Tom Baker Interview | Afternoon Plus | Interview | 1981 

he was arrested in 1969 along with Jim Morrison for making a fuss on board of some airplane , both wasted

Brian Edward Yes...the definitive article...

Tennant, Smith and Capaldi are reboot doctors, not the definite article!

Always how I feel. Tom IS the doctor because he was just HIM… so the doctor IS Tom.

what about christoper eccleston.

Tom has said he didn't play the Doctor but himself so he wasn't the Doctor as such! My fav was of course Jon Pertwee.

Just shows that Tom's always cooking something up....if the smile favors you, you're gonna have one hell of a good day ahead. =B

1981 was when he finally left the show after 7 years in it.

They don't make actors with voices like that anymore. Tom Baker must be one of the last actors who made it before acting became "naturalistic" and everyone spoke like they were going for a part in Eastenders.

Matt Maloney I'm an actor and I most certainly do not talk like an Eastenders character, my voice is regarded as an excellent eccentric heightened RP

AGREED

Jon Culshaw sounds like an 80's Tom Baker

kind of sounds like hitchens.

Tom Baker is ALSO the BEST shapeshifting lizard! Watch "The Brain Of Morbius" and you can see him display his glistening, green lizard eye.

Tom Baker is truly "The most interesting man in the world".

becoz not many people get his wits & sarcasm. people don't like to think ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋ

+ngNudraconis I agree. If people would actually sit and listen to what Tom is saying and how he is saying it they would know that he is not always be serious or is trying to make a point by using intellect, wit and humor. I don't always agree with every little thing Tom says but at least he makes me think and makes me look at my own beliefs and values. Hopefully the people watching and listening to this will realize where Tom was coming from and what he was trying to say. Great interview involving two very intelligent people.

yeah right. his realistic viewpoint about life may piss some ppl off. but when one is ready to face the truth, its easy to understand where he is coming from..."I believe in the absolute path of love. Even though I know love is not enduring,... just like ambitions never be realized, that life is disappointing & sometimes humiliating, but one has to be optimistic and believe". How true is that? And his face, lol, i cannot sleep if he keeps staring at me like that... :D :D :D

😂😂😂❤️👍Fantastic... That's an epic comment.

Damn you beat me to it. 🙁

A most astute observation Dr Watson! 🏆🇬🇧

Badaboomba

Lmao.

I thought the same myself.😊

Trainers

The British have manners and rarely talk over each other in interviews but American interviews on RU-vid too often keep talking over each other such as Bette Davis and Kate Hepburn interviews with Dick Cavett which I otherwise highly recommend having a listen to!

AGREED! Also mesmerizing and sexy at the same time.

Tom's all right too.

+Stuart Stuartson I agree.😆. I love Tom's voice but the rest of him is pretty awesome as well.

I knew there was something different about Tom....I mean the 4th Doctor. lol.

Further Twist.... all the actors who have played The Doctor are actually his Regenerations...

much more believable that way round .. lol ..

Matthew Bradley Obviously 🙄

Thom Clark well technically they are his personality’s

If only their were more like him about. In years past their was a core of interesting people. I will not use the word celebrities who were regulars on talk shows. People like Peter Ustinov and sadly only occasionally Orson Welles to name just two. We sadly have no one of their calibre with us today

that Thames music theme was used before every American Benny Hill episode broadcast in the U.S. which explains the nostalgia

Not on PBS.

ALWAYS on PBS - especially on WTTW in Chicago

UPN ROCKS Then I got hosed.

You sir now have the most epic voice in the world!

too bad those things go away. :(

😁

Baker's.

Totally 100% second that! Tom is so awesome and his Doctor is such a brilliant portrayal and creation. The most believable and natural in the role ever.

Thank God I am not the only one who noticed that!

I noticed that he adopted his mannerism of saying "wellll" . . . . I picked up on it the first time he did it, I knew he was channeling his 4th self . . .

@@Spacejockey426 Indeed.

Yup. I never saw this video until now, but 9:40 addresses it all and how modern incarnations are seemingly trying to be too much to be a certain version of a certain age rather than bring more of their own in the way anyone could do it. Anyone can play it, assuming "it" is only a certain type?

