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Tom Baker (1) (1934–)

Autor(a) de The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

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40+ Works 1,020 Membros 39 Críticas

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Obras por Tom Baker

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (1999) 342 exemplares
Who on Earth Is Tom Baker? (1997) 269 exemplares
Scratchman (2019) — Autor; Narrador, algumas edições174 exemplares
Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl [DVD] (2009) — Actor — 33 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora [DVD] (2010) — Actor — 29 exemplares
Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden [DVD] (2012) — Actor — 23 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon [DVD] (2010) — Actor — 18 exemplares
Doctor Who: Underworld [DVD] (2010) 18 exemplares
Tom Baker at 80 (2014) 8 exemplares

Associated Works

A Christmas Carol (1843) — Narrador, algumas edições24,494 exemplares
Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairytales (2015) — Narrador, algumas edições465 exemplares
Doctor Who : A Celebration—Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983) — "I Liked Doctor Who Because it Was All Fun, Fun, Fun!" — 260 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors [1983 TV episode] (1983) — Actor (previous footage) — 90 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Ark in Space [TV series] (2002) — Actor — 61 exemplares
Little Britain: The Complete First Series (2004) — Actor — 59 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Key to Time Collection (2002) — Actor — 57 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [TV serial] (1977) — Actor — 55 exemplares
Doctor Who: City of Death [TV serial] (1979) — Actor — 55 exemplares
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks [TV serial] (2006) — Actor — 54 exemplares
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars [TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 54 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Robots of Death [TV serial] (2001) — Actor — 53 exemplares
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad [1973 film] (1973) — Actor — 47 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment [TV serial] (2007) — Actor — 45 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear [TV serial] (2006) — Actor — 45 exemplares
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock [TV serial] (1977) — Actor — 45 exemplares
The Light at the End (2013) — Performer — 44 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive [TV serial] (2005) — Actor — 40 exemplares
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks [TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 40 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius [TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 39 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom [1976 TV ] (1976) — Actor — 37 exemplares
Doctor Who: Shada [TV serial] (2013) — Actor — 36 exemplares
Doctor Who: The E-Space Trilogy (2009) — Actor — 36 exemplares
Doctor Who: Robot [TV serial] (2007) — Actor — 35 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil [DVD] (1977) — Actor — 31 exemplares
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil [1975 TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 31 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin [DVD] (2009) — Actor — 31 exemplares
The Lost Stories: The Fourth Doctor Box Set (2012) — Narrador — 28 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time [DVD] (2000) — Actor — 27 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers [DVD] (2011) — Actor — 27 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit [DVD] (2010) — Actor — 24 exemplares
Doctor Who: Logopolis [TV serial] (2014) — Actor — 24 exemplares
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [DVD] (2010) — Actor — 23 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited: 1-4 (2013) — Actor — 21 exemplares
Doctor Who: Philip Hinchcliffe Presents (2014) — Performer — 20 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time (2019) — Performer — 20 exemplares
Night of the Stormcrow (2012) — Narrador — 19 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara [TV serial] (2022) — Actor — 19 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood [TV serial] (2003) — Actor — 19 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken [TV serial] (1981) — Actor — 18 exemplares
Magic Roundabout [DVD] [2004] — Actor — 18 exemplares
Doctor Who: Season 14 (2020) — Actor — 17 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll [TV serial] (2002) — Actor — 17 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet [TV serial] (2002) — Actor, algumas edições17 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation [TV serial] (2002) — Actor — 16 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor [TV serial] (2002) — Actor — 16 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Daleks [TV serial] (2015) — Actor — 16 exemplares
The Darkness of Glass (2015) — Reader — 13 exemplares
Talkback, Volume Two: The Seventies (2006) — Interviewee — 13 exemplares
Little Britain: Live 13 exemplares
Return to Telos (2015) — Actor — 13 exemplares
The Fate of Krelos (2015) — Reader — 13 exemplares
The Eternal Battle (2017) — Performer — 13 exemplares
Death Match (2015) — Reader — 12 exemplares
The Cloisters of Terror (2015) — Reader — 12 exemplares
Philip Hinchcliffe Presents: The Helm of Awe (2017) — Performer — 12 exemplares
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters, Volume Two (2017) — Performer — 12 exemplares
The Exxilons (2015) — Reader — 12 exemplares
Suburban Hell (2015) — Reader — 12 exemplares
Philip Hinchcliffe Presents: The Genesis Chamber (2016) — Performer — 12 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy [TV serial] (2008) — Actor — 11 exemplares
The Beast of Kravenos (2017) — Narrador — 11 exemplares
The Haunting of Malkin Place (2017) — Performer — 11 exemplares
Requiem for the Rocket Men (2015) — Reader — 11 exemplares
Dethras (2017) — Performer — 11 exemplares
The Movellan Grave (2017) — Performer — 9 exemplares
Talkback, Volume Three: The Eighties (2007) — Interviewee — 9 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Comic Strip Adaptations, Volume One (2019) — Performer — 8 exemplares
Doctor Who: Stranded 1 (2020) — Narrador — 8 exemplares
The Skin of the Sleek (2017) — Performer — 8 exemplares
The Silent Scream (2017) — Performer — 8 exemplares
The Syndicate Master Plan, Volume 1 (2019) — Performer — 7 exemplares
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 7, Volume 1 (2018) — Performer — 7 exemplares
Subterranea (2017) — Narrador — 7 exemplares
The Thief Who Stole Time (2017) — Performer — 7 exemplares
Jak and the Wormhole (2016) — Narrador, algumas edições7 exemplares
The Vault of Horror [1973 film] (1973) — Actor — 6 exemplares
The English Way of Death [audio drama] (2015) — Reader — 6 exemplares
The Russia House [BBC Radio Collection] (1994) — Narrador — 6 exemplares
Doctor Who: Stranded 2 (2021) — Performer — 6 exemplares
Once and Future: Past Lives (2023) — Performer — 5 exemplares
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 9, Volume 1 (2020) — Narrador — 5 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks [sound recording] (1992) — Narrador — 5 exemplares
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 7, Volume 2 (2018) — Performer — 5 exemplares
Shadow of the Sun (2020) — Actor — 5 exemplares
Little Britain: The Complete Radio Series 2 (2004) — Narrador — 4 exemplares
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 9, Volume 2 (2020) — Narrador — 4 exemplares
The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 10, Volume 2 (2021) — Narrador — 3 exemplares
Little Britain on Radio (2005) — Narrador — 3 exemplares
Little Britain: The Complete Radio Series 1 (2004) — Narrador — 3 exemplares
Little Brexit (2019) — Narrador — 1 exemplar

