Doctor Who (1963) - Season 5

Note: Yes I am still going through and fixing up older articles, and splitting them apart into 'new' articles. After Doctor Who (which I really want to be done with!), we'll see if I do new ones...

'Tomb of the Cybermen'

Costume Design by Alexandra Tynan aka Sandra Reid

I feel the v-collar shirts worn by Shirley Cooklin as Kaftan and Roy Stewart as Toberman were custom-made for the serial, as they are matching designs and don't resemble any contemporary 1960s fashion.

A set of futuristic jackets were also made; the jackets are made of a quilted material, and come in two different colour schemes for the men and women.

I feel the spaceship's crew uniforms were also custom-made; note the unusual collar shape and button arrangement. The rest of the guest cast's costumes are most likely bought clothes. The Cybermen costumes were the same ones made for 'The Moonbase', with a new helmet made for the Cyberman's Controller.

'The Ice Warriors'

Costume Design by Martin Baugh

Martin Baugh came up with several bold, 'mod' inspired costumes for this serial's guest cast. A futuristic, patterned jumpsuit was made for Peter Barkworth as the base commander Clent, with a wide collar.

Similar jumpsuits were made for the rest of the male guest cast, in similar bold patterns, many of them only briefly glimpsed in the surviving episodes. The bodysuit worn by George Waring as the scientist Arden is sadly obscured by the protective suit he wears in the remaining episode he appears in!

(No idea if the protective gear was made for the serial or not, but that definitely is a vintage fireman helmet he's wearing in the glacier scenes for sure!)

A zip-up jacket printed in streaks of colour was made for Wendy Gifford as the base official Garrett. It is truly a shame no colour photographs exist of these costumes.

Underneath the jacket, a tight leotard-style dress was made for Gifford to wear, as well the other female guest cast. Most of the extras' dresses are only briefly seen.

Costume Reuse Note: The futuristic uniform worn by Peter Sallis in this serial, was originally made for the Out of the Unknown episode 'Thirteen to Centaurus'.

'The Enemy of the World'

Costume Design by Martin Baugh

Set in the far future of 2018 (har!) allowed Martin Baugh to come up with more costumes inspired by mod fashion. A futuristic spin on a traditional Mexican 'charro' costume was made for Patrick Troughton's role as Salamander, consisting of a frilly shirt, zip-up jacket and waistcoat.

Baugh designed similar futuristic menswear for the rest of the male guest cast. The suits worn by Milton Johns as Benik and George Pravda as Denes have stiff collars revealing the neck, though Benik's has vinyl lining.

The suit made for Colin Douglas as the security chief Donald Bruce has a more conservative cut befitting the character's authoritarian role.

A different style of suit was made for Bill Kerr as Giles Kent, with no lapels or collar on the jacket.

A futuristic spin on a riding jacket was made for Mary Peach as Kent's ally Astrid. The tailcoat, hat and waistcoat are in the same fabrics and colour scheme; again I can only wonder what it looked like in colour!

A shiny black jacket (made out of vinyl or leatherette, unsure) was also made for Peach for when Astrid goes undercover as one of Salamander's security guards.

A vinyl white dress was made for Carmen Monroe as Fariah, and worn over a spandex (or spandex-like) undershirt. The dress is worn with white boots, which were no doubt bought.

I wonder about the patterned costumes worn by the various cast members playing Salamander's scientists; especially the suit worn by Adam Varney as Colin had to be custom-made. The fact it zips up at the back and has an angular collar indicates that it wasn't just a bought item to me.

A futuristic jacket and trousers were made for David Nettheim as Fedorin; the jacket has no pockets or buttons, indicating to me it was custom-made like the rest of the serial's costumes.

Several uniforms were made for the performers playing the various soldiers seen in the serial; Frazer Hines, who wore one of the uniforms, remembers them as being made out of a kind of plastic fabric. The domed helmets were fabricated by freelance prop-makers Jack & John Lovell.

