Colin Baker

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Colin Charles Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor. He is known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (1984–1986) and Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers (1974–1976). He has also performed prolifically in stage productions across the UK, particularly pantomimes.

Born in London and raised in Rochdale, he began his career with supporting parts in historical drama series such as The Roads to Freedom (1970), Cousin Bette (1971), War and Peace (1972) and Fall of Eagles (1974). Baker's role in The Brothers brought him fame but typecast him as villainous characters. He notably appeared as Bayban the Butcher in Blake's 7 (1980).

Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner was impressed by Baker's performance as Commander Maxil in the serial Arc of Infinity (1983) and cast him as the series' sixth lead actor in 1983.[1] Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be turbulent. BBC executives Michael Grade and Jonathan Powell were unhappy with the series' direction, enforcing an 18-month hiatus after Baker's first season and ultimately forcing Baker's dismissal from the role. Since 1999 Baker has regularly played the Sixth Doctor in licensed audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. He also reprised the role in the stage play The Ultimate Adventure (1989) and the television stories Dimensions in Time (1993) and "The Power of the Doctor" (2022).

Early life and education

Colin Charles Baker was born on 8 June 1943 in Waterloo, London, the son of Charles Ernest Baker (died 1971), managing director of an asbestos company, and Lily Catherine (died 2001).Template:Sfn[2] He has Irish ancestry on his mother's side.[3] As a child he moved with his family to Rochdale due to his father's work.Template:Sfn

Baker's first experience acting was in a nativity play at his primary school. During his education at St Bede's College, Manchester, he took part in productions of The Yeomen of the Guard and Iolanthe. He made his first television appearance in the 1956 Christmas special of My Wife's Sister.Template:Sfn

Baker studied French, Greek and Latin at A-Levels, achieving A grades in Greek and Latin.[4] Baker desired to study modern languages at either Oxford or Cambridge, and to join OUDS or Footlights.[5] However his father Charles saw university as "a waste of time". Baker stated in 1991 that his father's income "was such that, without his say-so, I couldn't go anywhere, because I couldn't get a grant."[6] Charles found his son employment as a trainee solicitor at Fox, Brooks & Marshall.Template:Sfn

Baker initially felt that "the idea of being an actor seemed silly, frankly", but an encounter with a member of an amateur dramatic society led to him joining the North Manchester Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society and later the Rochdale Curtain Theatre amateur group.Template:Sfn After his father had a stroke, Baker jettisoned his law career at age 22[5] and moved to London with his mother. Baker unsuccessfully auditioned for RADA; he succeeded the following year but instead chose to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).Template:Sfn

Career

Early work in television

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Baker with his The Brothers co-star Jean Anderson in 1976

Baker briefly worked as a taxi driver in Minehead during his first year as an acting graduate in 1969. His first professional role was in a three-week tour of Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat. He then appeared in The Other House at the Mermaid Theatre. Baker's first television appearance as a professional actor was in two episodes of The Roads to Freedom (1970), an adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's book series. The same year he appeared with Kate O'Mara in the science fiction comedy series The Adventures of Don Quick.Template:Sfn He played Count Steinbock in an adaptation of Cousin Bette the following year, opposite Margaret Tyzack and Helen Mirren.[7]Template:Sfn[8] In 1972 he played Anatole Kuragin in the BBC's television adaptation of War and Peace.Template:Sfn[9] In Fall of Eagles (1974) he played Crown Prince Wilhelm of the German Empire.Template:Sfn[10] Baker came close to appearing in the Doctor Who serial The Mutants (1972) as Cotton, and was considered for the role of Jellicoe in Robot (1974-5).[11]

In September 1974 he joined the fourth season of BBC drama series The Brothers as the ruthless banker Paul Merroney. The sarcastic and self-conceited character—Baker's most prominent role to date—was a figure audiences loved to hate.[1]Template:Sfn Baker recalled that the character was so disliked that he was occasionally accosted in public by viewers with their umbrellas.[12]Template:Sfn He also became an unlikely sex symbol.Template:Sfn Baker was typecast after The Brothers ended in late 1976. He returned to the theatre, acting in tours of Underground, Trap for a Lonely Man and Stagestruck. He played Macduff in a 1978 production of Macbeth at the Haymarket in Leicester.Template:Sfn

