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}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a documentary released as a special feature on the [[DVD]] release of ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''. It covered the behind-the-scenes issues during tenure of the [[Sixth Doctor]], from [[Colin Baker|Colin Baker's]] casting to his departure.
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a documentary released as a special feature on the [[DVD]] release of ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''. It covered the behind-the-scenes issues during tenure of the [[Sixth Doctor]], from [[Colin Baker|Colin Baker's]] casting to his departure.
== Sixth Doctor era ==
=== Baker's casting ===
According to [[Colin Baker]], after appearing as [[Maxil]] in three of [[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity's]] four episodes, he and his wife were invited to the wedding of an assistant floor manager a few weeks later. [[Eric Saward]], [[John Nathan-Turner]] and [[Gary Downie]] also attended.
Nathan-Turner would later tell Baker that he'd based his decision to cast him as the [[Sixth Doctor]] on the characteristics he'd shown during that party. Indeed, Nathan-Turner admitted that he would often advise actors playing [[the Doctor]] that "the clue to how you play it, is how you are at a party - it's just all your characteristics, one notch up."
Both [[Eric Saward]] and [[Ian Levine]] would later admit that they doubted the wisdom of casting Baker based on how he acted at a party.
=== Costume ===
[[Pat Godfrey]] was asked to design a costume that was "totally tasteless", in line with how Nathan-Turner imagined this Doctor. [[Eric Saward]] offered the idea, in his interview, that Nathan-Turner wanted to see his own style of dress reflected in this Doctor - a nod to his penchant for Hawaiian shirts. Godfrey struggled to meet the brief, with many of her designs being rejected by Nathan-Turner. Saward puts this down to her years of experience leading her to instinctively make the costume less tasteless, with more complementary colours. Eventually, according to Baker, Godfrey would create a design so tasteless that she did not expect Nathan-Turner to accept it but, to her surprise, he did.


== Topics covered ==
== Topics covered ==
* The events leading to Colin Baker's casting as the Sixth Doctor
* The events leading to Colin Baker's casting as the Sixth Doctor
* The costume design for the Sixth Doctor
* The costume design for the Sixth Doctor
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*John Nathan-Turner being forced to axe Colin Baker as the Doctor and Colin's pledge to then-BBC bosses to extend his contract in order to give him time to record a regeneration story, which ultimately never happened.
*John Nathan-Turner being forced to axe Colin Baker as the Doctor and Colin's pledge to then-BBC bosses to extend his contract in order to give him time to record a regeneration story, which ultimately never happened.
*The regrets of the Sixth Doctor's choice of clothing.
*The regrets of the Sixth Doctor's choice of clothing.
*Defending Colin Baker over the decision of ''Doctor Who''<nowiki/>'s troubled era.
*Defending Colin Baker over the outcome of ''Doctor Who'''<nowiki/>s troubled era.


== People interviewed ==
== People interviewed ==
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== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==
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* The documentary was released on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]''.


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