Jelly baby

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Guard of honour? You're not fit to guard a jelly baby! Would you like a jelly baby?The Doctor [The Invasion of Time [src]]

Jelly babies were a form of Earth sweet favoured by the Doctor during several of his incarnations and one of The Master.

Appearances and mentions

Second Doctor

  • The Doctor snacked on something in a white bag which is what the Doctor usually carries his jelly babies. (DW: The Dominators)

Fourth Doctor

Now drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!The Fourth Doctor [The Face of Evil [src]]

Sixth Doctor

  • In a confused condition brought on by attacks upon his second incarnation, the Doctor makes random references to his previous lives, including "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 investigated 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, technically making this his last meal. (DW: Doctor Who)
  • After he appears to die in a San Francisco hospital, his belongings end up in the possession of a youth named Chang Lee. Amongst those possessions is a bag of jelly babies. (DW: Doctor Who)

Eighth Doctor

  • The Eighth Doctor produces a bag of jelly babies to distract a police officer, and then disarm him (exactly how he was able to obtain the sweets under the circumstances is left a mystery). (DW: Doctor Who)
  • He also then uses 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)

Tenth Doctor

  • The Doctor gives Donna Noble a bag to breathe into when she begins hyperventilating; she comments that it smells of jelly babies. (NSA: The Forever Trap)

Other

Jelly baby?Harold Saxon offering a jelly baby to his wife. [The Sound of Drums [src]]

Behind the Scenes

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The 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.
  • 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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