Tom seemed to wear that suit for most of the 1980s. And 90s. He only seemed to have one coat as well!

I love Tom too!!!!

Who doesn’t

Damm right 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Tom Baker is to Sci-Fi as Vincent Price was to Horror...Timeless!

I live very near that old pub happy memories of having drinks there in the 1980s and 90s.London has changed so much since then.

Agreed! Tom has had some great parts and received recognition and accolades but he deserved even more great roles. Fine actor and wonderfully real and refreshingly honest. God bless.

+petalouda I know. I felt so bad for him. Tom's Thyroid condition on top of stress over the quality of the scripts and Lalla (the women he loved) being forced to leave made Tom drink more which didn't help his health. It was like a vicious circle.

+petalouda Tom did look happy and healthy here. He loved the character of the Doctor so much and I would have loved to have seen Tom in some of the good story's that rarely came out of the 80's. But I wouldn't have wanted Tom to go thru any more hell.

Linda Taylor

+Andrew Morgan Yes? Hello☺

Well, David Tennant did say that Tom Baker was his starting doctor/the incarnation he first watched :)

Tom's so incredibly AWESOME!!!!!

but peter davison was his favourite doctor

Keanu Dave - Even if Tom were his favorite he'd still say it was Peter because he's his father-in-law. The lady who played the Doctor's daughter actually is the Doctor's daughter, but she's also the Doctor's wife, and now they have a girl child. So that little girl is the Doctor's granddaughter, and the Doctor's daughter, and the Doctor's daughter's daughter. 😂

@@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797 that confused me!😁😆

And this was on an ITV daytime show. When ITV was a decent network with great programming and not the cheap, downmarket, lowest common denominator home of reality television that it has sadly become.

Indeed.

2 days ago on national television in Australia. ❤❤

Evonne Okafor And also in 2017

2018 as well.

2019 too

He travels in time don't you know?

Jhonxay Playz 2020

Without a doubt. Also i thought he would been good as Gandolf in lord of the rings

You said it perfectly!The iconic and truly legendary Doctor. Love Tom.

+john lewis Thought he would have been a great Gandolph as well. Story is that Peter Jackson wanted Tom for the role but Tom didn't want to be away from his wife Sue or home that long.

I didn't know that but i am not surprised Peter Jackson wanted him. I myself would love to have a pint or two with him in the pub. He is one my all time favourite entertainers. I love is sense of humour

I totally agree. Tom can make me smile and laugh even when I don't feel like it. Would love to hear him sing more. He sang a few bars from a musical or Opera in an opening segment he did on a Video or DVD containing some of his Doctor Who episodes I believe. God bless.

Tom Baker is one of the greatest British actors of all time. Its heartening to hear an American ( im assuming you are for are an American) appreciate this find underrated. For such a talented actor he appeared in relatively few films,He was actually born and raised in Liverpool and doesnt even have a typical Scouser accent. Baker was the best Dr Who. Baker does the narration for Lttle Britian and Little Britian comedy shows.Bakers most famous film role was as a Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra. He also had a memorable role as Moore in The Vault of Horror. He appeared as Koura in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.I remember as kid watching The Book Tower which he presented. I just discovered he also appeared in an episode of Remington Steel titled "Hounded Steele" .

@@logicalnetwork1611 Baker also played the crazy legless captain in an episode of Black Adder.

@@princessbella3592 Thanks Princess.I saw that episode. Baker is one the best actors of all time and yet in so few films

Mavis and Tom are both awesome and very interesting and definitely intelligent.

AlmostYearly She’s superb

Apologies, Mr. Nicholson.

Never enough

Because it's sexy, cool, mesmerizing and totally unforgettable. Kind of like Tom himself!

Interesting how Tom Baker's voice can be cool & sexy, while warm & inviting at the same time -- of course, his charisma sends him over the top! 😍

Ian Watkins Totally agree!!!

God Damned Right!

I just watched a Tom Baker interview from 2010 where he said exactly the same thing. Interesting.

Who was your favorite Dr who ? If you don't mine me asking :-) My number 1 Dr who was Jon Pertwee