'The Three Doctors'
Costume Design by James Acheson
A blue woolen dress was designed and made by Acheson for Katy Manning to wear; according to Manning, it was knitted by the same person who created her woolen dress in 'The Time Monster' a year earlier. The rest of the costume was bought, the blue fur coat was from Biba.
The Time Lords appear again with new costumes consisting of black tunics with pointed collar plates and white vinyl cuffs. The elder Time Lords wear capes of a blue material (that looks suspiciously like curtain fabric) with wide shoulder boards also made of white vinyl.
The villain Omega (Stephen Thorne) was designed by Acheson as wearing a blue sparkly robe with metallic armor with a grimacing mask; the first of such designs Acheson would realize in his career in such films as
Time Bandits,
Brazil and
Highlander.
The costume's 'hard parts' (ie the helmet, chestplate and wristguards) were made by freelance sculptor Allister Bowtell who Acheson often contracted (such as for the Mutt costumes in 'The Mutants' and the Master's zombie mask in 'The Deadly Assassin').
'Carnival of Monsters'
Costume Design by James Acheson
The alien entertainers Vorg (Leslie Dwyer) and Shirna (Cheryl Hall) both wear pastel-coloured outfits. Vorg wears a tailcoat made of a mottled blue-ish materical coated with colourful disks over the lapels, cuffs and pockets. Under the tailcoat is a zip-up pink and green waistcoat with golden lining and a shiny patterned shirt.
Shirna meanwhile is a multicoloured leotard of green and pink, with blue leggings and pink gloves; little ping-pong balls cover her costume.
Vorg and Shirna briefly wear silver-lined grey spacesuits with no helmets; I have no idea if these were reused costumes or not but, given how rare UK-filmed scifi productions were, I doubt it. One of the spacesuits was briefly reused in 'Resurrection of the Daleks' a decade later.
The bureaucrats of Inter Minor wear a uniform consisting of a top with quilted high collars and sleeves, worn over spandex trousers with white lining; an armor chestplate and wristguards complete the costume.
The immigration control chairman is distinguished by this chestplate having more lines (in a similar manner to the uniforms Acheson had previously designed for 'The Mutants' and 'The Three Doctors') and a grey cloak of a quilted material. This robe was reused in the serial 'Meglos' a few years later.
The ‘functionaries’ of Inter Minor wear uniforms consisting of a large foam piece covered in tubing; the sleeves and leggings also have tubing around the end.
'Frontier in Space'
Costume Design by Barbara Kidd
Kidd's costume designs for this serial took inspiration from the visuals of space opera fare such as Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers; the women's dresses all have wide collars, with Vera Fusek wearing an orange dress with a short cape as the Earth's president.
Fusek later wears a less cliched, and in my opinion more elegant, pale blue dress with glittery lining around the collar; it is worn with a cape of the same material, with lining on the shoulders.
The men wear similarly space age costumes; a green tunic with a shiny chest panel and collar was designed for Michael Hawkins as General Williams. A futuristic helmet and shoulder pads were also made, evoking futuristic armor. Similar helmets and pads were made for extras playing the future Earth soldiers; their uniforms otherwise consisted of
bought fencing uniforms dyed blue or
green.
A similar jacket was designed for Roger Delgado to wear as the Master impersonating a police commissioner; this jacket is of a darker and shinier material, but with a similarly raised collar.
Kidd also designed the costumes of the Draconians, their costumes taking inspiration from Japanese garb as well as their reptilian basis in the script; the Draconian nobles' robes are green with belts, curved threading on the chest, and larg shoulder pads painted to have an organic, scale-like texture.
The Draconian's emperor wears a similar robe made of a shiny fabric of a deeper green colour, with larger and more pointed shoulder pads; he also wears a larger, golden sash held by green and blue straps.
The Draconian soldiers wear robes of a looser cut, with their shoulder pads brounded downwards.
'Planet of the Daleks'
Costume Design by Hazel Pethig
Tan spacesuits were made for the Thal soldiers, with tubed material around the shoulders and cuffs. A safety helmet, very similar to those customized for
Pathfinders to Mars, is briefly worn in one scene. One of the tan spacesuits was reused in 'The Android Invasion' a few years later.
