Hat A hat was an article of clothing worn on the top of the head . Fashion . Stella Bopbates was famous for designing hats around the year 200 , 100 . Rose Tyler was asked this on the Game Station ' s version of " The Weakest Link " . ( TV : " Bad Wolf " ) The Doctor ' s hats . In the majority of his lifetimes , the Doctor wore a hat on a regular or semi - regular basis . The incarnations that showed no particular interest in hats were the Sixth , War , Ninth , Tenth and Twelfth Doctor s . First Doctor . The First Doctor ' s usual hat of choice was a karakul or Astrakhan , a triangular hat often associated with Afghanistan , or what one account called an " oddly shaped fur hat " . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child " ) It was this hat he was wearing when he met Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton , as well as during his first and at the start and end of his last adventures with Ben Jackson and Polly Wright . ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " , " The War Machines " , " The Tenth Planet " ) However , he also possessed a kind of Panama hat , which he wore in hotter climes . He donned a white Panama hat when he was on the hunt for the Dalek s ' taranium in Egypt and while sunbathing on the planet Aridius . ( TV : " Escape Switch " , TV : " The Chase " ) This incarnation was not averse to occasionally playing dress - up . When in Revolutionary France , he obtained period - appropriate wardrobe . Because the costume was that of a regional official , his hat was particularly elaborate , bearing a strong resemblance to an early 18th century French army officer ' s hat . ( TV : " The Reign of Terror " ) Second Doctor . Early on , the Second Doctor was particularly obsessed with hats . One of his very first acts after regeneration was to rummage through a trunk in the TARDIS to find a stovepipe hat to wear . He wore the hat throughout his first adventure on Vulcan . ( TV : " The Power of the Daleks " ) He sometimes uttered the phrase , " I would like a hat like that ( or this ) " if he saw a hat he particularly fancied . ( TV : " The Power of the Daleks " , " The Highlanders " ) In fact , when he arrived in Scotland in the 18th century , he happened across a Balmoral bonnet on a field of battle and immediately donned it . Later in the same adventure , he wore a British Army tricorn as a disguise . On a trip to Atlantis , he briefly returned to the stovepipe , but continued to show his penchant for disguise by temporarily donning a gypsy headdress to appear as a merchant . It was here , too , that Polly noted his fondness for hats . When he began enthusiastically eating food made of plankton , the Doctor ' s praise was effusive . When Ben wondered why the Doctor was so excited , Polly replied , " I don ' t know . I ' ve never seen him go for " food " like this before . It ' s usually hats . " ( TV : " The Underwater Menace " ) After being turned temporary into a Androgum , both he and Shockeye wore top hats when they were going to to eat . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) Third Doctor . Like his predecessor , the Third Doctor almost immediately donned a hat after his regeneration . He found a trilby amongst a physician ' s clothes at the Ashbridge Cottage Hospital . When he tried it on and looked in a mirror , he seemed to give it a look of approval . However , he wore it for only a short time and generally was without a hat . ( TV : " Spearhead from Space " onwards ) Fourth Doctor . Just like his previous selves , the Fourth Doctor ' s initial clothing instincts were to reach for a hat after his regeneration . His outfit was supplied entirely from the TARDIS wardrobe and he tried on a variety of outfits , most of them with hats . Amongst the rejected hats were a Viking helmet and a tall clown ' s hat . Finally he settled on a wide - brimmed brown fedora . ( TV : " Robot " ) Unlike in his two previous incarnations however , he used this hat fairly consistently for a period of his life , before replacing it with green felt fedora . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) Over time , he began to use the two hats alternately , until he replaced them both with a burgundy felt fedora . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " ) On occasion , he substituted his regular hat with another , such as when he donned a tam o ' shanter whilst in Scotland , ( TV : " Terror of the Zygons " ) a sombrero when he thought he was arriving in Benidorm , Spain , ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Star Beast " ) a deerstalker while visiting Victorian London to go along with his Sherlock Holmes - styled outfit , ( TV : " The Talons of Weng - Chiang " ) and a bowler hat whilst investigating Fang Rock lighthouse . ( TV : " Horror of Fang Rock " ) Fifth Doctor . Like his previous incarnation , the Fifth Doctor had a regular hat . From his first adventure , he carried with him a roll - up Panama hat with a hat band of the same colours as the rest of his outfit . ( TV : " Castrovalva " ) He tended to wear it upon first exiting the TARDIS in a new location , but often quickly rolled it up and put it back in his jacket . Seventh Doctor . Like the Fifth Doctor , the Seventh Doctor also wore a Panama hat , though it was of a different design , with a red Paisley hatband . He wore it regularly , even when indoors . He initially wore an extensively battered hat , ( TV : " Time and the Rani " - " Dragonfire " ) but replaced it with a much less damaged example prior to his encounter with the Dalek s in 1963 . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) He typically removed it from his head to greet others or in respect of someone recently deceased . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " - " Survival " ) When he took to wearing a darker jacket , he also changed his hatband into a subtly darker one . ( TV : " Battlefield " ) Whilst in the vault underneath Windsor Castle in 1988 , he briefly donned a fez . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) Eighth Doctor . After his regeneration in San Francisco on 31 December 1999 , the amnesiac Eighth Doctor ransacked the lockers of the hospital staff for a new outfit . He decided against the stetson that went with the " Wild Bill Hickok " costume which he chose to steal . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) The Doctor once emerged from the TARDIS wearing a fez when he believed that he had materialised in Egypt . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game " ) On another occasion , when visiting the Lakota Sioux Nation in 1875 , he wore a stetson which was given to him by Samuel Clemens . ( COMIC : " Bad Blood " ) Tenth Doctor . The Tenth Doctor showed little interest in hats . He did once , near the end of his life , briefly sport a fez that fell out of a time fissure , before it was snatched off of his head by his future self . