"You're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" is one of my favourite lines in the show. It's why I love the Doctor so much and especially the 4th Doctor; he's just a troll gallavanting around the universe taking a massive s**t on authority. This is how the Doctor should always be.
Tom Baker revealed a quality of Dr Who, of not just how formidable his vast intellect would be against any antagonist, but also how very careful he was to protect innocent people. He disarmed his enemies with humour, without violence, and made it look effortless.
This is such pitch-perfect Dr Who, isn't it? Cast and crew absolutely at the top of their game. And it's increasingly alarming how young Tom looks everytime I rewatch this era. I wish I dated as well as this story. 🤠🤖⚰️
It's an Agatha Christie novel pastiche set in space. A group of posh people with scores to settle and axes to grind are trying to figure out who is killing them off one by one.
I still remember watching Dr Who every night at 6:30pm on the ABC and I've never stopped loving this show. Thank you to all that kept Dr Who being fantastic
Such a beautifully realised world and society, in four episodes. The robots - Dums, Vocs, and Super Vocs, are beautiful but creepy. And the real villain, for this is a classic large 'house' murder mystery, remains hidden in plain sight, right up to the last act. Superb, clever, nasty, and funny Doctor Who. And it contains the explanation of how a TARDIS is 'bigger on the inside' too, it's wonderful, and worth watching for that alone.
You watch Tom more and more’ and you really get how he was a lot of favorites of the vintage era. Very much the Tennant of his day, and with the longest tenure of the vintage crew, you can easily see why he’s returned as the Curator.
When I first flew from NYC to London back in the late 1990’s a friend of mine asked me to bring him back a bag of Dr Who Jelly Babies as a souvenir which I did. I had no trouble with it in customs either.
I love this era of Doctor Who. There often had these subplots that would seem intriguing in their own right if they weren't getting interrupted by unusual circumstances.
It would have been better in series 2 of Blakes Seven, to have had Brian Croucher cast in the role of an entirely new villain not taking over the role of an existing character which never ever really works.
I love Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor in the long multicoloured scarf. The series with the 4th Dovtor were the only Classic Who ones that were broadcast in Italy, I wish I could have watched the other series and the other Doctors from the 1st till the 8th
really interesting shot at 03:40 -- i can't imagine the set was that expansive, so to give a sense of scale i'm thinking they had a model in the foreground and filmed the action through a space in the middle i initially thought it might be blue-screen, but since i can't see the telltale edges from that effect, i'm thinking that either the actors were filmed through a sort of porthole in a model using a lens that made them seem more distant, or there was pre-recorded footage played on a screen set into a model ... thing is, i know nothing about how these things work and this is all a guess on a similar note, i think they had something of a budget for this series, because the costumes are rather detailed even down to silver-soled shoes kinda amazing what thought went into these shows back then [edit] on second thought, it might have just been blue-screen -- i turned the resolution up and replayed it several times and i'm thinking i see some vague blue pixelation around the insert... still a very detailed bit of cinematography for a show about an idiot in a box
I love that SV-7 is primarily concerned about the state of The Floor when Borg slaps away the bag of jelly babies - that’s something a human servant would never do, either he would immediately pick them all up and clear up the mess, or he would discreetly slip off and do it at the first opportunity when the humans had moved out of the way- But because a human knocked them down onto the floor, a recognised member of the human crew, he’s not •entirely• sure that they are not actually supposed to be down there on the floor, seeing as how Crewman Borg clearly knocked them down there on purpose -
If the Doctor told the man who yelled at him and said shut up when he hit the Doctor's hand and made the jelly babies fall to the floor asked him if he always likes to jump to conclusions before he gets all the facts, that man would still attack the Doctor anyway and maybe Leela also.
Let's just hope that no one of Doctor's enemies will ever decide to blow up a jelly baby factory - can you imagine how catastrophic the consequences could be?
It's good to see David Collings in these videos, rest in peace. He would've been a very good War Doctor if the Unbound writer David Bishop wrote that instead of Full Fathom Five.
I've always thought that the always excellent David Collings was the best onscreen Doctor we never got. He'd have been superb. He's great here, as Poul, but at his very best, as the sinister, but tragic Mawdryn, in the 5th Doctor story, 'Mawdryn Undead'.
Well she’s from a planet where the lord of the flies type scenario happened a couple generations ago so I guess ones of her ancestors used to be an anchor for the BBC!
No one can be Dr. Who except tom Bakkar. they do not have the hair for it. I remember this one. that is a mining ship. I bet that is where Lucas got the idea for the Sand crawler.
