Doctor Who: Tom Baker John Cleese

[GHOSTpssrby]

Oh, now the Doctor is just being silly.

[vanessahdepp1]

lol

[MrOldone21]

this was ok.

[lordvolroc]

I would like a jelly baby

[AngeloNiklis]

@lordvolroc

I'm afraid you'll have to get it yourself. Bit of a ways, though.

[14DaveHunter]

Is John Cleese taller than Tom Baker?

[MiotaLee]

I told my friends that Tom Baker is my fav doctor ( I regret saying that since I love all of them) My friends freaked out and said thet Matt Smith is the best one.. I corrected them by telling him his is simply the new one.. but what do thay know? Thay are only 16....

[ZavCoyote]

@MiotaLee HEY! That's prejudice! I'm 16 and I find COLIN Baker to be the best doctor!

[MiotaLee]

@ZavCoyote I know, I know. and hey, This is internet, I can get away with it :) :P

[KingLofiOne]

@ZavCoyote Hooray for Colin Baker!

[ZavCoyote]

@KingLofiOne That reminds me, I wonder if Tom and Colin are related somehow, or if it was just a very generic british last name back then.

[KingLofiOne]

@ZavCoyote They are not related, sorry. Baker is just one of the generic names like Smith, because they decribe the job one of their ancestors has been doing.

[NateSean]

@KingLofiOne What is fascinating though is how Peter Davis is sandwiched by two Bakers, whether they're related or not. I wonder if anyone pointed that out when Colin Baker took the mantle.

[KingLofiOne]

@NateSean Colin Baker knew that, because he is a fan of the show. He even wrote his own short stories.

[NateSean]

@KingLofiOne That's interesting. Matt Smith wrote Doctor Who fanfiction as well. It's too bad Baker's version of the Doctor didn't fly over well with audiences until the radio dramas.

[tomspy77]

@NateSean I thought Matt Smith had never seen the show in his youth as he was too oyung for the classic series? What was he writing fan fic too...the new series?

Not being a fool, just curious where you heard that from.

[NateSean]

@tomspy77 In an interview he stated how his favorite historical figure was Albert Einstein. And he wrote a series of fanfictions about The Doctor and Einstein traveling in the Tardis. I think he stated how he only wrote those fictions before he began actual filming on the series, so it may have been an exercise for him to become comfortable with The Doctor.

[MetalheadJay78]

Ahhhhh, the late 70's when pop culture was at it's peak!

[TAfan2]

"Sign this for my godson, would you? Nice little kid, he's blind." xDD

And that's Peter Cook and Dudley Moore!!!! I luv them!!!!

[kamwrites]

Never thought I'd see Baker and Cleese in anything together! AWESOME!

[Murdock129]

@kamwrites Cleese had a cameo in City of Death actually which was a 4th Doctor story

[poketardis]

was john cleese supose to be his character basil from fawlty towers?

[woodgatejack]

My god! I was once told about this, I found it funny but didn't really believe it to be true!

[WaitemataTheatre]

This is from the 1979 BBC VT tape. It is a bloopers tape that is never intended for broadcast. There is usually one made every year, and they have all sorts of sketches and songs, done by famous actors. The whole recording is brilliant!

[cookmoore]

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT?

I came to see this video thinking it would just be Cleese but found those two at the end-Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

funnae

By the way, where did you get that last footage with Cook and Moore?

[ridingroy]

God ! The 4th Doctor and Basil Fawlty, T.V. heaven!

[ZachValkyrie]

Not to mention Pete and Dud!

[josephknightcom]

@ridingroy watch the episodes for the "City of Death" and you'll see the good Dr. hanging out with Manwell. He even uses the same "Meester Fawlteee" accent however this time it's supposed to be Russian.

[ridingroy]

@josephknightcom Thanks, I'll check out Dr. Manwell and his unfortunate chicken again, I never picked up on that. My favorite Tom Baker line from CITY OF DEATH is : "You're a beautiful woman probably.."

[josephknightcom]

@ridingroy well maybe it's not him, but he does an uncanny impression. Mr. Fawlty, I know nusing! I know nusing!

[weinerbongo]

This is the best thing ever. Where can I find the rest of this?

[TheMarkc]

dudley moore and peter cook were briefly timelords :)

[Timeassistant]

Why are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in this ? What was the show called???

