The more I watch Tom Baker the more I'm convinced that a film crew just followed him around in his daily life and edited their work into Doctor Who episodes.
Leela is definitely the companion I didn't like as a kid but now think is awesome as a grown up (and not for THAT reason) - she's always questioning, brave beyond measure and is definitely not stupid - as Mister Litefoot said, a walking Eliza Dolittle. :D
@@brianjlevine Honestly, Leela eased the sting of Sarah Jane’s departure delightfully. Wonderful character who happened to fill out that skimpy outfit clearly designed for my 13 year old libido incredibly well. I was just as sad when she left as Sarah in the end.
I love how the Doctor was just casually carrying around an alarm clock in his coat pocket, just in case, lmao. Makes me wonder what else he has stored away in there.
His pockets are bigger on the inside, remember? He's probably carrying around more odds & ends than your average house has in there. Maybe they even connect to some TARDIS storage area.
"Would you like a jelly baby?" "It's true then, they say the evil one eats babies!" "You mustn't believe all they say. No, these are sweets. They're rather good, go on have one."
Tom Baker was such ahead of his time playing the Doctor. He was funny, sarcastic, and most of all he had the 10th Doctor, David Tennant base his doctor off of him
@Cliven Longsight and they thought an old man in a young man's body was original to new who.(matt smith) But Peter Davison was doing that way back in the 80s. Great Doctor that magical celery man
The Face of Evil is one of my all time favourite episodes of Doctor Who from the classic series. It was a good story that introduced Louise Jameson as Leela.
The Dr. Who companions - hard to choose which one is best, but Leela is right up there in the top half dozen for me. The dynamic she had with the Doctor was very entertaining, especially when she was fighting off baddies while he was indulging in deadpan humour.
Louise Jameson in subsequent years indicated that she liked being Leela, but the writers never let her character develop or arc. She put it succinctly, "how many different ways can you say WHAT IS IT DOCTOR?"
Hey New Who! Remember when companions weren’t from present day earth? Maybe want to switch things up a bit? In Classic Who we had Scottish Highlanders, Aliens, Shapeshifting robots and Time Ladies and many more. New who lacks so much creativity when it comes to companions.
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 You mean modern day earth girl, right? The one that is always involved in a will they won't they with the Doctor. I don't care if the Doctor is now female, allowing for Lesbian representation with Yaz, it's still the same old tired trope!
I remember getting really excited when Bill was revealed because her clothes screamed 1980's and there was a big rumor that's the era she was from... but no, another present day lady. The most distinctive we can get now is 'not from London'.
@@mattevans4377 mainly present day earth girl yes but there have been earth boyz too oh how original !!! most peeps don't care if the Doc is now a woman but I happen to think a long running male character for 50 plus years should remain male but that's just my membership card to the minority club
I've only just noticed that although this was shot on a set they have used the cameras that are for on location scenes so as to make it more believable! That's some top notch thinking there.
I think this was shot at Ealing, as was the Planet of Evil exteriors. Ealing is/was a single camera only facility. Hence these sequences were shot on 16mm film.(which easily resolves to about 2K in Digital terms, hence the beautiful "Spearhead from Space" BD) Unfortunately the Tesh/Xoanon interiors were shot back at Television Centre. So you drop down to multi-camera (analogue PAL SD video, 576 x 768.) The most egregious example of this, is "The Warriors of The Deep" which was completely studio based and horribly overlit. One cliffhanger sequence involving a fall into water was shot at Ealing. So you end up with one sequence that looks ok and the rest looks cheap and amateurish. Director's would complain, but JNT wouldn't listen. A handful of viewer complaints about programmes being too dark.
@@defanged9630 | I have said for many years that (Classic) Doctor Who should have been entirely made on film starting on Season 7 when they went to color. Weren't some BBC TV shows produced on film during that era? Why wasn't Doctor Who one of them?