The society of Kaldor is very similar to the Panem capital where they have a love of over the top fashion and other vanity’s and it’s considered completely normal despite how unpredictable it might seem to outsiders
I COULD WATCH TOM BAKER AS THE DOCTOR 24/7 HE IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE DOCTOR, AND THEN A FOUR WAY TIE WITH JON PERTWEE, DAVID TENNANT, MATT SMITH, COLIN BAKER, FOLLOWED BY A 5 WAY TIE CHRIS ECCLESTON, PETER DAVISON, ED MCCANN, SYLVESTER MCCOY, AND JODIE WHITAKER, BRINGING UP THE REAR ALTHOUGH BY NO MEANS THE LEAST PETER CAPALDI SO SORRY I FORGOT YOU SOONER, PATRICK TROUGHTON, WILLIAM HARTNELL I ACTUALLY AT TIMES HAVE LOVED ALL EQUALLY AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ORDER THEY ARE IN THEY ARE SPECTACULAR!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS
"You know you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" possibly the most savage doctor line
There's a reason he's my favorite
@@kikidevine694Mine too
*you're
The little smirk before he just threw that heavy jab is the sweetest cherry on top ever.
The Doctor every time he meets a Karen. :P
"You're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" is one of my favourite lines in the show. It's why I love the Doctor so much and especially the 4th Doctor; he's just a troll gallavanting around the universe taking a massive s**t on authority. This is how the Doctor should always be.
The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes.
Tom Baker revealed a quality of Dr Who, of not just how formidable his vast intellect would be against any antagonist, but also how very careful he was to protect innocent people. He disarmed his enemies with humour, without violence, and made it look effortless.
God, Tom is electric here. Always the Doctor, forever and always.
This is such pitch-perfect Dr Who, isn't it? Cast and crew absolutely at the top of their game. And it's increasingly alarming how young Tom looks everytime I rewatch this era. I wish I dated as well as this story. 🤠🤖⚰️
My favourite story - what a shame the show is so crap now
It's an Agatha Christie novel pastiche set in space. A group of posh people with scores to settle and axes to grind are trying to figure out who is killing them off one by one.
Jelly Babies are such a classic part of Doctor Who that the line gets reused in the Doctor Who movie with Paul McGann.
I still remember watching Dr Who every night at 6:30pm on the ABC and I've never stopped loving this show. Thank you to all that kept Dr Who being fantastic
No more ABC Doctor Who, sadly. The BBC sold global distribution rights to Disney. 😡😡😡
right after the goodies. they were the days
Me too! Those were the days. 😌 🇦🇺🦘
Such a beautifully realised world and society, in four episodes. The robots - Dums, Vocs, and Super Vocs, are beautiful but creepy. And the real villain, for this is a classic large 'house' murder mystery, remains hidden in plain sight, right up to the last act.
Superb, clever, nasty, and funny Doctor Who. And it contains the explanation of how a TARDIS is 'bigger on the inside' too, it's wonderful, and worth watching for that alone.
Very Art Deco in design, as well the Agatha Christie style plot.
You watch Tom more and more’ and you really get how he was a lot of favorites of the vintage era. Very much the Tennant of his day, and with the longest tenure of the vintage crew, you can easily see why he’s returned as the Curator.
A simple “No, thank you” would have been sufficient. 😆
I love that line.
“A simple ‘No, thank you’ would’ve been sufficient”
"I'm fine. (They threw my jelly baby bag out of my hand, that's all. I'm fine.) 😭😂💀
Cruel. ☹️
I always thought he said "SHUT UP!"
The Master also carries around Jelly Babies. They're so similar yet so different
The Master eats super sour jelly babies. 😖
This was the first ever jelly baby scene I ever saw and I'm glad it was lol
I love when the Doctor gets cheeky with arrogant little twits. 😂
He's just as bonkers irl.😂😂 And twice as adorable.
When I first flew from NYC to London back in the late 1990’s a friend of mine asked me to bring him back a bag of Dr Who Jelly Babies as a souvenir which I did. I had no trouble with it in customs either.
My husband works at World market and always brings me them home.
3:45 - It's Dask!!! Look at his trousers!!!
2:36 Perfect description for internet trolls
Love this one. Love Tom Baker always.
One of my favourite Doctor Who stories, with one of my all-time favourite lines.
It would even be better if they didn't reveal at 3:47, halfway through episode 2, who the bad guy was.
I love this era of Doctor Who. There often had these subplots that would seem intriguing in their own right if they weren't getting interrupted by unusual circumstances.
Blake's 7 Travis MKII. It's wonderful seeing which actors do the rounds back then.
It would have been better in series 2 of Blakes Seven, to have had Brian Croucher cast in the role of an entirely new villain not taking over the role of an existing character which never ever really works.
I love the casual glam Middle Ages high fashion of this society. Like imagine going to work in that mohawk crown that one lady has.
When the Doctor offers you sweets, you say yes.
