Colin Baker
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent replacement on the orders of BBC executive Michael Grade.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.857 |
| Birthday | 1943-06-08 |
| Place of Birth | Waterloo, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
2014
Shadows of a Stranger
6/1
A haunted investigator teams up with a psychic on a mysterious job that promises a fortune: a search to bring a missing stranger home by Christmas.
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Shadows of a Stranger
1997
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
0/0
Actors from BBV productions discuss their process preparing for performance.
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Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
9/1
Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity...
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Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2000
TravelWise
0/0
A 4-Part Educational drama for Essex County Council Road Safety Department, this video is aimed at Key stage 2 and 3 pupils. This soap-style drama rai...
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TravelWise
2015
A Dozen Summers
4.3/3
Maisie and Daisy McCormack are two ordinary 12-year-olds finding their way through life in the 21st century. Oh, and they may have just hijacked a mov...
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A Dozen Summers
1999
The Waiting Time
5/1
When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unr...
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The Waiting Time
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
0/0
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks 'Who is t...
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2021
You Might Get Lost
6.167/12
After the tragic death of her son, Arlene loses everything, her husband, her home and she starts to lose her mind. When the mysterious Endeavour Insti...
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You Might Get Lost
2023
Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
0/0
When Tim becomes a courier for the app Wallaby, he reckons he can turn his life around: get fit, earn some money, and even get laid. He’s not accounte...
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Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
2023
Buckle Up
2/1
The story of ex-banger racer Jack Elger who has to honor his brothers gambling debt by picking up a rare diamond necklace from an Arab prince off the...
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Buckle Up
1993
The Airzone Solution
5.5/6
The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they...
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The Airzone Solution
1999
Soul's Ark
0/0
After disappearances during an archelogical dig, Stella Grant (Carole Ann Ford) sends in her two top agents, played by Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury,...
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Soul's Ark
1993
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
4.8/12
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
7.9/56
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. B...
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The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2023
Talking Doctor Who
5/3
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doct...
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Talking Doctor Who
1986
Who's Who
0/0
Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television series features interviews with actors and actress...
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Who's Who
1990
Myth Makers 19: Colin Baker
0/0
Colin Baker is walking his dog and Nicholas Briggs is shopping, when they are both teleported to a strangely familiar location by a mysterious alien b...
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Myth Makers 19: Colin Baker
2001
The Home Whovian
0/0
In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documentaries about Doctor Who following the programme’s hu...
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The Home Whovian
2023
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
4.7/3
Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brough...
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Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
1975
Drive Carefully, Darling
0/0
An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and diff...
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Drive Carefully, Darling
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8.2/749
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa...
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2019
Doctor Who: The Trial
0/0
Colin Baker is back on trial! Can he walk free before the release of Doctor Who: The Collection Season 23??
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Doctor Who: The Trial
2022
The Caller
4.333/3
While house sitting for her uncle, a customer service agent working from home gets terrorized by a dissatisfied psychopathic caller.
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The Caller
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes
0/0
1. The Main Event - What are PanoptiCons like to organise? What do the fans think of them? What do the stars think of the fans? All this, and there’s...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
0/0
2. The Early Years - The stars and production team give a unique insight into Doctor Who from its beginning with William Hartnell to Patrick Troughto...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
0/0
3. The Pertwee Years - We take an in-depth look at the Jon Pertwee era, which has been featured more thoroughly at PanoptiCons than any other. Experi...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
0/0
4. The JNT Years - Peter Davison and Colin Baker’s portrayals of the Doctor conceded with one of the most controversial periods of the programme’s hi...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
0/0
5. Dragonfire - How is a Doctor Who story made? Cast and crew from the Doctor Who story Dragonfire got together at Panopticon IX in a lively and some...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1986
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
0/0
6. Panopticon VII - 1986 was the 10th Anniversary of the DWAS and for the first time professional cameras were there to record the event. This specia...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1994
Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years
0/0
A documentary where Colin Baker himself recalls the Colin Baker years, revealing some of his own favourite memories and clips from the period as well...
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Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years
1994
The Zero Imperative
7/4
Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiat...
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The Zero Imperative
2018
Remembering Deborah Watling
0/0
Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Debbie Watling who played Victoria Waterfield, companion to Patrick Troughton's Doctor.
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Remembering Deborah Watling
2023
Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
6.9/8
An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.
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Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
2019
The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
0/0
This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Colin Baker era of Doctor Who to life! This documentary includes the best in-d...
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The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
1984
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
9.6/5
Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the hear...
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Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
8.1/7
Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually...
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
1985
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
7.3/7
When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved b...
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Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
1992
Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years
0/0
A documentary about the early years of the Cybermen. Introduced by Colin Baker, this includes several interviews and rare clips. Also included are fou...