@@MoniqueFromPlymouth Amen, I hear You. It would have been fantastic. It also would have taken someone of great wiil and with strong reserves of energy to prosecute the case. "Spearhead" producer Derrick Sherwin claimed it wasn't that much more expensive, shooting entirely on location and on 16mm. Playing devil's advocate, I would remind You that he and his colleague, Peter Bryant's reign was a chaotic one and he lumbered the incoming Barry Letts with three 7 episode stories. So, while I'd like his claim to stack up. I'm not sure it does. He, Sherwin went on to join Bryant on the all film production, Paul Temple. BBC all film drama productions were relatively rare and usually co-productions with other broadcasters. i.e. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." I think the show would have to have been reformatted into either the 2-4 telemovies (70-90 mins) per season or the "New Who" 45-50 min format, with a max episode run of 8-10. Some VFX would still have to done on video. Classic Who's use of CSO/Chroma Key was a quite effective money saver. Even with a reduced episode count, VFX would have been a budget nightmare and trying to do it all on film, probably prohibitively expensive. Ah, we can always dream and we will always have "Spearhead."
Agreed, although I thought Romana I was pretty marvellous, too, and Harry would be in with a shout if they'd kept him on longer. I'm spoilt for choice really!
My controversial Tom Baker companions ranking 1. Nyssa 2. Romana 2 3 Leela 4. Romana 1 5 Sarah Jane Smith 6 K9 7 Harry 7 Adric (let the disagreements begin Lol)
According to the actress who played Leela, Louise Jameson she based the original state of the character, when Leela met the Doctor, on her then six year old niece and a pet dog, or so she said in an interview at the time.
also in "the invasion of time" when Leela stayed on Galifrey the writers left her ending open as they didn't want her to leave and if she wanted to she could return
When Doctor Who returned 15 years ago I thought Leela perished along with the Time Lords at the end of the Time War. In the 2012 audio production of Doctor Who "The Catalyst" it was revealed Leela survived the destruction of Gallifrey and was captured, tortured and interrogated by a warrior race called the Z'Nai and they demanded information from Leela about Gallifey.
There was a story, Time in the office, it's just set after the 5 doctor's where 5th was asked back to become president while getting away first at first, Leela actually contacted him to go
They've put that one up before - it was in my youtube recommendations because I watched this one. Here's the link - ruclips.net/video/geMx6y8ctFk/видео.html
I met him once briefly at a fair somewhere down near Swindon I think ' way back in the 70s ' I was like 7 ' think there were various characters like Daleks ' plus his companion Sarah there with him ' shook hands with me.
The tune is called "Colonel Bogey March" (1914). Most people, however, recognize it from the movie, _Bridge Over the River Kwai_ (1957). ruclips.net/video/Mx96NLBAahk/видео.html
Beware of older men offering candy. Unless it's Tom Baker and a bag of Jelly Babies. Louise Jameson adds a bit of wholesome sex appeal. And we all should heed Tom's advice at the end.
I find it amazing as the travels through time and space and using the translation circuit of the TARDIS that everyone speaks with a British accent. Not until the episode at Area 51 did I hear differently.
I first saw this episode in 1978! I just realized the name of the tune Tom Baker was whistling. Bridge Over The River Kwai! One of the best prisoner of war movies ever!
Anybody else think that Loreline (sometimes ignorant and unsophisticated, but also badass French peasant girl from 12th century who becomes companion to time-traveling Valerian) from the French "Valerian" comic books by Pierre Christin were the inspiration for Leela?
Safety Time Machine 1. Automatic door locked. 2. Goes invisible. 3. Moves airplanes over it. 4. Has camera/TV inside so time travellers only watchs history.
Tom Baker was the best Dr Who due to his brilliant acting and facial gestures. As a Time Lord myself I just want to say you do know the Earth is a Time Machine don't you. Even NASA discovered particles travelling backwards in time near the polar regions. NASA are baffled but not to worry NASA just discovered Earth's time field. See Dr Who for more details. Hahaha.
