10 Reasons To Revisit The Colin Baker Era Of Doctor Who

10. He Has The CRAZIEST Doctor Costume

It's only fitting that the quirkiest and most offbeat incarnation of our favourite Time Lord has an equally strange outfit.

Love it or hate it, it's impossible to deny that Colin's costume is one of the most iconic and imaginative in Doctor Who history. That coat boasts a total of 76 different colour tones overall, and presumably due to how bold and vibrant it is, the man himself actually hated it at the time.

Originally, Colin Baker had envisioned that his Doctor would wear similar clothes to what Christopher Eccleston would go on to sport in his tenure, in order to show off the Sixth Doctor's darker side - but the show's producer, John Nathan-Turner wanted to take things in another direction.

Nathan-Turner asked for the costume and the coat to be something totally tasteless, which designer Pat Godfrey certainly provided! It's certainly bold and eye-catching, but never seems out-of-place throughout Baker's onscreen tenure. Even in stories that have been deemed some of the worst in Doctor Who's history, Colin and his amazing technicolour coat are on hand to provide some much needed visual appeal.