As a life-long Doctor Who fan, the hardest and most annoying question to answer is, “Who’s your favourite Doctor?” Here Liam South provides five reasons why the Fourth Doctor should be your answer… That scarf. That hair. That voice. Tom Baker’s performance is truly mad, constantly walking the line between childishly silly, … >
A grim and gruesome festival provides the focus for the latest tall tale of Tom Baker’s retirement. In fact it is a wonder that Susy Goshawk, Tom’s former co-star, is prepared to risk another visit to Baker’s End; since Tom ‘died’ and was resurrected as the self-styled ‘King of Cats’, he has attracted no end … >
‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ was the final serial of Doctor Who‘s fourteenth season. The six-part story originally aired from 26 February to 2 April 1977. Buy ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ on DVD on Amazon here. The story The Doctor and Leela arrive in Victorian London, whereupon they stumble upon an investigation into a series of strange … >
“Would you like a jellybaby?” YouTube user DW Supercuts has created a brilliant compilation of every time the Fourth Doctor offers someone a jelly baby in Doctor Who. Watch the supercut… 12 new Doctor Who episodes have been filming in Cardiff since June 2016 and will begin airing on BBC One this April. Here’s everything we know so … >
A Doctor Who fan has edited together a haunting tribute to ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ in the style of the recent Alien Covenant trailer. Arriving in cinemas this summer, Alien Covenant is director Ridley Scott’s sequel to 2013’s Prometheus and the sixth movie in the Alien franchise. The trailer features a cover of Nat King Cole’s 1948 track ‘Nature … >
As regular readers may be aware, Tom Baker, the popular television actor has died and been reincarnated as a giant moggy, the self-styled King of Cats. Aided by his perky former co-star Suzy Goshawk (Katy Manning), and acidic housekeeper Mrs Frimbley (Susan Jameson), he resides at Baker’s End in the village of Happenstance where all … >
Tom Baker has long been obsessed with his own mortality, famously purchasing his own gravestone which is handy as ‘The King of Cats’ begins on the way to his funeral. When he first returned to the role of the Doctor, it was for the now defunct AudioGo in three series of linked adventures, written by … >
Before the days of minisodes and prequels, fans were provided with rather more obscure introductions to Doctor Who episodes. For no discernible reason, science fiction writer and political activist Judith Merril introduced classic Doctor Who story ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’ for the publicly funded Canadian educational television station TVOntario in the 1980s. While pretending to be a fortune teller … >
Doctor Who fan Jay Tyson has started a new online mini-series featuring Tom Baker’s Doctor as a puppet. The first ep of ‘A Leak in Time’ sees The Doctor meet Betsy and the leak in time begins. Can The Doctor stop it in time? Watch the episode… > Buy Season 9 on DVD on Amazon. … >
It’s not just the Doctor’s face that changes; the Time Lord has also embarked on a number of disguises and costume changes over the years, with varying degrees of success. The First Doctor as a Dalek in ‘The Space Museum’ The Third Doctor as a milkman in ‘The Green Death’ The Eleventh … >