How many episodes did Tom have the hat in? You see it in all of his promotional material but discovering any episodes where it's actually worn is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
sometimes i do have to wonder why the doctor needs companions especially in the early days when they were possibly screaming a bit too much for there own good, first of all they introduce us to susan the doctors gran daughter who first of all at least in the pilot is all mysterious and extremely clever, then by the time that the actual episode goes out and its changed a bit by then although shes still an enigma and clever soon she becomes even more like an earth teenager and most episodes only seems to be there to hurt her ankle or scream while shes supposed to be from gallifrey and above such things, and i can understand why the actress wanted to leave the series, then they give us vicki who although survived on her own in a crashed space ship suddenly becomes a screamer just like susan was, and pollys possibly there just to look pretty, and then we get victoria who asks to many daft questions, is a bit silly and screams for all of us, then zoe comes along and while shes extremely clever its possible that someone at the time was possibly watching the avengers too much, then we get liz shaw who only lasted one series and who although in her own right was a science genius who was mostly there to make the tea and tell the doctor that hes always right, and while sarah jane smith was a reporter she was not above hurting herself or generally being daft, at least with leela we get a companion who is clever and fierce with a dagger but considering what her costume consists off was she wearing it because of the dads watching or possibly for the older teenage boys starting to think about girls, and at least with romana we get someone who finally is as clever as the doctor, and during the 80s it does not really get much better, nyssa walks about the place trying to save the universe and when she finally decides to leave the doctor she does so by for some strange reason removing half her clothes, tegans just there to be a mouth and does not really know when to shut up, peris there mostly just to scream the place down, and possibly because of her ample charms someone dressed her in a bikini when we first meet her, mel seems to have huge capacity in her lungs to scream and scream again, and while ace seemed to be a very good idea at the time, we could possibly spent most episodes wondering just how broken she is this week.
is this one of the greatest eras of doctor who with one of the greatest doctors with one of the greatest companions, i certainly think so, and although tom bakers doctor started off with sarah jane smith and harry sullivan, i think that it probably got better when harry left, and it was just the doctor and sarah jane, and what with this era of doctor who giving us the likes of genesis of the daleks, the face of evil, the talons of weng chang, planet of evil and the city of death, it was probably doctor who at its height, and this is following the delightful fun of jon pertwees doctor, especially the daemons and the sea devils, and the green death, and inferno, and although i have vague memories of watching doctor who growing up, and especially peter davidsons era, which seems to get good at the end but off course by then it was too late, i dont know what i`m supposed to think about colin bakers doctor, and at least the doctor that i most remember is slyvester mc coy, and although it possibly started off perhaps not at its best with bonnie langford in it i at least seemed to love paradise towers, and when ace joined the tardis it finally became something to watch again, and while i enjoyed it, no doubt to at least some people it was probably not really cool to watch at the time, but then with the sort of idiots who i went to school with i would think that they perhaps didn`t have a brain among them, and the so called geeks of the time were the only ones who would be watching doctor who at the time, and when i perhaps did have a good conversation with someone in school or college it was about hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, red dwarf, or the crystal maze, and although you at least realised that these were nice and thoughtful people not everyone agreed with you, and when you watched remembrance of the daleks at the time, and you realised that doctor who could be getting good again, it was removed from out television screens if not our thoughts, and you had to survive the 90`s without doctor who, by watching repeats, buying videos, and buying books, and at least nowadays doctor who seems to be the thing to watch again, by maybe not even people who would have perhaps been watching it all those years ago, i say welcome onboard and the more people that watch it the better, but where was you in the late 80`s when we really needed all you watching to perhaps have kept doctor who on tv at the time, and i badly wanted it to continue at the time so i could watch the further adventures of the doctor and ace.
during this scene i`m trying to concentrate on the plot but all i can possibly think about is leelas chest, and leelas legs, and i really hate the front flap on her costume because without it being there we could perhaps see her pants.
The more I watch Tom Baker the more I'm convinced that a film crew just followed him around in his daily life and edited their work into Doctor Who episodes.
It is a fact that a lot of the 4th Doctor's clothes were from Tom Baker's own wardrobe!
Leela is definitely the companion I didn't like as a kid but now think is awesome as a grown up (and not for THAT reason) - she's always questioning, brave beyond measure and is definitely not stupid - as Mister Litefoot said, a walking Eliza Dolittle. :D
She had the misfortune of having to follow up Sarah. But in retrospect she is a great character.