He returned to television, notably guest-starring as the villainous Bayban the Butcher in the 1980 Blake's 7 episode "City at the Edge of the World".[13]Template:Sfn He also had a regular role as James West in the ATV soap opera For Maddie with Love (1980). Other programmes in which Baker guest-starred include Dangerous Davies (1981), The Young Ones (1982), Juliet Bravo (1982), The Citadel (1983) and Swallows and Amazons Forever (1984).Template:Sfn

Doctor Who

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Baker made his Doctor Who debut as the antagonistic Time Lord Commander Maxil in Arc of Infinity (1983), who notably shoots the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) in the cliffhanger to Part One.[14][15] Davison later joked that Baker was going after his job.[16] Baker was unavailable to reprise the role in "The Five Doctors" (1983);Template:Sfn during the filming of that episode, Davison informed producer John Nathan-Turner that he was leaving Doctor Who.[17][18] Nathan-Turner had initially chastised Baker for upstaging Davison with his "arch" performance (reminding him that the series was titled Doctor Who, not Maxil),[12] but after encountering Baker entertaining guests at the wedding of a mutual friend, he remarked to his partner Gary Downie "I think I may have found my new Doctor". Baker was offered the part on 10 June.Template:Sfn Baker had been a fan of the series since the 1960s, and considered applying for the lead role when Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker (no relation) left in 1980.Template:Sfn[19] His casting was announced on 19 August 1983, and the Sixth Doctor first appeared in the final moments of The Caves of Androzani (1984).Template:Sfn

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Baker at Whovent in September 1986

Baker was keen to emphasise the Doctor's alien behaviour,Template:Sfn and the intention was for his brash and arrogant incarnation to mellow over time.[1] Baker suggested a dark costume (similar to the Ninth Doctor's) which would allow his Doctor to go unnoticed; ironically, he was dressed in a multi-coloured coat designed to be "totally tasteless".[20]Template:Sfn Neither fans nor critics reacted favourably to the Sixth Doctor's debut. His first full story The Twin Dilemma (1983) is often regarded as one of the worst in the history of the series.[21] The new Doctor's unlikeability was established when, in a post-regeneration mood swing, he tries to strangle his companion Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant)—a scene widely condemned for its shock value.[22][23] Due to concerns over season 22's overtly violent tone and lack of humour, production of Doctor Who's expected 1986 season was suspended in February 1985.Template:Sfn[24] Michael Grade, the Controller of BBC1, personally disliked Doctor Who and criticised its outdated production values.Template:Efn He reportedly described Baker's performance as "absolutely god-awful".[25] During the 18-month hiatus,[24] Baker and Bryant starred in the Doctor Who radio drama Slipback (1985).Template:Sfn Both actors also contributed their vocals to Doctor in Distress (1985), a charity single produced to raise money for the National Society for Cancer Relief and support the series' return.Template:Sfn

In September 1986, Doctor Who returned to television (with a reduced episode count) for season 23, known collectively as Trial of a Time Lord. The season's story arc, which involved the Doctor on trial for his crimes against Time Lord society,Template:Sfn[26] was a meta-textual reference to the series itself being "on trial".[27] Grade and Jonathan Powell (BBC's Head of Series and Serials) took the new season's disappointing ratings as justification that Baker did not appeal to the public, and instructed Nathan-Turner to recast the Doctor.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Davison later suggested that the BBC moreso wanted to replace Nathan-Turner and expected him to resign as producer.[28] On 29 October, Nathan-Turner informed Baker over the phone that the Sixth Doctor would be replaced.Template:Sfn Despite initial hopes that Baker would stay in the role for at least four years,Template:Efn his two-season tenure as the Doctor was the shortest at that point.[29] Baker was upset as there was much he still wanted to do with the role.Template:Sfn Powell offered Baker a four-part story concluding in his character's regeneration. Baker argued for one more complete season,Template:Sfn as he didn't want to commit himself to only two weeks' work when he should be seeking out regular work elsewhere.Template:Sfn Baker never heard back from Powell. The new Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, played the injured Sixth Doctor in the opening minutes of season 24's debut serial Time and the Rani (1987), his face hidden by visual effects as the regeneration process occurs.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn In a 2019 interview, Baker expressed regret for not returning for the scene, stating that he was feeling "hacked off" and not thinking about the fans.[30]

