Adventures in Time and Space.

[davywavy]

It's a matter of historical record that the best Dr. Who was Tom Baker. All who claim otherwise are, alas, hopelessly deluded and should be incarcerated and kept away from sharp objects for their own safety.
Obviously Dr. Who is just a television series and he never really travelled in time. Or did he? Take a look:

Tom Baker as Dr. Who:


And then we have this portrait of Elizabethan dramatist and crackpot Ben Jonson:


And finally, details from The Burgher of Delft by Jan Steen:


Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

Comments

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf when I was 5. I'm sure you can see how that thing was WAY TOO LONG!
(my mum knitted it for me).
I grew up watching Dr Who when he was playing the Dr so the Tom Baker episodes are pure nostalgia to me :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf when I was 5

I'm not sure I believe that your mum knitted it for you. I think you inherited it from an ancestor. A man of some importance in Delft, I don't doubt.

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

Channeling his awesome scarf through my mum so she'd knit me a copy of his no doubt :P

I suspect my dad convinced her to knit me one to be honest, it sounds like something he'd do :)

One day (when I have the money to buy all the different kind of yarns) I'll knit myself a new one :)

Did you know there's an entire website dedicate to his scarf?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I wonder if somewhere deep in the BBC archives is a blooper reel with all the scenes in which Tom Baker tripped over or got caught up in that scarf...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but there are apparently any number of out-takes of him swigging from the bottle of scotch he kept in one of the pockets of the Doctor's coat.