'Doctor Who' star Tom Baker open to return for anniversary
Published Jun 7 2012, 10:31 BST | By Tom Eames
Tom Baker has stated that he would be interested in returning to Doctor Who if asked.The actor was speaking at a Q&A session in Milton Keynes with fellow former Doctors Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy, where he said he would "consider" a possible return.
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"Well, if they ask me nicely or I could see what they wanted me to do I would consider it because I think the fans have been so good to me, they expect me at least to make an appearance so of course I would consider that," he said.
"If it was something witty but I would want to know what the detail of the scene was or what I was supposed to do. I just don't want to be paraded through as some shagged-out old icon of the last century. It's too much of a source of happiness."
Baker also revealed that the role ended up "killing" his career as a serious actor, saying: "I was never really happy until I became Doctor Who.
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"At the same time, although it's the loveliest job I ever had, it essentially killed my career stone dead because I suddenly realised I liked being Doctor Who more than anything that had ever happened to me. So when I went to play Macbeth the audience wanted me to play Macbeth in the style of Doctor Who and naturally I did.
"Afterwards a critic said, 'I had no idea how nice Macbeth was'. So I realised then that the people coming to see me - people like you - didn't want to see me playing Jack the Ripper or whatever it was.
"So when I went to Ireland to play Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty in the same play, they were absolutely baffled because they were absolutely interchangeable, my reason being the same person, really. So that was another failure, a glorious failure."
Steven Moffat said earlier this year that the show's 50th anniversary in 2013 will be amazing for the fans.
Doctor Who will return to BBC One in the autumn.
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Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease come and visit Mr T Baker!
June 14th 2012 at 10:02pm
I think its time for THE time lord to return and piss on David Tennant.
June 9th 2012 at 8:40pm
Does it really need explaining that they look different a multi doctor story would be fantastic russell t davies was never a fan of bringing them back though and it would be a pity if it ruined the new doctor who series. Maybe just tennant should return. A shame eccleston is so reluctant he should have given the part more thought before signing paul mcgann would have made a better crossover to tennant.
June 8th 2012 at 7:33pm
If the current Doctor was trapped in some kind of time distortion trap, perhaps a device the master/devros built long ago as an ultimate trap in case of their eventual defeat. A device that when triggered opens a complete sphere of millions of black holes around the trap, essentially creating the hereunto theoretical "Q-Space in the center. (And all the fun laws/tricks/monsters that can come with Q-space) The alternate versions of the Doctor would potentially have to work in/through the time distortion in order to free him (essentially aging themselves) they could then go about their adventure. The time distortion could have interfered with the summoning of other incarnations of the doctor. (aging the signal and degrading/halting it) Thus any combination of willing actors could be used.
And at the end of the adventure the end the aged Doctors would simply have to jaunt off seperately to the fountain of youth. The fountain doesn't grant immortality, it's simply a Timelord failsafe for just such events that uses stored reflective cardiff rift energy to work. Each of the aged doctor goes off to visit it at different "recharged" points through history, thus assuring that no humans discover it's side effect on humans for large gaps of time. Meaning it could be in plain sight and play a part in a current story with a backstory already established and further meaning they could do an episode or two with each aged doctor using the fountain. (make a great set of specials or webisodes maybe they get there just a little too late and some human has been exposed, adventure ensues and they have to go to a different point in time etc..)
Plus now we have a hole opened to Q-Space which could contain anything.
June 8th 2012 at 6:14pm(+1 like)
Yeah, the old Doctors could come back by explaining that the villain ages them to get revenge. Like the Master did to the Doctor before. A great gag would be to use the actor that does a dead on Tom Baker impression of the Doctor. There are others, but he's the best. Show them first, then cut to Tom Baker's Doctor. Older, fatter and slower. What an opening for jokes, like to Tom Baker, "My god Doctor, how you let your self go!" To the others, the lack of hair and wrinkles and the weight jokes could be used. Could you see Matt Smith moaning, "Is this what I'll look like in my old age? Wait, they are me!"
June 8th 2012 at 4:21pm