On 3 July 2014 23:32, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> I also like Baker, > Tom I assume rather than Colin (who played Dr Who number 6 - and is a very nice guy, by the way). > who starred in a couple of fantasy flicks like Sinbad, and whatever, > Pertwee was always a serious guy, > Actually Pert was in "The Navy Lark" - a radio comedy - for years, and also played the lead role in the children's comedy show "Worzel Gummidge" (in New Zealand some of the time, by the way) ... However it happens you are correct (in a real- life example of "The Gettier Problem" !) because a friend of mine who knew both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker says Jon had no sense of humour whatsoever, despite starring in comedies, while Tom Baker was (and hopefully still is) a natural comedian. > and it was great, as a yank, to watch UNIFIL (Uk soldiers) fight with > FN_FAL rifles, Sterling sten guns, and such. I remember reading that the > writers were going for a sort of James Bond action. > Yes, Pertwee's era was rather more dominated by action stuff. He spent quite a bit of time zooming around in hovercraft and that antique car. Apparently that's how he liked to play the character. > Bakers stuff was more, hey, there's really weird people out there. > Yes indeed, especially once Douglas Adams beame script editor. Unfortunately Tom was in the part for about 7 years and ended up sleep-walking through most stories. Also a heavy vein of self-parody crept in (as it did with Bond around the same time) which is IMHO ridiculous, because the whole thing is so silly anyway that everyone else and his tin dog will be parodying it, so there is really no point. Dr Who always worked best when it was taken seriously by the actors, writers etc (they managed to have plenty of humour without self-parody, in any case). > Pertwee was always fighting The Master. John Delgado, who was a great > character actor, "Prepare for time-ram." > Delgado is easily my favourite actor to play the Master. (Derek Jacobi might have come first if he'd been allowed to play the part for more than 5 minutes, and hadn't been succeeded by "scary as a marshmallow" John Simm.) PS At last, a serious topic for disussion! :-D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
