The 6th Doctor The Doctor

Background

Originally carrying on much as the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, the Sixth Doctor found himself fighting for his lives when he's brought up on charges of interferance by the High Council of the Time Lords. He was, however, found innocent and the corrupt regime that had brought the charges was swept away.
This Doctor is by far and away the most violent of all the first seven incarnations.

Season 21

The Twin Dilema. The Sixth Doctor's regeneration does not run smoothly and he could have done without the giant gastropds.

Season 22

Attack of the Cybermen.

Vengeance on Varos. The TARDIS requires some Zeiton-7 and Varos is the nearest source. Varos is a prison planet and the governor is not the person who's really in charge!

The Mark of the Rani. Another Time Lord is on the lam from Gallifrey - though this time it's a Time Lady. The Rani requires vast quantities of brain essence so she's decided to use the inventors powering the Industrial Revolution. Somehow, the Master has become entangled in her neferious schemes.

The Two Doctors. When the Second Doctor travels to the space station Camera in order to pass on a warning about the time experiments being undertaken there, he's taken prisoner by the Androgum Chief of Staff and the station's Chief Scientist. The Sixth Doctor has to rescue him so none of the intervening history is wrecked...

Timelash. The Doctor and Peri visit the planet of Karfel which was supposed to be a fair paradise, but the timelash device and the Borad were making it a tyranny. Anybody who went against the Borad was summarily shoved through the time tunnel. Peri finds that the Borad is not the kindly looking gentleman of the broadcasts, but something far more icky!
This is Doctor Who's tribute to HG Wells, the inventor of the time travel story.

Revelation of the Daleks. The Doctor and Peri travel to the planet of Nekros to commemorate a death. The Doctor finds that it's his funeral that's being celebrated. But the couple find that there's an old enemy manipulating things from behind the scenes.

Season 23

The Trial of a Time Lord. This was a complete season, with various scenes from the Doctor's various adventures, both past and future. This also followed on after an eighteen month break in transmission where the series was halted in an attempt to save money. It must be noted that the then controller of BBC 1 was Michael Grade, who was the Director General of the BBC on the return of the new series.
During these adventures, Peri goes missing and we're probably better off believing she married King Yrcanos rather than suffering having Lord Kiv's brain transplanted into her body then being killed by Yrcanos.
We are also introduced to Melanie Bush during the examination of the Doctor.

My thoughts on the character:

This Doctor is definitely the closest to being amoral than any incarnation that we ever get to see. There is no other way of puttting it. He wasn't eccentric like the Fourth, though he clearly had no fashion sense. It's almost as if he deliberately gooes out of his way to be as offensive as possible, especially to the established power structures.
In his defence, he is still usually the most intelligent person in any given situation - its just that he's more likely than any of the other incarnations to draw people's attention to the fact and its possibly this exuberant display of emotion that sees this particular incarnation lasting the shortest length of them all.

The actor:

Colin Baker started his acting career young - his first experirnce in a TV series was at the tender age of nine. However, he resisted the lure of the camera, becoming a solicitor before tiring of that and attending the London Acadamy of Music and Dramatic Art.
He had roles in the 1970s production of The Roads to Freedom on the Beeb, becoming known as the ruthless Paul Merroney in The Brothers. Baker spent much of the next few years in the theatre in a number of productions, though he played Bayban the Berserker in the Blake's Seven episode 'City at the Edge of the World'. He also played Commander Maxil in the Fifth Doctor story Arc of Infinity where it was his character's duty to execute the Doctor.
After leaving Doctor Who, which he has also played on stage and in a number of Big Finish productions, he has returned to the stage but has also appeared in television series as diverse as Jonathan Creek, Doctors and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Episodes on DVDs

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