'The Time Warrior'
Costume Design by James Acheson
The 'star warrior' Linx was designed by Acheson to resemble a futuristic knight, with a large domed chrome helmet; padding was placed inside the costume's chest to make the Sontaran look more muscular than actor Kevin Lindsay actually was. The collar was also much wide than Lindsay's own neck, instead being measured up to the prosthetic makeup John Friedlander sculpted, also based on Acheson's design.
Acheson also designed another futuristic knight costume, consisting of a studded tunic made of a silvery quilted material with large shoulder pads; justified as the knight was a robot created by Linx, and ergo would not be 'accurate'. The 'hard' armor pieces, such as the helmet, were presumably borrowed wardrobe stock though.
The serial was set in the Middle Ages; while most of the medieval characters' costumes were no doubt borrowed wardrobe stock,
Acheson designed and made costumes for David Daker and John J. Carney as the warlord Irongron and his deputy Bloodaxe. The Irongron costume is especially striking, with its green and brown striped colour scheme, with studs and plates adorning different sides of the tunic.
'Invasion of the Dinosaurs'
Costume Design by Barbara Kidd
Set in the present day, a costume was designed and made by Kidd for Carmen Silvar to wear as Ruth, a leader of the 'Golden Age' cult that aims to travel to other planets; the folk dress inspired design probably was a jab at the hippy movement, with the modern textures giving a futuristic touch. The tunic was worn again by Derek Farr in the
Blake's 7 episode 'Orac'. The spacesuit seen in this serial was reused from
Moonbase 3.
'Death to the Daleks'
Costume Design by L. Rowland-Warne
The only costumes of note in this serial are the various spacecrew uniforms; the men wear blue trousers and jackets with curved flat collars, while the one female member Jill Tarrant (Joy Harrison) wears a lighter coloured uniform with a puffy sleeved jacket and flared trousers.
'The Monster of Peladon'
Costume Design by Barbara Kidd
Keeping with the purple theme established by Barbara Lane in 'The Curse of Peladon', Kidd designed a golden dress for Nina Thomas as the queen Thalira, with two purple cloaks also made; the first cloak is made of a shiny patterned fabric, while the second is made up of purple furs.
A purple and golden robe was also made for Frank Gatliff as Ortron, with fur lining around the collar; the robe is also worn with purple gloves, as well as a chain fitted with see-through plastic segments. The below publicity photos show off the striped pattern of the costume's sleeves better than the videotape quality of the screenshots.
I've excluded the other costumes in 'Monster of Peladon' as I'm unsure if they were designed for the production or not; the armor pieces worn by
the guards and
rebelling miners don't look 'alien' thus possibly reused from historical productions. The jumpsuit worn by
Donald Gee as Eckersley could just be a bought industrial or racing jumpsuit; it was reused in 'The Armageddon Factor',
worn by Barry Jackson as Drax, and altered to have red and white strips around the collar and cuffs.
'Planet of the Spiders'
Costume Design by L. Rowland-Warne
Unlike the earlier 'The Mutants' or 'Curse of Peladon' where the alien natives were dressed in historical wardrobe stock, I am fairly certain that Rowland-Warne designed and made all the costumes of the Metebelis 3 colonists. The costumes are designed to have a slightly Mesoamerican or Native American look with the diamond patterns, especially clear in the peach pants and vest worn by Ralph Arliss as Tuar.
The other Metebelis 3 colonists wear tunics with similar diamond patterns around the collars and trouser cuffs, in a variety of colours; Gareth Hunt as Arak is distinguished with the v-neck collar lined with white fur.
The Metebelis 3 colonists are enslaved by the ‘Eight-Legs’ who use controlled humans as their servants; the Eight-Leg servants wear uniforms of blue pantaloons and sash belts, with vests lined with furred shoulder pads, topped off with what look like blue taqiyah hats. The vests are made of a material that resembles cobwebs, fitting as the Eight-Legs are mutated spiders.
