What Matt Smith is to nu-Who fans, so Tom Baker is to original ones. Baker, tall of stature and long of scarf, came after the gently eccentric Jon Pertwee and dialled that eccentricity up to 11. As befitting the Seventies, when he came to the screen, this Doctor was a childlike free spirit that saw the universe as a place of wonder – but was also just likely to come out with a Chekhov quote as foil an alien invasion. The scriptwriters took this and ran with it, writing classics like The Genesis of the Daleks, The Deadly Assassin and City of Death. Plus, anybody that goes around offering jelly babies is a win in our book.
