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Nov 17, 2009 - 6:36 AM
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Radio 4 documentary to focus on Shada
A forthcoming BBC Radio 4 documentary is to examine what led to the cancellation of Shada - the six-part Fourth Doctor story originally intended to end Doctor Who's 17th season.
Shelved takes a look at three TV programmes that were made in 1979 but which never aired because of socio-political, industrial or cultural problems. The three comprise a particularly violent episode of ITV show The Professionals, the last episode of BBC series Secret Army, and Shada.
Interviewees for the Shada segment are Tom Baker, director Pennant Roberts and Jeremy Bentham - the Doctor Who historian, author, former associate editor of Doctor Who Magazine and co-founder of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. The story, which was never completed at the time because of a BBC strike, would have been broadcast in January and February 1980.
The 30-minute documentary is scheduled to be broadcast on Saturday, December 12 at 10.30am, and it is understood it will make a key revelation relating to Doctor Who through documentation unearthed by producer/presenter Shaun Ley. Recording of the documentary took place at the BBC's Westminster studio on Thursday, November 5.
Incoming Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner tried to remount Shada, but those attempts failed and production was formally abandoned in June 1980. In 1992, the recorded footage was released on video with linking narration by Tom Baker completing the story. It was subsequently reworked as an audio play by Big Finish Productions, featuring the Eighth Doctor and with Paul McGann in the lead role. This version was webcast on BBCi in 2003 and broadcast on digital radio station BBC7 in December 2005, with a repeat the following year. The webcast is currently available to listen to on the official Doctor Who website (may only be available within the UK).
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/
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Mar 14, 2010 - 2:17 PM
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Doctor Who Online and the DWO WhoCast present an Exclusive 93-Minute Interview with Tom Baker!
Doctor Who Online (http://www.drwho-online.co.uk) and the DWO WhoCast (http://www.thewhocast.com), are proud to announce that our brand new, exclusive interview with The 4th Doctor, Tom Baker, is now online.
In the feature-length interview, Tom discusses his time before, during and after Doctor Who, delving into some previously unheard stories and memories that will entertain, shock and surprise many of his fans.
Tackling all manner of subjects from Big Finish to Tom Baker Garden Furniture (yes you did read it right), we find out a bit more about the man himself, and what Doctor Who meant to him.
The interview can be found on the main DWO WhoCast site at http://www.thewhocast.com/ and will be available on the DWO website in the coming weeks as both an Audio download and in transcribed text format.
http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/news/
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Mar 31, 2010 - 9:29 AM
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Logopolis- My word, this was sad! I refused to watch Tom leave the role when this aired the first time and seeing it now, I see how devastating this is to a diehard Tom fan like myself. My wife and I were so depressed after watching this, that it carried over into the next day. 
Up Next: Castrovalva...
During the early stages of production of season eighteen John Nathan-Turner had reached a mutual agreement with Tom Baker that the actor would bow out of the series upon the expiry of his current contract, bringing to an end his unprecedented seven year run as the Doctor. The producer had not been particularly happy with Baker's portrayal of the Doctor, considering that his increasingly assured and flippant interpretation made the character seem too dominant and invulnerable. He had also greatly disliked the general air of jokiness that Baker tended to inject into the proceedings. Baker, too, had come to feel that now was the right time for him to be moving on. So it was that on 24 October 1980, the day before transmission of the first episode of Full Circle, the BBC held a press conference to announce that the actor would be leaving at the end of the season.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season18.shtml
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I think the biggest problem with season 17 is that all the money got shoved into the best story-City of Death-due to its location shooting in Paris, meaning the rest of the season looked cheap, even by shoestring BBC standards. And City of Death is still amazing after all these years. Not better or worse than brooding/alien Tom Baker that you'd see in the Robert Stuart Banks stories like Terror of the Zygons, or even more of a halfway point like The Deadly Assassin, just different.
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Apr 17, 2010 - 8:58 AM
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Two Bakers Interviewed!
There’s a top review over on Outpost Skaro of the new Doctor Who DVD release Myths and Legends, which features the Fourth Doctor adventures Underworld and The Horns of Nimon as well as the Third Doctor in The Time Monster.
To accompany the review, they’ve cleverly interviewed the Doctor himself, Tom Baker, and K-9 co-creator (and writer of Underworld) Bob Baker.
With a good few gems to add to the standard review fare, there’s plenty to read here, with Bob Baker recalling of how they approached Underworld:
I don’t recall a “specific strategy” (unless in hindsight!) It was again, “Boys, come up with a story that doesn’t cost too much.” A usual refrain from the DW office.
Meanwhile, the man with the mad eyes – Tom Baker – talks about The Horns of Nimon, an oft-maligned tale from 1979.
“The absurdity of the stories never bothered me at all,” he said. “I was brought up as a Roman Catholic in Liverpool so I grew up steeped in absurdity. I still am. I find most of life utterly absurd. And what seemed important years ago now seems to me to be farcical. There seems to me no meaning. The pains and pleasures were all real but meaning? Oh, no.”
This review is for Outpost Skaro members only – if you’re not a member already, you’ll need to signup to enjoy some great content.
http://www.kasterborous.com/2010/04/17/two-bakers-interviewed/
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Louise Jameson stars in a new Doctor Who Companion Chronicles adventure as Leela, companion to the Fourth Doctor, courtesy of Big Finish.
Long-term fans will know that Leela remained on Gallifrey following her departure from the TARDIS in The Invasion of Time (1978). This story takes place some time after that…
Leela, in her last moments of life, recalls a long-forgotten memory: a time in the TARDIS. The Doctor is worried that K9’s increasingly bizarre behaviour might become dangerous. He decides to make a new model, little knowing that the fate of all three time travellers has long since been decided.
As Leela recalls the chilling connection between K9’s ‘illness’, the Z-nai and the haunted sea fort in which the TARDIS lands, she prepares for her final journey: into the land of her ancestors; the Afterlife
Written and directed by Nigel Fairs, this entry in The Companion Chronicles series stars Louise Jameson as Leela, and John Leeson as K9, and is available from Big Finish on CD and download later this month.
http://www.kasterborous.com/2010/05/08/the-time-vampire/
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DWO have now uploaded our full audio interview with Tom Baker (The 4th Doctor) to our popular YouTube Channel.
In the 93-Minute interview, which was recorded earlier this year, and featured on the DWO WhoCast Podcast, Tom discusses his time before, during and after Doctor Who, as well as the possibility of doing a Big Finish, what it's like to be immortalised in plastic, and why he wants to rewrite the book of Genesis!
The interview has been enhanced specially for our YouTube Channel, together with visual slides throughout.
http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/news/Default.aspx#site-dwo-tom-baker-interview-on-youtube
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