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A lawyer who. chucked life at the bar to begin acting at age 26, Baker appeared in, among other television vehicles, a serial based on Honore de Balzac writings and a down-and-nasty soap opera before landing a supporting role and eventually the lead on "Dr. Who." The series is taped over a nine-month period each year. "At the moment," says Baker, "we're filming 'The Mark of the Rani' in an amazing location. It's a fully working 19th-Century mill village that has been preserved as a sort of museum. But, yes, we do spend a lot of time in quarries. Every single alien planet tends to be a deserted clay pit or chalk pit or gravel pit. And they are not the most joyous places, I can tell you."
 
A lawyer who. chucked life at the bar to begin acting at age 26, Baker appeared in, among other television vehicles, a serial based on Honore de Balzac writings and a down-and-nasty soap opera before landing a supporting role and eventually the lead on "Dr. Who." The series is taped over a nine-month period each year. "At the moment," says Baker, "we're filming 'The Mark of the Rani' in an amazing location. It's a fully working 19th-Century mill village that has been preserved as a sort of museum. But, yes, we do spend a lot of time in quarries. Every single alien planet tends to be a deserted clay pit or chalk pit or gravel pit. And they are not the most joyous places, I can tell you."
  
While "Dr. Who" fans can be assured of future evil-doing by the Master and the Cybermen, there is some less-welcome news concerning one of the Doctor's most popular sidekicks, K-9. A computerized mechanical dog that was relentlessly logical and lovable, K-9 was last seen disappearing into E-Space, an alternate universe, during the reign of Tom Baker as Dr. Who. [Actually, it was K-9 Mark II that rolled into the distance but we won't get into that.] The little fellow, says Cohn Baker: does not return to the series, having gone to "that great bone yard in the sky."
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While "Dr. Who" fans can be assured of future evil-doing by the Master and the Cybermen, there is some less-welcome news concerning one of the Doctor's most popular sidekicks, K-9. A computerized mechanical dog that was relentlessly logical and lovable, K-9 was last seen disappearing into E-Space, an alternate universe, during the reign of Tom Baker as Dr. Who. [Actually, it was K-9 Mark II that rolled into the distance but we won't get into that.] The little fellow, says Colin Baker: does not return to the series, having gone to "that great bone yard in the sky."
  
  

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