Doctor Who: 10 Weird Things The Doctor Keeps In His Pockets
1. Jelly Babies, Sweets And Chocolate
The Doctors sweet tooth is well known, so what else could top our list? Back in The Web Planet fans saw him reveal a packet of chocolate from his pockets and from there its a spiral into poor dental hygiene. Even the Eleventh Doctor snacks on a Jammy Dodger disguised as a TARDIS self-district button in Victory of the Daleks. Meanwhile, in The Three Doctors, the infamous Jelly Babies make their first appearance. But it is the Fourth Doctor who carries the torch for the famous sweets. In his first adventure, Robot, he offers some to Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan and uses them periodically throughout his run. An infamous example is in The Face of Evil. After offering a Jelly Baby to Leela she responds, They said the evil one eats babies! In The Sun Makers the Fourth Doctor offers a packet of liquorice allsorts to a suicidal man. He calls them Jelly Babies, leading fans to wonder if the Doctor has a somewhat loose grasp on what Jelly Babies actually are. Who knows? The TV Movie of 1996 brought the babies back with both the seventh and eighth Doctors snacking on them and using them as distractions. Fans wouldnt see them again until the Master pulled them out in The Sound of Drums in 2007. In more recent times, the Twelfth Doctor has a much more stylish cigarette case of Jelly Babies, as seen in Mummy on the Orient Express. But wait, there's one more late entry...
Joel Cornah, is an author hailing from a small isolated village in Lancashire.
Having told stories of dinosaurs, penguins and dragons to his younger siblings for nigh on two decades, it soon became apparent that these tales needed to be written down. Gathering the myriad of maps, family trees, illustrations and noted ideas, he began work on the world of dyngard. Having grown along with the audience from a collection of loosely related children’s stories, it became a whole world of adventure, magic and questions.
He was awarded a degree in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moors University and spent seven years writing a comical newspaper for The Barrow Downs Tolkien discussion forum.
Currently running a charity café in Parbold village, Joel is often found deep in discussion of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the long history of Doctor Who, and desperately trying not to frighten people away. Often with limited success.
