“Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf enjoyed a successful run at Baby Belly 2 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2006. The favourable reviews are too many to detail, so here's just a taster :

“Recommended – a confident performer in a well structured and surprisingly effective one-man show with an emotional kick”
The Times

“Eloquent, forthright, passionate – one of the most entertaining hours this side of Gallifrey”
Chortle

“A must see – well conceived and worryingly accurate”
Edinburgh Evening News.

"I'd gone along to Toby Hadoke's one-man show, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf very much hoping that it would either be a well-observed piece about Doctor Who fandom or very, very funny. To my delight, the performance met both criteria with ease, being warmly received by both the sectors of the audience who were acquainted with the trivia of the Time Lord, and those who simply wanted to see a mighty fine stand-up show."
Andrew Pixley, Dr Who Magazine


"Great show, genuinely funny, cleverly put together, and even moving at times. Non-fans will laugh their heads off (my wife did) and fans will shout "Yes, that's it exactly, yes, yes, YES, YES!!!" and then go and beat up a random Star Trek fan. I know I did."
Doctor Who writer Stephen Moffatt on Outpost Gallifrey

"Floppy, wide-brimmed hats should be removed in tribute to Toby Hadoke - his keen sense of his own ridiculousness gives his humour an enjoyable double edge."
Metro

"I was born to be a Doctor Who fan," says Toby Hadoke, but Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf is about much more than Doctor Who, or fandom. Like all the best one-man shows it's actually a potted autobiography. Hadoke's obsession begins at the age of four, around the time his dad leaves home, and Doctor Who becomes a metaphor for his growing sense of alienation. "I feel a bit like Doctor Who," he writes in his adolescent diary. "All the pretty girls need him to get them out of scrapes, but if there's any snogging to do they go to someone else." Naturally he loathes Star Trek ("American imperialism in a tin spaceship") and he grows to love the Time Lord for his amateurish British pluck. "That's what Britain is to me," he says. "Not being particularly good, but jolly well having a go anyway." Hadoke brings the same heroic amateurism to this heartfelt rites of passage memoir, which does for Daleks and Cybermen what Fever Pitch did for football.
William Cook, The Guardian

But besides being a Who fan Hadoke is also very, very funny and really has the audience charmed from the moment he steps on stage. The highlight has to be a venom spewing rant about a chance meeting with Big Brother’s Kate Lawler who dared to suggest that Doctor Who is rubbish. His stand up routine is poignant and hums with witty observations about the show and his life, and just when he has you giggling loudly he hits you with a brilliantly tender finale concerning his son. This is a fantastic show.
Martin Miller , Hairline

Some gags are probably for devoted fans, but there are plenty for the casual watcher, and enough topical references - from Hollyoaks to Girls Aloud - for everyone else. The show is funny with moving moments.
Fringe Report