Who's the doctor this time?
- Publication: The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW)
- Date: 1985-12-01
- Author: Amanda Lulham
- Page: 87
- Language: English
THE number of Doctor Who's to have come hurtling through time in a blue telephone box would rate alongside Liz Taylor's tally of ex-husbands.
And if you thought the concept had worn thin, well think again. The ABC is about to introduce yet another Doctor Who to satisfy the many cult followers of the time trapeze artist.
Resembling a rather rotund cherub with his flaxen curls and stocky physique, Colin Baker is the sixth Doctor Who in the new 24-part series, Attack Of The Cybermen.
Baker replaces Doctor No 5, Peter Davidson (Tristan in All Creatures Great And Small), and was introduced in the final episode of the last series, The Twin Dilemma, which screened in July 1984.
The new series begins screening next week, Monday to Thursday at 6.30pm.
Baker said he had clear ideas about what the sixth doctor should be like.
He sees him with a sharp-edged wit though maintaining his quirky, eccentric unpredictable quality. He also wanted the Doctor to be very physical.
Baker admitted the hardest part of slipping into Doctor Who's shoes was his appearance. Previous doctors, his namesake Tom Baker among them, have been tall. Never before has there been a burly Doctor Who.
In this new series, the doctor and his dense assistant Peri (Nicola Bryant) are locked in combat with their deadly foes, the Cybermen.
Answering an inter-galactic distress signal from Earth, the unstable Time Lord finds himself mixed up in a diamond heist while attempting to save the course of history.
Whingeing, whining, shrill-voiced Peri is of little help to the doctor, who soon realises the distress call originated from Commander Lytton (Maurice Colbourne), an alien soldier trapped on Earth after a previous encounter with the doctor.
Scrounging round the London sewers, Doctor Who and Peri discover Lytton's true intention is connected with the Cybermen's plans to take over Earth.
As we all know, Halley's Comet is soon to enter our skies — but not if the Cyber-men have anything to do with it.
They are hoping to change the course of history and their plan involves diverting the Comet so it will crash into Earth.
The doctor and Peri have the daunting task of preventing the diabolical plan from being fulfilled.
Caption: Colin Baker, the latest in a long line of Doctor Who's
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- APA 6th ed.: Lulham, Amanda (1985-12-01). Who's the doctor this time?. The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW) p. 87.
- MLA 7th ed.: Lulham, Amanda. "Who's the doctor this time?." The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW) [add city] 1985-12-01, 87. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Lulham, Amanda. "Who's the doctor this time?." The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), edition, sec., 1985-12-01
- Turabian: Lulham, Amanda. "Who's the doctor this time?." The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 1985-12-01, section, 87 edition.
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