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'Doctor Who' Class Notes: Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, John Nathan-Turner and That Cat Pin Menu Set Weather Classifieds Sign In Search 3 'Doctor Who' class notes: Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, John Nathan-Turner and that cat pin 145 shares MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Restaurants & Dining: Your guide to Colin Baker played the Sixth Doctor in "Doctor Who." (BBC video still) eating out in CNY By Katrina Tulloch | [email protected] Print Movies: Latest news, Follow on Twitter Email reviews, trailers & on March 10, 2015 at 11:28 AM more Comics Kingdom: SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It's spring break at Read your favorite Syracuse University, so Anthony Rotolo's DOCTOR WHO CLASS comics online popular Doctor Who in the Digital Age class 2015 did not meet on campus this week. The TARDIS and 1963 television However, students and Whovians took a brief Patrick Troughton and the ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS online lesson explaining Colin Baker's Cybermen introduction as the Sixth Doctor and the continued failures by show runner John Doctor Who class 'tapped into the Nathan-Turner. global juggernaut of fandom' 1. The Sixth Doctor Tom Baker and the Daleks Like Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, Colin Baker Sarah Jane Smith, Lalla Ward and grew up watching "Doctor Who" and had the unbearable Mary Whitehouse always hoped to play the titular role. Free 'Doctor Who' class at Palace It was a dream come true for Baker when he Theater draws 200 students Zac Brown Band fans was cast, but he came in at a time when the show runner was more concerned with Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper Fans of the Zac Brown Band have fun launch NuWho reboot merchandise and money, than good writing before his concert at the Lakeview Amphitheater ... See photos» and relatable character development. Syracuse University professor to launch 'Doctor Who' class "[Baker] stated publicly he hoped to play the Doctor as long as Tom Baker had, or even longer," Rotolo said. ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS That didn't happen. Baker arrived during a troublesome era of "Who" and he was Events Music Food encouraged to act psychotic, egotistical and unpredictable. Fans didn't like him or his superiority complex. Even his positive qualities -- Enter Keyword or Phrase intelligence, empathy and eloquence -- were overshadowed by his arrogance. "The hero we had come to know over 20 years was suddenly gone," Rotolo said. Enter City or Town "He was replaced by a crazed and unrelatable new character." Event Category Baker's Doctor even attacks and strangles his companion, Peri, on the floor of the Select a Start Date TARDIS. This is exactly the kind of "tea-time brutality for tots" activist Mary Whitehouse warned the BBC against airing. Search The Doctor strangles Peri - Doctor Who - The Twin Dilemma - B… See All Events » Submit Your Events » MOST READ Dog food recall: 4 companies pull products after deaths, illnesses Report: Woman kicked off plane to Syracuse suspended from NY state job 2. That technicolor suit Woman kicked off plane to Syracuse for Show runner John Nathan-Turner decided the Sixth Doctor would wear a costume 'screaming' about seat purposefully in bad taste. Baker's suit was comprised of multiple hideous near baby (video) patterns and colors, which even the costume designer found appalling. How CNY traffic stop "It is in many ways reflective of the quirky fashion trends of the 1980s," Rotolo for speeding ended said. "But also it's an embodiment of the problems with 'Doctor Who' under John with driver facing up to life in prison Nathan-Turner: disorganized, difficult to understand and driven by blind marketing." Carnival brawl: Over 20 Rotolo explained the meaning behind Baker's cat pin, which replaced Davison's people kicked off cruise ship for violent fight signature stalk of celery pinned to his lapel. It was the only part of the new (video) Doctor's costume which Baker picked for himself. "Baker said this was a subtle way of reflecting his ideas about the Sixth Doctor, citing a children's story called 'The Cat That Walked by Himself,'" Rotolo said. The story includes the line "I am the cat ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS who walks by himself and all places are alike to me." Pretty depressing. 