Doctor Who: 10 Weird Things The Doctor Keeps In His Pockets
9. Brainy Specs
You dont even need them. You just think they make you look a bit clever. Several Doctors have donned the spectacles to give themselves that extra air of authority. The First Doctor, back in The Daleks, had a pair which he used from time to time but he generally preferred his monocle. Having recently regenerated, the Second Doctor briefly carries them in The Power of the Daleks but never puts them on. In fact, fans dont see the spectacles again until the Fifth Doctor uses a Dumbledore-style half-moon pair in Castrovalva, which are presumably the same glasses which later show up in the Seventh Doctors Silver Nemesis adventure. But it is the Tenth Doctor who gave the glasses plenty of screen time, as well as their signature name of brainy specs (Time Crash). First wearing them in Tooth and Claw, the glasses quickly became a staple of the Tenth Doctors attire. Go to any convention and at least half of the fans dressed as Ten will be wearing them.
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.
