Tom Baker (1) (1934–)
Autor(a) de The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
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Obras por Tom Baker
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 11 - Volume 1 - Solo (2022) — Performer — 4 exemplares
Doctor Who: Robot (Story 75) [DVD] 3 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Invasion 2 exemplares
Doctor Who: Tom Baker Sampler CD (SFX 188) 1 exemplar
Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons [DVD] 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: The Collection Season 17 Blu-Ray 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Underworld 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Face Of Evil, The 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Keeper Of Traken, The 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Ark In Space, The. 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Shada. Partial Animation. 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Invasion Of Time, The 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Talons Of Weng-Chiang, The 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Sontaran Experiment, The 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: Logopolis 1 exemplar
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive 1 exemplar
Doctor Who and the Giant Robot 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Doctor Who : A Celebration—Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983) — "I Liked Doctor Who Because it Was All Fun, Fun, Fun!" — 260 exemplares
Magic Roundabout [DVD] [2004] — Actor — 18 exemplares
Still Getting Away with It: The Life and Times of Nicholas Courtney (2005) — Prefácio — 14 exemplares
Little Britain: Live 13 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Davros Collection 5 exemplares
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate [DVD] 5 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 11 - Volume 2: The Nine (2022) — Performer — 4 exemplares
Doctor Who: Full Circle [DVD] 4 exemplares
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 12B: Angels and Demons (2023) — Performer — 3 exemplares
The 39 Steps and Other Richard Hannay Adventures: A BBC Radio Collection of Full-Cast Dramatisations (2020) — Narrador — 2 exemplares
Exploration Earth: The Time Machine 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- 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
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 40
- Also by
- 112
- Membros
- 1,020
- Popularidade
- #25,253
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 39
- ISBN
- 82
- Línguas
- 5
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)