Colin Baker
@SawbonesHex
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Actor, columnist, writer, husband, father, Wycombe Wanderers fan, former blue legacy check mark.
Joined March 2011
Change my dears and not a moment too soon - she IS the Doctor whether you like it or not!.
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Dear little Daisy who left us today aged 18 and a half. Not a bad innings I suppose. But they take a bit of our hearts with them don't they?
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Well I never the BBC really did do the right thing and let the Doctor be in touch with her feminine side. As a father of daughters - result!.
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Cannot deny that I am amazed by the 'never watch it again' reaction by some viewers ( I hesitate to call them 'fans'). Very sad.
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And now dear Bernard Cribbins has left us. The world and the acting profession will be the poorer without him. A lovely man. A fine subtle actor. He was Dangerous Davis in 1980 and he arrested me. It was an honour.
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Just binge watched the first three of Jodie’s Dr Whos. Just brilliant. She is the definitive Doctor for 2018 and the Rosa Parks story is the perfect Doctor Who story. A story that must always be told. Stunning writing performances direction. Just WOW.
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Apologies To Ncuti. I misspelt your name in my last tweet. Doh. I’m having my cataracts done on Monday so I do have an excuse. Sorry. Call me Dolin!.
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Oh good grief! the first question in today’s briefing is are you ashamed that we haven’t got PPE for all front line NHS workers? Doesn’t Hugh Pym know that the whole world is chasing a massively increased demand for PPE? Of course he does. So why be so vile?.
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I’ve been away filming and return to find we have a new Doctor. Mcuti welcome to the surgery! From what we’ve already seen you’re going to have a blast - and so are we! Enjoy!.
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My dear dear friend, Michael Jayston has left us today. I am absolutely devastated. He was warm witty, clever naughty and a very fine actor & wonderful man. My thoughts and love go to his wife Ann and daughter Katie. Heartbroken Goodbye my friend.
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And to those making 'parking the Tardis' jokes - name me one make Doctor that was unfailingly good at that! 🙄.
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My daughter was in London yesterday and was subjected to abuse by covid denying antivaccinatiion marchers. One of them tried to snatch her mask off Isn’t their march about freedom? What about my daughter’s freedom?.
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We are a grandfather. Lucy had a boy this morning. No name yet. .
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Having been informed by my son-in-law that he had spotted a Dalek on the sliproad near our respective homes, on my next essential shopping outing as local RSPCD officer I checked. Sans eye, sans teeth, sans almost everything there he was. He now resides at Baker Towers
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Thanks to everyone who knew what I didn’t - that it was 40 years since old Sixie first sat up and alarmed us all!.🥰.
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Okay I don’t get it. What is wrong with being asked to prove that you have had your Covid jab in order to go somewhere where others could easily be infected by you? Because I have had my two jabs I can now accept a film job I’ve been offered. Why are people complaining?.
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Very happy 87th birthday to the man who established Baker Doctor supremacy. Congratulations to Tom.
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No. Not Terrance Dicks! I have so many memories of laughing with him and expected many more. We’ve lost one of the towering talents of Dr Who today.
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To the 99% of you who expressed concern - thank you and my daughter is fine. To the one who said ‘ No one cares about your daughter’ I ask ‘Why are you following me then?’.
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Thank you everybody who has so kindly seen my headlong rush towards senility as worthy of celebration. You are all very generous and kind.
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Thank you all you loverly twitterati who have congratulated me on my three quarters of a century! 75 is the new 60 they tell me. Hmmmm.
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RIP the great and wonderful Stan Lee. A true Legend and fitter at 95 than I am 20 years his junior!!.
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Happy Christmas all of you from all of us at Baker Towers including eleven week old Willoughby.
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Delighted to have had my second Covid jab today. Thank you NHS and Astra Zeneca. Opens up my employment prospects. Fingers crossed then. .
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Happy New Year to all followers friends Sixie Sisters and Brothers and friends everywhere 🌈🍾.
