An ever so slight brush with greatness

[Gothmog]

I 99.9% certain Tom Baker outside the Body Shop in Tunbridge Wells yesterday.
Unfortunately I was in a mad dash for a bus and my brain didn't catch up with my eyes until I was well past him so he missed out on the chance to have me stood in front of him turning red with embarassement and trying to think of something to say that didn't make me sound like a complete gimp.

Sadly that brief glimpse is probably the most exciting thing to happen in my life for the past couple of weeks (with the exception of Half-Life 2).

[Max Kon]

Erm... Who is Tom Baker?

[Gothmog]

Hmm don't know why this popped up as a "Help!" topic, sorry.

Tom Baker was the curly-haired, unfeasibly-long scarfed Doctor Who.  Younger boarders may know him as the voice-over on Little Britain.

[Dudley]

I got Tom Baker's autograph once, in a copy of (from memory) Dr Who And The Giant Robot.  Had loadsa Dr Who novels at the time, so naturally picked one from the Third Doctor series.  D'Oh!

Nice chap, though.

[Floyd-the-k]

Max, Tom Baker is an actor who was the fourth (and probably the most popular) Dr Who. He does the narrator voice for Little Britain toohttp://www.elliottsamazing.com/tbaker02.jpg">

[Wake]

I met Tom Baker on Oxford rail station once (early 90s). For some reason I was dressed in Dark Age clothes (tabard, tunic, trews), and I embarassingingly asked him more about Douglas Adams than himself (since I'd recently seen him in a short view of the future TV program written by Douglas).

Wake

[Dunk!]

When i was in London i used to see him quite regularly wandering around the pubs of Soho. This is when he was a lot weightier in the late 90's.

Never approuched him though, huge scary looking man with a permanent determined scowl on his face.

No sirree.

Still the best Doc though and can even brighten up shite like Monarch of the Glen with his presence.

[Richmond Clements]

How does a cyberman not know who Tom Baker is?

[Devons Daddy]

any young uns not sure.
whos tom baker is he?

 best DR we ever had thats who he is.
bloody great. saw him once in hamleys many years ago. late 80s must have been.
i didnt speak to him, but felt he looked bigger then i had imagined him to be.

[Max Kon]

we only know his many incarnations as 'the doctor', not their individual names.

[therev]

It's his 41st birthday today.


er.."The Doctor" that is not Tom Baker!

[Pyroxian]

>Dr Who And The Giant Robot

   No, that was a 4th doctor one. Just after he'd reincarnated (So it was between Planet of the Spiders and Terror of the Zygons - man, I'm such a who-er)

   Steve

[Richmond Clements]

'Dr Who and the Giant Robot' was of course, the name of the book, the adventure as screen was called 'Robot'.


A nerd told me, I didn't know this myself. No sir.