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Soon afterwards , he also wore a straw hat , along with sunglasses and a lei , implying he had just finished a relaxing time at a beach . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) He also donned a sombrero on the beaches of Centuria . ( COMIC : " The Power of the Cybermen " ) Eleventh Doctor . The Eleventh Doctor wore a variety of hats , seeking to acquire unique ones . Much like he did during his second incarnation , he possessed a rather obsessive desire to wear a hat ; he would get distracted by a hat he liked even while running away from enemies . ( TV : " The Big Bang , The Curse of the Black Spot " ) He considered damaging a hat to be offensive . ( TV : " A Town Called Mercy " ) Unfortunately for him , River Song did not share his taste in hats , at least twice shooting them . ( TV : " The Big Bang " , " The Impossible Astronaut " ) While in the National Museum , he found a fez of which he became instantly fond . The fez was later removed by Amy Pond and destroyed by River Song . Undeterred , he noted to himself that it would be easy to buy another one . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) He wore another fez while acting as an extra in a film which Rory and Amy were watching , ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " ) and even acquired one previously owned by his old pal Albert Einstein . ( TV : " Death Is the Only Answer " ) He later wore one on a Christmas trip with Kazran Sardick and Abigail Pettigrew to Egypt ( TV : " A Christmas Carol " ) and had one in 2013 London . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) When he and Clara Oswald investigated the National Gallery , he spotted a fez inside a display case and immediately put it on . When Clara noticed , she commented that one day , he was going to be able to just walk past a fez . The Doctor declared that was never going to happen . He later used it to test the safety of a time fissure . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) The Doctor also showed a fondness for stetson s , being given one by Craig Owens as a gift for his trip to Utah . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) He wore his gift during his investigation to find out why the Silence wanted him dead . The " Teselecta " copied the stetson along with his form while impersonating him . The copied Stetson was shot off the copy ' s head by River . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " / " The Wedding of River Song " ) On another occasion , the Doctor borrowed a stetson that had been damaged by a shot fired by the Gunslinger . ( TV : " A Town Called Mercy " ) This version of the Doctor also owned a top hat , which he wore at Amy and Rory ' s wedding , ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) after having been poisoned by River in Nazi Germany ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) and again to conceal a device that allowed him to lure the Squall back into their dimension of origin . ( PROSE : " Paradox Lost " ) He also wore one as part of his Victorian Era clothing while brooding over the loss of Amy and Rory . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) While posing as Sherlock Holmes , he also wore a deerstalker hat similar to the one his fourth incarnation had during a previous visit to Victorian London . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) Later , the Doctor wore a bowler hat . ( TV : " The Crimson Horror " ) Twelfth Doctor . The Twelfth Doctor did not usually wear a hat , but at Clara ' s insistence donned a fedora when visiting Las Vegas in the 1960s . ( COMIC : " Gangland " ) He also wore a top hat when visiting the Frost fair s with Bill Potts . ( TV : " Thin Ice " ) The companions ' hats . Those companions attached to UNIT or other armed forces wore hats as a part of their uniforms . Ben Jackson ' s sailor ' s cap , for instance , identified him as a member of the crew of the HMS " Teazer " . UNIT officers , like the Brigadier and Captain Mike Yates , most often wore a rigid , green - and - red officer ' s cap , similar to the British Army . Surgeon - Lieutenant Harry Sullivan ' s black , white and gold hat — otherwise quite similar to the standard Army issue — betrayed his secondment from the Royal Navy . Sergeant John Benton most often wore a beret in the field . Indeed , UNIT soldiers and officers alike wore beret s in the field . Over the years , the standard - issue UNIT field beret changed from chocolate brown ( TV : " The Ambassadors of Death " ) to khaki green ( TV : " Terror of the Autons " ) to United Nations blue ( TV : " Battlefield " ) to red . ( TV : " Aliens of London " , " Planet of the Dead " ) Although not in the military , a couple of companions nevertheless had headwear that was a part of a uniform . Tegan Jovanka had a triangular cloth cap as a part of her stewardess ' uniform , but she largely abandoned its use after meeting the Fourth Doctor and Adric . ( TV : " Logopolis " ) Likewise , while Nyssa of Traken was " in uniform " as a Trakenite royal , she wore a tiara . ( TV : " The Keeper of Traken " ) These exceptions aside , most companions simply didn ' t wear hats on anything like a regular basis . A few wore the " occasional " hat strictly as a fashion accessory , often whimsical . In both her incarnations , Romana was fond of wearing hats . Romana I wore a flat cap on her first visit to Earth ( TV : " The Stones of Blood " ) and an elaborate purple - and - green hat that was " what everyone . . . [ was ] wearing " on Tara . ( TV : " The Androids of Tara " ) Romana II briefly toyed with wearing the Fourth Doctor ' s fedora after her regeneration . She later wore a boater when punt ing in Cambridge ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) and a straw sun hat whilst on a beach . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " ) Liz Shaw generally didn ' t go in for hats , but did once wear a white , broad - brimmed hat to drive Bessie . ( TV : " The Ambassadors of Death " ) Likewise , Sarah Jane Smith was mostly hat - less but did wear a casual spring hat whilst investigating the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research . ( TV : " Robot " ) Others . Tom Cardwell wore a tin foil hat , which according to Lucie Miller , was " not a good sign at all " . ( AUDIO : " Blood of the Daleks " ) Behind the scenes . In the video game " The Eternity Clock " , the Doctor ' s collectible items are various hats ( including the fez , top hat and Stetson ) .