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For those out there who are hard of thinking. A mask that does not cover your nostrils is utterly pointless.
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Currently working my way #OnceUponATime Up to Ep 10 of Series 2 and LOVING it. @LanaParrilla and @bexmader just Brilliant. Respect.
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Oh my goodness. My friend John Challis has died. What a lovely man he was funny warm and a great lover of his garden and nature. We are all the poorer for his loss.
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Gutted by our penalty shoot out loss yesterday but it was made 100 times worse by the despicable treatment of those 3 brave young men who have been abused by cowards on social media. It makes us look like a nation of racist morons in the eyes of the world. That's the worse loss.
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No @Evri you did not 'TRY' to deliver . your item T00A2A0030497069 to my house. I am here - and I have a camera that tells me you haven't been within 100 yards of it. You'll 'try' again on Monday will you? Cue hollow laughter. .
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Sorry all. I mistakenly thought I was D M ing my friend Peter Purves when in fact I was tweeting to the whole world. I’ve just had a cataract done that’s all nothing alarming No worries!.
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An unexpected reunion today with @davidhaye whose car broke down outside my daughter’s house Ten years since our Jungle adventure. Still a lovely funny bloke.
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No! My acting hero and best Hamlet ever - David Warner - has left us! Our profession is the poorer for his loss. A kind, self effacing lovely man and wonderful actor! Great love and thoughts to Lisa.
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Just heard that a very dear friend has died from coronavirus. Awful news. It’s made this awful time immeasurably worse and horribly real. Oh his poor wife.
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So sad to hear that Pip Baker has died he and Jane were very good friends to both me and my Doctor. End of an Era. Lovely talented pair.
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Sharing a letter from a concerned fan in the States It opens ‘Dear Doctor (Mr Baker) I wanted to write to you before you died’’. Quite an opening. I guess he succeeded too .
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Dear Debbie Watling has left us. So sad. She was lovely gentle and talented. We did panto in Stevenage in the 70s. Dreadful news.
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Good grief. Not Diana Rigg. She can’t be gone. Oh my goodness! 😢.
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Mary Tamm would have been 72 today I still miss her. Fine actress and great friend.
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And now we’ve lost the lovely Tim Brooke-Taylor. A truly decent, friendly jolly and very funny man. Bloody virus.
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@WhoDiscussions @ConnorJAdkins Why does either have to be ‘better’? Can’t it all be wonderful? #justsaying.
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My daughter has just amaze me by telling me several stories of men hassling her in the street in London. Make me think that all young women should be issued with cattle prods. I foolishly thought that we were over all that now.
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Such sad sad news. Lovely Jacqeline Pearce has left us. Sublime actress and lady. Class. Will be much missed.
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Carrie Fisher was a lovely lady. Met her a few times in the States. She was always friendly and warm. Very sad news today in a sad week.
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Had my Astra Zenica jab today at Adams Park. It was just like a matchday. A line of over 60's arriving with hope in their hearts. And this time Oxford was not the enemy! @wwfcofficial @WycombeWanderer.
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Apparently the UK has more new cases every day per million population than any other country. Enough already. If you’re being good be better - if you’re not, shame on you. Every day I go out I see people without masks and I don’t believe they’re all medically excused.
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Well that was the most amazing removal of a great weight. A decent human being is in charge again in the USA. If Joe Biden is not the aspirational good man that he seems to be then I have never got it more wrong. America can heal now and I can watch CNN less!.
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I am stuck in Frankfurt Flight cancelled and tomorrows flights all booked HELP I need to get back to the UK urgently Any advice welcome.
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I am sorry but I will not be able to join you all in Telford for the wonderful Wales Comicon this weekend! I have succumbed to a chest infection and my doctor urged me today to be sensible! So I have reluctantly taken her advice. I will miss you all. Have fun!!.
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My girls 🥰.
