Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 30

[purplecat]

Four more Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.






Barbara in Marco Polo Marco Polo was treated as a prestige project by the BBC, resulting in a lot of colour photos from the set to show off the design and costumes. The costumes are all great though I confess a fondness for Barbara's hat.




Steven in Galaxy 4 Ian is famous for his cardies and it isn't an item of clothing much associated with Steven - but here he is in very Ian-like garb. Mind you, this is only his second story and famously his lines were originally meant for Barbara, so possibly he also just got Ian's costume.




Adric in Black Orchid Adric's "cavalier" outfit is probably the least interesting of the fancy dress costumes in Black Orchid. However it's the only time he didn't appear in his customary pyjamas and so has earned a place here.




Sara in The Daleks' Masterplan Jean Marsh was well enough known to generate a lot more publicity than the equally shortly lived Katarina who preceded her. So we get quite a lot of pictures of the costume she wore. Marsh has, I believe, stated that she was contracted as a guest star not as a companion and never expected to be in more than the one story. However fandom lore has assigned her companion status.

Poll #31040 Costume Bracket: Round 1, Post 30

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Which outfit is best?

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Barbara in Marco Polo
9 (50.0%)

Steven in Galaxy 4
0 (0.0%)

Adric in Black Orchid
3 (16.7%)

Sara in the Daleks Masterplan
6 (33.3%)

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

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Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Comments

[a_cubed]

Barbara, for the hat. Looks like others also agree with me.

Nice to see colour photos from that era. Much higher resolution than the B/W screen caps that are mostly what can be found from Hartnell and Troughton stories.

[purplecat]

It's interesting that we have such a wealth of high-quality behind-the-scenes material for this story while, at the same time, it's the first one that is completely missing. Possibly a sign of how the BBC's view of the programme shifted from thinking of it as an educational balance between science and history - and so deciding to show off their historical sets and costumes - to viewing it as sci-fi entertainment for families and so seeing no value in archiving the historical stories. Though given how few episode were explicitly preserved (rather than just lucky to survive) I'm possibly reaching a bit to suggest the historicals were any more neglected than the others.

[turlough]

I love Barbara's outfit! It looks both elegant and comfortable. And the hat is awesome!

[purplecat]

Great hats in Doctor Who is definitely a thing!

[liadt]

Barbara's is clearly the best;)

[purplecat]

It's a great hat!