1973: JON PERTWEE in the WHOMOBILE | Blue Peter | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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- Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee glides into the Blue Peter studio for a chat with Peter Purves about the Whomobile, the Doctor's unique new mode of transport.
Originally broadcast 5 November, 1973.
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Jon Pertwee got the the who mobil after he left the show. According to his son Sean they would take it out to open supermarkets and things and get stopped by the police just so they could have a turn behind the wheel.
@@oscarwilde5473 - Thank you Mr Wilde, I’m honoured!
100mph in a 3 wheeler... now that's brave and of course would only have ever have been conducted on a private road.
Fixed it.
Actually it wasn't the BBCs car; it was Jon himself who commissioned and had it built... Mainly because he wanted to get it into Doctor Who. According to one of the DVD documentaries he showed up at the studio one day and parked it so it could be seen from the Who offices hoping to catch Barry Lett's attention.
@@AtheistOrphan There's always one...
Jon Pertwee- Suave, sophisticated and a great actor.
That's the sort of car a child in 1973 would think we'd be driving (flying?) 50 years later. But it's that Dr Who theme tune - it just transports me back (if you pardon the pun).
That theme is certainly iconic, it doesn’t really transport me though as I hear it most days, courtesy of the awesome work from Big Finish.
Looks like the kind of car Homer Simpson would design. If you remember that episode.
Actually, it reminds me more of Gerry Anderson’s Supercar.
@@andrewtomes4980
That particular arrangement was used for seventy-four point eight three-repeating stories, three hundred seventy-four episodes.
My childhood coincided with Troughton/Pertwee/Baker on Dr Who and John/Peter/Val/Lesley on Blue Peter. I chose a great time to be born!
Me too great times
Me too, I include William Hartnell on my resume too.
was indeed
Yes you did. Special shout out to Petra. I miss the pets from Blue Peter as much as I miss the presenters.
But what about Rolf and Saville? Why did you chose to be born when they were popular? Bad person.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jon Pertwee at a TV studio after a show. He is a GENTLEMAN and charming.👍
john looked as looks as cool and dapper in real life, British legend missed dearly
Peter Purves wearing a red shirt with brown trousers! Now that is fashion from another planet.
I know, it takes me right back to the excitement I felt when our catalogue arrived twice a year and saw the latest styles! :-D Even though I preferred the toys!
He used to be a companion of the first Doctor!
@@traceya9615 Kays, Grattan and Littlewoods. We had them all too. What a lovely flashback. 👍
This is awesome. It is sooooo 1973. Jon Pertwee is my all time favourite Dr Who.
Wow. Saw this when originally aired.
How times have changed.
Great days..
😂Now presenters are in same ol attire ...robot city..like todays hairstyles
1973: “You’re not allowed to have a television screen while driving”
2022: every car has a television screen (of sorts) that is a dangerous distraction because simple things like adjusting the temperature is buried in a maze of menus! A great demonstration of progress in the name of safety….
Aside from the car (which didn't really catch on) this clip really does show how attitudes to television have changed. Purves does not mention, even in passing, that he was once a regular in the show, a mere seven years previous. What was past was past, and forgotten. Or in the good Doctor's case, wiped.
He didn’t mention pandemics, transgenderism, climate change, diversity or even touch on white privilege and slavery.
Those heady days before state sponsored propaganda programs for children, of course we now have the One Show that does all those things.
Was this reply necessary?
@@photosphotos he also didn't comment on identifying as a plant pot.
@@WringtonGamer that’s very true or a scarecrow
@@photosphotos No, he didn't mention any of those things. You did.
I was a kid at school and my classmates Dad built that car and brought it into the playground in Beeston Nottingham, her name was Tony Farris.
Watching Jons Doctor was a big part of my Childhood. Remember him in the Radio Comedy the Navy Lark too. Jon was so cool on and off screen. Peter Purves was in Dr Who with William Hartnell during the 1960s.
