Dr Who Thoughts

Since I was late publishing this week, I give you 2 posts:

For this tale cast you mind back to the Jon Pertwee era Doctor Who. This could be an apocryphal tale, I don't know, but it amused me so I'll share it. They needed a costume for the new Doctor, and part of this outfit was to be a scarf. Unsurprisingly this department of the BBC had a tame little old lady who whenever they needed something special knitting they went to her. On this occasion a junior runner was sent to get some wool, and take it to the old lady for her to make a scarf with. He then went out and bought a selection of wool and took it to this lady and basically passed on the message "This is the wool to make the scarf with". A week later he went back to find she had used all the wool to make it. Without time to make a new one they went with it and the arguably the most memorable part of the most popular Doctor was born.

Let's assume this tale is true. Let's assume that they somehow had to work in this slightly batty bit of costume to the episode/character. We see evidence of this, right at the start of Robot we have the Doctor trying a range of wacky costumes including a Genghis Khan type affair, finally he comes out in the outfit we know and love and the Brigadier settles on this as good enough. Would this scene have existed if not for the miscommunication?
Without this battyness, would the Tom Baker Doctor have been as batty? Probably (this being Tom Baker) but possibly not. If not then without Tom Baker being batty would later Doctors have been? What we now have as the staple of Doctor Who could so easily not have been.

Just a thought anyway...