#TIL Tom Baker was offered the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, but chose instead to be in the famously bad 2000 movie Dungeons and Dragons, so he could spend a few days filming in Prague instead of more than a year filming in Aotearoa; https://www.movieoubliette.com/e/dungeons-and-dragons-with-michael-french/
Tom Baker may not love everything about Doctor Who, he certainly knows how to BE The Doctor.
His cane is based on his sonic screwdriver - well, one of them - during his time on the show. Love the whole get up!
I wanna wander around a nursing home looking like this muttering about my TARDIS suddenly deciding to fix it's own chameleon circuit and now I can't find it 😂
Happy 90th birthday to the legend that is Mr Tom Baker. That’s a full fifty years - half a century - of being The Doctor. Who can imagine the amount of joy and entertainment he’s brought in that time. Happy birthday! #DoctorWho#TomBaker
My first "Doctor" was John Pertwee, but #TomBaker quickly became my favorite #DoctorWho! Happy 90th birthday, Tom! Here's one of my favorite Doctor quotes:
"Well, of course I'm being childish! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
#TomBaker 90, well done old chap. I met you once, well nearly. I saw you at Kings Cross and we made eye contact. You realised this before me and that I was deliberately walking towards you. Before I reached your location you had vanished behind a cast iron pole and then thin air.
I know the stunts of #ClassicWho Season 7 are theost iconic (they were lucky to be alive sometimes), but there's this one scene in the Hinchcliffe Era where #TomBaker's doctor freaking JUMPS HEAD FIRST OUT A WINDOW, breaking glass and I'm like 😮
Forgot to say I’m a long-term #DoctorWho fan, since watching the first episode of The Ribos Operation in 1978 at a very young age. Favourite Doctor #DavidTennant then #TomBaker and #PaulMcGann (thanks #BigFinish for that last). Favourite companion #SarahJaneSmith. Favourite Classic Who story City of Death, and favourite New Who The Empty Child. I’m not a huge #scifi fan, not keen on hard scifi. But as a #storytelling engine Who works brilliantly. Historian me loves the #timeTravel. #introduction
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views." - #TomBaker as #DoctorWho
"Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Hate is always foolish, and love is always wise.
Always try to be nice and never fail to be kind. You mustn't tell anyone your name. No one would understand it anyway... Except children. Children can hear it.
#TomBaker is trending on that other site, but don't worry, he's okay. He's only trending because it's very important that you see Tom Baker covered in #kittens.🥰
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views."