Publicity Shots from Hell No.8

One of the perils of growing old is the possibility that we become entrenched in narrow-minded ways.

So how fortunate it was that the Davison era occured at a time when I was a fresh-faced young Monoid, and the world was obviously a more simple and wholesome place of infinite possibilities than it is now.

Which is why no contemporary newspaper ever had a headline that read "New Doctor Who Wears Vegetable On Coat!"...

This is also my hands-down, all-time favourite example of John Nathan-Turner's habit of pointing at something arbitrary so as not to get cropped out of a photograph.

But the proud display of celery on a jacket lapel? Well, that's just a painstakingly laboured example of good old British eccentricity done for the benefit of Johnny Foreigner, surely?

It'll be umbrellas with handles in the shape of question marks next, mark my words...