The Universe According to TOM BAKER DWM confronts the iconic Doctor Who and notorious fibber in a valiant if ultimately vain attempt to uncover the person behind the performance… Interview by BENJAMIN COOK Has anyone seen the real Tom Baker? Tall, white man; mid-70s. Hair: ashen, and less abundant than it was when he played…
Dedicated Followers of Fashion! The flamboyant designer and her larger-than-life leading man – Fourth Doctor Tom Baker and June Hudson celebrate their extraordinary collaboration. Interview by BENJAMIN COOK Photographs by DYLAN THOMAS June Hudson June Hudson is a bit of a legend. If pushed, she admits as much herself. June designed the costumes for eight…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW by JASON ARNOPP First published in Doctor Who Magazine 412 in August 2009. “I’m afraid I have no gift for friendship. I quickly get tired of people and off they go. Odd, isn’t it, not to have a friend… I haven’t even got a dog…” – Tom Baker, in his autobiography Who…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW by JASON ARNOPP First published in Doctor Who Magazine 411 in July 2009 Tom Baker opens those remarkable eyes until each is the size of a cosmos. He has just been asked how he felt when Doctor Who returned to BBC One in 2005. “With whom?” he wants to know. Christopher Eccleston.…
No Escape from Reality Whales! Foxes! Badgers! More of the wild life and times of Tom Baker as Andrew Pixley presents a final selection of highlights from the interview tapes recorded for BBC2’s Doctor Who Night. . . On leaving the series… “Well, you can’t do something forever and I had to move on and…
Doctor Who Magazine interview from April 2000 Andrew Pixley listens in to more of the complete and unexpurgated transcripts of the interviews conducted for BBC2’s recent Doctor Who theme night – and hears the testimony of a self-confessed ‘professional fraud’. Part 1 Tom Baker’s interview for Doctor Who Night was very different from the others. Firstly,…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW First published in Doctor Who Magazine 258 in November 1997 This is ground control to Major Tom… He’s a spaced-out oddity who inhabits a world of Dickens, dingy bars and the dead . . . He’s Tom Baker, the fourth and most popular Doctor, and he’s busy publicising his forthcoming autobiography. Seizing…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW First published in Doctor Who Magazine 181 in December 1991 In the final part of our three part interview, Tom Baker reflects on his years as the Doctor, on his present work and the fate of the programme itself… ‘He’d make a lovely corpse’ Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens During the course…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW First published in Doctor Who Magazine 180 in November 1991 Talking to Tom Baker Part Two Continuing our three part interview with the programme’s most popular Doctor, we investigate the Graham William years, Tom’s thoughts about the TARDIS and his decision to leave the show. “Mind and matter,” said the lady in the…
TOM BAKER INTERVIEW First published in Doctor Who Magazine 179 in October 1991 The first of our three part interview with the actor voted Favourite Doctor by Doctor Who Magazine readers. . . “I counted four hundred and thirty varicose veins on the way here today,” announces Tom Baker to nobody in particular in the…