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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
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Subject: Where was Tom Baker
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 12:07:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 12:07:58 1983
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I was at one of the Doctor Who conventions this summer and Tom Baker
was there.  He detailed there (in a snooty manner that left me very
disillusioned in him as a person) that he refused to be in "The Five
Doctors".  When BBC first asked him to do the show, he said he wanted
more profit.  They gave it to him, and then he wanted even more.  They
were going to give him whatever he wanted, told him to write his own
contract, and he said in a fit of pique that he wasn't going to do it
at all, that they were making it to easy.  Doesn't that sound like
Hollywood has affected the British?  So he did not appear in "The Five
Doctors".  (And my opinion of Tom Baker has dropped immensely seeing
that he as a person doesn't seem to beieve in the personality that
made his portrayal of the Doctor so good.)

So, back in 1979 the stage crew union did what all union people do,
they went on strike, and stayed out for quite a while.  The rest of
the filming for that season was shortened, and the filming for the
episode in progress was canceled.  Therefor, we have part of a Doctor
Who with Romana as the skimpy blond with straggly hair that has never
been seen.  And that was used as the base of the Five Doctors.  Tom
Baker that we see in "The Five Doctors" was filmed four years ago.

By the way, Tom Baker married the skimpy Romana.  At the convention,
he said that the marriage lasted about three months, and then broke
up.  Psychoanalysing, could it be the disasterous marraige that turned
him off to the point where he will refuse to associate with Doctor
Who?  He also stated that he does not have even a single souvenier of
remembrance of his days as the Doctor.
-- 
                                          Walt Pesch
                         Specialist in Removal of Oral Insertions of Feet
                                    AT&T Western Electric
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