The twinchin screeews
Just relived 4 minutes of my childhood…
❤❤❤❤ love him growing up my childhood hero👍
Pertwee is the coolest Doctor with the best stuff!!! Thanks for sharing!! 😁
This is just fantastic. I loved Jon Pertwee: his manner and dress sense delighted me as a child. Wonderful to see the unflappable Jason and lovely Petra.
Jason 1964-76
Petra 1962-77
Patch 1965-71.
What a team they were.
Jon Pertwee and the gorgeous Katy Manning were simply the best!
But don't forget Elisabeth Sladen.
As a kid I’d regularly see the Whomobile parked up at its creators garage when he was working on it. That was back in the late seventies so I wonder what became of it and it’s creator.
The car lived on. I saw it in Newcastle city centre about 20 years ago. It looked in good nick, and the driver seemed to be enjoying it. It seemed to be fine in a busy city centre, with no sign of it being difficult to drive.
@@BungleBare its still listed on the DVLA database as a whomobile, but not been taxed for a few years
@@russthebiker It's probably classed as an Historic now so Tax and MOT free.
But I have a feeling its probably in some Auto Museum, somewhere. ???
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 you still have to tax the car online, although its is free to do so. otherwise you SORN it
@@russthebiker DVLA database Sounds like the CIA database to me
Lovely innocent times - much missed.
"Sticks to the ground like a limpet" LOL The Sex appeal oozes off the screen!!
Jon Pertwee was brilliant.
The Third Doctor and Steven together, wow.
The Whomobile reminds me of a stingray
Reminds me of a fairground dodgem. Loved Jon Pertwee, he was the best Dr.
Yes, Pertwee was the best… and Jo was my fav assistant
Agreed - and the 'Earth - based' episodes he starred in, set in the 70s supposedly to save money on sets - turned out to be some of the best.
-as for the car, it's reg. is listed on DVLA as a 'Whomobile Alien' although untaxed since 1997..
"The vehicle was not created for Doctor Who, but was personally commissioned by Jon Pertwee, who retained possession of it after his tenure as the Doctor. Pertwee gave it the name "Whomobile" during press interviews, but it was also known - again, off-screen - as "Alien". Had the vehicle been named in Doctor Who, it almost certainly would not have been called "the Whomobile", as this violated producer Barry Letts's strong conviction against making plays on the programme's title. The Doctor Who Technical Manual referred to it simply as "the Doctor's Car." In spite of this, the name was indeed given as "the Whomobile" in the audio drama featuring Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladen, Glorious Goodwood. This was much later reaffirmed in Bessie Come Home.
The Whomobile (reg: WVO 2M) was one of Jon Pertwee's personal vehicles. He retained possession of it until nearly the end of his life.
The Whomobile was hastily written into the script of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, where it replaced an army motorcycle as the Doctor's transport around the deserted London. The Whomobile's roof/door section had not been completed at the time of filming, so a motor-boat windscreen was fitted to make the car legally roadworthy. The vehicle was classified technically as an "Invalid Tricycle".
When Pertwee demonstrated the vehicle to Peter Purves on the 5 November 1973 edition of Blue Peter during his tenure, he revealed that the vehicle was roadworthy and legal, though he mentioned that the BBC forbade him or any of the production crew from removing it from the studios except for outside shoots. It was capable of a top speed of 105 mph (roughly 169 km/h). Footage of this is available on the DVD release of Invasion of the Dinosaurs and the Season 10 Blu-ray.
An extra on The Three Doctors DVD reveals Jon Pertwee introduced it on Blue Peter prior to its debut."
- from TARDIS.fandom.com
@@paulcornwell9207 totally agree 👍
He is and always will be Worzel Gummidge to me.. Tom Baker was my first Doctor Who. When I saw the reruns of Pertwee as the Doctor, I kept imagining he would say “Oh, Aunt Sally”, and Una Stubbs would saunter in.
@@memsom yep, loved worzel and Co, tv series wasn’t true to the books but it was still good, I watch it on UA-cam sometimes, the modern version with Mackenzie Crook isn’t anywhere near as good, still watchable though.