Costume Reuse Note: These helmets were reused in the following serial 'Fury from the Deep', worn with bought racing overalls. They would be reused again by James Acheson for the serial 'The Mutants'.

Funnily enough, they sort of reappeared in the 2000s revival of Doctor Who; propmaker Robert Allsopp moulded a set of new helmets from an existing one, to use for the child actors in 'End of the World'.

'The Wheel in Space'

Costume Design by Martin Baugh

A short-sleeved jumpsuit was made for Wendy Padbury as the new companion Zoe Heriot. The jumpsuit's pattern forms a 'bib' panel over the chest and back.

Similar jumpsuits were made for Anne Ridler as Gemma and Clare Jenkins as Tanya. A few other jumpsuits were made for the other women among the guest cast, but are barely seen in the serial's surviving episodes.

Baugh reused a design element he used on 'The Ice Warriors' when it came to designing Michael Turner's uniform as the commander Jarvis Bennett; namely the collar! This time the jecket was made of a quilted material in a bold two-tone pattern.

Baugh designed and made several jackets in the same quilted fabric for the rest of the spacestation's crew. Some of the jackets were made in doubles for the extras.

Costume Reuse Note: The overalls worn by the spacestation's workers seem to be the same racing overalls originally bought for 'Fury from the Deep'.

Costume Reusre Note #2: The 'spacesuits' are Windak pressure suits, possibly the same ones that were used previously in 'The Tenth Planet'?

Doctor Who (1963) - Season 4

Note: Yes I am still going through and fixing up older articles, and splitting them apart into 'new' articles. After Doctor Who (which I really want to be done with!), we'll see if I do new ones...

'The Tenth Planet'

Costume Design by Alexandra Tynan aka Sandra Reid

This serial marked one of the first notable serials to no longer have Daphne Dare as costume designer. While the serial's guest cast and regular's costumes were all contemporary clothing (ergo stock or bought), there was the matter of the Cybermen, the villainous cyborgs acting as the serial's monsters

The Cybermen were a collaboration between the BBC's Wardrobe and Visual Effects Departments. Alexandra Tynan (credited as Sandra Reid) did not have as much enthusiasm for designing 'monsters' as Daphne Dare did, but the Cybermen were technically humans in life-support spacesuits.

Tynan made a set of patterned onesies (painted over to resemble tubing) and transparent jumpsuits, with rubber tubes, metallic shoulder plates and rings over the limbs. The helmets were made by the BBC's Visual Effects Department, while the chest units were made by freelance costume & prop maker Jack Lovell.

Costume Reuse Note: The rocketship's pilots are wearing 'Windak flying suits', which were actual air force surplus. However, it's stated a lot in fan circles that these flying suits were reused in The Empire Strikes Back, but more likely it was just another Windak flying suit.

Windak flying suits had also earlier been seen in the 1964 film First Men in the Moon, and were used again in Doctor Who in the serial 'The Wheel in Space'

'The Power of the Daleks'

Costume Design by Alexandra Tynan

Similarly to William Hartnell's Doctor costume, Patrick Troughton's costume as the new Doctor was assembled from wardrobe stock, with no clothing actually tailored for him.

Tynan's costuming duties for the serial went to the Vulcan colonists. Tynan came up with a futuristic double-breasted uniform with short sleeves and no collars or lapels. The uniforms came in shades of blue or beige. A single-breasted version of the uniform was made for Anneke Wills, with shorts in the same fabric.

I don't know if the scientist scrubs, or the police uniforms, were custom-made items or wardrobe hires. The police uniforms and caps especially don't look particularly futuristic in any sense, so I'll assume they were just wardrobe stock. The colony police helmets were just bought crash helmets.

'The Underwater Menace'

Costume Design by Alexandra Tynan

Tynan's costume designs for this serial's guest cast reflected the maritime theme of the Atlantis setting. A set of dresses were made, consisting of 'seaweed' skirtsa and tops coated in seashells. The dress was complimented with a headdress also fitted with a seashell. (I wonder if the 'sea shells' were actually porcelain ashtrays?)