1 McMaster: Evidence of Russian meddling in election 'now 3. John Nathan-Turner really incontrovertible' (99 comments) Time and time again, Nathan-Turner proved he was unfit to take the reins of 2 Syracuse basketball bounces back with huge win at Miami "Doctor Who." Stories during his era (89 comments) were convoluted, unpopular and never View full size made the Doctor very likeable. Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor in his trademark 3 Syracuse lacrosse shredded by multi-colored suit. No. 3 Albany, 15-3 "Many who worked on the show, as well BBC video still (28 comments) as many fans, blamed producer John Nathan-Turner for these failures," Rotolo said. "JNT would go on to prove them 4 Did the Trump campaign right as he presided over a dark and painful period of 'Doctor Who.'" collude with Russia? (23 comments) In the end, BBC didn't cancel the show, but they made a big mistake. They kept Nathan-Turner, but let Baker go. 5 Survivors of school shooting plead for action at Florida rally "The Doctor who had dreamed of playing the role was robbed of the chance by (photos, video) producers and writers who could never care for the program the way he did," (4 comments) Rotolo said. "Brokenhearted, Baker was released from his contract and unfairly took the blame for the show's failure." Luckily, Big Finish Productions took the Sixth Doctor's character and breathed new life into him via licensed audio adventures. Still, Baker never made his mark on the series they way he hoped he would. Contact Whovian Katrina Tulloch anytime: Email | Twitter | Google+ Promoted Links The Top Rated Walk-In NY teacher released It’s Like eBay, But Tub for 2017 without bail after she is… Everything Sells in 90… Safe Step Walk-In Tubs Syracuse.com Tophatter Spring break in Florida Born Before 1985? Police: Upstate NY bar District Of Columbia Wi… owner sexually assault… Fetcharate Quotes Syracuse.com by Taboola 3 comments Newest | Oldest | Top Comments marat Mar 10, 2015 What a repugnant little clip from this show. In many people's opinion, including mine, the post 2000 revival stands head and shoulders over this nonsense. Amazing the show even survived this insanity. Flag SonicScrewDriver Apr 8, 2015 @marat That particular moment was part of the process of The Doctor being ill after regenerating, something that all the prior Doctor's experienced. However, in this particular case, The Doctor was not lucid enough to realize that he needed to be isolated (as the Fifth Doctor was in The T.A.R.D.I.S. Zero Room). In a way, you are correct. The sixth Doctor was INSANE when he attacked "Peri". Part of the new direction of the show was to reestablish The Doctor's more alien qualities. "The Twin Dilemma" was, in a way, supposed to be off-putting. Over time, The character would mellow, although his arrogance would still remain intact. That had been the plan, but then BBC head of programing Michael Grade was vocally disgusted with what he called the shabbiness of the program. Ironically, this could have been overcome, presumably, had he been willing to invest more money into the program. He was not, Add to this, script editor Eric Saward felt that Colin Baker was a poor or inappropriate choice to play The Doctor. Colin Baker apparently wasn't aware of this at the outset. The guy was, in many ways, doomed from the start! As for the 2005 revival, that's more like some kind of spin-off thing that mentions Doctor Who related material. The T.A.R.D.I.S. interior was modeled on the old Dalek movies from the 60's that starred Peter Cushing. No offense to Cushing, but those films were clearly vehicles (or travel machines) for The Daleks and had nothing to do with advancing the character of The Doctor. RTD' instance that the T.A.R.D.I.S. key be a Yale key? Where the heck did he come up with that. And, most idiotic, he reintroduces the Sonic Screwdriver, only to make it some sort of silly magic wand that can do almost anything. I'm still waiting for "Doctor Who" to come back. Matt Smith, surprisingly enough, tried to bring back some of the heart of the classic series, which was nice after RTD and David Tennant tried to sell the idea that "Doctor Who" was all about RUNNING! Flag orangedevil Mar 10, 2015 So, I'm not understanding--how is this considered newsworthy? Syracuse.com has the space- -and it's worth a reporter's time--to cover a professor's obscure class on a regular basis? 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