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The Times once wrote of Tom Baker that he was "a very tall man with a beautiful voice and a range of expression from the nobly heroic to a fleeting resemblance to Harpo Marx". And that's all most people know about one of British television's most successful and popular actors. A superficial image of a tall, loquacious man with a long scarf. But what is he really like? How did he become one of the screen's most instantly recognisable faces?
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The Times once wrote of Tom Baker that he was [[For Tom Baker, Dr Who is better than a dog's life|"a very tall man with a beautiful voice and a range of expression from the nobly heroic to a fleeting resemblance to Harpo Marx"]]. And that's all most people know about one of British television's most successful and popular actors. A superficial image of a tall, loquacious man with a long scarf. But what is he really like? How did he become one of the screen's most instantly recognisable faces?
  
 
One of the strange things is that he came to the Dr Who series because of his success in villainous roles. And he was lucky enough to come to the series at a turning point in the programme. Simultaneously, the series lost the three men who held it together. Producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and star Jon Pertwee had worked together on the Dr Who series for five years. They had all joined at roughly the same time; and now they all decided to move on to other areas at the same time, leaving an enormous gap in the programme. Philip Hinchcliffe was brought in to replace Barry Letts as producer. Scriptwriter Bob Holmes, who had been a regular contributor to Dr Who, replaced Dicks as the script editor. But that still left one vital gap unfilled. Who was to be the new Who?
 
One of the strange things is that he came to the Dr Who series because of his success in villainous roles. And he was lucky enough to come to the series at a turning point in the programme. Simultaneously, the series lost the three men who held it together. Producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and star Jon Pertwee had worked together on the Dr Who series for five years. They had all joined at roughly the same time; and now they all decided to move on to other areas at the same time, leaving an enormous gap in the programme. Philip Hinchcliffe was brought in to replace Barry Letts as producer. Scriptwriter Bob Holmes, who had been a regular contributor to Dr Who, replaced Dicks as the script editor. But that still left one vital gap unfilled. Who was to be the new Who?
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Top: Tom Baker as the villainous Prince Koura with the beauteous Caroline Munro (as the slave-girl Marigiana) in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973). Above: Koura listens to a report from his magically created Homunculus.
 
Top: Tom Baker as the villainous Prince Koura with the beauteous Caroline Munro (as the slave-girl Marigiana) in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973). Above: Koura listens to a report from his magically created Homunculus.
  
Above: Torn Baker, as Rasputin, in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). Right: Baker sits in the makeup chair for the same film. Opposite: Baker as Prince Koura in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973).
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Above: Tom Baker, as Rasputin, in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). Right: Baker sits in the makeup chair for the same film. Opposite: Baker as Prince Koura in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973).
  
 
Above: Tom Baker, as Rasputin, in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
 
Above: Tom Baker, as Rasputin, in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
  
 
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