[guidedbyvoip]

@Timeassistant "Is it live or is it Memorex? I don't know." "Durex, if you ask me."

[gurgless]

Fancy the Doctor bumping into Basil Fawlty.

[gallifreygrl182]

Nice, haha. Two of my favorite things in the world together at last. Doctor Who and Monty Python ! I'm heaven right now!

[KungfuCow5]

I know how you feel.

[mrsktoyoumate]

they both should be knighted

sir tom and sir john

[CAR18MEN]

"ill tell him you singed it"

im not going to lie, it took me a little while to get it.

hahahahahah

[PrudenceNumberNine]

I think this is what they said-

John: Tom, sorry to bother you, but sign this for little, uh, godson, would you? He's a nice little kid, he's blind.

Tom: You got a pen?

John: Haven't....Oh, never mind, I'll tell him that you signed it.

[montypython203]

LOL! Thanks for posting - that was hilarious!

[tomspy77]

It's a semi rare clip, so you cannot expect great quality...sorry you were disappointed.

[arsenefan]

@tomspy77 Thank you for showing this. I wish they didn't throw all that loud dodgy rock music over the clip though. :(

[skrinkle2000]

@tomspy77 nonsense! thanx for posting! four of my favorite cultural icons ;)

[off2mianus]

Tom Baker is always the best Doctor and he's funny. It's a shame he wasn't actually in DR WHO: THE FIVE DOCTORS.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Well i think it was HIS choice!!

Whos da best now??? >=) =) It all right tho, they all good but anyway i think it was his choice.

[Dubzoomember]

He regrets it, looking back.

[doctorwhoobawooba]

yes, sadly

[thespoon94]

No way! Doctor Who MADE Tom Baker! He would never be the person he is today without that programme! He probably would have spent the remainder of his working life on his old building site and performed in the occasional stage play, but would not have the recognition! (or anything else that fame brought him, Money, Glamour, Style, Lalla Ward)

[Dubzoomember]

No, I mean he regrets not working on The Five Doctors. He thought it was too early since he left the part.

[thespoon94]

OH! I see! Yes, he left because of exhaustion and this probably took the biscuit. I can imagine what must have been going round his mind when they asked him -"Bloody Hell, not that Fucking show again!"

[Dubzoomember]

I heard other people (eg JNT) wanted him to go.

[LordThree]

Tom really was the "rock star" Doctor who. He had the swagger that the others have been TRYING to pull off, but never quite get it. What a bad ass.

[poketardis]

@LordThree right on!!!!!! too bad he married Lalla Ward he could have lasted a lot longer as the doctor

[frankydman]

@poketardis

Actually, you are forgetting something:

Had Tom Baker played the Doctor longer than he did, there is a very high chance that he would have become typecast.

[notaphaser]

@frankydman

You can tell he was starting to grow tired of it, though, Season 18 especially. the fact he stayed on for seven years and somehow didn't become typecast is rather remarkable...Troughton and Davison left after three to avoid such.....

[DragonSporks]

@LordThree Have you seen him recently? He's still got it! :)

[ion010101]

@LordThree Because they're not interesting in doing Sydney Newman's show. They're only interested in courting popularity by appeal to chavs and doing campy gay activism. What they used to do in the 70s and what they do now are not the same show. They're just using the old title and the old lore so that they can have a ready made fanwank following and not have to pay writers to come up with anything original. They can just sit back and "re-imagine" and then take credit for creating a tv show.

[Deepdesert]

@ion010101 it started with the 1990s-era novelizations which became really baroque and fanwanky and the new shows just built off that.

[ion010101]

@Deepdesert The new shows are productions of gay activists. And not even the intelligent kind, but the gaudy, insufferable, half wit kind that think camp is a good thing. They're the pointy headed, 2 year olds who have adopted the politics of having nothing but rage for all heteros. They're the ones who call heteros "breeders" b/c they think it scores points for their side. It doesn't. They're not doing gays any favors. They're just self indulgent, garish, club going nit wits. They're chavs.

[Nandomaron1990]

@Deepdesert It started in 1980 when John Nathan-Turner and Eric Saward took over. Before that it was written by writers who wanted to pastiche their favourite horror and sci-fi movies; ever since it's been written by fans who want to appeal to their peers.