Thank you for posting this trip down memory lane. What a class act Jon was with his distinctive voice and so great we have his talented son Sean with us.
Jon Pertwee is my second favourite doctor who after David Tennant i love all of jon Pertwee story as the third doctor and I own alot of his story As the third doctor on dvd and love that fact that he was a very nice person in real life
It's good to see Dr Who was into health and safety with the seat belt and indicators on such s bizarre shaped vehicle. 😆
It's because he designed it to be road legal and just had it shoehorned into the show after he'd already got it 😂
@@DevilboyScooby I know, I was joking in the context of the Dr Who character not the actor driving it about London being playboy. 😃
The Pertwee Doctor Who era was largely set in a near-future Britain, when The Doctor was exiled to earth by the Timelords, and got a job with U.N.I.T.
In that context, even if The Doctor made himself a car, it would still need to be road legal; something Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart would no doubt have insisted on, given it would be driven by a U.N.I.T. employee.
The Doctor had previously made Bessie to get himself around in, and that was road legal too.
As soon as he went clunk click I thought of Jimmy Savile
lol I've just searched the registration number to see if it was taxed (last tax 1997), but the make is classed as a "WHOMOBILE ALIEN" :) Love it.
I love how he just casually drives in as if this was a normal, every day occurrence. Great actor and lovely accent, his time as the Doctor was wonderful.
I can understand why the car did not stick around as long as Bessie did, it was a (cool) product of its time.
If you are watching this and you like Jon Perrwee, there's a load of "Whodunnit" videos where he hosted the show. Just type "Whodunnit" and "Jon Pertwee" in the search box - very enjoyable !.
*That looks really cool. Look forward to seeing it in the new series.*
I was born in the 80s so unfortunately missed Jon Pertwee’s time as Doctor Who, although his voice is ingrained in my memory as Spotty from Superted.
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This car was made next to where i live in Carlton Nottingham, For years there was a fiberglass mold of it stuck on the roof of the building it was made in, Building still there but the car long since gone.
Fantastic vehicle and an amazing Doctor.
Three wheels? Hang on!
Jon Pertwee - uniquely elegant and charismatic, and unmistakably British! He will always be the ultimate Dr Who in my eyes.
My absolute favourite Dr Who (ok Tom Baker too!).
You'd need a seriously smooth road surface for that machine. Looks like it's got close to zero ground clearance. I want one :)
No chance of driving it now with all the speed bumps we have on the roads these days.
OK for escaping daleks though!
@@johno4521 LOL, perfect :)
The studio had a smooth surface, and the petrol fumes must've been a real thrill to sniff...
@@jamesmacleod671 You must have missed the part when it mentions it can fly
Cup of tea and a slice of cake legend
My favourite. He was, My Doctor 😊
Love the bog standard Lucas fittings and motorcycle mudguard front plate. The distant future has clearly adopted the magnetic tape cassette, and British kit car companies. Merch mobile at its finest.
And the chassis is from a Bond Bug
@@ChrisHopkinsBass Ah, that makes sense now - thanks - any idea what the engine was please? I thought they'd covered the noise up when it entered because it sounded weak or something, but when he started it up to leave it sounded quite nice actually!
@@phillipbailey70 Hillman Imp .
@@DaveJudd Gosh I haven't seen one of those in years! Thank you very much for the reply 😎
Jon Pertwee, my Doctor!
The best Doctor ever
I was too young to remember seeing this in any of the episodes it was in (or that episode of Blue Peter) but Jon was my fave Dr seconded by Tom Baker and I remember being scared out of my skin as a lot young child of the giant green maggot episodes! Classics! ❤️
The Drassigs scared the living daylights out of me as a child.
sea devils spooked me as a 5 year old
@@bonysminiatures3123 Yeah! They were scary too!
@@redpillnibbler4423 What were they?
@@DracapellaDeetz
They were in The Carnival of Monsters.
