Jelly baby Jelly babies were an English sweet favoured by the Doctor , his fourth incarnation in particular . The Doctor often offered them to companion s and others he met on his travels . Jelly babies were in the shape of a miniature humanoid child . They were made out of gelatin and were available in a variety of colours and flavours . Colours included green , orange , black , pink ( PROSE : " Utopia " ) and red . ( AUDIO : " Scaredy Cat " ) History . At one point , the company that made jelly babies decided to discontinue production of the pink jelly babies , unaware that it was a favourite colour of their customers . The company began to lose profits and eventually went bankrupt . ( PROSE : " Utopia " ) Appearances and mentions . Second Doctor . The Second Doctor ate jelly babies from a bag while waiting in a travel capsule . ( TV : " The Dominators " ) He also offered a jelly baby to Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart while in the TARDIS . ( TV : " The Three Doctors " ) When cornered by a Yeti and hunting through his pocket for a firework , he withdrew a bag of jelly babies . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) He had a bag of jelly babies in his pocket when he visited Mars with Jamie and Zoe . ( AUDIO : " Lords of the Red Planet " ) Third Doctor . Jo Grant once found jelly babies in the Third Doctor ' s pockets . ( AUDIO : " Ghost in the Machine " ) Fourth Doctor . The Fourth Doctor offered Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan jelly babies , before taking them off on their adventures . They both accepted . ( TV : " Robot " ) The Doctor offered round a bag of jelly babies while aboard Space Station Nerva , shortly making an analogy to Wirrn eating up human ity , should they win . The Doctor later threw a bag of jelly babies to Vira as Sarah Jane , Harry and he were about to beam down to Earth via the transmat . ( TV : " The Ark in Space " ) After the Doctor was neutralised by the Cybermen , Kellman searched through his pockets and found a packet of jelly babies . ( TV : " Revenge of the Cybermen " ) He offered one to Leela of the Sevateem tribe upon their first meeting , leading her to think he ate babies . He also bluffed the Sevateem by threatening one of the tribe with a " deadly jelly baby " . ( TV : " The Face of Evil " ) The Doctor pondered whether a market world sold jelly babies . ( AUDIO : " Death - Dealer " ) When emptying his pockets for Magnus Greel , one of the things the Doctor placed on the table was his bag of jelly babies . He began eating them . The Doctor offered one to Greel , but was refused . ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) The Doctor offered round a bag of jelly babies while on the sandminer ; they were slapped out of his hands by an imposter working there . To this , he replied , saying , " A simple no thank you would have been sufficient " . ( TV : " The Robots of Death " ) The Doctor gave Ted Moss a jelly baby . While investigating the Fendahl on Earth he offered the skull dubbed " Eustace " a jelly baby , in jest . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) The Doctor told Cordo that instead of ending his life , he needed a jelly baby . When Cordo tried to take the sweet he offered , the Doctor grabbed his hand through the bag and Leela knocked him down . While in the Correction Centre on Pluto , the Doctor offered the workers jelly babies , telling them they were in his jacket pocket . After he was freed , he left the bag with Bisham , another prisoner . This was later a clue Leela used to find him . ( TV : " The Sun Makers " ) Upon arriving on Gallifrey , the Doctor declared that the Chancellery Guard were not worthy to guard a jelly baby . He then offered Andred one , which was declined . Upon returning to his TARDIS to , apparently , retrieve another bag of jelly babies , the Doctor was confronted by Chancellery Guard Andred . After explaining what the jelly babies were , the Doctor simultaneously ate one while Andred ate another . He then gave the bag to Andred , saying to beware a " certain someone " because he didn ' t approve of the delicious sweet . While Lord President , the Doctor asked Castellan Kelner to remove a jelly baby from his pocket for him . He asked it be orange , his preference . However , once he heard that there weren ' t any orange jelly babies , the Doctor slammed the bag to the table . ( TV : " The Invasion of Time " ) The Doctor offered jelly babies to James T . Kirk , Spock , Leonard McCoy and Montgomery Scott . Spock pronounced them " fascinating . " ( COMIC : " Assimilation² " ) The Doctor offered Fenella Wibbsey a jelly baby , telling her to take two as they were nutritious . ( AUDIO : " The Relics of Time " ) Romana I offered a bag of jelly babies around while she and the Doctor were on Zanak . He used them twice to lure a guard away from a vehicle ; the second time was not effective . ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) The Doctor interrupted the game of rock - paper - scissors he was playing with Romana II by placing a jelly baby in her hand , showing illogical moves can sometimes help . The Doctor offered a jelly baby to Davros , which was slapped out of his hand . ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " ) While in the Eden projection , the Doctor ate some jelly babies . ( TV : " Nightmare of Eden " ) He also gave a green one missing a leg to Bernice Summerfield , who was tracking the Key to Time . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) The Doctor offered some jelly babies to the Anethan s aboard a Skonnan freighter . After Romana showed them they were not poisonous , they accepted . ( TV : " The Horns of Nimon " ) The Iron Legion invaded a British town in which the Doctor happened to be at a shop , stocking up on jelly babies . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Iron Legion " ) Fifth Doctor . The Fifth Doctor gave some Tibet an Sherpas a bag of jelly babies in exchange for the use of their yak s and cart to move his TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " The Roof of the World " ) Sixth Doctor . In a confused condition brought on by attacks upon his second incarnation , the Sixth Doctor made random references to his previous lives and " the tensile strength of jelly babies " . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) On Ravolox , Drathro ' s minions , Humker and Tandrell , discovered a bag of jelly babies in the Doctor ' s coat as they frisked him . He quickly snatched the bag back , before wordlessly offering them each one . ( TV : " The Mysterious Planet " ) Seventh Doctor . The Seventh Doctor enjoyed a snack of jelly babies from a bowl while reading " The Time Machine " , just before the events that led to his regeneration , making it the last thing he ate . After appearing to die in a San Francisco hospital , his belongings ended up in the possession of a youth named Chang Lee . Amongst those possessions was a bag of jelly babies . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Eighth Doctor . The Eighth Doctor produced a bag of jelly babies to distract a police officer , and then disarmed him . He also used a jelly baby to confuse a security guard named Gareth at the Institute for Technological Advancement and Research . The Master also saw an image of the Doctor eating a jelly baby . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) The Eighth Doctor also searched for jelly babies in the markets of Hyspero . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Whilst living on Earth in the town on Greyfrith , he often bought jelly babies by the pound . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) Fitz once told a tale of when the Doctor went missing for days , having gone searching for the " perfect jelly baby " . ( PROSE : " The City of the Dead " ) On Endarra , he offered a jelly baby to Galayana , stating that he had a preference for the red ones . ( AUDIO : " Scaredy Cat " ) Tenth Doctor . The Tenth Doctor gave Donna Noble a bag to breathe into when she began hyperventilating ; she commented that it smelled of jelly babies . ( AUDIO : " The Forever Trap " ) When shopping for some Brainy Crisps to conduct an investigation , the Doctor was able to ignore a lot of the sweets but gave the jelly babies a longing glance . ( PROSE : " Code of the Krillitanes " ) Eleventh Doctor . While trying to stabilise into his namesake ' s form and personality , a Ganger duplicate of the Eleventh Doctor rapidly fluctuated through the earlier incarnations and asked the real Doctor if he would like a jelly baby , in the voice of the Fourth Doctor while holding out his hand as if holding a bag of them . He then mixed the sentences together and said , " I ' ve reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow . " ( TV : " The Almost People " ) When the First Doctor ' s companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright did not recognise his eleventh incarnation as the Doctor , he told them to " Think lapels ! Think monocles ! Think jelly babies ! " , before realising they became associated with the Doctor after Ian and Barbara ' s time with the Doctor ' s first incarnation . ( COMIC : " Hunters of the Burning Stone " ) The Eleventh Doctor found jelly babies from " the late 70 ' s " in a room of his TARDIS dating back to his fourth incarnation and offered them to Alice Obiefune , Abslom Daak and River Song . ( COMIC : " The One " ) Twelfth Doctor . When investigating the deaths occurring aboard the Orient Express in space , the Twelfth Doctor approached Professor Moorhouse regarding the myth of the Foretold and exchanged information with him . During their conversation , he took out a cigarette case full of jelly babies from his coat , offering one to the professor . ( TV : " Mummy on the Orient Express " ) While on Floor 0507 of the Mondasian colony ship , he offered Alit , a child assisting him and Bill , a jelly baby from a paper bag in his coat . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) Other . Bernice Summerfield went to find a segment of the Key to Time , disguised as a jelly baby , which the Fourth Doctor happened to have . To this end , she met him while fending off Mandrel s in the section of Eden taken by the Continuous Event Transmuter . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) When disguised as the Fourth Doctor , Affinity offered the Twelfth Doctor a Worthington ' s Superior Peppermint . ( PROSE : " Silhouette " ) Behind the scenes . Jelly Babies are a real - world product sold under that name since 1953 ( existing long before their association with " Doctor Who " ) , and under other names many years before that . They are similar to gummi candies . On a number of occasions , the Fourth Doctor offered " jelly babies " when in fact he was holding another kind of sweet , such as . ( TV : " The Sun Makers " , " Image of the Fendahl " ) On Tom Baker ' s official website , an overview of Tom Baker ' s tenure as the Fourth Doctor by writer Nicholas Pegg claimed that the original script of " The Face of Evil " involved the Fourth Doctor threatening the tribesmen with a knife . Feeling that such an act was not appropriate , he insisted that the Doctor bluff his way out with a jelly baby instead . In the United States , jelly babies had a low profile as a confectionery product . When Pinnacle Books published " Doctor Who " novelisations in new packaging , the editorial changes made by them included changing jelly babies to jelly beans , for fear of confusing American readers . Later , when the series had a great deal more popularity , many Americans simply associated jelly babies with " Doctor Who " and with the Doctor as played by Tom Baker . Under license from the BBC , one company sold jelly babies in packaging resembling the Doctor ' s TARDIS , advertising them as " the Cosmic Candy of the Time Lord s " . The " Inside the TARDIS " featurette on the UK DVD of the tele - movie " Doctor Who " includes a closeup view of the bowl of jelly babies enjoyed by the Seventh Doctor at the start of the movie . Jelly babies appear as collectible cards in " " .