[dbwokc]

It would have been even funnier if Tom had rifled through his pockets to find a pen! Imagine the possiblites!

[Tardisgirlfrance]

I can't believe I waited so long to watch this. Everytime I saw the picture for the video I thought it was from City of Death and sudenly it accured to me that Tom never had any lines with John Cleese. So glad I've seen it now. It was such dark humor, love it.

[GODCONVOYPRIME]

How old is the great Tom Baker now?

[thomasedge4life]

74 and to me the most legendary dr of all time LOL

[GODCONVOYPRIME]

Hells yeah! ^_^

[harrietamidala1691]

what's this christmas special? Can somebody find it and post it on youtube?

[BottomBoosh]

R.I.P Tom Baker

[saskabush2006]

Uh, how come RIP? Tom Baker is alive and well. That's how b.s. net rumours get started.

[penguinsruledaworld]

Tom Baker is still alive!!! So there's no need for him to R.I.P (he does the naration for little Britain, do you know the voice I mean?)

[sweavo]

Maybe bottomBoosh just means Tom Baker should put his feet up and have a cup of tea without being disturbed.

[ZaffireWolf]

I wish I could remember the episode title when John Cleese did have a cameo. I believe the fourth Doctor and Romana were investigating something to do with art forgery or... stuff like that.  It was a good episode.

[ericinwisconsin]

It was "City of Death", ZaffireWolf. In the original series, it was the highest-rated Doctor Who story ever. (Although that may have more to do with an ITV strike than the story's quality.) It was a great story, including a beautiful line in which the Doctor, talking to Leonardo DaVinci, referred to the Mona Lisa as "that terrible woman with no eyebrows who wouldn't sit still."

[ZaffireWolf]

That's interesting, ericinwisconsin, I remember that line, ericinwisconsin, and it certainly was a memorable and enjoyable episode for me, ericinwisconsin. How is life in Ohio, ericinwisconsin?

[LadyEdgar]

What could be better than Tom Baker, John Cleese, Dudley Moore AND Peter Cook? I love them all!

[DoctorFuckingWho]

John Cleese! I remember travelling back and seeing the old chap whilst he was younger

[Highice007]

What did he (John Cleese) say at the end? "Never mind .......?

[zufgh]

he said 'nevermind i'll tell him you signed it' remember the kids blind

[Highice007]

Ha! Ha! Ha! Too fucking funny. Thanks so much :D

[galaxyhigh73]

Woo-hoo! I never thought I'd two of my favorite mad Englishmen in the same shot, even it was very brief!

[darkhorsegeorge]

the videos blurry. it almost looks like thats celery on toms jacket x3. im sad that ill watch anything (i mean ANYTHING) that toms in. hes one of my favorite actors x3

also in regards to the height ive heard john is 6'5" and tom is 6'3" so right on rly. both tall men

[Fattyrat]

i thought tom was 6ft 3, one inch shorter than my dad then

[centralcolumn]

As far as I can tell, John Cleese is about 6'5, give or take 1/4 inch. Tom Baker is, again as far as I can tell, 6'2 or 6'3. Both men are tall, but clearly Cleese is the taller of the two.

[Vashluver4life]

Man just how tall IS John Cleese! (And I thought Tom was tall! O.o) I love the bit where John goes, "Nice little kid he's blind." and then he just says, "Oh well, never mind, I'll tell him you signed it!" Great exchange! Love Tom's expression when Cleese just gives up so quickly! XD

[josatinho]

great guys

[Jackalman99]

I like the comic bit between Baker & Cleese but there's not much to it.

[Charterstone]

That is NOT Dudley Moore. It's Peter Cook.

[Bollocks3000]

..the guy on the piano beside peter cook is dudley moore...

[saipanrick]

Dudley Moore makes a comment about Durex... and during a Christmas special! Well! I never! :-)

[theamazingzeno]

Pete and Dud!

[kittenmommy]

Great clip - loved it. John Cleese must be really tall - he's taller than Tom Baker!

[Fattyrat]

i'd guess that tom was 6ft 4 or 3 myself.

"could you sign this?....nice little kid he's blind" lol

funny clip, what's it from? r there more like it with him in?

[pubwebmaster]

Nice little sketch.