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[[File:Jelly baby.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The [[Eighth Doctor]] offers a jelly baby. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
[[File:Jelly baby.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The [[Eighth Doctor]] offers a jelly baby. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
'''Jelly babies''' were a form of [[Earth]] sweet favoured by [[the Doctor]] during four of his incarnations, and by [[the Master]] in one of his. [[The Doctor]] liked these so much, he had many bags of them stored somewhere in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]].
'''Jelly babies''' were a form of [[Earth]] sweet favoured by [[the Doctor]] during four of his incarnations, and by [[the Master]] in one of his. The Doctor liked these so much, he had many bags of them stored somewhere in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]].


==Appearances and mentions==
==Appearances and mentions==
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*The Doctor offered round a bag of jelly babies while aboard [[Space Station Nerva]], shortly making an analogy to [[Wirrn]] eating up [[human]]ity, should they win. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'')
*The Doctor offered round a bag of jelly babies while aboard [[Space Station Nerva]], shortly making an analogy to [[Wirrn]] eating up [[human]]ity, should they win. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'')
*The Doctor threw a bag of jelly babies to Vira as he, Sarah Jane, and Harry are about to beam down to earth using the transmat. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'')
*The Doctor threw a bag of jelly babies to Vira as he, Sarah Jane, and Harry are about to beam down to earth using the transmat. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'')
*[[Kellman]] searched through [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor's pockets]] in search for The Doctor's identity. ([[DW]] : [[Revenge of the Cybermen]])
*[[Kellman]] searched through the Doctor's pockets in search for the Doctor's identity. ([[DW]] : [[Revenge of the Cybermen]])
*He offered one to [[Leela]] of the [[Sevateem]] tribe upon their first meeting, leading her to think he ate babies. He also effectively bluffed the Sevateem by threatening one of the tribe with a ''"deadly jelly baby"''. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Face of Evil]]'')
*He offered one to [[Leela]] of the [[Sevateem]] tribe upon their first meeting, leading her to think he ate babies. He also effectively bluffed the Sevateem by threatening one of the tribe with a ''"deadly jelly baby"''. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Face of Evil]]'')
*The Doctor pondered whether [[Unnamed planet (Death-Dealer)|a market world]] sold jelly babies. ([[ST]]: ''[[Death-Dealer]]'')
*The Doctor pondered whether [[Unnamed planet (Death-Dealer)|a market world]] sold jelly babies. ([[ST]]: ''[[Death-Dealer]]'')

Revision as of 19:11, 8 July 2011

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The Eighth Doctor offers a jelly baby. (DW: Doctor Who)

Jelly babies were a form of Earth sweet favoured by the Doctor during four of his incarnations, and by the Master in one of his. The Doctor liked these so much, he had many bags of them stored somewhere in his TARDIS.

Appearances and mentions

Second Doctor

Fourth Doctor

Fifth Doctor

Sixth Doctor

  • In a confused condition brought on by attacks upon his second incarnation, the Doctor makes random references to his previous lives and "the tensile strength of jelly babies". (DW: The Two Doctors)
  • On Ravolox, Drathro's minions, Humker and Tandrell, discovered a bag of jelly babies in the Doctor's coat as they frisked him. He quickly snatched the bag back, before wordlessly offering them each one of the sweets. (DW: The Mysterious Planet)

Seventh Doctor

  • The Doctor enjoyed a snack of jelly babies while reading The Time Machine, just before the events that led to his regeneration, making it his last meal. (DW: Doctor Who)
  • After appearing to die in a San Francisco hospital, his belongings ended up in the possession of a youth named Chang Lee. Amongst those possessions was a bag of jelly babies. (DW: Doctor Who)

Eighth Doctor

  • The Eighth Doctor produced a bag of jelly babies to distract a police officer, and then disarmed him. (DW: Doctor Who)
  • He then used a jelly baby to confuse a security guard named Gareth at the Institute of Technological Advancement and Research (DW: Doctor Who)
  • The Eighth Doctor also searched for jelly babies in the markets of Hyspero. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress)
  • Whilst living on Earth in the town on Greyfrith, he often bought jelly babies by the pound. (EDA: Father Time)
  • Fitz once told of a tale when the Doctor went missing for days, only to have gone searching for the "perfect jelly baby". (EDA: The City of the Dead)

Tenth Doctor

  • The Doctor gave Donna Noble a bag to breathe into when she began hyperventilating; she commented that it smelled of jelly babies. (NSA: The Forever Trap)
  • When shopping for some 'Brainy Crisps' to conduct an investigation, the Doctor was able to ignore a lot of the sweets but gave the jelly babies a longing glance. (NSA: Code of the Krillitanes)

Eleventh Doctor

  • While trying to stabilize into his namesakes form and personality, a Ganger duplicate of the Doctor was rapidly fluctuating through the initial incarnations and asked the real Doctor if he would like a jelly baby, using the voice of the Fourth Doctor while holding out his hand as if he were holding a bag of them. (DW: The Almost People)

Other

Behind the scenes

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The Fourth Doctor eats an allsort while offering a jelly baby (DW: The Sun Makers)
  • On a number of occasions, the Doctor offered "jelly babies" when in fact having another kind of sweet, such as liquorice allsorts. For example; DW: The Sun Makers and Image of the Fendahl.
  • Tom Baker has claimed that the original script of The Face of Evil involved the Doctor threatening the tribesmen with a knife. Feeling that such an act was not appropriate, he insisted that the Doctor bluff his way out with a jelly baby instead.[1]
  • In the United States, jelly babies had a low profile as a confectionery product. When Pinnacle Books published Doctor Who novelisations in new packaging, the editorial changes made by them included changing jelly babies to jelly beans, for fear of confusing American readers. Later, when the series had a great deal more popularity, many Americans simply associated jelly babies with Doctor Who and with the Doctor as played by Tom Baker. Under license from the BBC, one company sold jelly babies in packaging resembling the Doctor's TARDIS, advertising them as "the Cosmic Candy of the Time Lords".
  • The "Inside the TARDIS" featurette on the UK DVD of Doctor Who includes a closeup view of the bowl of jelly babies enjoyed by the Seventh Doctor at the start of the film.
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