Reprising the role

From June to August 1989, Baker succeeded Jon Pertwee as the Doctor in the stage play Doctor Who – The Ultimate Adventure.Template:Sfn Baker reprised the role on television for the first time in the 1993 Children in Need charity special Dimensions in Time, alongside every surviving Doctor.[31][32] In 1997, he provided dialogue for the BBC video game Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors.[33] Baker and McCoy reprised their roles for a 2003 Dead Ringers Children in Need sketch where the Sixth and Seventh Doctors compete against alien foes on the game show Weakest Link.[34][35]

In 1999, Baker appeared alongside Davison and McCoy in The Sirens of Time, the first of Big Finish Productions' licensed Doctor Who audio dramas.[36][37] Baker regularly played the Sixth Doctor in Big Finish's Main Range series until its conclusion in March 2021, with the character's stories continuing in the ongoing series The Sixth Doctor Adventures.[38][39] Big Finish gave Baker the chance to continue the Sixth Doctor's long-term character arc,[40] which has rehabilitated the character's reputation. In a 2001 poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine, Baker was voted the Best Audio Doctor.Template:Sfn The 2015 audio drama The Last Adventure, which depicts the Sixth Doctor's final adventure before his regeneration, afforded Baker the send-off he was denied on-screen.[41][42] Baker reprised the role of Commander Maxil in the Gallifrey episode "Appropriation" in 2006.[43] In 2022, he played an alternate version of the Doctor ("the Warrior") in the Doctor Who Unbound series,[44] and an elderly future version of the Doctor ("the Curator") in The Eighth Doctor Adventures.[45][46]

In the 2022 television special "The Power of the Doctor", Baker returned for a cameo appearance alongside Davison, McCoy and Paul McGann as a manifestation of the Thirteenth Doctor's subconscious.[47][48] Baker reprised his role as the Sixth Doctor in Tales of the TARDIS (2023) to mark Doctor Who's 60th anniversary.[49][50]

Other involvement in Doctor Who media

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Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Baker at the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend in 2013

Baker has written various published Doctor Who short stories, including "The Deal" (1991),[51] "A Wee Deoch an ...?" (1991),[52] "A Tourist Invasion" (1992)[53] and "Interstitial Insecurity" (2019), all featuring the Sixth Doctor.[54][55] In 1994 he wrote the comic story The Age of Chaos.[56] He wrote and read the short story audiobook "The Wings of A Butterfly" for Big Finish.[57][58] He presented the home video releases Cybermen – The Early Years[59] and The Colin Baker Years.[60][61] At Riverside Studios on 4 September 2011, Baker accepted the post of Honorary President of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.[62][63]

Baker starred in the comedy short film The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013), where he played a fictionalised version of himself who assists Davison and McCoy in sneaking into the production of the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor.[64] Since 2023, Baker hosts the Big Finish-produced podcast Into the TARDIS, which showcases fan-favourite Big Finish stories.[65]

After Doctor Who

Baker has appeared in various stage productions across the United Kingdom, particularly pantomimes.[66]Template:Sfn In 2010 he became the first actor to portray Inspector Morse on stage in House of Ghosts.[67] He played Sherlock Holmes in on-stage radio adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of the Four in 2022 and 2025 respectively.[68][69]

