This video is amazing. Thanks for sharing it. I love Doctor Who and have been since the days of colour with Jon Pertwee and have never missed an episode and still enjoy it today. I'm now 60 years old and will watch it until I can't anymore. My Daughter who is now 31 would borrow my Vhs versions of it and enjoyed it.
I hate it when Jon Pertwee (probably modestly) dismisses it all as a paycheck and wondering when he could break for lunch. He was much too good an actor for me to believe it. When he was on form his performance as the Third Doctor was as good as anyone in the lead. He took it seriously, played it for real, and it was mesmerising to have grown up watching him - his vain, moral, charismatic, warm, petulant, disarming Doctor - only succeeded in brilliance for me (and even then only by a whisker) by his successor.
I grew up with Tom Baker on WGBH Boston PBS, I think the Sarah Jane Smith stories were the best written (though Leela was instrumental to my teen years). That said, Jon Pertwee was the best Doctor.
35:30 If only the enterprises' team had located the sales records when this documentary was made. They could've contacted Sierra Leone and we would've had all of William Hartnell's missing episodes back (except for The Dalek's Master Plan and The Tenth Planet) as those episodes were being stored there until they were destroyed in 1999.
Davies and Moffatt proved Dicks wrong...albeit by giving the show a more soap-opera-ey vibe. Hell, Season 12 NuWho pretty much followed Dick's advice...and it's made the three companions comparatively boring! The problem with Classic Who thinking is that the companions weren't thought of as a means to give The Doctor an arc. Whereas Davies wisely used Rose as a means to help The Doctor become at peace, and both Clara and Bill helpful The Doctor to become more kind
First time seeing this. Thank you! I think they all played the part well but my childhood memories would be of Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker and Peter Davison. I'm 47 now and still go back to watching them at times.
Damn dude,so ur either 50 now, or going to be lol..im 45,grew up watching during the great days of the 80s,on PBS..episode's were out of order, I didn't care...something drew me to it!!and here I am now,a Whovian..all 60yrs..all incarnations,but 8ths my personal fave hahaha.. Good journey sir!!😁✌️🍻🤘
It strikes me that it's not so much about finding someone to play the Dr but more about finding an actor quirky enough to just be themselves in the role, Baker nailed that, those who assigned traits to Who seemed the lesser popular, maybe that was the magic at the heart of it?
I've been saying this for ages and I'm in the industry. THE DICTOR ALWAYS MUST BE SOMEONE WHO IS PERFECT FOR THE ROLE WGEN JUST PLAYING THEMSELVES. The 4 best have been that: Hartnell, Pertwee, Tom Baker and surprisingly Matt Smith who was a very young man with a naturally old face and particularly, delivery and manner which you can see clearly in interview. Everyone else LOOKS like they're trying to be the Doctor and it only half works because you can see they are not being genuine. Every MALE DOCTOR must already have the very likeable yet admirable quirky look built into the person naturally and they must play themselves. The role is simply too conceptually vast to be entirely successful any other way.
It was great to see this as I've never seen it before and the interviews with Jon Pertwee and John Nathan Turner (sadly both now deceased) were enlightening. My favourite Doctor is Tom Baker as he was the one I grew up with and have met so many times since.
He brought the best quality to the show during his first three years. Then the show fell partly because of failed experimentation on his part but more so because of misfortune and external conflicts in the BBC, and later on he was stuck with the part even though he wanted to leave.
Wow cool stuff. He did a great job finding the Pertwee stories, but if only the enterprises' team had located the sales records when this documentary was made. They would have found that Sierra Leone were sold a lot of 1960s Doctor Who and we would've had all of William Hartnell's missing episodes back (except for The Dalek's Master Plan and The Tenth Planet) as those episodes were being stored there until they were destroyed in 1999. Ah well...
