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Published on Oct 6, 2008
Gawd bless the 2010 Doctor Who rumour mill. We’ve already had Albert Finney and Patrick Stewart heavily-linked, although neither has been confirmed. But what about the possible return to Doctor Who of Mr Tom Baker?
According to a story over at Sky, which all seems a bit tenuous to us, Baker could be set to make an appearance in season five of the show, which starts filming next year for broadcast in 2010. It cites a story in The Sun – that seems to have been pulled from its website – which in turn relays the words of a Doctor Who insider posting online. It’s all a bit friend-of-a-friend for us, and perhaps there’s a bit of wishful thinking in there. Steven Moffat, however, wouldn’t be drawn on the idea of a Baker cameo when interviewed earlier this year.
There’s also the consideration that, fanboy joy aside, Baker was such a dominant figure in Doctor Who, that his is the kind of reappearance that would have to be very, very carefully managed. Still, we wait to see how this one develops…!
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The reported BBC insiders have said that Baker’s appearance may just be a cameo, possibly alongside former companion Sarah Jane Smith (Liz Sladen), and said that “as it’s Doctor Who, his return all these years on could be explained in all manner of ways.”
Baker has for many years distanced himself from the show through fear of typecasting. He turned down the opportunity to return in 20th anniversary episode The Five Doctors, as well as repeated invitations by Big Finish Productions to appear in their ongoing (and excellent) series of audios featuring new adventures of past Doctors and companions.
If this does happen, it would be interesting if they did some kind of adaptation of the concept from The Dark Dimension — the proposed 30th anniversary special that was never made. In the feature-length story, history would have been changed, creating an alternate timeline where the fourth Doctor had never regenerated and was much older.
As memory serves, it would have ended up with the seventh Doctor (who was the current Doctor at the time) restored as the correct incarnation of the Doctor. Substitute the eleventh Doctor for the seventh, and the concept could potentially work. One way would be to do this in one of the yearly “Doctor Lite” episodes, like Blink or Turn Left, both of which featured very little of David Tennant. This way, they could feature the fourth Doctor without getting in the way of Matt Smith as the Doctor in his first series.
Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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