It's alright for Jon Pertwee to do over a 100mph in that death trap, he can regenerate, the rest of us would be off to the morgue.
Imagine Jon's Doctor and Worzel appearing in a show together. I think that would have worked!
Dr: I see what we have here; you're a Borgon, lost on Earth and hiding in plain sight as a scarecrow.
Worzel: What the 'eck're ya yammin' 'bout? I've never 'eard of no Borgolls in all my life!
I actually always wanted to see the Doctor using the Whomobile to go to a beach party. Too bad that we never got to see that very scene.
It's even got a tape deck! hehe. This was a little before my time, but only just. Tom Baker was my time but I still love Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who just as much, he was brilliant.
I got to sit in this when I was about 6 years old. We were in London to buy a camper van and it was in the showroom window!
100mph in this must have been terrifying! It's a rather nicely made thing, though.
It would be interesting to know just where he took it for that 100mph jaunt
@@islingtonfreenewsmedia This was when metric was coming in - he meant 100 metres per minute.
Got quite a bit of ground effect, might not be that bad
@@tallthinkev Certainly better than a Reliant Regal (1973 was also Reliant's best sales year on record.)
This guy most favourite Doctor who,
I still remember when he die ,that was a incredible SAD day for me 😪
Jon Pertwee was my first doctor. They were repeating the series in about '92 at around the time BBC were reshowing Star Trek TOS and I loved both. I always liked that car.
That's right However I watched the rerun's through cable and satellite As we just had it installed in our street, The Star Trek Rewinds were on a Friday night around 6:00 PM on BBC 2 Then in the second half of that year they put Thunderbirds on in the same time slot, Because Christmas 1992 Mum and dad were fighting With other moms and dads In Argos of all places trying to get Their children Tracy Islands. Toys R Us sold out !
I do apologise for the long reply....but
I couldn't believe it at the time Every night around 8:00 o'clock I would fire up the satellite & I would watch Top of the pops from 1975 I didn't even know it existed then,
I thought it was an 80s programme, However this totps Didn't have a wiped out Jimmy Savile, then they would put Doctor Who on With John Pertrie It was so different from the modern doctor who that I'd seen in the mid 80s as he seemed to be in one place with some Army colonel and driving an old fashioned car but I do remember the the flying car
1992 were the first days of cable and satellite For the working class of course plus they would show The old Coronation Street from the late 60s and early 70s On Granada Plus, It was in colour but the actors and actresses seemed so thin and young, I was way too Young to understand weight gain in an adult
And To top that off on a Friday night around 9:00 o'clock 9:00 PM if you were lucky and Mom and dad were down the pub, You could flick through the channels and find a soft core German porn movie, Something trust me I wasn't used to but most of my friends at school were And would giggle about it On Monday morning Assembly
It was An amazing Liberating And transforming time to watch the Telly.
0:13 Awesome Behind The Scenes Look About Doctor Who The Original Series. Thanks Mate. X
The days when Doctor Who was a genuine actor and entertainer.
Really cool looking. I would love to see it return to the show.
I remember watching this as a special feature on The Three Doctors DVD if I remember correctly.
What utter class. They don't make them ike this any more.
My favorite Dr Who when I was growing up ❤ and what a magnificent machine and expert driving on Blue Peter, I'm surprised we didn't go that way or use police phone boxes for transportation instead of electric vehicles..😆
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I had forgot about this .
same here, just came up in my recommendations...wonder where it is now, if not crushed
Does anybody know where that amazing thing is now? And I love how Jon was so into it.
a chap call Paul owns it
That thing is funky, real cool
Seems to me that the design drew very heavily from Gerry Anderson's Supercar and Stingray vehicles.
The Doctors Car... 'I used to be a Reliant Robin, but I'm all right now!'
I’d guess it could have been based on a Bond 875; a rear engined 3 wheeler from the late sixties. The mechanicals were basically the engine and drivetrain from a Hillman Imp.
