A cot was somewhere to sleep, a bed or bedding, often associated with a smaller bed for a child or a similar sized small bed. (TV: "The Singing Sands" [+]Part of Marco Polo, Loading...{"namedep":"The Singing Sands","1":"Marco Polo (TV story)"}, PROSE: In the Sixties [+]Loading...["In the Sixties (short story)"]) For an adult it was often associated with being a portable bed, or one used in the outdoors as part of an exploratory, educational or military force. (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Loading...["Set Piece (novel)"], Walking to Babylon [+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"], Emotional Chemistry [+]Loading...["Emotional Chemistry (novel)"])
When the First Doctor collapsed when travelling with Marco Polo in 1289 he said a cot would be prepared for the Doctor to rest in a wagon in. (TV: "The Singing Sands" [+]Part of Marco Polo, Loading...{"namedep":"The Singing Sands","1":"Marco Polo (TV story)"})
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In 1943 Kathleen Dudman kept her baby Audrey in a cot half hidden beside her bunk. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"], PROSE: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)"])
In the mid-1970s Harry McShane took his son Liam McShane from his cot after discovering Audrey's affair for his friend Jack. (AUDIO: The Rapture [+]Loading...["The Rapture (audio story)"])
The newborn Paul Magrs slept in a cot in a hospital in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear. (PROSE: In the Sixties)
During the Battle of Demons Run, the Eleventh Doctor provided a cot for the infant Melody Pond to sleep in. As he revealed to Melody's parents, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the cot was infact his own. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)