In an interview that was conducted while work was still underway on Scratchman, Tom Baker tackled a random selection of questions from Doctor Who Magazine’s TARDIS tin… Interview by EMILY COOK In the corner of a quintessentially English pub garden sits a Time Lord. The sun is shining, the birds are singing… and so is…
The Devil Made Me Do It Tom Baker’s Scratchman has been resurrected in a new novel which pits the Fourth Doctor against an extraordinary opponent… Interview by EMILY COOK “I spend a surprisingly large amount of time waiting for things – sometimes the end of the world, sometimes a bus. The feeling is always pretty…
Genesis of the Doctor Tom Baker travels back in time to reflect on his first year playing the Doctor. “It’s a bit like religion really, in that all you have to do is believe it…” Interview by EMILY COOK Tom Baker is in East Sussex, admiring the oak-panelled splendour of a 15th-century inn. “This is…
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…