![]() ![]() It was only through the intervention of then-script editor Anthony Read and director Pennant Roberts that MacDonald allowed the story to go forward. The story proved very popular, continuing the series' forward momentum, and even MacDonald was forced to admit he was wrong.īrigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and U.N.I.T. While Doctor Who had always been considered light entertainment, and humor an integral part of it, the script for "The Pirate Planet" introduces overt comedy into the fold for the first time - but just barely. As shown in the documentary included on the "Pirate Planet" DVD, Parrot Fashion, Graeme MacDonald, the BBC's Head of Serials at that time, strenuously objected to Adams' injection of humor. Along the way, The Doctor excels at being a nuisance to the pirate and his officious minions, all the while attempting to find the puppet master pulling the pirates' strings. "The Pirate Planet," written by Adams, exhibits his known absurdities: an unstable cyborg pirate (Bruce Purchase), his quivering and dutiful first mate, and a hollow planet which flies through solar systems, consuming smaller planets, and grinding them down for precious and valuable resources. One disgruntled parent wrote, "My little boy did not like the new Doctor he thought he was too silly." Yet quirks that Baker brought forward became indelible traits of the character: a scatterbrained energy that would immediately snap into focus, a flair for the melodramatic, and a misread of human culture that enabled alien qualities and goofy humor. He merges the stern grandfather, the slightly dotty uncle, and action hero of the previous three incarnations and plays the role much like they were all still inside him.Īccording to the documentary Doctor Who Review: The Tom Baker Years, not all longtime viewers were swayed. Baker's Doctor is at times manic and lunatic, and at others deadly serious. ![]() Being Baker's first appearance as The Doctor, he needed to do the same with the loyal Who fan base as Sarah Jane did with the robot, giving them a reason to accept him. However, said robot has a thread of morality within and Sarah Jane has imprinted herself upon it. There were 41 episodes over the years with Tom Baker and 29 are contained here.Why then is "Robot" a tale worthy of your time? A mad scientist has been detained by a neo-fascist group with the goal to build a murderous robot. Titles include: The Masque of Mandragora, The Creature from the Pit, The Deadly Assassin, Image of the Fendahl, Horror of Fang Rock, Robot, Pyramids of Mars, The Sontaran Experiment, Destiny of the Daleks, The Brain of Morbius, Logopolis, The Keeper of Traken, City of Death, Revenge of the Cybermen, Silver Nemesis, The Invasion of Time, Planet of Evil, The Ark in Space, The Key to Time set, The Armageddon Factor, The Power of Kroll, The Androids of Tara, The Stones of Blood, The Pirate Planet, The Ribos Operation, Genesis of the Daleks, Warriors Gate, State of Decay, and Full Circle. This 33 DVD set is in 19 DVD cases and contains all the Tom Baker episodes on dvd from the 4th Doctor that remain in the archives and have been released so far. Tom Baker was the 4th and longest running Doctor Who from 1974-1981. Tom Baker Doctor Who (1974-1981) DVD set, containing all the episodes from the 4th Doctor (the longest running Doctor Who actor) that remain and are released on dvd (on 33 dvd's). ![]()
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