Tom Baker is still alive

[Nowhere Man]

No he's not dead.

It's his 83rd birthday today!

What's your favourite Tom Baker memory?
Genesis of the Daleks or City of Death?
Is he your favourite Doctor?
Would you like a jelly baby?
Sarah Jane, Leela or Romana?
Did you read the title and think he carked it?[nb]sorry[/nb]

[Norton Canes]

FFS! Put 'Not dead' in the thread title!

[studpuppet]

[Cerys]

Did you read the title and think he carked it?

Yes I did, you cunt.

But I digress.  He was my Doctor.  Mary Tamm as Romana - The Androids of Tara especially.  My favourite memory - tricky.  Probably evoked by one word - Symphony.

Jelly babies are never as nice as the connection with him should make them.

[Blumf]

What's your favourite Tom Baker memory?

You got to see his arse in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

[Norton Canes]

What's your favourite Tom Baker memory?

In the mid-80's I went to a few meets of the Bolton And District SF group, where I met Steve 'Warriors Gate/Terminus' Gallagher. When conversation turned to the debauched behaviour of Tom Baker, he showed round a picture he'd taken of Tom and Douglas Adams sharing a goldfish bowl full of gin.

Genesis of the Daleks or City of Death?

Genesis. City is perfectly entertaining fluff, but come on. Nyder is the clincher. Destiny of the Daleks is better than both, mind. Best Tom of all is probably... Robots of Death, or Ark in Space. Though I love a bit of moody season 18 Tom too.

Is he your favourite Doctor?

Head says Tom, heart says Peter Davison.

Would you like a jelly baby?

Not sure, do they have gelatine in them these days?

Sarah Jane, Leela or Romana?

Leela every time, and frequently. Although as I remarked in the 'first famous person you fancied' thread, I did have some pre-pubescent but decidedly warming thoughts about Romana 1.

Did you read the title and think he carked it?

Look these days there isn't a single moment I open up a news page or message board or anything on the internet where I don't expect to see TOM BAKER DIES at the top of the page.

[Ambient Sheep]

It's not too late to edit the thread title, you know.

[Black_Bart]

Referring to Chris Addison as "the boy".

[Kelvin]

Head says Tom, heart says Peter Davison.

It's a little known fact that Davidson is in fact the shittest Doctor.

[amnesiac]

RIP big guy, I'm banging through every episode of Tales of the Unexpected on Sky Boxsets and so far I'm amazed he hasn't been in even one.

[Black_Bart]

It's a little known fact that Davidson is in fact the shittest Doctor.

What about Sylvester McCoy?

[shiftwork2]

He was my Doctor.

Think you'll find he was mine.

[Cerys]

We could share him.  There's enough of him to go round.

[thenoise]

You got to see his arse in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

You get to see his cock and balls in 'The Canterbury Tales' (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[daf]

First memory - City of Death

Genesis or City - City of Death

Faves - Yes

Jellybaby - Aniseed flavour please

SJ. L, R - Romana 2 in City of Death

Carked - Yes, you bastard

[Mary is not amused]

Going incognito.

[Cerys]

First memory - City of Death

Mine was Robots of Death, but I remember City more clearly.

[amnesiac]

I don't know the TITLE of a single Dr Who episode not even the one probably called The 13 Doctors. I just watch them, then forget about it immediately like a normal person.

[Mary is not amused]

Is he your favourite Doctor?

Yes.  Mostly an age thing, but also because he was actually odd, not just acting odd, an important attribute for a alien.

[biggytitbo]

You got to see his arse in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

I think we have a list of Doctor's arses somewhere.

Seen arse:

- Tom Baker
- David Tennant
- Matt Smith

It wouldnt surprise me if Colin Baker has gotten his arse out at some point, presumably eerily coincided with an eclipse.

[Ray Travez]

I think he's marvellous. Used to wear a big old scarf like his, that my sister knitted for me.

I had the audiobook of his autobiography, which is excellent. There's a quote in there, one of his workmates says something like, "There's something very queer about you, Baker!" Always stuck with me, that.

I don't care too much about Englishness, but I love the essential English eccenticity that is in a lot of British sci-fi. Baker's Who has it in spades, all that jellybaby stuff and eye-rolling. I love the hamminess of it.   

My favourite Dr Who is The Horror of Fang Rock, which was one of Baker's last before The Doctor transformed. It really put the willies up me. I had the book as well; I used to read it at night tucked up in bed. In retrospect, the monster in the story was about as scary as a briefly-glimpsed omelette, but there was something about the way the tension built in that eerie lighthouse that made it chilling.

I've never thought about it before, but there's a lot of Tom Baker's Who in Zaphod Beeblebrox isn't there?

[Norton Canes]

My favourite Dr Who is The Horror of Fang Rock, which was one of Baker's last before The Doctor transformed

Into an arrogant, objectionable egotist?

I've never thought about it before, but there's a lot of Tom Baker's Who in Zaphod Beeblebrox isn't there?

In his Tennant/Smith/Capaldi incarnations, yeah. In the classic series he was more Ford Prefect.

[edit: Arse, I read that all wrong didn't I]

[Attila]

What's your favourite Tom Baker memory?

When I met him.

Genesis of the Daleks or City of Death?

Either, for different reasons/memory.

Is he your favourite Doctor?

I dedicated my PhD dissertation to him (this Doctor, not T Baker)

Would you like a jelly baby?

Sadly cannot stand them.

Sarah Jane, Leela or Romana?

When I was little and would play Doctor Who in the woods behind my house, I got to be Sarah Jane (well, she was the companion at the time.). Later on, my dress sense was pretty much influenced by Romana 2.

Did you read the title and think he carked it?

I did, and after the shite day/week I've had, it wasn't very funny.

[biggytitbo]

My favourite Dr Who is The Horror of Fang Rock, which was one of Baker's last before The Doctor transformed.

As a Doctor Who fan I am obliged to pedantically correct you and point out Fang Rock was on 1977 and Tom's tenure was 74-81.


Good story mind.

[thenoise]

I dedicated my PhD dissertation to him (this Doctor, not T Baker)

You're a doctor of ... Doctor Who?

[studpuppet]

It wouldnt surprise me if Colin Baker has gotten his arse out at some point, presumably eerily coincided with an eclipse.

Trawl through this - he's in bed with Peri at one point (which is weird enough) but not sure if the cheeks appear:

The Airzone Solution

[biggytitbo]

Can we get a definitive list please? Replies with View has one.

[Attila]

You're a doctor of ... Doctor Who?

It's buried with my Doctor Who books in storage somewhere, but he did write an autograph for me 'To the Doctor, love from the Doctor'  :3

[Ray Travez]

As a Doctor Who fan I am obliged to pedantically correct you and point out Fang Rock was on 1977 and Tom's tenure was 74-81.

Fair enough, I'm not surprised to be corrected. I can barely remember last month, let alone stuff from four decades ago.

[Twed]

As a Doctor Who fan I am obliged to pedantically correct you and point out Fang Rock was on 1977 and Tom's tenure was 74-81.


Good story mind.

A Doctor Who fan should know better than anybody that Tom Baker didn't do his years in sequential order.