Was Fortycoats the irish Doctor who ????

Santa Claus · 05-04-2005 05:13PM #1

For those of you too young to know any better, Fortycoats was an Irish TV icon back in the early 80's (he was up there with Pat Ingolsby and Aengus McAnally!).

Anyway, I reckon the brits got the idea for Doctor who from seeing Fortycoats. Just look at the facts :

Doctor who had the tardis, fortycoats had the flying sweetshop
Doctor who had various assistants, fortycoats had his trusty female side-kick "slightly bonkers"
Doctor who's greatest enemy was the darleks, fortycoats was always battling the whirlygig witch !

Plus Doctor who was always wearing long scarves.....a classic trick of the one coat enviers !

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 05-04-2005 05:18PM

Who was that butler/mime charictor who used to wear the grey suit?
Used to scare the shít out of me.

Amz · 05-04-2005 05:29PM

There's a Wanderly Wagon Forum Santa Clause, you might find your answer there from people more qualified to discuss it. I have a feeling a large proportion of people replying here are too young to remember Forty Coats.

TheMonster · 05-04-2005 05:41PM

Only one problem - Dr Who was before Forty Coats - so I reckon RTE were the copycats - even had the female assistant - slightly bonkers I beleive she was called

aidan_dunne · 05-04-2005 07:04PM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Who was that butler/mime charictor who used to wear the grey suit?
Used to scare the shít out of me.

Sofar-Sogood. Camp as a row of tents, he was!

Kingsize · 06-04-2005 08:34AM

I always got the feeling there was a faint pissy smell from fortycoats,i reckon he was "street tough" if you catch my drift, the timelord wouldnt stand a chance.

ixoy · 06-04-2005 10:50AM

The Doctor would win. If I'm a pedant I think the poll option should be "The Doctor" and not "Doctor Who" but I'm not. No sir...

I do remember thinking alright that RTE were insipired by "Doctor Who" when they were making "Wanderly Wagon" and cast the Irish Doctor as a sort of hobo. I reckon Forty Coats would be a right little tough fighter, the sort of guy who could appear in "Bum Fights" movies. He might appear nice (I met him once and my lucky sister got a prize off him and has a photo of herself with him!) but he'd know how to defend himself. However, Forty Coats would fall before the might of the Doctor's intellect and his sonic screwdriver....

Kingsize · 06-04-2005 11:48AM

Sonic screwdriver me arse there must be at least one cutthroat razor on those 50 pockets of fortycoats,obviously it would take him a while to figure out where it was but once he got it out bye bye doctor.
also im pretty sure fortycoats would pull some kinda dirty tramp-fighter trick before the fight got under way.
perhaps only wearing 35 coats on the day of the fight& then saying "just let me take my coats off" would give him a couple of seconds advantage on the doctor.
lets not also forget that he would have access to some hillarious novelty products in his shop.

騎手 · 06-04-2005 12:03PM

Fortycoats was definately a Timelord.

Kingsize · 06-04-2005 12:16PM

oh yeah _ atari jaguar would kick K-9's metallic arse too

xern · 11-04-2005 05:13AM

"Well be me forty coats and me fifty pockets" thie bring back memories

oldyouth · 06-05-2013 12:52PM

TheMonster wrote: »

Only one problem - Dr Who was before Forty Coats - so I reckon RTE were the copycats - even had the female assistant - slightly bonkers I beleive she was called

There was a Forty Coats in Dublin, long before Dr. Who and the RTE character. Therefore, he was obviously a time traveller.