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Tom Baker returns as the Doctor

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:01 AM EDT
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Get your scarves out. Tom Baker is returning to the lead in Doctor Who after 30 years of pretty much abandoning the role (playing it again only for a fraction of a second in the 1993 Children In Need special). He'll be starring in a set of BBC audio plays along with Richard Franklin, who will return alongside the fourth Doctor as Captain Mike Yates, one of the Doctor's companions from that era.

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Michael Sautter

Only audio play, but could this be a prelude to his returning for a TV special?

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  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:18 AM EDT
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Division by Zero

I've heard rumors of a tv special. Hopefully something will pan out.

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  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:17 AM EDT
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Dave-792879

Don't see how he could do TV. Remember that he was 40-ish when he regenerated into the next Doctor (Peter Davison?). Don't see any way to explain running into a 70-ish Tom Baker.

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  • 5 votes
#1.2 - Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:08 AM EDT
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DragonWoman

YEAH!!!!!!!

I'm certain going to seek out this audio. Hopefully this is only the beginning of more Doctor Who audio plays starring Mr. Baker. He has been sorely missed

Yes he has =}

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  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:55 AM EDT
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Angel_C

Yay! This would be great.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:02 PM EDT
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Mic Hudson

If they can bring Sarah and K-9 back they can do pretty much anything that they please, I do believe (after all... remember how aged the 1st Doctor was)!

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  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:48 AM EDT
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DragonWoman

Didn't K-9 get killed? Sarah came back on another show to... I forget.

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  • 4 votes
#4.1 - Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:49 AM EDT
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Dave-792879

K-9 was rebuilt at the end of "School Reunion". In the kid's series about Sarah Jane he showed up at least once, and also briefly appeared in the season-ender of Doctor Who last year.

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  • 5 votes
#4.2 - Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:44 PM EDT
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Mic Hudson

I see I am not the only Whovian out there...

All things lead to the Doctor!

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  • 6 votes
#4.3 - Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:33 PM EDT
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DragonWoman

Let me put it to you this way.... I cried when Adrik was killed by the Sibermen.... sobbed.

I was mad that when Peter Davidson came on, suddenly his companions came in danger.

Dr. Who was a Saturday morning half hour thing that became a Sunday night hour show.

I was addicted.

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  • 4 votes
#4.4 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:07 AM EDT
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Division by Zero

Peter Davison was my favorite. Although I was explosed to Doctor Who when my local PBS station was airing the Tom Baker episodes (around 1980) I really became a fan during the Peter Davison episodes. For some reason after the Peter Davison arc ended they decided to air the series from the beginning (William Hartnell) and I became a fan of Jon Pertwee. They also went from showing Doctor Who on weeknights at 6:30PM to showing the entire episode arcs on Saturday starting at 5PM. It was great to be able to sit down and watch all of the episodes that comprised a particular story arc in one sitting. I also recorded a ton of Doctor Who on VHS during those years and those tapes are in my parents' garage.

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  • 3 votes
#4.5 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:30 PM EDT
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DragonWoman

ha... how humid is your parents garage???

My mom must have 8 to 10 boxes of VHS tapings of NBC soap operas..... LMAO

I asked her if she was ever going to see them again..... she said yes.... I said when....

someday=}

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  • 4 votes
#4.6 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:31 PM EDT
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Division by Zero

They've only recently been moved to the garage. They spent all but the last 7 or 8 months in a closet. I'm planning to get them on my next trip up there, but it is a 6-hour drive. Before I do anything with them I'm going to see if the same episodes are available on DVD already.

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  • 4 votes
#4.7 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
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DragonWoman

Sounds like a plan... enjoy

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  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:41 PM EDT
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