Many of this season's stories also had an elegiac tone, with entropy and decay being a recurring theme. By Season 13, the now gold end of the scarf still had 12 tassels, but I haven't quite nailed down the number for Season 14. The Fourth Doctor's distinctive appearance and manner have made him a target for affectionate parody.

The Doctor and Adric have only just made it back when they're asked to help the people of Traken from a creature known as "Melkur. The producers loved it and, after it had been shortened slightly, used it for the Fourth Doctor's first story Robot. This creates further headaches for those of us who like to mix brands, but the updated suggestions are refined to categories for easier compatibility. The Doctor brings the intelligent but uneducated Leela to many locales in human history, teaching her about science and her own species' past.In 1979 and 1980, Tom Baker played the Fourth Doctor (alongside Lalla Ward's Romana) in a series of four television commercials for Prime Computer. He is frequently impersonated by impressionist Jon Culshaw on the radio and television series Dead Ringers, who also voiced the Doctor for the Big Finish audio The Kingmaker. The conduit between E-Space and our own universe is revealed to be a Charged Vacuum Emboitment (CVE) created by the mathematicians of Logopolis as part of a system to allow the Universe to continue on past its point of heat death. Dinah May once saw the Ninth Doctor, some years prior to 2005, putting a flute, a velvet jacket, and a scarf into a local tip.

The colors are generally brighter than the real thing for their Hero, but their S16/17 replica has very good colors indeed. To fringe the scarf: Cut about 20 pieces of yarn in each of the sevencolours, all about 12 in (30cm) long. The requests must have come reg­u­lar­ly, because a sim­i­lar memo is reprint­ed from many years lat­er to anoth­er fan’s fam­i­ly. I sus­pect I would not have the patience to knit one though, hav­ing read hor­ror sto­ries of ‘end­less garter stitch’!Yarn manufacturers vary by how thick and thin their yarn is and what classification they choose for the various yarns. For audiences in the United States, who saw the show only in syndication (mostly on PBS), Tom Baker was the incarnation of the Doctor who is the best known, since his episodes were the ones most frequently broadcast stateside. In " The Name of the Doctor," he is seen briefly by Clara Oswald wandering around the TARDIS (clip taken from The Invasion of Time).