The life-like dolls are designed to bring emotional comfort, produce calming effects, ease loneliness, provide purposeful ...

These dolls, depicting the Doctor and his side-kick Amy Pond (played by Gillan) and hand-crocheted by Kim Tairi, are just one example of a growing number of crochet tributes to the cult show.

The Peg Dolls inhabited the doll's house in George's cupboard. But as the Doctor explained, it had become a psychic repository for all his fears which meant these were no ordinary dolls.