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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
I am a one success man.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
I never examined wh... (more Tom Baker quotes)
Refused to take part in Doctor Who: The Five Doctors.
In 1975, while in character as the Doctor, Tom turned on the Blackpool Illuminations.
At the beginning of his career and prior to his Doctor Who success, Tom was once given the nickname Boiler Suit Tom by the press. He had been supplied for a press conference with some old studio set clothes as he had nothing appropriate to wear.
Jon Culshaw, ... (more Tom Baker trivia)
| Doctor Who - The Scripts, Tom Baker 1974-5 by Terrance Dicks, Robert Holmes, Bob Baker, and Dave Martin | |
| Who on Earth Is Tom Baker? an Autobiograpjhy by Tom Baker | |
| Visions and voices from the Northwest: Will Baker, Jorie Graham, John Rember, Duane Schnabel, Stephen Schultz, Kevan Smith, Tom Spanbauer, Romey Stuckart, Terry Tempest Williams |
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Doctor Who - Genesis of the Daleks (Episode 78) ~ Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, and Ian Marter |
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Doctor Who - The Ark In Space (Story No. 76) ~ Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, and Ian Marter |
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Doctor Who - The Robots of Death ~ Tom Baker, et al. |
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Doctor Who - The Talons of Weng-Chiang ~ Tom Baker, et al. |
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Doctor Who: The Armegeddon Factor (Episode 103) (The Key to Time Series, Part 6) ~ Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, and John Leeson |