Monday 2 November 2009

Smoking Jackets and Inverness Cape Index

Having gone through The Third Doctor’s entire wardrobe season by season, I thought it would be a good idea to break it down by the two main garments: smoking jackets and inverness capes, listing where they appeared.
This gives a quick reference to which were worn the most.
Velvet Smoking Jackets
Midnight blue, rolled collar
Spearhead From Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
Terror of the Autons
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Sea Devils


Maroon, rolled collar
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
The Daemons
Day of the Daleks





Rust Red, notched collar
The Curse of Peladon
The Time Monster
The Three Doctors
Planet of the Spiders







Bottle-green, notched collar
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
Planet Of The Daleks
The Green Death
The Time Warrior




Purple, double-breasted, notched collar
Planet of the Daleks









Petrol blue,
revered red-piped lapels
The Green Death
Death to the Daleks


also worn in cover shot of Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special



Aquamarine-blue,
notched collar

Invasion of the Dinosaurs








Emerald-green, notched collar
The Monster of Peladon










Charcol-black, notched collar
Planet of the Spiders








Inverness Capes
Black, red silk-lined
Spearhead From Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
Terror of the Autons
The Claws of Axos
Colony in Space
The Sea Devils


Black, purple silk-lined
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
The Daemons
Day of the Daleks
The Mutants




Black, blue silk-lined
The Three Doctors











Red-Green Tartan
The Curse of Peladon
The Time Monster
The Green Death
(Planet of the Spiders as prop)

also worn in cover shot of Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special



Brown, burnt orange silk-lined
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space








Grey checked, mid-blue lining
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
(Planet of the Spiders as prop)








6 comments:

  1. I love your blog -- used to do the Third Doctor dress-up bit at conventions in the 1980s and 1990s! :-D

    The only addition I would make is that Pertwee also wears the black Inverness cloak with purple lining in "The Mutants" too.

    Cheers, JohnH

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  2. Very useful resource. One omission, in The Mutants the Doctor wears the Maroon, rolled collar jacket.

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  3. @skiprat
    Ooops.
    Thanks for pointing that out - I'll put that right.

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  4. Hi Steve, this is indeed a superb resource and very well researched indeed!
    I'd query one detail: Is the red lined cape seen in "The Sea Devils" the same one used in Jon's first and second series?
    The version seen in the Sea Devils had four frog fastening and not buttons. In addition, the red lining now extends into the lapels. The Doctor Who experience states that the cape displayed (red-lined, with the four 'five-leaf' pattern frog fastenings) was used on screen and there is no evidence that it ever had buttons.
    It would seem an unnecessary expense to go to the trouble of re-lining the cape and replacing the front panels with frog fastenings.
    Regards
    Tony

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  5. Also, in between the Day of the Daleks and the Mutants, the purple lined cape appears to grow shorter and somewhere in between the Daemons and the Mutants, the frog fastenings on the purple-lined cape change from a three-leaf to a five-leaf pattern.
    Regards
    Tony

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  6. Rusted red, notched collar is my all-time fav.;)

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