THE MISSING LINK FOR "DOCTOR WHO" & "IRONSIDE"; CLOTHES MAKE THE MEN

‘IRONSIDE’
“SOMETHING FOR NOTHING”

From the IMDb:
Ironside wants a singer to testify in court against the influential crime lord who forced him to participate in a bank robbery as payment for gambling debts.

Roy Faber (whose name may have been anglicized from its Italianate origins) was that crime lord.  He made most of his money from being a loan shark in the greater San Francisco area and he stayed out of the court system by either bribing the witnesses against him or threatening them and their families with harm.

But Tommy Cuzack and his wife Verna were instrumental in bringing an end to Faber’s reign of terror and the crime lord was arrested.

However, after the episode ended….

Roy Faber had the best lawyers in the Bay area on retainer, and they were able to secure bail for him.  Faber more than likely had been ordered to surrender his passport and he would have complied.  However, he was a man who planned in advance and probably had several passports under false identities.

Roy Faber fled the country, hoping to make it to Europe where most of his finances were squirreled away in various bank accounts under assumed names.  Once he had settled into his new life, Faber traveled freely throughout Europe under his new identity.

In 1972, only a few years into his life on the run, Faber slipped into Great Britain to explore the possibility of establishing a beach-head into the criminal underworld of London.  While there, he decided to attend the opera.  Always a man of fashion (as seen in the ‘Ironside’ episode), Faber dressed to the nines in a manner fitting for an opening night – tuxedo with a red-lined cape.  

But in just that short time he was in London, Faber had already made enemies, many of them high-powered crime lords, English-born, who did not appreciate this interloper trying to move into their territory.  An attempt was made on Faber’s life outside the opera house and he was shot several times.  Others in the crowd were shot as well and all the victims were taken to the same hospital where an unconscious alien was taken as well.

That alien appeared human, but was a Gallifreyan Time Lord known only by the title of “The Doctor”.  He was tall and white-haired with a tattoo designating him as a forced regeneration, who would eventually prove to be a dashing adventurer working with UNIT.

It was the Third Incarnation of the Doctor and when he finally came to and felt the need to escape the hospital, he purloined a combination of clothes outside the casualty area which had been removed from the victims of that shooting – among them, the cape worn by Roy Faber.

And that’s how the Third Incarnation of the Doctor obtained his red-lined cape, and thus provided a theoretical link to ‘Ironside’…….

BCnU!!!