His television work through the 1990s included guest appearances in Casualty (1989, 1998), The Knock (1997), Jonathan Creek (1997), The Famous Five (1997) and Sunburn (1999).Template:Sfn He played Australian Army officer Harry George Chauvel in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.[70][71] He also appeared on Hollyoaks (2000), Doctors (2001, 2006, 2011), Telling Tales (2004), The Afternoon Play (2006), Kingdom (2008) and Hustle (2010).Template:Sfn

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Baker in 2009

From 1991 to 1995, Baker played ersatz Doctor in the direct-to-video film series The Stranger, produced by BBV Productions.Template:Sfn He also appeared in the BBV films The Airzone Solution (1993) and The Zero Imperative (1994), alongside former Doctor Who actors Davison, McCoy and Jon Pertwee.Template:Sfn[72][73] His other films include The Harpist (1997),[74] The Asylum (2000)[75] and A Dozen Summers (2015).[76][77]

Baker's non-Doctor Who audio drama work for Big Finish includes the Sapphire & Steel series (based on the television series of the same name)[78][79] and Earthsearch: Mindwarp (based on James Follet's Earthsearch).[80] In 2021, he reprised the role of Bayban in Big Finish's box set Bayban the Butcher.[81][13]

Baker appeared on Top Gear in 2003, participating in a one-lap run of the Top Gear track in a Honda Civic hatchback. Baker competed against various drivers dressed as a Klingon, a Cyberman, a Dalek, Darth Vader and Ming the Merciless. Baker came in 4th position, with the Cyberman coming 1st.[82] In 1998 he appeared as himself as the resident celebrity in "Dictionary Corner" on the game show Countdown.[83] He made a guest appearance in series 3 of the sketch show Little Britain, though his scenes were deleted.[10] He appeared in The Generation Game dressed as the Doctor.[84] Baker participated in the 2012 series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in 8th place.[63]Template:Sfn

Since 1995, Baker has written a regular weekly column for local newspaper Bucks Free Press. Three collections of his articles have been published: Look Who's Talking, Second ThoughtsTemplate:Sfn[85] and Sixth Sense.[86]

Personal life

Baker married actress Liza Goddard (who played his on-screen wife in The Brothers) in July 1976, becoming stepfather to Goddard's 1-year-old son. They divorced 18 months later.Template:Sfn[87][88]

Baker married actress Marion Wyatt in 1982. They have four daughters.[89][90] Baker and Wyatt had a son who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1983. In 1996, Baker became the Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.[91][92][93]

Baker is a friend of American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, who dedicated his 1991 novel Forbidden Knowledge to him.[94]

Baker is a critic of fox hunting and was among more than 20 high-profile people who signed a letter to members of parliament in 2015 to oppose Conservative prime minister David Cameron's plan to amend the Hunting Act 2004.[95][96]

Acting credits

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Baker at the 2015 Magic City Comic Con

