The Doctor's pockets (either trousers or jacket) often contained large amounts of unusual items. The Tenth Doctor once claimed that his pockets were bigger on the inside. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 (BBC One, 2006).) Another time their seemingly impossible capacity was explained by the Doctor having ripped their lining. (PROSE: Frontier Worlds [+]Peter Anghelides, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) The Fourth Doctor, somewhat hypocritically, once told Harry Sullivan that it was a mistake to clutter one's pockets. (TV: The Sontaran Experiment [+]Bob Baker and Dave Martin, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).) The Thirteenth Doctor hated having empty pockets. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, BBCA, Space and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2018).)
Contents of the Doctor's pockets[]
First Doctor's pockets[]
The First Doctor's pockets contained a ballpoint pen, a household thermometer, an oil cap for a car with some oil still in it, two silk handkerchiefs, an inch-long everlasting candle and a box of everlasting matches. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby [+]Paul Leonard, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)
Second Doctor's pockets[]
The Second Doctor's pockets contained a pair of conkers, a yo-yo, a bag of glass marbles, an old banana skin and a needle and thread. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse [+]Nigel Robinson, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).)
Later, the Doctor's pockets contained a pair of magnets on strings, a box of drawing pins and a tuning fork. (TV: The Space Pirates [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 6 (BBC1, 1969).)
Prior to his exile on Earth, the Doctor's pockets contained a roll of sticky tape, a pair of scissors and some thin silver wire. (TV: The War Games [+]Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke, Doctor Who season 6 (BBC1, 1969).)
Fourth Doctor's pockets[]
Shortly following his regeneration, the Fourth Doctor's pockets contained jelly babies, a scroll granting freedom of the city of Skaro, a pilot's licence for the Mars-Venus rocket run, a galactic passport and honorary membership of the Alpha Centauran Table Tennis Club. (TV: Robot [+]Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1974-1975).)
Aboard Nerva Beacon, the Doctor's pockets contained a yo-yo and a cricket ball. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
On Skaro, the Doctor's pockets contained the sonic screwdriver, a magnifying glass, a yo-yo and an etheric beam locator. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).)
In 1889 London, the Doctor's pockets contained a yo-yo, a toy Batmobile and a stuffed mouse. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 14 (BBC1, 1977).)
Following Romana's regeneration, the Doctor's pockets contained a copy of Origins of the Universe. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 17 (BBC1, 1979).)
Later, the Doctor's pockets contained a Polaroid camera, a felt tip pen and a mirror. (TV: City of Death [+]David Agnew, Doctor Who season 17 (BBC1, 1979).)
On Chloris, the Doctor's pockets contained copies of Everest in Easy Stages and Teach Yourself Tibetan. (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]David Fisher, Doctor Who season 17 (BBC1, 1979).)
Later, the Doctor's pockets contained copies of Finnickan's Planets and So You're Caught in a Rocket Attack, a box of kitchen matches, a bag of gold dust, a yo-yo, an apple core, a magnifying glass and a bag of chocolate money. (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)
Fifth Doctor's pockets[]
The Fifth Doctor's pockets contained non-Earth coins. (TV: Planet of Fire [+]Peter Grimwade, Doctor Who season 21 (BBC1, 1984).)
Searching with Abby for a segment of the Key to Time on Safeplace, the Doctor's pockets contained a yo-yo, a playing card displaying the King of Hearts, and a kit which quickly identified toxins. (AUDIO: The Judgement of Isskar [+]Simon Guerrier, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2009).)
Sixth Doctor's pockets[]
The Sixth Doctor's pockets contained burnt out radio valves, a yo-yo and a neatly wrapped packet of cheddar cheese and chutney sandwiches. (PROSE: Burning Heart [+]Dave Stone, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)
On Volnex VI, the Doctor's pockets contained a paper clip, a cigarette lighter, a copy of Burmese Days by George Orwell and a firecracker. (PROSE: Turnabout is Fair Play [+]Graeme Burk, Short Trips and Side Steps (Short Trips short stories, 2000).)
On Ravolox, the Doctor's pockets contained a torch, an oil can, a paper mask, a teddy bear and a bag of sweets. (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 23 (BBC1, 1986).)
