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Bessie – WHO1

Bessie Doctor Who’s Car

During the Doctors exile on Earth he worked for U.N.I.T. With the TARDIS no longer working the Doctor used Bessie to travel about on Earth.

Exile on Earth

Originally the Doctor was on the run from the Time Lords, during the end of the Doctors second regeneration they caught up with him. Because of all the crimes he’d committed, interfering with other cultures they forced him to regenerate and then exiled him to Earth in the 1970′s.

Regular appearances

Bessie first appeared in the season 7 story Doctor Who and the Silurians. It made its final regular appearance in the fourth Doctor’s first story Robot. Bessie made special appearences in The Five Doctors and Battlefield where the number plate changed to WHO7.

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The Ambassadors of Death

Inferno

Terror of the Autons

The Mind of Evil

The Dæmons

The Time Monster

The Three Doctors

The Green Death

Planet of the Spiders

Robot

The Five Doctors

Battlefield

Dimensions in Time

The Whomobile

The Whomobile was a low hovercraft type vehicle that was also capable of flying. The car itself was commissioned by Jon Pertwee and was only seen in the 1974 season 11 stories Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Planet of the Spiders.

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Planet of the Spiders

Moped

The Doctor’s moped was only seen once in The Idiot’s Lantern. The Doctor rode it out of the TARDIS thinking he had arrived in New York City when he had actually arrived in London.

Anti-gravity motorbike

The Anti-gravity motorbike was first seen in The Bells of Saint John, the Doctor used it to climb the Shard in London. It was also seen in The Day of the Doctor, Clara used it to drive from work to the TARDIS.

The Bells of Saint John

The Day of the Doctor