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History of the Doctor Who Scarves
Welcome to my new Doctor Who Scarf site. I have redesigned the graphics, done
away with the frames format, and reorganized the information. I hope you all like it and find it a bit easier to navigate.
When Tom Baker was cast as the Doctor, costume designer James Acheson picked up a load of wool and asked a knitter called Begonia Pope to knit a scarf for Tom. She inadvertently used all the wool Acheson had given her, resulting in a scarf that was some twenty feet long. This unusual scarf was well received by the cast and crew and after being shortened slightly, it was worn by Baker beginning on "Robot." The pattern for this scarf is shown here.The scarf in its original form was used in "Robot" and "Sontaran Experiment," which was actually taped right after Robot.
In "Ark in Space" they had removed the long bluish-grey section on the bottom-left side, (presumably from damage in the wilds of Dartmoor) and the Auto-guard burned a hole in the first long tan section on the bottom-left side. In "Genesis of the Daleks" a hole in the long purple section on the bottom-right side can be seen. The scarf remained this way until "Terror of the Zygons" where the bottom-right side was chopped up to the first yellow stripe. The scarf by this point was highly stretched also. The scarf remained like this until "Masque of Mandragora" where they chopped the bottom-left side up to the first brown stripe with a row or so left of the tan and the bottom right side up to about two-thirds of the way down the first bluish-grey section. The original scarf was used in the outdoor scenes in "Masque," the indoor scenes in "Hand of Fear," and the beginning of the Matrix scenes in "Deadly Assassin."
In "the Masque of Mandragora" a new scarf was introduced which I believe was first used for the Doctor's stunt double in "Android Invasion". It was almost identical to the original as seen in "the Terror of the Zygons" but was much shorter. This scarf was used for the indoor videotaped scenes in "the Masque of Mandragora" and the outdoor filmed scenes of "the Hand of Fear" and all the following stories up until "Image of the Fendahl".
In "the Image of the Fendahl" a completely new scarf with the pattern seen here was used. This scarf was loosely based on the original but had drastically different color shades and was much wider and longer than the first two. This scarf was only used in "the Image of the Fendahl", "Underworld" and "the Invasion of Time". In the "Sunmakers" the
previous scarf was used. (I think Sunmakers must have been filmed before "the Image of the Fendahl".?)
In "the Ribos Operation" we see the original scarf as seen in "the Masque of Mandragora" (which seemed to have been shrunk dramatically) attached to the second scarf. (the first one was also missing several sections) This resulted in the longest scarf to date and was worn until
"the Leisure Hive". (it also went through further modifications in
"Shada". This pattern can be seen here
In "the Leisure Hive" a completely different scarf with a burgundy
color scheme (designed by June Hudson) was worn. The pattern for
this scarf can be found here.This was
a scarf made from "Chenille" as opposed to wool. It started out
about the same length as the season 15 scarf but in "Logopolis"
it had stretched considerably to around 22 feet! This scarf was
famously pulled apart by Peter Davison in "Castrovalva."
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