Posted on 01/20/2024 12:23:37 PM PST by Borges
As Doctor Who legend Tom Baker celebrates his 90th birthday, we had to mark the occasion in style – with some rare and newly released photos of the man himself.
Last year, Baker, who famously played the Fourth Doctor, celebrated Doctor Who's 60th anniversary with Radio Times magazine, opening up in an interview and posing for photos.
Now, we can exclusively share five more portraits from that shoot, which show Baker suited up and draped in a replica of his iconic Fourth Doctor scarf.
To date, Baker remains the longest-serving Doctor, playing the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981. His incarnation is instantly recognisable, with fans still deeply invested in his Doctor and characters from his era.
Just recently, Louise Jameson starred in a short written and directed by Pete McTighe, which saw her character Leela leaving the battlefield of the Time War and returning to the TARDIS to reunite with Baker's Fourth Doctor.
Speaking to Radio Times a few months before his 90th birthday, Baker said: "Nobody failed as Doctor Who, did they?" adding: "Well, we mustn't be ungenerous to anyone. But certainly I didn't."
As for anything he thought the new Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, should know? "Knowing anything is a bit dangerous when you play Doctor Who," he said.
It's better to know nothing. And to be good-natured. The trick is to respond generously to other actors, which halves your task because you don't have to be driving it all the time."
However, he made it clear that a reunion with his fellow Doctors wouldn't be on the cards, saying: "I avoid them, you know. Not with any malice. A degree of contempt, perhaps. But mildly. Mildly contemptuous."
For me he is THE Dr. Who and THE marshwiggle as Puddleglum.
He was the best Doctor in my book.
He is THE Doctor WHO, too and I have a copy of the scarf he wore on the show, as well as pictures of me, with his figure, at Madame Tussauads , in London, back in the ‘80s.
Yup.
“for me”, didn’t make the posted comment. oooopppps.
THE Doctor.
Definitely the best Doctor of either the classic or current Dr. Who.
And Classic Doctor Who just showed up on Tubi https://tubitv.com/search/doctor%20who.
My favorite Doctor is the first one I saw which was John Pertwee but after that Tom Baker and Sylvester McCoy. Tom Baker just picked up Louise Jameson as a companion in my Tubi re-visit to Classic Doctor Who. She’s awesome as the savage knife-wielder who takes modern technology in stride.
He played Rasputin The Mad Monk in the movie “Nicholas and Alexandra”.
I think that ALL of Baker's companions were great!
Tom Baker was the Doctor when I first encountered the show Saturday mornings (IIRC was it WOR-TV?) back in the late 70s. Got to see Leela at a Dr. Who convention when I was busing tables at the local Hyatt.
He was also good in THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD!
Jameson briefly reprised the part last year to promote a Blu Ray set of one of her seasons coming out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIBfUAF9otg
I have the scarf and the memories. What a perfect Dr
Is that the movie with John Phillip Law playing Simbad?
No question.
Oh my...thanks!
Maybe it’s time for a new doctor.
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