@@brianjlevine Honestly, Leela eased the sting of Sarah Jane’s departure delightfully. Wonderful character who happened to fill out that skimpy outfit clearly designed for my 13 year old libido incredibly well. I was just as sad when she left as Sarah in the end.
@@corneliuscrewe677 Leela deserved to be a companion for much longer.
@@madgavin7568 Absolutely. I find I enjoy her even more as an adult.
Michelle Mone
The Doctor: "Would you like a jelly baby?"
Leela: "It's true! The evil one eats babies!"
That's our Leela! 😄
pro tip : watch series at Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies these days.
@Pedro Emmett definitely, I have been watching on Flixzone for since november myself :)
@Pedro Emmett definitely, have been using flixzone for months myself :D
Most memorable lines ever.
the way she cracked a smile and then look at him afterwards. Such a great actress! Miss this era of Who.
I love how the Doctor was just casually carrying around an alarm clock in his coat pocket, just in case, lmao. Makes me wonder what else he has stored away in there.
His pockets are bigger on the inside, remember? He's probably carrying around more odds & ends than your average house has in there. Maybe they even connect to some TARDIS storage area.
Just watch Genesis of the Daleks. He has to turn out his pockets in that one:D
Jelly Barbies duh
Watch Genesis of the Daleks for a better item list in his pockets
Well, the beast clearly didn't stand a chance: Tom Baker had his serious face on.
"Would you like a jelly baby?"
"It's true then, they say the evil one eats babies!"
"You mustn't believe all they say. No, these are sweets. They're rather good, go on have one."
Lands in futuristic jungle
Doctor: I think this is not Hyde Park
Good guess
I love this story.
Me too!
Tom Baker was such ahead of his time playing the Doctor. He was funny, sarcastic, and most of all he had the 10th Doctor, David Tennant base his doctor off of him
@Cliven Longsight and they thought an old man in a young man's body was original to new who.(matt smith) But Peter Davison was doing that way back in the 80s. Great Doctor that magical celery man
@Cliven Longsight Funny considering Davison is Tennant's Father-in-law now.
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 yeah but Peter was nearly 30 when he took over as the Doctor, Matt was 26 when he was cast
The Face of Evil is one of my all time favourite episodes of Doctor Who from the classic series. It was a good story that introduced Louise Jameson as Leela.
I love the "Bwa-bwa-bwa-bwaaaa" sound effect for the guns!
He's just so dang smooth. 😍 He takes everything in stride and has a wonderful smile. 😁
Leela one of the best companions ever
@Jerome Duduley lol
@Jerome Duduley Your name spells Duduley though.
@Jerome Duduley Oh sorry my bad
agreed
The Dr. Who companions - hard to choose which one is best, but Leela is right up there in the top half dozen for me. The dynamic she had with the Doctor was very entertaining, especially when she was fighting off baddies while he was indulging in deadpan humour.
love the way the set trees where made out of flexible plastic conduit
Louise Jameson in subsequent years indicated that she liked being Leela, but the writers never let her character develop or arc. She put it succinctly, "how many different ways can you say WHAT IS IT DOCTOR?"
Hey New Who! Remember when companions weren’t from present day earth? Maybe want to switch things up a bit? In Classic Who we had Scottish Highlanders, Aliens, Shapeshifting robots and Time Ladies and many more. New who lacks so much creativity when it comes to companions.
yeah i miss that, it made relationships more interesting
the best companions were aliens, from a different time or grew up on a different planet. The modern day earth girl/boy mold is getting kinda old
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 You mean modern day earth girl, right? The one that is always involved in a will they won't they with the Doctor. I don't care if the Doctor is now female, allowing for Lesbian representation with Yaz, it's still the same old tired trope!
I remember getting really excited when Bill was revealed because her clothes screamed 1980's and there was a big rumor that's the era she was from... but no, another present day lady. The most distinctive we can get now is 'not from London'.
@@mattevans4377 mainly present day earth girl yes but there have been earth boyz too oh how original !!! most peeps don't care if the Doc is now a woman but I happen to think a long running male character for 50 plus years should remain male but that's just my membership card to the minority club
I can't help but think how old these two are now, Tom will always be one of my favourite Doctors.