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Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years
1999
The Harpist
7.8/2
The Harpist is a 1999 British-German drama film directed by Hansjörg Thurn and starring Geraldine O'Rawe, Christien Anholt and Stephen McGann. Its plo...
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The Harpist
2005
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
0/0
Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast interviews, behind the scenes footage, and a look at the...
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Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2000
The Asylum
5/2
Plagued by endless visions and nightmares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a child, she was responsible for the brutal murder of her own mother.
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The Asylum
2015
A Christmas Carol
4.333/3
When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.
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A Christmas Carol
1972
The Moonstone
8/1
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. T...
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The Moonstone
1986
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
5.8/4
Charged with genocide by the treacherous Valeyard at his trial, the Doctor receives help from an unlikely source to turn the tide of the High Council'...
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
1986
Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
7.3/3
As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer na...
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Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
1986
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
6.3/3
As the Doctor's trial continues, evidence is presented showing his most recent adventure, one where he faces an old adversary, Sil. As a scientist con...
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Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
6.3/3
The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmful interference to the course of events during his...
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Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
1984
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
4/3
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his...
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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1985
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
9.2/6
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious G...
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Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
Doctor Who: Timelash
3.5/2
The Doctor and Peri arrive on Karfel, a planet ruled by fear where the enemies of its ruler, the despotic Borad, are banished into a time tunnel known...
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Doctor Who: Timelash
1985
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
7.4/5
Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own...
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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
1985
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
6/3
The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second ro...
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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
1985
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
6.2/4
An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot to change the course of history.
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Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
1981
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
5.9/8
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15...
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1992
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
0/1
The Stranger and Miss Brown visit Majus 17 a intergalactic tourist paradise. However, they soon discover all is not as it seems - as they find decayin...
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The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
1993
The Stranger: In Memory Alone
7/1
Something has traveled across space and arrived at a deserted railway station. A train arrives with a single passenger, a woman waits on the platform....
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The Stranger: In Memory Alone
1994
The Stranger: The Terror Game
6.5/2
The Stranger (Colin Baker) arrives on Earth with no memory of who he is or why he's there. However, two men on a secret mission seem to know his ident...
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The Stranger: The Terror Game
1994
The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
5/1
The Stranger (Colin Baker), still stranded on Earth, has escaped his pursuers and found a safe haven under an assumed name. But his former associates...
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The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
1991
The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows
6/1
Wearied by his travels through time and space The Stranger has rejected his long-time companion and is in self-imposed exile on a barren planet. Can h...
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The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows
1995
The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
9/1
A reluctant Solomon (Colin Baker), along with his former associates Egan (David Troughton) and Saul (John Wadmore), have (they think!) escaped Earth a...
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The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
1994
Stranger than Fiction
0/0
Gary Russell of Marvel Comics' Doctor Who Magazine investigates the world of BBV. In a relatively short space of time and with relatively small amoun...
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Stranger than Fiction
1995
Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
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In the second "Stranger Than Fiction" documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the three latest BBV productions; "The Terror Game", "Breach of the Peace" and...
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Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
0/0
More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its var...
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The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
5.1/21
Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999
Adventures in Space and Time
0/0
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.
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Adventures in Space and Time
1993
30 Years in the TARDIS
7.5/3
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.
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30 Years in the TARDIS
2008
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
0/0
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission...
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2007
Davros Connections
0/0
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls together the whole of the Davros Boxset into a single...
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Davros Connections
2006
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
0/0
The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This s...
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Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2003
The Story of Doctor Who
0/0
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.
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The Story of Doctor Who
1999
Carnival of Monsters
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A look at the various monsters that have appeared in Doctor Who.
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Carnival of Monsters
2019
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
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This well researched and insightful documentary about producer John Nathan-Turner looks at his career with a special emphasis on his time at Doctor Wh...
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Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
2019
The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited
0/0
Brave Doctor Who cast members tackle their original recipes from the official 1985 cookbook.
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The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
5/2
Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed, in the company of former cast members and celebr...
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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2008
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
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The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord was the umbrella title for a series of four 2|entertain documentaries. Each covered a different story within th...
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The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
2008
Trials and Tribulations
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A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sackin...
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Trials and Tribulations
2016
Last Man on Earth
0/0
Sixth Doctor Who Colin Baker stars in this sci-fi thriller about two virologists who team up to find a cure for cancer.
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Last Man on Earth
1983
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
8.5/3
Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cross over into this dimension by bonding with the D...
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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
2021
The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
4.6/17
Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.
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The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
2002
Doctor Who: Real Time
0/0
Webcast animated adventure in which the Doctor and his companion Evelyn investigate a series of mysterious disappearances on the planet Chronos and on...
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Doctor Who: Real Time
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
10/2
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...
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