Fourth Doctor Costume Sells Well Above Expectations
Remember the auction that I told you about last month? Well, according to contactmusic.com, the final price received for the Fourth Doctor Costume auction was *twelve times* larger than expected. Wow! The final price on the auction website is listed as “£20,500 plus Premium and tax.” (For those of you with buckets of cash lying around, the Obi-Wan Cloak hasn’t sold yet. The estimated price is: £50,000 - 60,000. I know…that’s Star Wars, not Doctor Who, but you have to admit it has a high cool factor.) Oh, and The Ninth Doctor’s coat that I was simply dying to own? It was withdrawn from the auction. I wonder what prompted that? BBC plot? Alien plot? Hmmm…
Some of the other final prices:
Second Doctor Costume - £8,000 plus Premium and tax
Third Doctor Costume - £8,000 plus Premium and tax
Fifth Doctor Costume - £4,200 plus Premium and tax
Seventh Doctor Costume - £1,000 plus Premium and tax
So…anyone else notice that the Fourth Doctor’s Costume went for around the same price as everything else put together? Go Fourth Doctor!
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March 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Wow that is amazing. All of the Doctor’s costumes that were up for sale were very nice but I suppose, that the 4th doctor is still seen as the iconic regeneration.
Wow!
March 7th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Yep. Further proof of the 4th Dcotor’s coolness. Interesting that the 9th Doctor coat was withdrawn, eh? Any good conspiracy theories, The Vig?
March 7th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Well the fan boy in me would love to think the 9th Doctor is coming back for some sort of flashback or a multi-Doctor segment (either with #8 or #10) but that is probably wishful thinking.
With Ecelson’s work on Heroes, maybe someone is betting they could get him back sometime, and since the coat is a true antique, it would be better to hold on to it than pay for a reproduction.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
I’m thinking that the BBC may have decided to “hold on to it” just in case. Either that or Elvis wanted to borrow it for his comeback tour.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Ooooh I can help with that!
That 9th Doc jacket was withdrawn because it was very wrong. Have another look at the pic of it - it’s just some nondescript single breasted job. Very different design and as you can see, not in the least beaten up looking. Angels didn’t make Eccleston’s jackets, and Lucinda Wright designed the costume but none of it was custom made, it was all bought in. (Timberland boots for example) She got the jackets in a second hand shop, and they were real ex-German vintage. Of two screen-used jackets, the “stunt” jacket was in pretty bad shape after Season 1, but I don’t know what finally became if it. The actor’s main one was kept by Eccleston himself after they were done with it. As far as I know he still has it, but I can’t be 100% about that.
Anyway, being pretty much yer World’s Leading Authority on The Doctor’s Leather Jacket from research for me replica (plug plug :-p ) I contacted Bonham’s to let them know the jacket they had there was nothing like the 2005 costume set and how to confirm this. I’m glad they dropped it or some poor schmuck would have doubtless parted with 5 or 10 Large for it! :-/
Phew. There. Hope that’s of some interest and intrigue.
On the point of CE doing a reprise - I got the feeling he was avoiding DW like Nimoy after Star Trek and Tom Baker after his DW era. Both of those now embrace their most popular past works of course, but if there’s some sort of constant cooling-off equation to it, CE won’t do Doctor Who again until at least 2015! :-p I think he’s an intelligent and picky lad though, so if there’s a good enough script written for him, I hope he does come back some time.
JD
March 11th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Wow! Thanks for the info. Now we know what happened. Hurrah! I agree on the CE front, BTW. He’s off doing other things (including being in the film of The Dark is Rising *squee*), and maybe he will come back to us some day. *sigh* By the way, your replica looks Fab. I obviously need to start saving money now. Yes, I have a coat fixation. It’s been how many years(?) and I still want Romana II’s pink one, too.
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:15 am
Oh how awesome. Hehe - and to think - my Uncle Chaz used to wear that outfit!
No, really. Chaz used to be Tom’s decoy at the King’s Head in Soho when he lived there - they’re the same height and build, so he was happy to do it.
Sadly no pictures (besides ones that the press took of “Tom Baker” walking soberly away from the pub with the famous scarf wrapped high - he didn’t, he staggered out the back way that the media were kept away from) but I can tell you the scarf is just over 22 feet long, and the hat was indeed felt.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 am
Thanks for this info, IBF! I had no idea that Tom had a decoy.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
*laughs* You’re welcome. Few do - that was the point. My uncle dropped it off EARLY in the morning at the apartment, so that Tom could take it back to the costume dep or start filming again.
It suited Chaz because he had to be up before 4am anyway, it was on the way to his “day-job”, and it was money in the pocket.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Makes sense to me!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am
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