I've only just noticed that although this was shot on a set they have used the cameras that are for on location scenes so as to make it more believable! That's some top notch thinking there.
16mm film due to filming at Ealing.
I think this was shot at Ealing, as was the Planet of Evil exteriors. Ealing is/was a single camera only facility. Hence these sequences were shot on 16mm film.(which easily resolves to about 2K in Digital terms, hence the beautiful "Spearhead from Space" BD)
Unfortunately the Tesh/Xoanon interiors were shot back at Television Centre. So you drop down to multi-camera (analogue PAL SD video, 576 x 768.) The most egregious example of this, is "The Warriors of The Deep" which was completely studio based and horribly overlit. One cliffhanger sequence involving a fall into water was shot at Ealing. So you end up with one sequence that looks ok and the rest looks cheap and amateurish. Director's would complain, but JNT wouldn't listen. A handful of viewer complaints about programmes being too dark.
baldrick from blackadder must have been working for the BBC at that time "I have a cunning plan" Lol
@@defanged9630 | I have said for many years that (Classic) Doctor Who should have been entirely made on film starting on Season 7 when they went to color. Weren't some BBC TV shows produced on film during that era? Why wasn't Doctor Who one of them?
@@MoniqueFromPlymouth Amen, I hear You. It would have been fantastic. It also would have taken someone of great wiil and with strong reserves of energy to prosecute the case. "Spearhead" producer Derrick Sherwin claimed it wasn't that much more expensive, shooting entirely on location and on 16mm. Playing devil's advocate, I would remind You that he and his colleague, Peter Bryant's reign was a chaotic one and he lumbered the incoming Barry Letts with three 7 episode stories. So, while I'd like his claim to stack up. I'm not sure it does. He, Sherwin went on to join Bryant on the all film production, Paul Temple.
BBC all film drama productions were relatively rare and usually co-productions with other broadcasters. i.e. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."
I think the show would have to have been reformatted into either the 2-4 telemovies (70-90 mins) per season or the "New Who" 45-50 min format, with a max episode run of 8-10. Some VFX would still have to done on video. Classic Who's use of CSO/Chroma Key was a quite effective money saver. Even with a reduced episode count, VFX would have been a budget nightmare and trying to do it all on film, probably prohibitively expensive. Ah, we can always dream and we will always have "Spearhead."
Under-appreciated episode.
The cliff hanger at the end of episode 3 was a classic. Put the Doctor out for days I seem to remember.
True, one of those stories that gets over looked or just hardly mentioned, bit like 'ambassadors of death' or 'the mind of evil' ect..
Leela ties with Sarah Jane and Romana II as the best companion of the 4th Doctor for me.
Agreed, although I thought Romana I was pretty marvellous, too, and Harry would be in with a shout if they'd kept him on longer. I'm spoilt for choice really!
My controversial Tom Baker companions ranking
1. Nyssa
2. Romana 2
3 Leela
4. Romana 1
5 Sarah Jane Smith
6 K9
7 Harry
7 Adric
(let the disagreements begin Lol)
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 I have to say Sarah Jane first 😁
@@magpieone9390 most people say the same as you from what I gather but I prefer the more quirky companions
@Mrjerkyll andhyde Looks like Tegan died
Doctor Who looks great in film. I wish they all looked this good.
This whole episode has an absolutely legendary script.
According to the actress who played Leela, Louise Jameson she based the original state of the character, when Leela met the Doctor, on her then six year old niece and a pet dog, or so she said in an interview at the time.
Fun fact Leela was asked to come back for the 5 th doctor and she said she would for only 3 stories max. The plans were scrapped
also in "the invasion of time" when Leela stayed on Galifrey the writers left her ending open as they didn't want her to leave and if she wanted to she could return
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 She could have returned in Arc of Infinity and she could have been with Nyssa.
@@fadikhoory5350 Nyssa and Leela that would have been cool
When Doctor Who returned 15 years ago I thought Leela perished along with the Time Lords at the end of the Time War. In the 2012 audio production of Doctor Who "The Catalyst" it was revealed Leela survived the destruction of Gallifrey and was captured, tortured and interrogated by a warrior race called the Z'Nai and they demanded information from Leela about Gallifey.
There was a story, Time in the office, it's just set after the 5 doctor's where 5th was asked back to become president while getting away first at first, Leela actually contacted him to go
I was lucky enough to have met Louise Jameson twice at conventions. First in Baltimore in 1986, then Orlando in 2009.
Ah the great man himself! Leela was rather lovely .
Oh Leela, taking candy from strangers with 12-foot scarves in a haunted forest while mostly naked seems unadvised!
She didn't actually eat it. She just sniffed it a little. How is she mostly naked? Bikinis at the beach cover far less than that.
@@robinlillian9471 I think she ate it later. She was scantily clad for my prepubescent years.
This channel means so much to me so Thankyou
Leela. My favorite companion. (No, not ONLY for THAT reason btw).
Ahh yes. Leela. My second favorite companion next to Ace.
I wanted to BE Ace, but Leela was so cool!
leela is dr whos best helper ,she strong minded and can sense things plus she can fight no one can be better
She lost a fight in EE ' as Rosa De Marco ' prefered her in Dr Who.
And she looks very fetching in leather
“Now tread carefully”
*falls onto the ground*
Leela is amazing just hearing her in the Big finish audios bring much more complexity and dynamic tto her character and her friendship with romana
It doesn't get better than this era of the show Tom Baker and Leela.
Baker & SLADEN. THIS IS 2ND BEST.
Hope we get the deadly Jelly Baby scene next.
They've put that one up before - it was in my youtube recommendations because I watched this one. Here's the link - ruclips.net/video/geMx6y8ctFk/видео.html
Best Doctor. Best Sidekick.
Doctor leaves and companion:
Me: 😭
Next doctor and companion leave: 😭
Producers: 😐
@AxY_xD kinda depends who it is
Total respect to Tom Baker, loved him then and he's still Awsome now.
Must be pushing 90 ' fair play.
A Classic Who Doctor asking us to subscribe - love it!
Love that the jungle scenes were recorded on film, same as planet of evil. Makes it more convincing
And thus a glorious friendship was born. I love this pair and the dialogue is as witty as ever.
I know Leela is suppose to be sexualized but coming from the Gallifreyan Audios, I seriously think she could fight anyone and make it out alive.
She gives that impression from most of her televised stories as well.
@retnavybrat She's definitely a companion who's not willing to go down without a fight.
I have a feeling her and Ace would be a great team.
0:01 The Doctor does his best impression of Starship Enterprise ambient sounds.
Ngl, the actress who plays Leela is pretty in my opinion. Also nice greeting Doctor “NeverhaveIheardofapersoncalledleela-Wouldyoulikeajellybaby?”
Best use of the jelly baby catchphrase.
Tom Baker is a great guy who will always stop for a chat .
I met him once briefly at a fair somewhere down near Swindon I think ' way back in the 70s ' I was like 7 ' think there were various characters like Daleks ' plus his companion Sarah there with him ' shook hands with me.
She kick started my puberty
the tune he was whistling at the beginning... I recognise it...
"On A lonely planet slowly spinning its way to damnation..."
The tune is called "Colonel Bogey March" (1914). Most people, however, recognize it from the movie, _Bridge Over the River Kwai_ (1957).
ruclips.net/video/Mx96NLBAahk/видео.html
"I'm The Doctor. Have a jelly baby."
Chapter title in a Dr. Who retrospective.
Nowadays...
"I'm The Doctor. Sit down while I lecture you."
Especially now. Whittaker talking about Global Warming with her "fam", and then beating CGI monsters with her "mates"!
I always loved the look of this studio
Because of quarantine I've watched Talons of Weng-Chiang and Horror of Fang Rock.
Because of my love of the 4th Doctor I've watched his whole run 11 times 😅
I love Talons of Weng-Chiang! I think Mr. Jago and Dr. Lightfoot should have had their own series!
Talons, wow, you're lucky, it's probably going to recalled and "fixed" by the apoplectic #woke BBC
Beware of older men offering candy. Unless it's Tom Baker and a bag of Jelly Babies. Louise Jameson adds a bit of wholesome sex appeal. And we all should heed Tom's advice at the end.
Anyone else think Louise Jameson made an amazing Amazon?
Leela was my first crush lol I didn’t know what it was because I was only about 6 but I knew there was something special about her 😂❤😂
It has always bothered me why he looks so familiar to me.
He reminds me of the Marx’s brothers. Mostly Harpo. His eyes, curly hair and that smile.
She was my crush. Wait until her eyes change for a deeper heartache.
The Face Of Evil was MY First & Favorite Episode of the Classic Doctor Who Series.
Hot Doctor Who companions list. 1. Leela, 2. Tegan, 3. Peri
The GOAT DR
I find it amazing as the travels through time and space and using the translation circuit of the TARDIS that everyone speaks with a British accent. Not until the episode at Area 51 did I hear differently.
My brother once commented that Leela was quite the little savage, he was right. Also watching this clip I'd forgot that Louise Jameson was a hottie.
4,11,12 and 13 are my fav doctors❤.#doctor who
I first saw this episode in 1978! I just realized the name of the tune Tom Baker was whistling. Bridge Over The River Kwai! One of the best prisoner of war movies ever!
Anybody else think that Loreline (sometimes ignorant and unsophisticated, but also badass French peasant girl from 12th century who becomes companion to time-traveling Valerian) from the French "Valerian" comic books by Pierre Christin were the inspiration for Leela?
"Would you like a Jelly Baby"
It’s just a wild coincidence that the most memorable Dr. Who female companions just happens to be on during my puberty!
The filming of the forest scenes in this story r beautiful
She’s beautiful and he is cool
Me: -sees episode title
Also me: “here is the map! Where do you wish to go?”
Leela was my favorite companion as a kid, she was the child in us all.
My Dad watched Dr Who with me every now and again...until Leela turned up. Then he never missed an episode for some reason. 🤔
LoL.
Did you notice costume Leela used wear which just leather rags. I am not suprised caught your Dad's attention.
I'd love to give Leela some TARDIS up her space/time continuum.
IMHO, Leela was the best of all companions.
Now we know where Amy Pond gets her fashion inspiration.
Safety Time Machine
1. Automatic door locked.
2. Goes invisible.
3. Moves airplanes over it.
4. Has camera/TV inside so time travellers only watchs history.
Tom Baker was the best Dr Who due to his brilliant acting and facial gestures. As a Time Lord myself I just want to say you do know the Earth is a Time Machine don't you. Even NASA discovered particles travelling backwards in time near the polar regions. NASA are baffled but not to worry NASA just discovered Earth's time field. See Dr Who for more details. Hahaha.
Tom could make even the worst story come alive, he's just that good.
My fav Dr Who ' next to Jon Pertwee.
Wasn’t Louise Jameson hot? And Tom Baker so perfect as Dr Who?
Yes and yes.
Leela 🤤
He's my Doctor the Key to time was my introduction to the Wonderful world.
Tom Baker - the last Dr Who.
The era Dads started watching !
The best Classic Doctor!
How many episodes did Tom have the hat in? You see it in all of his promotional material but discovering any episodes where it's actually worn is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
actually rather a lot
Leela = Hawt
The Doctors first post Sarah Jane companion, and a few more episodes before we meet Time Lady Romana.
