Famine Appeal (TV story)

Famine Appeal
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Main enemy:	World hunger
Main setting:	Fairground
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Premiere broadcast:	15 December 1986
Premiere network:	Channel 4
Format:	1 minute scene

Famine Appeal was a SOAP appeal broadcast in 1986, where Colin Baker appeared as the Doctor.

This scene would actually become Colin Baker’s final appearance as the incumbent Doctor as it aired after The Ultimate Foe, but before Sylvester McCoy took over in Time and the Rani.

Synopsis

The Doctor urges the viewers to donate and help with the famine in Ethiopia.

Plot

We join the Doctor in an unknown fairground-like location, who proceeds to greet the audience. He takes on a sombre tone as he compares the evils he fights as minescule in comparison to the injustice of world hunger. The Doctor then urges the audience to provide money in order to prevent hunger and save lives, in which case he would acknowledge them as his friend. He then vanishes as the clip ends.

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker

Crew

• Music vocals: Cast of Brookside - "Do It for the Children of Africa"
  • Lead vocal Paul Usher (of the segment sampled in Famine Appeal)

credited in SOAP Appeal credits

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor teleports away at the end.
• The Doctor insinuates that a future name for the planet Earth is "Geldolf".

Story notes

• This is Colin Baker’s final appearance as the incumbent Doctor airing after The Ultimate Foe, but before Time and the Rani.
• The Sixth Doctor's hair is larger here than it was in any other appearance of this incarnation.
• The Doctor breaks the fourth wall considerably in this clip.

Continuity

to be added