I think the correct response would be "Yes, thank-you!" 🙂
I blame Doctor Who for my jelly baby obsession. Lemon and orange are my favorite flavors.
😁
2:35, that’s the very first Doctor Who scene I’ve can recall seen about 2 years ago, and, here we are again 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I'm so happy he's still with us.
That reminded me of being 12 carefree, staying up after 11:00pm to watch Dr. Who on PBS.
This is so grim, but it feels so real and wonderful. Just check out the acting choices of the Doctor and the Commander. Divine
I love how much Baker sounds like Capaldi. Similar voice and mannerisms 😅
Capaldi is a Whovian, old enough to have been a fan of the Tom Baker Doctor.
Capaldi even made a nod to the Jelly Baby in The Doctor Falls, I thought it was a fantastic little touch for this exact reason.
When he first discovered punk rock.
I love Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor in the long multicoloured scarf. The series with the 4th Dovtor were the only Classic Who ones that were broadcast in Italy, I wish I could have watched the other series and the other Doctors from the 1st till the 8th
He is my favorite Dr Who ❤
The jelly baby thing actually started with the second Doctor.
The Bicycle Reflector of Doom!
tinfoil edges to your trainers = instant space shoes! 🙂
Travis gets very angry in this clip. Maybe it's because he doesn't have a hat.
@2:03 Uvanov repeating Poul's words from one of the earlier scenes and Poul's reaction - priceless.
I still get flutters when I see Toos! 🥰🥰🥰
Tom Baker.
The best of the Bakers by a country mile
2:15
HE DID IT.
really interesting shot at 03:40 -- i can't imagine the set was that expansive, so to give a sense of scale i'm thinking they had a model in the foreground and filmed the action through a space in the middle
i initially thought it might be blue-screen, but since i can't see the telltale edges from that effect, i'm thinking that either the actors were filmed through a sort of porthole in a model using a lens that made them seem more distant, or there was pre-recorded footage played on a screen set into a model
... thing is, i know nothing about how these things work and this is all a guess
on a similar note, i think they had something of a budget for this series, because the costumes are rather detailed even down to silver-soled shoes
kinda amazing what thought went into these shows back then
[edit] on second thought, it might have just been blue-screen -- i turned the resolution up and replayed it several times and i'm thinking i see some vague blue pixelation around the insert... still a very detailed bit of cinematography for a show about an idiot in a box
A simple no thank you would have been sufficient
Wow , after seeing this I am a washed in memories of younger better days .
Tom Baker is still the Doctor.
The robots. Each with the expression of the average Khardashian. Prophetic.
Louise Jameson. My twelve year old eyes could not get enough of her.
Yes, she was one of my favorite companions.
I love that SV-7 is primarily concerned about the state of The Floor when Borg slaps away the bag of jelly babies - that’s something a human servant would never do, either he would immediately pick them all up and clear up the mess, or he would discreetly slip off and do it at the first opportunity when the humans had moved out of the way-
But because a human knocked them down onto the floor, a recognised member of the human crew, he’s not •entirely• sure that they are not actually supposed to be down there on the floor, seeing as how Crewman Borg clearly knocked them down there on purpose -
I love tom Baker idea of fixing everything was to have a jelly baby
Funny how he asks if anyone would like a jelly baby then offers them some all sorts.
And you thought your work uniform was bad...
Tom Baker was the best Doctor Who, absolutely owned the character with John Pertwee a good second .
Doctor who is the best! 😁🤗😊😇
I agree with you 💙
Think we all do
Wonderful chaps, all of them.
70's doctor who costumes were spectacular 😂
Tom has always been my fav Dr. Who.
It's reassuring to know alien life forms have posh Southern accents 😊❤️
Just say that the TARDIS is traslating their accents to the nearest earth analogue.
The prequel to "Anyone for dodgems?"
3:47: And from this moment in the middle of episode 2 on you know who is behind it. There is only one person with white and black striped trousers.
Tom Baker - Best. Dr Who. Ever.
Still got his action figure and the box robot green
SV-7 at 0:05 looks like he's giving a facial expression that says "Can I have one?'
The writing was so sharp and catty. You gotta love the melodrama
The 360/PS3 era had the grey-filter overly-realistic artistic problem. Now we're in the blue-neon lasergun artistic problem.
The Doctor probably hadn't had jelly babies since his 7th regeneration.
No jelly babies were harmed in the making of this episode
If the Doctor told the man who yelled at him and said shut up when he hit the Doctor's hand and made the jelly babies fall to the floor asked him if he always likes to jump to conclusions before he gets all the facts, that man would still attack the Doctor anyway and maybe Leela also.
This is almost a rendition of agatha Christie's, And Then There Were None, and Towards Zero.
With a bit of Dune thrown in.
Except that here you know from 3:47 on exactly whodunnit, due to poor camera work.
