Doctor Who's Who's Who 1986 

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!!😁✌️🍻🤘

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.

+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.

Just watched that...awesome thats you!!😁✌️🍻🤘

The interview with Peter Davison about his last story" The Caves of Androzani" also had the regeneration clip say"This video has been removed by the user". I was disappointed by this because it is one of my favorite regenerations.

Cody Salis sorry!! The BBC takes down my video if I leave any of those clips in it!

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)

Mary Tamm and Nicola Bryant were - for me - easily the two hottest Doctor Who girls.

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.

Colin Baker *was* a great doctor, what are you going on about?

@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.

+nerdommeetsboy Amy and Rory Pond

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.

@@UnchainedEruption I personally liked Ainley as Master but i do agree that Delgado was the best.

@@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.

Leela for sure, but I like nyssa more

WHAT. Is he really?

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...

He'sdead!

I can only hope someone says the same about Moffatt in 20 years.

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.

Steven Cassidy that’s what Janet Fielding said about him. He would have been ideal on a show like Strictly Come Dancing.

The first three years were the worst! It improved in every department after that.

It was also ratings, too and changing interests, you had this show going up against ITV showing hot star studded imports from the US like The A-Team and Dallas

There were far too many factors to Doctor Who's demise to blame it squarely on John Nathan Turner. Namely seeing as a majority of it was down to Eric Saward, Michael Grade and the negative reception to Colin Baker's Doctor (no fault to the man himself since his ideas for the character were a hell of a lot better than what we got) and given that public tastes had shifted in the evolution of TV as far as programming was concerned it was at a time where Doctor Who's budget was being stretched so thin that an episode of Red Dwarf was about the same size as an entire series of Doctor Who. Frankly I'm surprised that John Nathan Turner even cared to stay on given that he wanted to leave the show before practically being forced to remain as showrunner for so many years.

he ran tom baker out

Yikes. He made some unpopular choices, but that's absolutely no call to wish an early death on anyone.

jonship that’s a messed up thing to say don’t be an ass