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By Katrina Tulloch | [email protected] Print reviews, trailers & Follow on Twitter Email more on February 24, 2015 at 12:00 PM, updated February 24, 2015 at 8:47 PM Comics Kingdom: Read your favorite SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- In Monday night's Doctor comics online Who and the Digital Age class, we continued DOCTOR WHO CLASS covering the long reign of Tom Baker as the 2015 jelly-baby-loving . The TARDIS and 1963 television

Thanks to the creative energy of showrunner ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS Patrick Troughton and the Philip Hinchcliffe, script editor Robert Holmes Cybermen and Baker, the show enjoyed a golden era from the mid 1970s to the late 1970s. Doctor Who class 'tapped into the global juggernaut of fandom' These years were arguably the best of the classic "Doctor Who," with appearances from Tom Baker and the beloved companions Sarah Jane Smith, Romana and K-9, the dog. Sarah Jane Smith, Lalla Ward and the unbearable Mary Whitehouse "Doctor Who" class professor Anthony Rotolo treated his class to two major surprises on Free 'Doctor Who' class at Palace Zac Brown Band fans Monday night: an appearance from K-9 itself Theater draws 200 students and jelly baby cupcakes. Pop culture and Fans of the Zac Brown Band have fun Christopher Eccleston, sweets? We're spoiled. before his concert at the Lakeview launch NuWho reboot Amphitheater ... See photos» Villain of the Week Syracuse University professor to launch 'Doctor Who' class This week's villain wasn't a "Doctor Who" character, but a real person hellbent on ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS ending the show altogether. Events Music Food During Baker's era, Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister (1979). Her ascension signaled a return to Enter Keyword or Phrase traditional values and the embrace of fervent capitalism in the U.K. Enter City or Town

Emerging with the rise in conservative Event Category values was Mary Whitehouse, an activist View full size opposed to violence and obscenity in Mary Whitehouse Select a Start Date children's television. Press Association 1971 Search Whitehouse campaigned vigorously against the BBC on behalf of National See All Events »

Viewers' and Listeners' Association. She called the show the "sickest and most Submit Your Events » horrific material ever seen on children's television...'Doctor Who' has turned into tea-time brutality for tots."

"Her mission in life was to end 'Doctor Who,'" Rotolo said. "To fans, this is . She is the real life [Dolores] Umbridge, by the way." MOST READ

Whitehouse wrote opinion columns, appeared on TV and campaigned in the Dog food recall: 4 streets to get the show canceled. companies pull products after deaths, illnesses "As Taylor Swift says, 'haters gonna hate, hate, hate,'" Rotolo said. "In 'Doctor Who' the villain never wins. In real life, the villain does win, at least for a while." Report: Woman kicked The BBC buckled to her will and dismissed Hinchcliffe as showrunner, even off plane to Syracuse suspended from NY though he had ushered in the best episodes in the show's history, and turned the state job Doctor into a fan phenomenon.

Graham Williams was hired as a new showrunner, along with , the Woman kicked off plane to Syracuse for witty writer of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy." 'screaming' about seat near baby (video) "This wasn't so bad really," Rotolo said. "The new team knew why they were there and they toned things down a bit. The show became more family-friendly." How CNY traffic stop for speeding ended Among the kid-friendly cast additions was K-9, the robot dog. Whovians who with driver facing up to loved the more violent, Hammer-Horror-influenced era thought K-9 was too life in prison childish, but K-9 went on to become one of the most recognizable icons of "Who" history. Carnival brawl: Over 20 people kicked off cruise Sarah Jane Smith ship for violent fight (video)

Clocking in three years, Sarah Jane Smith () was the longest and among the most adored of 's companions.

When it came time for her to move on, she needed a creative, ceremonious exit. In a story called "The Hand of Fear," the show writers planned to simply kill her off. ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS

"Both actors (Sladen and Baker) protested," Rotolo said. "They felt that would be 1 Survivors of school shooting too upsetting to fans, especially younger fans." plead for action at Florida rally (photos, video) Remarkably, Hinchcliffe let Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen write the ending, (19 comments) believing only these two actors would know what these characters would do in the end. We watched their parting in class. You can watch it below. 2 McMaster: Evidence of Russian meddling in election 'now really incontrovertible' Doctor Who-The Hand Of Fear Sarah Jane leaves (103 comments) 44K views • 101 comments Watch later Share

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Sarah Jane was extremely popular. She would go on to appear in several special Real Estate episodes of "Doctor Who" and her own series, "The Sarah Jane Adventures." It ran For Rent from 2007 until Sladen's death in 2011. Camillus, NY || 1-2 Beds, 1-2 Baths

"She's the only to have a solid spin-off career," Rotolo said.

Companions: Wanted

Tom Baker was brilliant, but he wasn't very easy to work with. After Sarah Jane, he decided he was established enough to carry the show himself, without a companion. Hitchcliffe disagreed. He believed viewers needed them to relate View full size to the Doctor. Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor in "Doctor Who." Baker got one episode by himself until BBC video still the writers threw in , a tribal woman who hops into the TARDIS despite the Doctor's protests. Leela's episode's are some of the best, but Baker didn't want a costar, especially a warrior companion with a knife.

"Baker was super conscious of young fans," Rotolo said. "He was concerned her weaponry and fighting would influence young fans."

As a result, he treated actress poorly on set. They had a cold relationship and the actress left after one season.

"There's a constant struggle with the idea that it was a children's show or something else," Rotolo said.

The Time Lords quickly sent the Doctor a new companion: Romana (), a Time Lady from , and an intellectual equal. After one season, Lalla Ward was cast as Romana after she wowed producers as Princess Astra.

Baker liked her too.

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Baker, and that's because they started Jelly baby cupcakes in doin' it," Rotolo explained. "People really class. Katrina Tulloch | liked these two together, though Baker [email protected] said the Doctor is not a sexual being. The Doctor is not a romantic."

Baker went on to marry Ward. Their marriage lasted 16 months.

The Graham Williams era brought in strong ratings. By the early 1980s, though, many competitor channels were going on strike and "Doctor Who," enjoyed a ratings bump because it was the only thing on TV.

In class, we watched the Doctor's first ever jaunt to Paris, the City of Light, in an episode called "." It was entirely written by Douglas Adams and remains one of the highest rated stories ever, thanks to Adams's knack for witty banter.

It's the highest-rated episode of classic "Who." You can watch it on YouTube in parts. Here's Part One:

The City of Death Part 1

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If you're interested in attending a live "Doctor Who" class, next week's session will take place at the Palace Theater. Anyone can attend. There will also be a cosplay competition, a screening of the classic story "The Caves of Androzani" (voted the best classic "Doctor Who" story of all time) and K-9 will be there.

"Doctor Who" class open to public Where: The Palace Theater at 2384 James St. 245 When: Monday, March 2 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. shares How much: Free and open to the public.

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Andrew Jones Feb 26, 2015 Hey this is great, I have been a big fan since Baker was on originally and didn't know that they wrote their own lines for that bit. It's actually one of the most natural companion changes they did besides the arbitrary 'no humans allowed on gallifrey where I have to go even though supposedly I have been on the run from there for years and never felt like I had to go back before' but was rather clumsy plotcraft. I will be checking out the rest of the class notes, thanks!

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s_nyland Feb 24, 2015 The only real Doctor. The rest were like the New Monkees.

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