@Pedant Yes yes I know that. 🙂 But by the Pertwee series they had stopped throwing Dr Who on the bonfire. I can’t track down the story at the mo’ and don’t have time just now to trawl through all my Who books but I half recall an account of a Pertwee story getting trashed after they had essentially stopped ditching the stories, just before it…[Read more]

@davidzdep The show was made in colour but may not have been broadcast in colour, depending on where you were watching and on what TV.

Cheers

Janette

@davidZdep   Welcome to the Forum.

As @Missy suggests, your description exactly fits the third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee from 1970 to 1974.  He affected a dandified style of dress, with frilled shirt fronts, velvet jackets etc. and, during the earlier part of his run at least, he often wore a silk lined cape.  The vintage yellow car was name…[Read more]

@davidzdep: The only one I can think of, besides William Hartnell, is Jon Pertwee.

Missy