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective William Lind [97]
1989 Zandorra [11]
Clockwork
1991 Summoned By Shadows The Stranger [98][99]
1992 More Than A Messiah [98][100]
1993 In Memory Alone [98][101]
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1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Stranger
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Breach of the Peace The Stranger [103]
1995 Eye of the Beholder
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Father Rupitsch [104][74][11]
1999 Soul's Ark Galico [105][106]
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Arbuthnot [75][107]
2014 Finding Richard Grandad Short film [108]
Shadows of a Stranger William Fallon [109][11]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Narrator [76][77]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Charles Dickens [110]
2016 Last Man on Earth Professor James Friedkin Short film [111]
2017 Arrows of Time The Narrator Screened at planetariums [112]
2021 Hiraeth Wynn Seaward [113]
You Might Get Lost Conrad [114]
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory Charles Sutton [115]
2022 Minacious DS Rawlins Retitled The Caller [116][117]
2023 Secrets of a Wallaby Boy Bruce Voice role [118]
Christmas at the Holly Day Inn Ben Holly [119][120]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1970 Script error: No such module "Sort". Rebel Episode: "People Isn't Everything"
Happy Ever After Receptionist Episode: "The Ambassador"
No – That's Me Over Here! Uncredited 2 episodes
Roads to Freedom Claude 3 episodes
1971 Script error: No such module "Sort". Reigate Episode: "The Shadow Man"
Public Eye Town Hall Clerk Episode: "The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets" [10]
Cousin Bette Count Wenceslas Steinbock 5 episodes
Script error: No such module "Sort". German Lieutenant Episode: #1.3
Now Look Here Uncredited Episode: #1.4
1972 War & Peace Anatole Kuragin 4 episodes
Script error: No such module "Sort". John Herncastle Episode: #1.1
Script error: No such module "Sort". Glover Episode: "Murder Story"
Villains Reporter Episode: "His Dad Named Him After the General"
1973 Script error: No such module "Sort". Joseph Laycock Episode: "Daisy" [121]
Harriet's Back in Town Mike Baker 2 episodes
Orson Welles Great Mysteries George Barclay Episode: "A Terribly Strange Bed"
1974 Within These Walls David Jenkins Episode: "Prisoner by Marriage"
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bob Anderson Episode: "Undue Influence" [122][10]
Fall of Eagles Crown Prince Willie 2 episodes
1974–1976 Script error: No such module "Sort". Paul Merroney 46 episodes
1979 Doctors and Nurses Mr. Bennett Episode: "Mums and Dads"
1980 Blakes 7 Bayban Episode: "City at the Edge of the World" [13]Template:Sfn
For Maddie with Love Uncredited
1982 Juliet Bravo Frankie Miller Episode: "The Intruder" [10]
1983 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mr. Vaughan Episode: "Part 4"
Doctor Who Commander Maxil Serial: Arc of Infinity; 3 episodes
1984 Swallows and Amazons Forever!: Coot Club Dr. Dudgeon TV film [123]
Swallows and Amazons Forever!: The Big Six [124]
1984–1986, 1993, 2022 Doctor Who Sixth Doctor 34 episodes
1985 Jim'll Fix It Episode: "A Fix with Sontarans" Template:Sfn
1986 Roland Rat: The Series Episode: #1.3 Template:Sfn
1989 Casualty Colin Miles Episode: "Accidents Happen" [10]
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Harry George Chauvel Unaired episode: "Palestine, October 1917"; released in 1999 as "Daredevils of the Desert" [70][71]
1995 Harry's Mad Mr. Perkins Episode: "Meaty Chunks"
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Fake Mr. Brent 2 episodes
Jonathan Creek Hedley Shale Episode: "The Wrestler's Tomb" [10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Donald Dewhurst / Desmond Dewhurst 4 episodes
Script error: No such module "Sort". Canon Fenneau Episode: "Post War"
Script error: No such module "Sort". William Guthrie Episode: "Going Down" [10]
1998 Casualty David Vincent Episode: "An Eye for an Eye"
1999 Sunburn John Buchanan Episode: #1.2
Script error: No such module "Sort". Giles Fleming TV film [10]
Dangerfield Vicar Episode: "Haunted"
2000 Hollyoaks The Judge Episode: #1.524 [125][10]
Time Gentlemen Please Professor Baker Episode: "Day of the Trivheads" [10]
2001 Doctors Jack Howard Episode: "Matters of Principle" [126][10]
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mr. Allen Episode: #1.2
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2005 Little Britain Man in Regatta Tent Deleted scene
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Judge Episode: "Your Mother Should Know" [10]
Doctors Charles Dillon Episode: "Honourable Gentlemen"
2009 Kingdom Mr. Dodds Episode: #3.2
Doctors Professor Claybourne Jarvis Episode: "The Romantics"
2010 Hustle Phil Episode: "Tiger Troubles"
2011 Doctors Augustus Bloom Episode: "Every Heart That Beats" [127]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Colin Baker Television film [64]
2014 Comedy Feeds Episode: "The Committee Meeting" [128][129]
2015 Star Trek Continues Minister Amphidamas Episode: "The White Iris" [130]
2021 Emmerdale Michael Episode: #1.9156 [131]
2023 Tales of the TARDIS Sixth Doctor Episode: "Vengeance on Varos" [49][50]