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Baker, Thomas Stewart
Data de nascimento
1934-01-20
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
País (no mapa)
UK
Local de nascimento
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Locais de residência
Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Ocupações
actor
Relações
Ward, Lalla (ex-wife)

Membros

Críticas

As a longterm Doctor Who fan who enjoyed Tom Baker's stories until the later ones which became rather hammy I was keen to read this. At first, it was interesting, and it was charming to see Harry Sullivan and Sarah Jane Smith accompanying the Doctor on a visit to a remote island with a beseiged community. Sinister scarecrows are stalking the island and, it seems, turning people into scarecrows like themselves. The story is told in a framing structure, where the Doctor is having to defend himself against the Time Lords accusations as he is on trial, something that cropped up a few times in the series and was here, I thought, a bit unnecessary and irritating.

In the second half of the book, where the Doctor confronts the force behind the happenings on the island, a thing that labels itself Scratchman (Old Scratch being a name for the Devil), things become rather more fantastical, taking place in a nightmarish world. I found this dragged a bit. There is a nod to the current Doctor who makes a couple of cameo appearances.

I believe the core of this story was an idea that Tom Baker and Ian Marter, who played Harry, had discussed in the 1970s as a possible film idea. The book is dedicated to Marter who died tragically young, though not to Elizabeth Sladen who also sadly died more recently. It appears to have been ghost written or maybe co-written with someone called James Goss. It is competently written but I found the whole fantasyland aspect rather over extended and it became a bit boring. The first half I could quite envisage being a Doctor Who story of the time. One irritation was the non grammatical use of 'sat' instead of 'sitting', as in "I was sat....".

One aspect that did not work for me was the omniscience of the Doctor who could describe in detail, including dialogue, what was happening to his companions when he wasn't present. This was necessitated by the clunky trial frame - if it had just been written in third person this would not have been necessary. I also don't think the first person narrative of the Doctor himself quite works: by necessity it can't be as alien as the Doctor really should be and makes him just seem human. So given these reservations, I can only award it an OK 2 stars.
… (mais)
 
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kitsune_reader | 12 outras críticas | Nov 23, 2023 |
Reading this made me feel like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. Bizarre. Surreal. Far more wild and wacky than I was expecting, but who can fault the wild and wonderful imagination of Tom Baker? His sense of humour shines through? The theme of the book is fear, and this resonates by the end. I’m tempted to get the audio, just to hear this brought to life by the author/Doctor.
 
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SharonMariaBidwell | 12 outras críticas | Oct 17, 2023 |
I'm a bit disappointed that it's another "making dreams/fears real" kind of story. I'm kind of sick of those. A lot of this could've come from a Celestial Toymaker story with no changes.
 
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3Oranges | 12 outras críticas | Jun 24, 2023 |
MEU DEUS DO CÉU, QUE LIVRO É ESSE???? O.O

QUE TROÇO DIVERTIDO!!!!
 
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lulusantiago | 12 outras críticas | Mar 11, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
40
Also by
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Membros
1,020
Popularidade
#25,253
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
39
ISBN
82
Línguas
5

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