Ex-Doctors' Slummiest Roles

[Rob McCow]

Some of the Doctors Who have gone on to bigger and better things. But some haven't!

What are the dodgiest roles that an ex or soon-to-be Doctor Who has appeared in? Is there any role slummier than Tom Baker's appearance in Dungeons and Dragons as leader-of the people with bits of cardboard on their faces?

[Jon Masters]

I seem to recall Colin Baker featuring quite a lot as guest on ITV's dumbo-quiz programme Crosswits, and laughing painfully at host Tom O'Connor's jokes.

[Captain Tancredi]

Offhand...I can think of at least two occasions where Tom may or may not have exposed himself for his art and of course there's the McCoy/'Having a Ball' fiasco.

In terms of weird, there's a 1950s (I think) film 'A Yank at Oxford' which has Jon Pertwee playing a New Yorker...

[Pip Madeley]

Dare I say Sylvester McCoy in Time And The Rani?

[Ralph]

Some of the Doctors Who have gone on to bigger and better things. But some haven't!

I thought this was the highlight of their career?

[Anthony Williams]

Worsel Gummage

Ant x

[Paul Clement]

Is there any role slummier than Tom Baker's appearance in Dungeons and Dragons as leader-of the people with bits of cardboard on their faces?

Many are, as Dungeons & Dragons was a great film. Sod what the critics said.

[SiHart]

Dare I say Sylvester McCoy in Time And The Rani?

That kind of biting satire belongs on the RT forum!

Si xx

[Andrew Curnow]

I was going to suggest Colin Baker in "Arc of Infinity"...

[Jon Masters]

Using the magic of IMDB I found that

David Tennant was a REGULAR in the 'Heartbeat lite meets Thin Blue Line in a boat' bucket of sh@#e that was Duck Patrol .

And that Peter Davison appeared in an episode of Magnum P.I
- it also featured DW stalwarts Julian Glover, Pamela Salem and Geoffrey Beevers, so presumably it was a 'Magnum does England' stylee episode. Anyone ever seen it ?

[Logo Polish]

I seem to remember Sylvester McCoy playing one of the assistant question masters in a 1985 children's game show called Starstrider, or similar, which was space themed, and hosted by a man in a science fiction costume and a silvery glitter wig. Unless it was someone else.

The Pertwee film was A Yank In Ermine, IIRC.

Patrick Troughton played Nicholas Lyndhurst's granddad in the not-very-good 80s sitcom The Two Of Us.

[Andrew Curnow]

Oh yes - and he was also a dirty old peeping Tom in the very first Inspector Morse.

[Jonno]

Peter Davison in the Tomorrow People episode "A Man For Emily" - the whole story has to be seen to be believed. Probably the worst story in the series, although in some ways it's so bad it's almost good!

Davo's first appearance has him clad only in a pair of underpants, and it was his first role on TV. He's as superb as ever on the DVD commentary.

[Stuart Wallis]

In terms of weird, there's a 1950s (I think) film 'A Yank at Oxford' which has Jon Pertwee playing a New Yorker...

It was indeed A Yannk In Ermine. By coincidence, A Yank At Oxford was Peter Cushing's first film. The plot involved the unlikely event of Laurel and Hardy entering Oxford University, and Peter's one of the bullies that turn on them after Stan and Ollie discover their hijinks and get them expelled. And Peter had a contender for the world's worst fake moustache!

I dread to mention Sylvester in Jigsaw and TISWAS, when he was Sylveste McCoy...

[Dirk Gently]

Sylvester McCoy was in one of the Policemen's ball shows dressed in...well it has to be seen to be believed!

[Captain Tancredi]

Ready Brek- central heating for kids!

[Paul Monk]

I seem to recall Colin Baker featuring quite a lot as guest on ITV's dumbo-quiz programme Crosswits, and laughing painfully at host Tom O'Connor's jokes.

Crosswits was a classy show.

[Lord President]

I dread to mention Sylvester in Jigsaw and TISWAS, when he was Sylveste McCoy...

Sly McCoy was excellent as one of the O-Men in Jigsaw with David Rappaport!

However, we was appalling in Search Out Space!

Didn't Colin Baker play a very fat Judge in Hollyoaks or some other nonsense?

[Pip Madeley]

However, we was appalling in Search Out Space!

We? Are you Sophie Aldred?

[Dave Lewis]

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Didn't Colin Baker play a very fat Judge in Hollyoaks or some other nonsense?

Colin was a hero to millions as a portly judiciary in Hollyoaks... his tits were bigger and better than any of the girls'.

[Andrew Curnow]

Lord President, if we can just think of six words with double-O in a row, we'll be able to summon up Sylvester McCoy right now.

Google
Poodle
Boob
Toot

Erm....

[SiHart]

Loot
Shoot

O! O!



Si xx

[Dave Tudor]

Didn't Colin Baker play a very fat Judge in Hollyoaks or some other nonsense?

And didn't Sylv also play a judge or a defence council or something in the same storyline? Or was it Paul Darrow?

No, hang on, Sylv played a judge in 'The Bill' a couple of years ago. Or perhaps he was a solicitor. Or a pervert.

Or am I thinking of when he played Michael Sams? I get so easily confused...

[Stuart Wallis]

So we've noticed; your support group's over there!

And a lot of them look very much like members of mine...

[Logo Polish]

And didn't Sylv also play a judge or a defence council or something in the same storyline? Or was it Paul Darrow?

No, hang on, Sylv played a judge in 'The Bill' a couple of years ago. Or perhaps he was a solicitor. Or a pervert.

Or am I thinking of when he played Michael Sams? I get so easily confused...

Brookside did a plotline where Sylvester McCoy played a prosecuting or defending counsel and Paul Darrow the judge. I never watched that one though.