Thread: Ex-Doctors' Slummiest Roles
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18th May 2007, 10:27 PM #1
Ex-Doctors' Slummiest Roles
Some of the Doctors Who have gone on to bigger and better things. But some haven't!
What are the dodgiest roles that an ex or soon-to-be Doctor Who has appeared in? Is there any role slummier than Tom Baker's appearance in Dungeons and Dragons as leader-of the people with bits of cardboard on their faces?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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18th May 2007, 10:34 PM #2
I seem to recall Colin Baker featuring quite a lot as guest on ITV's dumbo-quiz programme Crosswits, and laughing painfully at host Tom O'Connor's jokes.
Bazinga !
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18th May 2007, 11:44 PM #3Captain Tancredi Guest
Offhand...I can think of at least two occasions where Tom may or may not have exposed himself for his art and of course there's the McCoy/'Having a Ball' fiasco.
In terms of weird, there's a 1950s (I think) film 'A Yank at Oxford' which has Jon Pertwee playing a New Yorker...
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18th May 2007, 11:45 PM #4Pip Madeley Guest
Dare I say Sylvester McCoy in Time And The Rani?
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19th May 2007, 12:39 AM #5
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19th May 2007, 1:51 AM #6
Worsel Gummage
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19th May 2007, 8:40 AM #7Is there any role slummier than Tom Baker's appearance in Dungeons and Dragons as leader-of the people with bits of cardboard on their faces?
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19th May 2007, 8:43 AM #8Dare I say Sylvester McCoy in Time And The Rani?
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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19th May 2007, 9:29 AM #9
I was going to suggest Colin Baker in "Arc of Infinity"...
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19th May 2007, 9:47 AM #10
Using the magic of IMDB I found that
David Tennant was a REGULAR in the 'Heartbeat lite meets Thin Blue Line in a boat' bucket of sh@#e that was Duck Patrol .
And that Peter Davison appeared in an episode of Magnum P.I
- it also featured DW stalwarts Julian Glover, Pamela Salem and Geoffrey Beevers, so presumably it was a 'Magnum does England' stylee episode. Anyone ever seen it ?Bazinga !
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19th May 2007, 10:33 AM #11
I seem to remember Sylvester McCoy playing one of the assistant question masters in a 1985 children's game show called Starstrider, or similar, which was space themed, and hosted by a man in a science fiction costume and a silvery glitter wig. Unless it was someone else.
The Pertwee film was A Yank In Ermine, IIRC.
Patrick Troughton played Nicholas Lyndhurst's granddad in the not-very-good 80s sitcom The Two Of Us.
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19th May 2007, 1:16 PM #12
Oh yes - and he was also a dirty old peeping Tom in the very first Inspector Morse.
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19th May 2007, 1:37 PM #13
Peter Davison in the Tomorrow People episode "A Man For Emily" - the whole story has to be seen to be believed. Probably the worst story in the series, although in some ways it's so bad it's almost good!
Davo's first appearance has him clad only in a pair of underpants, and it was his first role on TV. He's as superb as ever on the DVD commentary.
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19th May 2007, 4:09 PM #14
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It was indeed A Yannk In Ermine. By coincidence, A Yank At Oxford was Peter Cushing's first film. The plot involved the unlikely event of Laurel and Hardy entering Oxford University, and Peter's one of the bullies that turn on them after Stan and Ollie discover their hijinks and get them expelled. And Peter had a contender for the world's worst fake moustache!
I dread to mention Sylvester in Jigsaw and TISWAS, when he was Sylveste McCoy...
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19th May 2007, 6:40 PM #15
Sylvester McCoy was in one of the Policemen's ball shows dressed in...well it has to be seen to be believed!
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20th May 2007, 9:49 PM #16Captain Tancredi Guest
Ready Brek- central heating for kids!
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21st May 2007, 10:45 AM #17I seem to recall Colin Baker featuring quite a lot as guest on ITV's dumbo-quiz programme Crosswits, and laughing painfully at host Tom O'Connor's jokes.
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21st May 2007, 1:22 PM #18One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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21st May 2007, 1:27 PM #19Pip Madeley GuestHowever, we was appalling in Search Out Space!
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21st May 2007, 2:37 PM #20Dave Lewis Guest
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21st May 2007, 8:29 PM #21
Lord President, if we can just think of six words with double-O in a row, we'll be able to summon up Sylvester McCoy right now.
Google
Poodle
Boob
Toot
Erm....
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21st May 2007, 8:49 PM #22
Loot
Shoot
O! O!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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21st May 2007, 8:51 PM #23
And didn't Sylv also play a judge or a defence council or something in the same storyline? Or was it Paul Darrow?
No, hang on, Sylv played a judge in 'The Bill' a couple of years ago. Or perhaps he was a solicitor. Or a pervert.
Or am I thinking of when he played Michael Sams? I get so easily confused...
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22nd May 2007, 2:41 PM #24
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So we've noticed; your support group's over there!
And a lot of them look very much like members of mine...
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22nd May 2007, 7:02 PM #25
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