Greatcoat

Greatcoat
Type:	Coat
Place of origin:	Earth
Made by:	Humans
Used by:	Humans, the Doctor,
First appearance:	The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: The Slow Empire [+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"] Hospitality [+]Loading...["Hospitality (short story)"] TV: Let's Kill Hitler [+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]

A greatcoat was a type of overcoat, especially associated on Earth with the First and Second World Wars. Such coats were almost exclusively worn by men. They easily fit over even full-dress uniforms. Typically made of a heavy fabric, such as wool, they extended down to the mid-calf, to provide warmth over almost the entire body. They were distinguished by their exceptional length, prominent pockets, substantial collars and large buttons. Typically, greatcoats also had a strip of cloth with decorative buttons on the back, at roughly waist level. This strap across the back naturally gathered the cloth across the back to provide a characteristic pleat.

Worn by the Doctor

The Eleventh Doctor wore an army green greatcoat when helping River Song in Berlin during 1938, (TV: Let's Kill Hitler ^[+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"]) during a misadventure in the Two Streams Facility, (TV: The Girl Who Waited ^[+]Loading...["The Girl Who Waited (TV story)"]) when reuniting with Craig Owens and facing Legion Cybermen, (TV: Closing Time) and when escaping death. (TV: The Wedding of River Song ^[+]Loading...["The Wedding of River Song (TV story)"]) He also wore a black greatcoat when decoying Kahler-Tek for Kahler-Jex's escape him in Nevada during 1870. (TV: A Town Called Mercy ^[+]Loading...["A Town Called Mercy (TV story)"])

The Second Doctor donned a greatcoat as a disguise to escape from the War Lord's central headquarters. (TV: The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"])

The Eighth Doctor wore a greatcoat when dealing with Vortex Wraiths. (PROSE: The Slow Empire ^[+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"])

Worn by Companions

Jack Harkness in his trademark greatcoat. (TV: Fragments)

Jack Harkness's trademark garment was a navy blue RAF issue greatcoat, most notably when meeting the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler during the Blitz, (TV: The Empty Child ^[+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"], The Doctor Dances ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Dances (TV story)"]) when Gwen Cooper joins his team, (TV: Everything Changes ^[+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"]) when helping to free Carys Fletcher from hormone gas, (TV: Day One ^[+]Loading...["Day One (TV story)"]) when dealing with the consequences of his team using a quantum transducer including Ed Morgan's suicide, (TV: Ghost Machine ^[+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"]) before meeting a partially cyber-converted survivor of the Battle of Canary Wharf, (TV: Cyberwoman ^[+]Loading...["Cyberwoman (TV story)"]) when dealing with fairies, (TV: Small Worlds ^[+]Loading...["Small Worlds (TV story)"]) when confronting the cannibalistic Brynblaidd villagers, (TV: Countrycide ^[+]Loading...["Countrycide (TV story)"]) during Tosh's encounter with a renegade Arcateen posing as Mary since 1812, (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts ^[+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"]) when dealing with Suzie Costello, (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie ^[+]Loading...["They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)"]) when solving Eugene Jones's murder, (TV: Random Shoes ^[+]Loading...["Random Shoes (TV story)"]) when meeting Diane Holmes and her passengers, (TV: Out of Time ^[+]Loading...["Out of Time (TV story)"]) when foiling Mark Lynch's Weevil Fight Club, (TV: Combat ^[+]Loading...["Combat (TV story)"]) when defeating Abaddon, (TV: End of Days ^[+]Loading...["End of Days (TV story)"]) when meeting the Tenth Doctor alongisde Martha Jones and Futurekind as well as Chantho and Professor Yana who is really the War Master, (TV: Utopia ^[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) during and after the Toclafane Invasion arranged by the Saxon Master, (TV: The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"], Last of the Time Lords ^[+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"]) when reuniting with John Hart, (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang ^[+]Loading...["Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)"]) during his encounter with Tommy Brockless, (TV: To the Last Man ^[+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"]) during his encounter with Dale and a mutant space whale known as the Cash Cow, (TV: Meat ^[+]Loading...["Meat (TV story)"]) when dealing with Adam Smith, (TV: Adam ^[+]Loading...["Adam (TV story)"]) when foiling Aaron Copley's experiment with mayflies, (TV: Reset ^[+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"]) when hunting Nostrovites, (TV: Something Borrowed ^[+]Loading...["Something Borrowed (TV story)"]) when facing the Ghostmaker, (TV: From Out of the Rain ^[+]Loading...["From Out of the Rain (TV story)"]) during Gray's vendetta, (TV: Exit Wounds ^[+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"]) when helping to foil the New Dalek Empire including Davros and a Supreme Dalek, (TV: The Stolen Earth ^[+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], Journey's End ^[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) when foiling the 456, (TV: Children of Earth: Day One ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"]-Children of Earth: Day Five ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)"]) when dealing with the consequences of the Three Families causing Miracle Day, (TV: The New World ^[+]Loading...["The New World (TV story)"]-The Blood Line ^[+]Loading...["The Blood Line (TV story)"]) when warning about Ashad, (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon ^[+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"]) and when helping to defeat Death Squad Daleks, (TV: Revolution of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot wore greatcoats as disguises. (TV: The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"])

Worn by Others

An early incarnation of Iris Wildthyme once wore a greatcoat. (PROSE: Hospitality ^[+]Loading...["Hospitality (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

The Second Doctor names the object in The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]. In Torchwood, it largely goes unnamed. However, it is the subject of puns, such as when Ianto Jones calls it a "great coat" after one of his initial encounters with Jack Harkness. (TV: Fragments ^[+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])