A lot of his reputation was simply because the writing was doing him a big disservice. The Big Finish audios are MUCH better in that regard. :)

His performance is so warm here, he just makes you smile from the way he speaks.

Is it just me, or does this kinda feel like it could be Collin's version of The Curator?

@@megelizabeth9492 Funny you should say that, he plays a version of The Curator in Big Finish

That's why I suggested it!

Listen to some of his Big Finish stories. Especially the ones later on in 6's timeline. You get a lot more of this.

They just did not delvope the Sixth Doctor enough to warrent a longer stint. Still the days of Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee are gone. Pertwee was the second longest Doctor.

@@professorhaystacks6606 Okay I left this as a seperate comment, but like, what's going on here in relation to 6's Big Finish timeline? Like, this seems to imply its Peri and the Doctor's first time reuniting since "Trial of a Timelord," but the "Doctor and Peri" audio stories mean that can't possibly be true. Does this essentially de-canonize 6's audio stories? Also, how is the Doctor older here? Like, unlike old 5, they seem to be implying that 6 actually _GOT OLDER_ before regenerating into 7 (which we know is impossible from what's onscreen). Could it be this isn't actually 6, but is actually the 2nd Curator (since Tom Baker's Curator regenerates into an old Colin Baker in Big Finish canon)?

@@MrMarsFargo have not heard the big finish curator story. Maybe? As for Peri, wasn't her timeline split or something in her last story? I haven't gotten to trial of a timelord yet in my watch through so I could be wrong. The final fallback is 7s statement that there are versions of the 7th doctor here are from different time streams, so maybe that is true of 6 as well. And maybe the same is true for peri. Old 6 is overall much easier than pero. Given how the other short bits don't contradict big finish directly this wrinkle is a bit of a bugbear.

@@MrMarsFargoPeri has a million different timelines. The Seven and Ace Tale also shows there's a multiverse going on.

Was this just after the regeneration, when Six was still somewhat psychotic?

At conventions, Colin would emulate his Doctor's personality during panels and some people understood what he was doing while others thought he really was a jerk. This would include things like making anyone asking him a question remove a 4th Doctor scarf if they were wearing one.

Have you tried therapy to resolve your issue of being ashamed about your previous opinion of a fictional tv character 😂

Oh shut it. Like another episode of this series says, all we are are stories. So of course another bundle of stories will move us! Empathy is a very real thing, after all.

@@TheMadwomen we’re not just stories. Do you make up your past then? Is your history that uninteresting?

@@theelvisguru9490 Stories aren't necessarily fictional.

Would of loved the blue coat

I loved Six’s suit second of all. Three and Four are my favorites. Maybe Nine, too.

He asked for an outfit which was roughly christopher Eccleston's.

@@bevenstarlow me too. I'm sure there has to be a cosplayer out there somewhere that would have LOVED to lend Colin their coat for the day.

he's also wearing rainbow socks, you can see them before the camera pans up while he's sitting and reading. Sixie still loves all his colors

assassination

@@Jasonm25870 I can't believe I misspelled that. But my point still stands.

@@ryantherebelI loved that classic Who story, "The Deadly Assigner" :P I agree though, Colin deserves better.

Yes. Colin Baker got the short end of the stick. If he got great scripts and didn’t have to wear that stupid costume, he would have been very successful.

What did Eric Saward do, that was so awful?

She's still a very beautiful woman.

100% agree with you on that. JNT has a lot to answer for - his garish and tasteless wardrobe choices, refusing to reuse previously established script writers in favour of his cronies, purposefully pandering to American audiences with Peri's accent and rejecting advice from more experienced staff who had worked on DW!

Same problem with 13's era. Poor Jodie deserved better, just like Colin did.

He's still alive and working, but it's been pretty much all voice work the last few years.

Fresh horses! Oops...wrong show...

See, I'm confused if 6's Big Finish stories are being de-canonized by this (RTD loves Big Finish, so I doubt it, but he did previously de-canonize "Jubillee" in order to remake it as "Dalek"). Like, this implies it's 6's first time seeing Peri since "Trial of a Timelord," but at Big Finish the "Doctor and Peri" audio stories have that as their first time reuniting. So I'm confused how both can be possible, here.

​​@@MrMarsFargoIt's a timey wimey thing. 😂

I think it's kind of useless worrying about canon in a universe full of time travelers. At any moment, the Doctor might step on a lady bug while on another adventure and set off a chain of events that could subtly or overtly alter the timeline. As long as they somewhat hold to established canon, I'm not going to lose sleep. Shows been on 60 years, with hundreds of creators involved. People are going to make mistakes or contradict some other episode or throw away line of dialog. @@MrMarsFargo

​@@MrMarsFargo I mean, now we can blame the Toymaker

It's also a hint of humbleness. Like he's very humbled to be the doctor again. His final Chapter was one of the finest last acts of the doctor I have ever heard. By the way, do you have any big finish suggestions?