I have to agree a little with JNT.....Tom's Doctor did not end up being overly humorous at the end of Tom's run. Also Tom's Doctor did not start out being overly humorous. Also Tom had some great bits and scenes throughout his incredible run. Tom Baker also had the best consistency of quality story's during his run. Part of Tom's appeal with fans today of all ages and his ongoing popularity is that his Doctor was complicated. Tom could be witty, funny, charming, a bit rebellious and a little angry at times. Peter Davison, who I used to respect a bit more before this interview, just came off as sounding defensive and jealous towards Tom. It sounds like he watched an occasional episode of Tom's and watched nothing of the first 3 or 4 years of Tom's run. I think I will go and watch an episode from Mr. Bakers era. At least I know I'll be watching someone who isn't so jealous and stuck-up.
+Badwolftalondawsey You obviously haven't looked at Tom's resume after Doctor Who because he did get work first on the stage, including "Educating Rita" which had a highly successful run on tour (you can look it up) and other productions. He even came to America in the 84 and guest starred on a very popular show called "Remington Steele ". In the 90s he did "Medics" as well as appearing on other shows along with very lucrative voice work and as a highly sought after spokesman for a variety of products. He has also been a best selling author and returned to Doctor Who in Big Finish audio books. I NEVER said that Peter was a bad actor. But yet you just went out of your way to attack Tom. I was talking about comments Peter Davison said himself in this very interview and several others talking about Tom and his Doctor. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. As far as Lalla goas she is an ex-wife so there will be heightened emotions there and she in general comes off as being a little bit hard and bitter in her interviews in general even though she "supposedly" has been happily remarried for years to Richard Dawkins. Tom on the hand has never had anything overly negative to say about her personally or that time period and seems very happy and content in his long time marriage to Sue Gerrard (1986). Interestingly enough though She had know problem in agreeing to do new Doctor Who audio adventures within the last couple of years. Mathews Waterhouse also in recent interviews ( a couple of them are posted on RU-vid ) has said Tom took him under his wing and was somewhat mentoring towards him and he felt like Peter was a little competitive towards him. The set was also very relaxed and very fun when Tom first came on Doctor Who. But like you said Tom had 7 years and he had co-stars like Liz Sladen & Ian Marter, production people like Philip Hinchcliffe and Barry Letts and script editors like Robert Holmes who he had become very good friends with leave. He didn't always take that very well. Philip Hinchcliffe said it best...Tom cared very deeply for the character, how he was portrayed and what the children would think. He also had issues with drinking later on which he doasn't deny and which have calmed down greatly since then. He also was given scripts that just were not as good as what he had grown accustomed to and that bothered him very much. If you read his biography a lot of his issues, especially emotionally and mentally, come from his childhood and his early adult life. When your own Father and first wife's family tell you your worthless all the time, treat you like a servant, your dad is a hard drinking merchant seaman and your family is living in semi poverty it will affect you. Life got so depressing for Tom he tried siucide. Anyway like I said I never attacked Peter Davison as an actor. Tom and Peter are both well respected in that field and have both portrayed characters they are well loved for. By the way today was Tom Baker's 82nd Birthday. Nobody is perfect and we all learn as we go thru life and make mistakes. That goas for Tom Baker and Peter Davison as well. I believe God says that in the Bible. God bless.
+Badwolftalondawsey You obviously haven't looked at Tom's resume after Doctor Who because he did get work first on the stage, including "Educating Rita" which had a highly successful run on tour (you can look it up) and other productions. He even came to America in the 84 and guest starred on a very popular show called "Remington Steele ". In the 90s he did "Medics" as well as appearing on other shows along with very lucrative voice work and as a highly sought after spokesman for a variety of products. He has also been a best selling author and returned to Doctor Who in Big Finish audio books. I NEVER said that Peter was a bad actor. But yet you just went out of your way to attack Tom. I was talking about comments Peter Davison said himself in this very interview and several others talking about Tom and his Doctor. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. As far as Lalla goas she is an ex-wife so there will be heightened emotions there and she in general comes off as being a little bit hard and bitter in her interviews in general even though she "supposedly" has been happily remarried for years to Richard Dawkins. Tom on the hand has never had anything overly negative to say about her personally or that time period and seems very happy and content in his long time marriage to Sue Gerrard (1986). Interestingly enough though She had know problem in agreeing to do new Doctor Who audio adventures within the last couple of years. Mathews Waterhouse also in recent interviews ( a couple of them are posted on RU-vid ) has said Tom took him under his wing and was somewhat mentoring towards him and he felt like Peter was a little competitive towards him. The set was also very relaxed and very fun when Tom first came on Doctor Who. But like you said Tom had 7 years and he had co-stars like Liz Sladen & Ian Marter, production people like Philip Hinchcliffe and Barry Letts and script editors like Robert Holmes who he had become very good friends with leave. He didn't always take that very well. Philip Hinchcliffe said it best...Tom cared very deeply for the character, how he was portrayed and what the children would think. He also had issues with drinking later on which he doasn't deny and which have calmed down greatly since then. He also was given scripts that just were not as good as what he had grown accustomed to and that bothered him very much. If you read his biography a lot of his issues, especially emotionally and mentally, come from his childhood and his early adult life. When your own Father and first wife's family tell you your worthless all the time, treat you like a servant, your dad is a hard drinking merchant seaman and your family is living in semi poverty it will affect you. Life got so depressing for Tom he tried siucide. Anyway like I said I never attacked Peter Davison as an actor. Tom and Peter are both well respected in that field and have both portrayed characters they are well loved for. By the way today was Tom Baker's 82nd Birthday. Nobody is perfect and we all learn as we go thru life and make mistakes. That goas for Tom Baker and Peter Davison as well. I believe God says that in the Bible. God bless.
I agree. Tom Baker was such an amazing and very special Doctor. He also has become a phenomenal ambassador in general for the show. I am glad Steven Moffat brought back Tom for that very special and wonderful cameo for the 50th anniversary show. And I never thought of Tom as a father figure.....definitely more like a boyfriend. TOM BAKER IS A SEXY BEAST OF A DOCTOR. That guy had no clue about how the women felt about Tom. He should have asked them. LOL. Plus Tom is so damn funny and utterly charming.
I don't think Jon Pertwee would like today's CG work. He said he preferred the antagonists where you could see the expression in their eyes and mouth and with CG you have to imagine a whole lot more than that.
bwilly123 Oh, that goes without saying. Even for the 70's his era had the best special effects. Lots of practical effects, color, UNIT. Often times it's not what medium you use but how you use it. That's why it can often look better than the special effects of the 80's or even 2000's CG.
CG or practical effects are tools. How well they're implemented is up to the production team. A subtle use of CG here and there can be fantastic as can some incredible practical stuff to give the fictional world a more grounded realistic look. But other times it can look like absolute crap (case and point being the infamous Myrka)
JNT said he brought The Master back and IMHO Anthony Ainley was a better Master than Roger Delgado. I did get tired of Roger's Master because at the time Jon Pertwee's Doctor was exiled on Earth and so many stories involved the Master. It was much better when he turned up only occasionally.
bwilly123 Anthony Ainley was a nice guy, and because of that it was hard to take him seriously as the villain. His Master never was that good. Delgado is by far the best, none who followed have even come close to his brilliance. Obviously every story involved the Master because he was trapped on Earth with the Doctor.
@@Jepze158 I agree with you about Anthony Ainley as the third Master, but I loved Geoffery Beevers as the Master in "The Keeper Of Traken" Tom Baker's second to last story.
JNT was forced to do the series for years longer than he wanted to, on a shrinking budget. He knew it was time to go, that he wasn't bringing the innovation or the enthusiasm that the show needed, but if he didn't do his job the show would die. So, despite not much wanting to, he kept it going despite the fact that the BBC wanted it gone. And he was vilified for it. Poor guy.
sadako24 His first three seasons were the pinnacle of quality in the show, only the Barry Letts years were better. Then it started to decline a bit during Davison's last season, and he should have left before Colin Baker took over.
@Ed Jones if it was true that jnt got rid of all of the previous writers. I think that it payed of unlike chibnall. Lucky Robert holmes came back for the caves of androzani.
@@UnchainedEruption I personally thought the show was quite innovative in season 18 and 19 (though I could have done without the incessant pseudo science from Leisure Hive-Castrovalva), much less so in season 20, and picked up for season 21. Seasons 23 and 24 and definitely JNT being there too long, but he did hang around enough to find Andrew Cartmel, and seasons 25 and 26 are a nice little critical comeback.