Assisting George White against the memory-hungry Sebadoah, the Doctor's pockets contained a cricket ball, an Irish tin whistle, a ball of string, and a small black disc he used to scan George's brainwaves and stabilise his psyche. (AUDIO: The Hoxteth Time Capsule [+]Paul Davis, Short Trips (Big Finish Productions, 2023).)
Seventh Doctor's pockets[]
The Seventh Doctor's pockets contained a blue yo-yo, a bag of jelly babies, a Swiss Army penknife, a teddy bear and an etheric beam locator. (PROSE: The Hollow Men [+]Keith Topping and Martin Day, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1998).)
At Margrave University, the Doctor's pockets contained stamps, a fountain pen, antique coins, a universal comms jack and several Earl Grey tea bags. (AUDIO: Animal [+]Andrew Cartmel, The Lost Stories (Big Finish Productions, 2011).)
On Kirith, the Doctor's pockets contained a Geiger counter, a telescope, some alien coins, a congealed mass of jelly babies, a signed photograph of Louis Armstrong, a mouth organ, and a bag of marbles. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse [+]Nigel Robinson, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).)
In Los Angeles, the Doctor's pockets contained a clockwork duck, a fluid link, a pamphlet, a scarab, a lump of gold ore, a piece of chalk, a visa, a disc, a saxophone. (PROSE: Playback [+]Stephen James Walker, Decalog (Virgin Decalogs, Virgin Books, 1994).)
Eighth Doctor's pockets[]
The Eighth Doctor's pockets contained a yo-yo, a broken circuit from the TARDIS' navigation unit, the heating element from an electric kettle and a bag of jelly babies. (PROSE: The Time Lord's Story [+]Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett, Short Trips: Repercussions (Short Trips short stories, 2004).)
On Ceres Alpha, the Doctor's pockets contained a bag of jelly babies, a yo-yo and a monocle. (PROSE: Dark Progeny [+]Steve Emmerson, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)
Later, the Doctor's pockets contained the sonic screwdriver, a radiation detector, a scrawl-covered manuscript, an A-Z of Hitchemus, a ball of string, a disposable camera, two AA batteries, some loose change from various colony worlds and a half-eaten apple. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows [+]Jonathan Morris, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).)
At Horton's Orb, the Doctor's pockets contained the sonic screwdriver and several metres of string. (AUDIO: The House on the Edge of Chaos [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
Ninth Doctor's pockets[]
The Ninth Doctor once gave Mickey Smith a computer virus on a disc which he pulled from one of his pockets. (TV: World War Three [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)
Tenth Doctor's pockets[]
During his confrontation with the Empress of the Racnoss, the Tenth Doctor acquired a remote control for the Roboforms, which he kept in his pockets. When he produced it, he claimed to Donna Noble that it could fit in his pockets as they bigger on the inside. From another pocket, the Doctor produced explosive baubles which, via the remote control, he used to destroy the Racnoss. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006 (BBC One, 2006).)
Later, the Doctor's pockets contained the sonic screwdriver, the psychic paper, a ball of string, anti-radiation pills, a pocket Gallifreyan-Cymraeg phrasebook, a bag of kola nuts, a yo-yo, a collection of coins from a dozen different planets, everlasting matches and the TARDIS key. (PROSE: The Eyeless [+]Lance Parkin, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2008).)
Eleventh Doctor's pockets[]
The Eleventh Doctor's pockets contained a doll, a caramel apple and some yarn. (TV: Cold War [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2013).)
Later, they contained the sonic screwdriver, the psychic paper, a satsuma, a nectarine, a piece of string, a pair of scissors, a carrot, an original Paul E. Wirt pen given to him by Mark Twain, a large key, a computer mouse, a baseball signed by Babe Ruth and a recorder. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow [+]Tommy Donbavand, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2013).)
Thirteenth Doctor's pockets[]
The newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, still in the clothes of the Twelfth Doctor, found that her pockets were empty; having fallen out of the TARDIS, the Doctor had lost her sonic screwdriver. Acquiring new clothes at a shop, the Doctor noted she had no cash in her pockets as she asked her new friends to pay. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, BBCA, Space and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2018).)