@FredMeyer42 Respects to you. 👍

Have you listened to any of his Audio dramas! They are so much fun, and miles better than anything he got in the show proper!

Check out the Big Finish productions. They mellowed him out nicely.

@@jamesbevan9939 He seems to be a nice guy

And it gives cosplayers some wiggle room as well. I'd love to do a mix of the Tales of the TARDIS outfit and the Classic Sixth Doctor look.

He’s the Curator now in Big Finish which could explain the change

@@beckyj.hollen2743 that’s true.

Part of me wishes they put him in the blue variant of his coat from Big Finish and other extended media. I'm sure there has to be a cosplayer or two out there that would have jumped at the chance to supply Colin with their coat for the day.

I wish they thought that in the 80s

Colin Baker is outstanding. Spent part of my 50th birthday talking to him and the man is magical.

@@mikeloschiavo4913 I met him once at a convention and mentioned my favourite story was his Big Finish story with the Pirates of Penzance songs, and he laughed and started singing it. Absolutely fantastic fellow he is.

@@havoc697That song, I am the very model, was a great song! I think the episode is weird, but I love the song! And I really hope to encounter him again at a con one of these days!

@@mikeloschiavo4913 I hope you can meet him at a con too friend, its always a nice change of pace to see an actor beloved by people getting due praise in public!

She is gorgeous.

They've been good friends the whole time.

And this time around they've given her some clothes to wear.

If it makes you feel any better, Colin got far better treatment in the Big Finish Audio books.

@@TheMarcHicks Cheers! I'll look into those.

Someone I know who doesn't know Doctor Who all that well thinks Colin Baker was the best actor they ever had in the role. He had stiff competition but I wouldn't disagree.

@@SimonFoston Colin Baker's a great actor but he's not the greatest who's ever played the Doctor. John Hurt was the greatest and had the resume outside of Doctor Who to prove it. I would kill to see John Hurt do Series' 8 and 9. Series 10 too if he'd lived long enough. Peter Capaldi felt like he didn't really belong in the role, so he should have been the War Doctor, the one who's meant to feel like he shouldn't be there. John Hurt ended up being too good for the War Doctor, so he should have been the final regeneration. He felt like a man who was born to play the Doctor but had to wait 7 decades for it to actually happen. And when it finally did, he wasn't used to his full potential.

You'd think after forty years of being the Warrior Queen Peri would be speaking in a booming Shakespearean manner by now; I would do after just a week with Brian Blessed 😂

@@darrenbertram7289 Haha. Good point!

I always thought her accent was fine in the 80s. The problem was that they still wrote her lines in British verbiage, and it's jarringly off at times.

@@obsoletebutneat In "The Twin Dilemma", the Doctor asked Peri how she got her name and she answered that it was "a diminutive form of her proper name, Perpugilliam". Apparently the writer had never talked to *_any_* 19 year olds (the age Peri was supposed to have been then), never mind American ones.

I met him recently at a comicon, really nice guy and pleasure to meet.

Except that Colin Baker hated that outfit

@@benjamindavis4974 That doesn't mean it was wrong for him to wear it. The whole point was to emphasise that the 6th Doctor's fashion taste was so far out of step with humans that he didn't realise how stupid he looked. And Colin, despite hating the outfit, always carried himself with confidence whilst wearing it.

@@tomnorton4277 Colin Baker hated it, every other actor had a say in their outfit he didn't

@@benjamindavis4974 Which only emphasises how great an actor Colin Baker is. He never looked uncomfortable in the outfit, despite hating it in real life. Dress Peter Capaldi in that costume, and he would never have been able to pull it off. Even David Tennant couldn't have managed it, which is emphasised by the fact that everybody knew he would look uncomfortable in Jodie Whittaker's clothes.

Should have been his blue coat

Its because Colin can't fit into the original costume.

@@dtuk22 tailors are a thing.

I mean…this is the Doctor that strangled her and treated her like crap a good portion of their run together

​ @mediakira6621 Poor Peri, She easily had the toughest time as a companion. Poisoned Strangled by the Doctor, had to face Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Master, Rani, Sil, turned into a bird, tortured...

She is the Warrior Queen now. And her steel facade melted when she saw the Doctor again.

In her early 60's, but no that doesn't need to be taken into consideration.

Neat idea, but I think for a remake Michael Kane would be perfect for John Hammond.

Personally, I'm half convinced that this is actually the Curator, tbh.

Ages ago, I saw a picture of a cosplayer who had turned Six's coat into a Victorian dress and it actually looked nice.

John Nathan-Turner, speak softly and wear a loud Hawaiian shirt!