Stage

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1970 Wizard of Oz Lord Growlie Guildford [66]
1971 Caesar and Cleopatra Porter 1 Chichester Festival Theatre Company
1972 Conduct Unbecoming Arthur Drake Liverpool Playhouse [132]
Vivat! Vivat Regina! Darnley [133][132]
1973 Hamlet Laertes Theatre Royal, Windsor [134]
1975 September Tide Evan Davies The Forum Theatre Billingham; other locations
1977 Let's Do It Your Way Unknown The Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare; Harrogate Theatre; other locations
1978 Trap for a Lonely Man The Man Theatre Royal, York; New Theatre Royal Lincoln; other locations
The Flip Side Theo Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon; Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford; other locations
1979 Dick Whittington Dick Cork [66]
1980 King Rat New Theatre Royal Lincoln
1981 The Norman Conquests Norman Windsor Theatre Company [135]
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Heinkel New Theatre Royal Lincoln [66]
1982 Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage
Relatively Speaking Bill Kenwright Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon; Richmond Theatre; other locations [136]
1984 Cinderella Buttons Gaumont Theatre, Southampton [66]
1985 Aladdin Beck Theatre, Hayes [66]Template:Sfn
1986 Cinderella Buttons Theatre Royal, Brighton [66]
1987 Robinson Crusoe Bluebeard the Pirate Wimbledon Theatre, London
1987-8 Corpse! Theatre Royal, Nottingham; Strand Theatre, London [137][138]Template:Sfn
1988 Deathtrap Sidney Bruhl Theatre Royal, Bath; Theatre Royal, Winchester; other locations
1989 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure The Doctor Grand Theatre, Leeds [139][140]
Peter Pan Captain Hook Brighton Dome [66]
Run For Your Wife West End of London [141]Template:Sfn
1990 Spider's Web Inspector Lord Theatre Royal, Bath; Theatre Royal, Windsor; other locations
Born in the Gardens Mo Theatre Royal, Nottingham; Farnham; Swansea Grand Theatre; other locations [142][143]
Jack and the Beanstalk Fleshcreep Hull New Theatre [66]
1991 Time and Time Again Leonard Theatre Royal, Bath [144]Template:Sfn
Privates on Parade Template:Sfn
1992 Dick Whittington The Captain Weymouth Pavilion [66]
Death and the Maiden Template:Sfn
1993 Peter Pan Captain Hook Princess Theatre, Torquay [66]
1994 Aladdin Widow Twankey Theatre Royal, Brighton
Not Now Darling Template:Sfn
1995 Peter Pan Captain Hook Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells [66]
1996 Dick Whittington King Rat New Theatre Royal Lincoln
Great Expectations Template:Sfn
Love Letters
1997 Babes in the Wood The Sheriff of Nottingham Norwich [66]
1998 Jack and the Beanstalk Dame Durden The Wyvern [145][66]
Kind Hearts and Coronets Template:Sfn
1999 Dick Whittington King Rat Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe [66]
2000 Out of Order The Manager Theatre Royal, Bath; Theatre Royal, Nottingham; other locations
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Herman the Henchman Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe [66]
2001 Aladdin Abanazar Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
2002 Dick Whittington Sarah the Cook Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
2002-3 Corpse! Major Milton Keynes Theatre [89]
2003 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Mirror Canterbury [66]
2003 HMS Pinafore Carl Rosa Opera Company
2004 The Haunted Hotel Sir Francis Westwick Mercury Theatre, Colchester; Arts Centre, Darlington; other locations
Dick Whittington Sarah the Cook Theatre Royal, Nottingham [66]
2005 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Nurse Nelly Hall for Cornwall, Truro
2005 Dracula Van Helsing Template:Sfn
2006 Love Letters
Strangers on a Train
2007 Dick Whittington King Rat Theatre Royal, Norwich [66]
2007-8 She Stoops to Conquer Mr Hardcastle Richmond Theatre; Birmingham Repertory Theatre; other locationsScript error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Sfn
2008 Noises Off Template:Sfn
Jack and the Beanstalk Fleshcreep Theatre Royal, Bath [66]
2009-10 Festival Theatre, Malvern [146][66]
2010 House of Ghosts Inspector Morse Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage; other locations
2011 Jack and the Beanstalk Fleshcreep Palace Theatre, Mansfield [66]
The Woman in White Template:Sfn
2013 Aladdin Abanazar The Anvil, Basingstoke [66]
2022, 2024, 2025 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes Crime and Comedy Theatre Company [147][148][149]
2023 A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge [150]
2025 The Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes [151]