Let's just hope that no one of Doctor's enemies will ever decide to blow up a jelly baby factory - can you imagine how catastrophic the consequences could be?
It's good to see David Collings in these videos, rest in peace. He would've been a very good War Doctor if the Unbound writer David Bishop wrote that instead of Full Fathom Five.
I've always thought that the always excellent David Collings was the best onscreen Doctor we never got. He'd have been superb. He's great here, as Poul, but at his very best, as the sinister, but tragic Mawdryn, in the 5th Doctor story, 'Mawdryn Undead'.
@@brianartillery and yet full fathom five didn't give this doctor a good ending.
@@yam9195 - Sad but true.
@@brianartillery Silver!
@@kingbolo4579 - Damn, you're right! Sapphire and Steel. Need to dig my DVD's out and have a binge. Silver appears in story six, I believe.
My favorite Tom Baker story!
Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston will always be my favorite Doctors.
We love you Tom! Live forever! 😉
I take it jelly babies are despised in the rest of the Galaxy.
i have had those :)
they are actually pretty good
Classic line from the Tom Baker era!
I could genuinely go for a jelly baby rn...
I have always loved Tom Baker as the fourth doctor WHO. Jellybaby? Yes Please! LOL 😂
This is my favorite scene from The Robots of Death
"V4, that is not the Doctor"
“ Would you like a jelly baby? Shut up!! “
“ Why don't you shut your mouth. Why don't you shut yours. “
1:33 That actor on the left, he sounds like Legolas from the BBC Radio Series, unless I’m mistaken.
Edit: David Collings, it is him indeed.
I believe they are now working in the police force
The Mine Boss has a bit of Tim Curry going on
i want a jelly baby now
This looks way better than any of the recent Dr Who’s. Apart from Christopher Eccles cakes of course. He’s ace.
"SHUT UP!!!"
Yes Please Tom Baker my first Dr ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😊
No thank you.
And don't call me baby.
I heard the news of a UNIT Spin-off starring Kate Stewart and that’s really exciting!!
Me too I hope it’s a better improvement of Torchwood
@@MightyMarioBros378 Torchwood was good, despite Davies' well-known obsession taking over from the plot.
@@tooleyheadbang4239 I hate torchwood
A Barbarian woman who talks like a posh English woman. 😂
Well she’s from a planet where the lord of the flies type scenario happened a couple generations ago so I guess ones of her ancestors used to be an anchor for the BBC!
How come this video looka better than the new bluray releases of classic who?
Poor Doctor Tom it looks like nobody doesn't like his Jelly Baby, A.K.A. Gummy Bears in the US folks! 😉
Actually they're quite different. Look it up. It's kind of a odd (yet wonderful) thing those jelly babies.
They are way different than gummy bears which I also love.
Amazon is your friend. I order some once a year here in the US. As Tom said, "they're quite good!"
One of my favourite Tom Baker stories.
Hello Travis Blake and Avon have been looking for you
😉
Future fashions for the rich sure are embarassing. But you gotta love those Voc Bots. So cool.
No one can be Dr. Who except tom Bakkar. they do not have the hair for it. I remember this one. that is a mining ship. I bet that is where Lucas got the idea for the Sand crawler.
Ah I don't think so - the timeline is wrong for that. I think correctly both this and Star Wars were inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune.
@@harrynewiss4630 Dune was a bore.
The Jelly Babies of Death!
how the hell do i get toms autograph?
do i like, send a poster or something?
I heard a cry!
Those rufty-tufty miners really liked their make-up, didnt they?🤣🤣🤣🤣
The society of Kaldor is very similar to the Panem capital where they have a love of over the top fashion and other vanity’s and it’s considered completely normal despite how unpredictable it might seem to outsiders
I’d love one.
My grocery store carries Jelly Babies. I had to try them. 😊
You were not previously familiar with them?
@@tooleyheadbang4239 No. I never looked into them.
To marry a young Lalla would be very nice indeed
I COULD WATCH TOM BAKER AS THE DOCTOR 24/7 HE IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE DOCTOR, AND THEN A FOUR WAY TIE WITH JON PERTWEE, DAVID TENNANT, MATT SMITH, COLIN
BAKER, FOLLOWED BY A 5 WAY TIE CHRIS ECCLESTON, PETER DAVISON, ED MCCANN, SYLVESTER
MCCOY, AND JODIE WHITAKER, BRINGING UP THE REAR ALTHOUGH BY NO MEANS THE LEAST
PETER CAPALDI SO SORRY I FORGOT YOU SOONER, PATRICK TROUGHTON, WILLIAM HARTNELL
I ACTUALLY AT TIMES HAVE LOVED ALL EQUALLY AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ORDER THEY ARE
IN THEY ARE SPECTACULAR!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS