punch" magazine in around 1982/3 and bought a burgundy velours to celebrate, then wore it down to the French Pub in Soho to show off. "Hell of a hat," said one of the regulars, T. Baker Esq; "Where did you get it?" "Herbet Johnson," I said. "Jolly good," he said, and off he trotted -- I like to believe -- to Old Burlington Street to buy one for himself. (I also have a baby-blue one, a dove-grey one, a pale fawn one and a chocolate brown, though damned if I know where the blue one is. Those were the days.)

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Don't know about the others, but the burgundy-coloured velours one is Herbert Johnson, from the days when they were in Old Burlington Street. I had just been appointed to the staff of the late and intermittently lamented "Punch" magazine in around 1982/3 and bought a burgundy velours to celebrate, then wore it down to the French Pub in Soho to show off. "Hell of a hat," said one of the regulars, T. Baker Esq; "Where did you get it?" "Herbet Johnson," I said. "Jolly good," he said, and off he trotted -- I like to believe -- to Old Burlington Street to buy one for himself. (I also have a baby-blue one, a dove-grey one, a pale fawn one and a chocolate brown, though damned if I know where the blue one is. Those were the days.)

Would you mind posting some photos, My Good Man?

 

[Sefton]

Yes, I'd also like to see some photos of those hats. I like your avatar...quite enigmatic. What's the story,if there is one?

 

[Matt Deckard]

The old Herbert Johnson Catalog makes reference to hatting Dr. Who.

 

[Bargepole]

Would you mind posting some photos, My Good Man?

Here's one: the fawn one and the dove-grey (and in the front, a Herbert Johnson black "Poet" from the 1970s, before HJ moved back to Bond Street from Old Burlington Street). Flash doesn't do it, so I'll take a couple more in the morning.

As for the avatar -- just a snap someone took down in Holborn station. No real story behind it, but I could make one up if demand existed. . .