Audio drama

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1985 Doctor Who: Slipback Sixth Doctor 6-part story Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
1999–2021 Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures 170 episodes
2006 Gallifrey Commander Maxil Episode: "Appropriation" [43]
2009–present Doctor Who: The Lost Stories Sixth Doctor 13 episodes
2011–2018 Jago & Litefoot 8 episodes
2015–present The Sixth Doctor Adventures 28 episodes
2016–present Classic Doctors, New Monsters 4 episodes
2016 The Diary of River Song 2 episodes
2021 Avalon Bayban the Butcher Volume Two
Bayban the Butcher [81]

Video games

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1997 Destiny of the Doctors Sixth Doctor [33]
2015 Lego Dimensions Archive sound
2024 Fallout: London Mysterious Scientist 2 Guest voice role [152][153]

Web

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2020 The Doctors Say Thank You Himself [154]

Bibliography

Collections

  • Look Who's Talking (Hirst Books), First Published December 2009. First reprint February 2010 Template:ISBN
  • Second Thoughts (Hirst Books), First Published September 2010 Template:ISBN
  • Gallimaufry: A Collection of Short Stories. First Published 30 September 2011. Template:ISBN.
  • Sixth Sense – from the columns of the Bucks Free Press. FBS Publishing Ltd. 6 April 2017. Template:ISBN

Comics

  • Doctor Who: The Age of Chaos (1994, Marvel UK)[56]

Short stories

  • "A Wee Deoch an ...?" (1991, in Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special of 1991)[52]
  • "The Deal" (1991, in Doctor Who Yearbook 1992)[51]
  • "A Tourist Invasion" (1992, in Doctor Who Yearbook 1993)[53]
  • "The Wings of a Butterfly" (2010, in Short Trips – Volume 1)[57][58]
  • "Interstitial Insecurity" (2019, in The Target Storybook)[54][55]

References

Notes

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  45. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  46. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  47. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  48. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  49. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  50. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  51. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  52. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  53. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  54. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  55. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  56. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  57. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  58. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  59. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  60. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  61. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  62. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  63. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  64. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  65. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  66. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  67. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  68. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  69. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  70. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  71. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  72. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  73. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  74. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  75. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  76. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  77. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  78. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  79. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  80. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  81. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  82. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  83. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  84. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  85. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  86. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  87. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  88. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  89. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  90. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  91. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  92. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  93. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  94. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  95. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  96. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  97. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  98. ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  99. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  100. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  101. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  102. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  103. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  104. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  105. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  106. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  107. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  108. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  109. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  110. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  111. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  112. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  113. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  114. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  115. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  116. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  117. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  118. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  119. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  120. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  121. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  122. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  123. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  124. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  125. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  126. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  127. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  128. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  129. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  130. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  131. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  132. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  133. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  134. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  135. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  136. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  137. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  138. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  139. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  140. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  141. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  142. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  143. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  144. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  145. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  146. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  147. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  148. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  149. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  150. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  151. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  152. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".. Event occurs at 3:33.
  153. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  154. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".

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  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
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