The costumes for the male guest cast also keep the 'seaweed' motif, with kilts and cloaks made of the same material. A netted fabric was used to construct several cloaks, evoking fishing nets.

Most striking are the various headpieces, with conch-shaped headpieces worn by most of the male cast. The Atlantis priests wear ornate headdresses made of plastic tubing, possibly evoking sea amemones.

A specially made helmet, also keeping in with the shellfish theme, was made for the Atlantean executioner, who also wears a similar cloak made of 'seaweed' material.

The costume worn by Noel Johnson as the Atlantean king Thous slightly differes from the piscean theming of the other costumes, though the clasps on his cape are shellfish shaped! I do feel the costume was custom-made for the serial, due to the cheaper materials and the fantastical setting.

(The cloak worn in some scenes by Joseph Furst as Zaroff in some scenes is most likely a wardrobe hire. It definitely does not go well with the surgical scrubs!)

'The Moonbase'

Costume Design by Daphne Dare and Alexandra Tynan

Tynan had only managed to design the returning Cybermen before she fell ill, with Daphne Dare desiging the rest of the cast's costumes.

When it came to the Cybermen, the actual construction of the costumes fell to freelance propmakers Jack Lovell and John Lovell. According to Tynan, the silver fabric was the hardest element!

'I was much happier with the Cybermen Mark II. The people who made them weren’t that happy though. We bought silver vinyl for the costumes and the people who made them up nearly went bananas. They broke machine needles and they just went round the bend working on those costumes. Very difficult stuff to sew.

It was topstitched and hard to get under the foot of the sewing machines because it would slide. They had to try different tactics to stitch it properly. But the finished articles did look good, I thought.'

A set of futuristic vests were also made for the moonbase crewmen. A pair of futuristic helmets were also fabricated, but I'm not sure if they were made by the BBC's Visual Effects Department, or a freelancer like Jack Lovell.

A set of spacesuits were made for the scenes on the moon's surface. The jumpsuits were made of a quilted material, and according to an interview with Frazer Hines, the helmets were the worst part to wear. 'You had to be bolted into the helmet and the minute you were, you wanted to scratch your nose – it’s psychological! It’s not as if you could lift up the visor, like a helmet. You can see in the pictures how they fogged up.'

'The Macra Terror'

Costume Design by Daphne Dare

Several futuristic double-breasted uniforms with popped collars and shoulders pads were made for this serial. It again makes me sad that these costumes were only seen in black-and-white, as according to Frazer Hines in the interview linked above, his uniform was in bright orange!

A slight variant was made for the women cast members, as their uniforms lack the collars, and a set of hussar-style hats were also made. Interestingly, some of the female cast wear a type of stripey-patterned jacket - I imagine these were also made for the serial, but what did they look like in colour?

'The Faceless Ones'

Costume Design by Daphne Dare & Alexandra Tynan

I am unsure who designed the uniform of the grotesque 'Chameleon' aliens; either way, their uniform consists of a tabard-like garment worn over a sleeved vest made of a quilted fabric, which evokes medical bandages.

A cassock-like costume was also made for Bernard Kay as the Chameleon's 'Director'. I wonder, again, what colour this actually was in reality?

'The Evil of the Daleks'

Costume Design by Alexandra Tynan

The red dress worn by Brigit Forsyth as Ruth Maxtible was indeed made for the serial, and not a wardrobe hire, according to Tynan in an interview printed in issue #89 of the DWB fanzine.

Sadly, thanks to the serial's episodes being all missing, we can't see this costume in action...unless it ended up reused in a later period production, that is.

Costume Reuse Note: The pink dress worn by Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield was earlier seen in the 1960 Pathe short film 'Sewing Machines: Old and New'. Again, according to Tynan herself in the same DWB interview, Watling's dress was a hire and not custom-made as the DWM special on costume design says.