11 thoughts on “(Classic) Doctor Who Historical Costumes: Pyramids of Mars (1975)

  1. I grew up watching Doctor Who, and scaring my little bruv by making monster noises outside his bedroom door…terrible behaviour! I don’t recall ever thinking of it as historical, as I got all my historical input from watching PROPER dramas with my mum on a Sunday…I do remember always thinking daleks were rubbish as a threat though, all you needed to do was run upstairs…

  2. Bless you. Sarah was my first companion, though Pertwee was my first Doctor <3, and I saw all of 3, 4 and 5 on my local PBS station.
    I can’t WAIT til you get to Leela’s episodes :D

  3. This was always one of my favorite of Sarah Jane’s costumes, probably because of my love for Edwardian fashion. Yeah, it’s like you say, she’s dressing up for fun rather than trying to blend in with the time period. Once Victoria got onto the TARDIS, she went full 60s fashion very quickly, miniskirts and all. I guess that was cheaper than trying to make hybrid Victorian/mod clothes just for her. Though if she were a companion today, she’d probably be very comfortable in lolita fashion!

  4. Tom Baker is MY Doctor. I came to Dr Who very late, in the last 15 years or so, as I don’t remember ever seeing it on US tv. I didn’t start watching until I moved to Australia in 2004 and I started with Tom Baker sometime after that. I love Sarah Jane and so does/did my husband. I suspect he liked her for different reasons than I did. I’ve never really paid attention to the historical fashion. I’ll have to do that now.

  5. I love a bit of classic Who and Pyramids of Mars is one of my favourites. The mummies were fabulous baddies! I’d like to see your take on Leela’s costumes in the infamous Talons of Weng Chiang – I haven’t seen that one for a while, but I seem to remember the outfits being rather fabulous.

  6. My grandpa used to watch this. I never got into it, but I think it would have been fun to watch it with him. :) He also taped episodes off of PBS–he had dozens of VHS tapes of Doctor Who when he died. I kind of wish now that we’d kept them all.

  7. The costumes in ‘Talons of Weng-Chiang are very nice. The Doctor wears an Inverness cloak with big checks, and Leela starts off in a cute knickerbocker suit, graduates to a nice period dress and ends up in her period undies. Wet undies.

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