The Highlanders

"Highland 5-0", "Jacobite Me", "A Kilty Pleasure" 

“The One with the Hairy Legged Highlander” (USA), “The Beginning of the Gravy Train” (Fraser Hines' autobiography "Bigger on the Outside than the Inside")

Doctor Who goes to Scotland with a Cockerny lad and a posh bird and leaves with a Cockerny lad, a posh bird and Fraser Hines.

*** - it does for Scotland what the War Machines did for cardboard boxes.

"Hoots mon and och aye the noo,

That man over there, is the new Doctor Who,

From his voice I can tell that he's a Sassenach,

But I'll travel with him then he'll bring me right back"

(thankfully the idea of a rhyming script was abandoned at the eighth draft when Patrick Troughton threatened to set fire to the writer's desk)

Doctor: 'Down with pants!'

Jamie: 'So you are for the thong after all.'

Doctor: 'No, I just like hearing the echo!'

Fraser Hines was the victim of a first day prank when Michael "He's so" Craze "y" undid Hines' kilt while he was asleep. He woke up, bared his underpants in front of a rabbi, and ran off red faced.

Patrick Troughton's huge hat makes another appearance in this serial. Troughton used to keep a bottle of champagne under it to sup during breaks in recording.

The oft quoted line 'Take a man round the rear, sergeant' in fact refers to a complicated military manoeuvre in which one soldier has anal sex with a comrade.

The Glastonbury Bog reviewed the story and said it was "blistering" while the Ambridge Buffalo said it was "spitefully made, spitefully written and spitefully broadcast".

Anneke Wills rarely stops telling the story of the time everyone in the cast dressed up as aged washer women and when Patrick Troughton turned round, in drag, he carried on with the scene without so much as a chuckle. The director was furious as it was a TARDIS scene and Troughton was meant to be wearing his normal clothes.

Si Hunt

"Several years ago, Ian Devine and I had a disagreement over the precise workings of the Brent-Devine cataloguing system which we were confident would soon organise the shelves and vaults of telehistorians, media-archivists and technical researchers the world over. The disagreement hinged partly on whether on screen graphics and voiceovers which were displayed during technical difficulties should be catalogued according to the programme type in which they were displayed or under a separate 'broadcasting difficulties' heading, and partly on whether it should be called the Brent-Devine System or the Devine-Brent System. Thus I was forced to advertise for a new best friend in all the major publications of the day. I must, as uncharacteristic as this sounds, have worded my advertisement badly as only one person applied for the post. I sat behind my desk and grilled Mr Hines on why he thought he was ideal for the job. He babbled something about getting into a character and a wide experience in television and it dawned on me that he had mistaken my position as best friend for an acting role. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said sharply, "I am not auditioning you in your capacity as an actor - if I'd wanted a meat puppet I could've hired one of my acquaintances from the Bendaton Strollers company. I want you to be my best friend. I won't deny that it is a challenging position but if you are prepared to bend over backwards in my service you won't find me ungenerous." He called me a word which probably means something in Scottish and fled towards the door. I have dined out on that story many times (twice to be exact and one of those was a "take away") as it is believed to be the only time Frazer Hines ever turned down a "Doctor Who" related job <g>"

Kilts for wusses

Bonnie lassies