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name: "Colin Lavers"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
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# Colin Lavers

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer

## Biography

Colin Lavers was a British costume designer who worked in the BBC Costume Department for around 25 years. He designed costumes for four serials of the original *Doctor Who* (1963): *The Power of Kroll* (1978–79), *Four to Doomsday* (1982), *The King's Demons* (1983) and *The Five Doctors* (1983). He created the Fifth Doctor's signature cricketing outfit for Peter Davison.

Lavers' other television credits include *Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery* (1989), several BBC Shakespeare productions such as *All's Well That Ends Well* (1981) and *Love's Labour's Lost* (1985), *Judge John Deed* (2002–2006) and episodes of *Last of the Summer Wine* and *Only Fools and Horses*. He died in 2012.

*Sources: tardis.fandom.com, guide.doctorwhonews.net, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Also known for

- *Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery* (1989), Costume Design

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