Talk:The Ultimate Foe

C. Baker invited to star in Season 24's opener?
I just added a cite request for the statement that Colin Baker was invited back to be in "all four episodes of the first story of Season 24." In his Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years VHS special, the actor acknowledged the suggestion that he return and do just the regeneration scene, but said nothing of being asked to star in an entire serial to set up the change, which occurred to me as I watched the tape to be a reasonable compromise. It does seem plausible that in the intervening years Baker had decided he'd made a mistake rejecting that offer and therefore didn't mention it in his special, but even Doctor Who Magazine's Special Edition #3: The Complete Sixth Doctor contains no indication that such an alternative was ever considered (I don't have a copy of The Complete Seventh...). Therefore, the cite request. Ted Watson (talk) 22:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC) UPDATE: My most profuse apologies. Complete Sixth... does indeed report Baker being invited to play the lead in the first serial of Season 24 (he declined, it says, because the rehearsing/recording dates were for a time that would be when he absolutely needed to be looking/available for alternative work), but on the other hand does not mention the suggestion of doing just the regeneration scene. That was, as I said above, the only invite Baker indicated on his Years tape, so I couldn't just cite the mag, and don't have the precise details of the video handy. I'll look for it. Ted Watson (talk) 20:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)