You’re not far off with mention of a Reliant Robin if the Whomobile was based on a Bond 875 though; Reliant bought Bond around that the turn of the ‘70s, and some of the 875’s ideas ended up in the Robin. The Robin stayed front-engined though, as was Reliant’s normal way of doing things.
I first saw this car in the Doctor who technical manual. If you think about it, some of the car was inspired by the Batmobile. Then later, she was the inspiration for KITT
Man. That car looked sick.
Completely unique is just as unique as any other unique thing. There are no degrees of uniqueness Peter P
Sigh.....
RTD Needs to revamp The Whomobile for The 14th Doctor in 2023!
He should concentrate on writing decent stories first, that's something that's been lacking for several years.
They need to revamp the stories too lol , a few where good but most where set Victorian England for some inexplicable reason
How fast? Oh well over 100.
Yeah right!
Kph
Remember seeing him once, driving a open top white merc near arundel west sussex
when the BBC was watchable
I remember seeing this ( or a copy? ) outside a car dealers ( garage? ) near the North Circular Road in Chingford area of London when I was young. Never went back to see it again close up or find out why it was there 😥
I remember watching this a kid and seeing it the programme
Peter seemed almost choked up at the very end
Last V5 issued on the Whomobile Alien was 2005 so its still out there somewhere 👍
That's a fine pair of trousers that Pate's wearing.
Jon Pertwee was the best Dr Who and the best series, it was of a particular time, it is the one I remember watching as a kid, Tom Baker was pretty good but I never quite got used to him, maybe I was getting older, I've never watched any of the modern versions, I wonder if that Who mobile is still around, I read that it actually belonged to Jon Pertwee and that it was commissioned for one story of episodes to replace a motorbike that had originally been in the script, the rest of the time Jon Pertwee as Dr Who drove around in a yellow vintage Edwardian car.
Vehicle Details
Vehicle make WHOMOBILE ALIEN
Date of first registration November 1993
Year of manufacture 1973
Cylinder capacity 975 cc
CO₂ emissions Not available
Fuel type PETROL
Euro status Not available
Real Driving Emissions (RDE) Not available
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed
Vehicle colour SILVER
Vehicle type approval Not available
Wheelplan 3 WHEEL
Revenue weight Not available
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 15 July 2005
I just knew that there would be another sad git like me !!
I checked it on the DVLA base too !! 🤣
@@suffolkngood You have any info about if its still around?
Missed a bit…
_Tax due: 1 January 1997_
Good form for a 3-wheeler because it wouldn't tip over!
Bessie and the who mobile probably in a garage inside the tardis somewhere like the 10th doctors scooter and 11th doctors motorbike 😂❤
Glad he didn't run over the cat on the way out.
There's not a cat in hell's chance I'd sit in that thing travelling at over 100mph!
Trying to get that over a speed bump would be like a Dalek trying to get upstairs
Really nice, that car. Even though I haven't watched the original Doctor Who.
Built by the Pete Ferris, fantastic eccentric English car customiser.. ✨
Omg...this has taken me back in time...lol
Jon Pertwee will always be the best Dr Who!
I wonder where the Whomobile is now? ❤️
Peter Purves starred as Steven in the William Hartnell Dr Who. ❤️
I dont remember that car at all, Jon Pertwee's son is a great actor Sean, he is great in the film "Soldier" with Kurt Russel.
Way cooler than the Batmobile.
I love jon pertwee
I actually lived through the 70's and made it 😂
Doctor Who? Jon Pertwee, the 1 and only
My favourite Dr...who?...
John Pertwee ..That's who! 😁
I looked at the MOT details online and the reg comes up as WHOMOBILE ALIEN 😂😂
💗Flares and trouser suits are due a comeback💗
Jon Pertwee said that police would stop him while he was driving it. It looked illegal but everything was completely legal and totally fine to drive.
If only it could fly in real life. We’d be living in a very different era by now, or so I’d like to believe.
Jon the personable.
I miss those times 💜
It would be a brave man to go over 100 in that thing o.0