The Tom Baker Years (VHS box set)
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The Tom Baker Years was a video showcasing episodes from Tom Baker's time as the Doctor. It was presented by Tom Baker and featured clips of all his stories.
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The UK cover
Behind the scenes
- Unlike the other "years" videos, which were intended to release rare episodes and incomplete seriels, this contained clips from all Tom Baker episodes and showed Tom Bakers reaction to seeing them and thoughts on the episode (the clips had not been chosen by him).
- This is the longest "years" video, with the UK and american releases using two VHS.
- All British releases were handled by BBC Worldwide, Australasian releases by Polygram, and American releases by CBS/Fox
- The video was classified PG in the UK and Australia.
- It was released on 07/09/1992 in the UK, in 1993 in America, and on 10/03/1993 in Australia.
- The arrangement of the Doctor Who theme used for this and succeeding Years releases was originally arranged by Keff McCulloch for the 1989 album Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme.
See also
Six similar videos were later released up to 1994, they were
- The Hartnell Years
- The Troughton Years
- The Pertwee Years
- Daleks: The Early Years
- Cybermen: The Early Years
- The Colin Baker Years
In 1993 the BBC refused to fund production of The Davison Years and The McCoy Years.
