I love his sense of humour.

Agreed. Tom Baker is 'my' Doctor but pertwee is definatly my 2nd favourite. Mainly because Tom is actually mad in real life as well as on screen. Both were/are amazing.

Tom Baker is the best doctor.

Such an effortless performance, every interview is riveting

Tom Baker, please come back in the 50th Anniversary!

It doesn’t matter what Tom Baker does he’s great at what he. Does whether it’s the golden voyage of Sinbad. Or Doctor Who he was great in both

Amazing interview

Great interview, best one I've seen so far

Always the best Doctor!

you bet he was!..only Doctor that was unique in all believable ways!!

Love Tom Baker!

Well Knox, I think that for a lot of us Americans Tom Baker is Dr Who, since we were acquainted with Dr Who 4 first. And IMHO, he was the best Dr for what I have seen, having just the right touch of humor. I remember my little daughter crying when he died (regenerated).

I love this man.

I remember recording this on video and when I played it back it was black and white! obviously something went wrong.

Love his voice SO much.

He's awesome.

The truth when Tom relays that many unhappy couples stay together simply because they can’t afford to separate. Then, they are relegated to spend the remainder of their lives refining how they torture each other - chills.

Actually Tom was born in 1934, so when he took the role of the Doctor in 1974, he would have been at least 39 !

Where does the Doctor end and Tom Baker start? I've seen a few interviews with him now and it seems he was just playing himself all those years.

He was so cute back in the day

This is what you call an interview

what a fantastic man

Thank you!!

ruthlessly honest is Tom

Most of the companions are still alive, including two of the first three: William Russell and Carole Ann Ford. I'm hoping they'll both be in the 50th anniversary special.

basically everyone who followed is doing him to some extent and that's exactly the way it ought to be

Tom Baker now lookslike Jon Pertwee Doctor 3 LOL

brilliant interview

This is a fantastic interview. from the 1990s?

My favorite Doctors : 1. Tom Baker 2. Jon Pertwee 3. Patrick Troughton 4. Peter Davison

Great book love tom

Yes of course, he stated that he felt it was too soon after his leaving to come back. However years later he said it was a decision he regreted now. But in the case of the 50th, look up the interview of Tom Baker "Will Tom Baker appear in Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary"

Both McCoy (with a wig perhaps) and Paul McGann could reprise their roles as well. McGann seemingly hasn't even aged a day since his appearance as the doctor. I remember McCoy bringing up the idea of the past doctors and companions doing cameos instead of reprising their earlier roles. That would be fun to see as well.

I think there should be the 3 doctors, with the obvious 3, that would be EPIC!

It looks like they may have to come up with a story line that allows more than 13 doctors -- they already had a doctor "between regenerations" in the Trial of a Time Lord -- the Valeyard.

KnoxvilleGuy2: I urge you to check out the Big Finish Audios. Tom has recently joined Doctors 5-8 in playing the role in full-blooded audio dramas. And he's jolly good in them. Similarly Big Finishes anniversary release 'Light at the End' features Tom, Peter, Colin, Sylvester, and Paul in a multi-Doctor extravaganza. He comes over well, and is clearly engaged with Who again; he plays the Doctor regularly! I don't doubt he has terrible off days though;it took years for him to work with Big Finish

I think if they do an anniversary it might include christopher ecc and definately david tennant, as well as one of the surviving previous doctors, probably Peter Davison as he's the only one who hasn't aged beyond the point where he can't play himself (and he's repriesed the role in the past in 'Time Crash', so..)

I remember seeing him in a Robin hood movie as the Sherrif. I was shocked!lol.

Maybe he just had a bunch of " off days " when this acquaintance - & some other people - met him. When DW made its debut in the U.S., Tom Baker made a heckuva impression.

Tom baker was good I met him once god he is tall

It's not nonsense, it's not rubbish, it's not not not not!

He was 40 when he got the role of the Doctor. Not 37.

well here we are they made it!

Very rarely i say legend

You heard wrong. Seemed nice when I met him.

"We've heard the last of it I'm afraid"........I'm afraid we haven't

Actually, Hartnell's role has been re-cast once before: Richard Hurndall portrayed the 1st Doctor in the 20th anniversary episode, "The Five Doctors." Sadly, they would now have to re-cast Doctors 1-3. So long as the new actors bear resemblance to their predecessors (as Hurndall did to Hartnell), it could definitely be done. For instance, actor Martin Jarvis looks rather like Jon Pertwee, and I think he would make a great 3rd Doctor should the role be revived.

@notaphaser they don't all have to make it. in the five doctors they got a William Hartnel lookalike to play the first doctor. though I must admit I never saw the five doctors so I don't know if he was a worthy replacement

He sounds the same and all he has to do is wear his hat....he needs to come back!

I think they'll just do "The Three Doctors: Part 2" with Eccelston, Tennant and Smith. I'd love to see some classic Doctors, but I don't think it will happen.

aparently he is the same off set he is awesomely crazy

Nah, I would like to see Matt Smith and Tom Baker as the Doctors in one special, that would be brilliant and they could have the line: "Why do you wear a bow tie?" "I love bow ties, bow ties are cool! What about you and that very long scarf of yours? Where did you get it from?!"

I’m assuming this interview was from 1996-2000? They mentioned the crappy ‘96 tv movie 😂😂

Don' t you mean Eric Idle, instead? This face hit me first in my mind, when I saw him.

"all he had to do was speak complete rubbish with conviction..." But enough of your career, Richard, how's Tom Baker getting on?

I actually think he doesn't watch the show any more, and likely hasn't seen much of the new series. Just n educated guess (I get this impression from various interviews he's done).

well sadly it'd probably be the 7 doctors, as the first doctor has been dead for many years, and I doubt they'd want to cast someone to play Mr Hartnell's role for him.

Weird, must be in 1996. Shame about the TV movie, Paul McGann is such a fantastic Doctor in the Big Finish stuff.

Honestly, I'm kind of glad the Doctor Who movie of the 90's didn't catch on in America much like the US Red Dwarf pilot, can you imagine how much they would have butchered it?

No way Tom Baker is much better looking than Prince Charles LOL

Didn't even remember his own son. Tragic.

The interviewer looks like he Grahm Chapman from Monty Python.

I have a question for you all, what episode is that in which they played of Doctor Who?

Hasn't Tom Baker always refused to get on stage with another Dr in a Dr Who program? In the 5 Doctors to get him in, they apparently had to use an unreleased clip from the unreleased Shada & claim he got stuck in the Time Vortex

I'd say he looks a bit like Bill Clinton instead. XD

hello, folks. I am not a native English speaker. Big fan of Tom though. what did he say at 6:40 (about his mother words before her death)?

Cool... It appears that Tom Baker is more rational than I suspected. ;O) Katalyzt

I've always thought Tom Baker was someone who is deeply religious and hides behind the jokes.

Americans are Never this honest in an interview! there is even a talk show host that will make people eat disgusting foods rather than say a negative thing in front of a camera. There were several times in his book I wanted to hug him and several times I wanted to give him a good smack upside the head. But indeed, I do adore him.

Tom Baker was cool..

hmmm

I want to be an orphan.

Well, he is known to be eccentric, both in the good & bad ways.

OMG Tom Baker looks like a smiling Bill Clinton. No offence to Tom Baker. His voice is still classic. Blessings FLETCHER

A Labourer pmsl

Yeah Bill Clinton too

Dude you're not Batman!

HOW BLEEPED UP IS THAT !

What is cheap about the Bible?

"I still read my Bible because I love cheap lurid melodrama."

Such a dry, dry sense of humour. Lol

Smith is terrible. Just my Opinion.