Update clip from paradise of death
sometimes i do have to wonder why the doctor needs companions especially in the early days when they were possibly screaming a bit too much for there own good, first of all they introduce us to susan the doctors gran daughter who first of all at least in the pilot is all mysterious and extremely clever, then by the time that the actual episode goes out and its changed a bit by then although shes still an enigma and clever soon she becomes even more like an earth teenager and most episodes only seems to be there to hurt her ankle or scream while shes supposed to be from gallifrey and above such things, and i can understand why the actress wanted to leave the series, then they give us vicki who although survived on her own in a crashed space ship suddenly becomes a screamer just like susan was, and pollys possibly there just to look pretty, and then we get victoria who asks to many daft questions, is a bit silly and screams for all of us, then zoe comes along and while shes extremely clever its possible that someone at the time was possibly watching the avengers too much, then we get liz shaw who only lasted one series and who although in her own right was a science genius who was mostly there to make the tea and tell the doctor that hes always right, and while sarah jane smith was a reporter she was not above hurting herself or generally being daft, at least with leela we get a companion who is clever and fierce with a dagger but considering what her costume consists off was she wearing it because of the dads watching or possibly for the older teenage boys starting to think about girls, and at least with romana we get someone who finally is as clever as the doctor, and during the 80s it does not really get much better, nyssa walks about the place trying to save the universe and when she finally decides to leave the doctor she does so by for some strange reason removing half her clothes, tegans just there to be a mouth and does not really know when to shut up, peris there mostly just to scream the place down, and possibly because of her ample charms someone dressed her in a bikini when we first meet her, mel seems to have huge capacity in her lungs to scream and scream again, and while ace seemed to be a very good idea at the time, we could possibly spent most episodes wondering just how broken she is this week.
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Wonder if this is where 'Predator' and the creatures in 'Pitch Black' came from.. Blind, invisible and hunt via vibration.
is this one of the greatest eras of doctor who with one of the greatest doctors with one of the greatest companions, i certainly think so, and although tom bakers doctor started off with sarah jane smith and harry sullivan, i think that it probably got better when harry left, and it was just the doctor and sarah jane, and what with this era of doctor who giving us the likes of genesis of the daleks, the face of evil, the talons of weng chang, planet of evil and the city of death, it was probably doctor who at its height, and this is following the delightful fun of jon pertwees doctor, especially the daemons and the sea devils, and the green death, and inferno, and although i have vague memories of watching doctor who growing up, and especially peter davidsons era, which seems to get good at the end but off course by then it was too late, i dont know what i`m supposed to think about colin bakers doctor, and at least the doctor that i most remember is slyvester mc coy, and although it possibly started off perhaps not at its best with bonnie langford in it i at least seemed to love paradise towers, and when ace joined the tardis it finally became something to watch again, and while i enjoyed it, no doubt to at least some people it was probably not really cool to watch at the time, but then with the sort of idiots who i went to school with i would think that they perhaps didn`t have a brain among them, and the so called geeks of the time were the only ones who would be watching doctor who at the time, and when i perhaps did have a good conversation with someone in school or college it was about hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, red dwarf, or the crystal maze, and although you at least realised that these were nice and thoughtful people not everyone agreed with you, and when you watched remembrance of the daleks at the time, and you realised that doctor who could be getting good again, it was removed from out television screens if not our thoughts, and you had to survive the 90`s without doctor who, by watching repeats, buying videos, and buying books, and at least nowadays doctor who seems to be the thing to watch again, by maybe not even people who would have perhaps been watching it all those years ago, i say welcome onboard and the more people that watch it the better, but where was you in the late 80`s when we really needed all you watching to perhaps have kept doctor who on tv at the time, and i badly wanted it to continue at the time so i could watch the further adventures of the doctor and ace.
I wanna meet Leela!😍🤩
Well you can...But Louise is 69 now and won't wear the costume....
Amazing, i love it!
Her and Suzi Quatro,with a splash of Floella Benjamin and Debbie Harry. That's my formative years.
Such a shame leela never met Harry Sullivan or the brigadier
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That gave me pure joy
"You've got the message, haven't you?" 💙💙
CBD jelly babys... "They're very good."
Wait a minute if I remember correctly they are essentially getting chased by giant Tom heads
That just endlessly amuses me
during this scene i`m trying to concentrate on the plot but all i can possibly think about is leelas chest, and leelas legs, and i really hate the front flap on her costume because without it being there we could perhaps see her pants.
Меня тоже смущает её откровенный наряд. 😏😏😏
I loved this story even though I felt it was an underrated because it was between THE DEADLY ASSASSIN and THE ROBOTS OF DEATH
Isn't The Deadly Assassin the only ever major Doctor Who story where the Doctor has no companions?
@@KaitainCPS It is
Alternative title: the Doctor meets his mother