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Was Holmes under a major deadline crunch? Tom Baker in Doctor Who: "The Deadly Assassin", BBC The story introduced the first look at Gallriey since the 2nd Doctor's (Patrick Troughton) final story The War Game Instead of mysterious, inscrutable all-powerful beings, the timelords are a bunch of old duffers hidebound by dull traditions and red tape[...]

And you get generic 1970s suspense music! Old School video chromakey effects! By today's standards, it's charmingly kitsch. Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen reputedly rewrote their farewell scene together into the slightly odd, subtle, low-key melancholy parting I always wondered if Baker and Sladen were in love, considering Baker developed a reputation for being difficult after[...]

UNIT made its first reappearance on the show since the end of the Tom Baker era Nicholas Courtney also appears as The Brigadier for the last time on the show. Doctor Who "Battlefield": A Flawed Production Unfortunately, the production was also a mess It's not very well-directed, and moments that should have felt epic just looked like[...]

Tom Baker was still fresh and fun, and the late, great Elizabeth Sladen's Sarah Jane Smith is still considered the Best Companion. Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora from BBC Studios It's interesting to consider the different pacing of shows in the 1970s where they had to fill 4 half-hour serials Cutting the whole story down to[...]

"Conundrum" is read by Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric, one of the 4th Doctor's (Tom Baker) final companions before he regenerated The idea behind the Audio Annual is to recreate an audio version of the old Doctor Who Annual books Those were hardcover trade books that usually came out once a year around Christmas They[...]

They have since expanded to include Tom Baker, John Hurt, David Tennant, David Bradley (as the First Doctor), and the cast of Torchwood.  With this many Doctors and other series, they're producing new stories for, Big Finish announced they will revamp the Doctor Who ranges of titles to differentiate them better Each Doctor will have[...]

Actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker, and Jo Martin have recorded a special message for not only the NHS but also for all frontline workers in what is an unprecedented reunion for the long-running series. Ten Doctors are set to reunite for The[...]

All our staff will be paid during this period." – Jason Haigh-Ellery, Chairman, Big Finish Productions https://youtu.be/eR8ntKPyvK8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Tom Baker In The Studio | Big Finish Productions | Doctor Who (https://youtu.be/eR8ntKPyvK8) Big Finish: The Go-To for "Doctor Who" Audio We're big fans of them around here[...]

Looking ahead to next year, an unfilmed story from Tom Baker's first season on Doctor Who will be produced by Big Finsh Productions as an audio drama "Return of the Cybemen" was originally written by 1974 by their creator Gerry Davis Then-story editor Robert Holmes rewrote it extensively and it became "Revenge of the Cybermen"[...]

Their greatest coup might be convincing Tom Baker to reprise his role as the 4th Doctor after decades away from the show. https://youtu.be/XvI6JMGTSswVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: River Song turns sleuth in her latest set of adventures (https://youtu.be/XvI6JMGTSsw) Big Finish chairman Jason Haigh-Ellery issued a statement to the Radio Times, offering some details behind and about[...]

Someone obviously made the wise decision to make subsequent Cybermen speak in lower, more growly voices so they sounded more menacing. I wonder why they didn't include a clip for "Revenge of the Cybermen", the only time Tom Baker's 4th Doctor ever faced the Cybermen No one ever talks about that story anymore, for some reason. Cybermen[...]

The Pyramids of Mars is considered one of the quintessential Doctor Who stories, with the odd couple comedy of Sarah Jane and the Doctor's banter a defining feature. BBC She had great chemisty with Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor Their comedy banter lightened up the grimmer stories Their relationship defined many fans' image of the Tom Baker[...]

The season contains some of Tom Baker's most iconic serials, with intrepid investigations in Victorian London, deadly robots in a murderous whodunit, a return to the Doctor's homeworld, and one of the saddest goodbyes in Doctor Who history. Producer Hinchliffe led Doctor Who through a creative high, joined by Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, Jameson as[...]

With "The Day of The Doctor", we got possibly the best multiple-Doctor crossover that also introduced John Hurt as the War Doctor and brought back Tom Baker for the first time in decades And of course, we got Smith delivering one of the most poignant regeneration speeches as his swan-song The highs of his run[...]

This includes UNIT, Torchwood, The Gallifrey Chronicles, The Diary of River Song, and more spinoffs involving past Doctors and their companions. The stream will feature David Tennant, Billie Piper, Alex Kingston, John Barrowman, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Bradley, Sophie Aldred, Katy Manning, Nicola Walker, Sir Derek Jacobi and many[...]

The good news for Doctor Who and Big Finish fans? You're getting the presents! To mark the milestone, 20+ hours of Doctor Who audio drama will be livestreamed on the BBC's Doctor Who YouTube channel from July 21-22 – giving fans an opportunity to hear stories from some of their favorite Doctors, as well as previously[...]

Big Finish's 'UNIT: Incursions,' a new four-episode Doctor Who audio drama where fan favourite - and The Doctor's Wife - River Song meets up with UNIT.

Tom Baker returns in Big Finish Productions' newest Doctor Who audio drama line The first volume of Doctor Who: The Comic Adaptations is an unexpected and welcome release: an adaptation of stories that were originally comics in Doctor Who Weekly Magazine back in the late 1970's and early 1980's These stories were originally written by[...]

Variety reports that the deal includes  Doctor Who episodes featuring Tom Baker (including "The Deadly Assassin," "The Ark in Space," and "The Robots of Death"), Peter Davison (including "EarthShock," "The Caves of Androzani"), Jon Pertwee (including "Planet of the Spiders," "Terror of the Autons"), and William Hartnell (including "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth"). https://youtu.be/sjciw9A5D0oVideo can't be loaded[...]

Big Finish Productions released a trailer on Thursday announcing the Doctor Who audio drama adaptation of the Fourth Doctor's comic book adventures that originally ran in the early 1980s. Back in the early 80s, Doctor Who Monthly magazine ran comic strips featuring The Fourth Doctor drawn by Watchmen co-creator and artist Dave Gibbons and written[...]

We've already looked at the other promotional videos for Doctor Who: Scratchman, the new Doctor Who novel written by none other than the 4th Doctor himself, Tom Baker – and now we're getting the official book trailer, with an audio sample of Baker himself reading for the audiobook: https://youtu.be/8CcrIwsSanYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Tom[...]

The 4th Doctor Tom Baker was the longest-running Doctor in Doctor Who on television, playing the role on the long-running BBC series from 1974 to 1981 To this day, he is still one of the most beloved Doctors and the one most associated with the show in both the US and the UK His adventures[...]

While there have been attempts to alter the look of the Daleks over the years, it seems like Doctor Who viewers are really big fans of "bronze"...

Bleeding Cool ranks 18 official title sequences from the past 55 years of Doctor Who, from the good to the bad to the near-seizure bizarre.

Originally, BBC Books told booksellers that the upcoming Doctor Who novel Scratchman was to be written by James Goss and based on the un-produced Doctor Who screenplay written decades ago by Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor and the Great Curator, alongside Ian Marter who played Harry Sullivan. James Goss had already adapted Douglas Adams' previously[...]

The mini-series features a new adventure for the Tom Baker Doctor by Gordon Rennie and Emma Beeby with art by Brian Williamson The book is shipping with a ton of covers and we have them all for you to see below along with a few preview pages.   DOCTOR WHO: THE FOURTH DOCTOR #1 Cover A:[...]

Well, in March, Titan Comics takes a jump straight to the Fourth Doctor. For many, many people, Tom Baker was their Doctor Who He was the first to see his shows aired on PBS in the USA And audiences in the UK rose to new heights and critical acclaim He also has played the Doctor concurrently[...]

SciFiFantasy Network reported that, at the Day Of The Doctors convention that took place last week in Slough, England, Tom Baker told fans that he is to voice an animated character in Star Wars. Whether that's a CGI character in the new movie, one of the spin-off films, or in the animated TV shows has not been made[...]

Smith's Doctor even comes up with the idea to save Gallifrey instead of burning it, giving Hurt's Doctor the hope and redemption he so desperately craved, and sees that his future selves are good men.  Tennent's Doctor sees he will become Smith's Doctor and is relieved. [youtube]http://youtu.be/Cn9yJrrm2tk[/youtube]   Then there's the reappearance of Tom Baker. Someone pointed out that[...]

With all these doubles at play in Doctor Who thanks to insular casting – could that be another way to get past Doctors into the fiftieth anniversary? Including what we are still hearing, a Tom Baker cameo? 9 Could it be writer Frank Cottrell Boyce bringing us double episode Dalek story in the next series? Directed[...]