You were expecting someone else? This year we celebrate 40 years of the Sixth Doctor and he's bringing 4 plus-one's to the party. I think that's called a Quin Dilemma!
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Apparently some people are under the impression that my absence from EMCON this weekend was due to illness. I wish to make it perfectly clear that I am fine - it was work-related. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone at the Space Centre in Leicester next weekend.
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Will the wretched fireworks ever end? Our animals have endured a whole week of them and are now terrified at dusk before they even start. Please stop it. It’s heart breaking.
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A weekend of terror lies ahead for several of our animals. Surely it is time fireworks were restricted to professional displays only in places that don’t cause distress to pets, wildlife and farm animals? If they could start by removing the noise!.
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Happy Birthday to the eternally youthful @thenicolabryant who has no need of pictures in the attic it seems. Hope you are pampered and feted!.
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Without using supertechie knowledge does anyone ever get a USB plug in the right way first time?.
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To all professionals in the Film, Television,Theatre, Entertainment & Arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text & post a pic. #SaveTheArtsUK
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@RetroBlasting @bigfinish I did my best guys and that was all I could do and the least I could do for the show that I loved too and was proud to carry the flag for briefly. Still sm. And owe a lot to @bigfinish . As do we all 🥰.
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I am currently at Pensacon having a wonderful time, except I don’t have a large Starbucks hot caramel macchiato in front of me A free autograph for the first one that arrives and maybe the second 😘.
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Tragic tragic loss of Helen McCrory. So talented and generous and I gather from those who have known her a rather special warm and caring person. Sad for our profession and even more so for her family.
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In London ready to meet the Comic Relief Breakfast with Seven Doctors winners tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting myself and them !😊.
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So very sad that Barry Cryer has left us. He was a lovely man, a comedy genius and a good friend over many years. I shall miss him. Huge love and sympathy to his family.
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If you would like to see what I look like these days tune in to Emmerdale tonight for fun in the Woolpack. 🤗.
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Of course Captain Tom wasn't going to live forever but he should have done and in many ways he will. What an inspiration to us all. @captaintommoore.
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Does anyone else think it’s time journalists had the wit to ask questions that were different to those asked by the previous journalist? Do they think that they uniquely can trip up theirvictim? Can we start to hear about important stuff again? Soon please!.
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My little Teddy is recovering at @fitzpatrickref after having two ruptured ligaments sorted. The cone of shame has to be worn. He will be coning home next week sometime. We miss him
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So sad to hear that Jeremy Bulloch has left us. He was a friend a very good actor and a dear and very funny man. The acting profession and the world will be a sadder place without him.
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Has anyone else come to the conclusion that if you have to scroll through several pages to find out the cost of something being advertised then it is probably a rip-off?.
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Do our animals have to endure the terror of loud fireworks EVERY night this week.
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Amazingly David Warner is 80 today. The best Hamlet I ever saw and one of the finest actors of his or any era.
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Watching young American students in Florida on Channel 4 news whose wisdom about gun crime makes Trump look like the neanderthal that he is. With apologies to neanderthals.
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Sad to hear of the passing of John Savident He and I both started out at the Curtain Theatre in Rochdale - him a couple of years before me when he was a policeman, and I was training to be a lawyer.
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Stephen Greif was a lovely man as well as being a very fine actor. We are all the poorer for his loss. RIP my friend.
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Just finished binge watching the joyous and uplifting delight of The Detectorists and wishing there was more Thank you Mackenzie Crook. Toby Jones et al for your heart warming joy of a programme.
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Somebody is impersonating me on Twitter using the picture on the left and making offers of money to people. I have reported the site to Twitter. The only account I have is this one @sawboneshex Please report any impersonators to Twitter.
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That’s it! I’ve turn the radio off until the endless debate on Boris’s health and it’s implications is over. I want news not recycled prejudice and polarised opinions. When a CEO is ill a company will still operate.Ditto the government. Second guessing his progress is pointless.
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Jess is looking after me very well at Halicon in Halifax today. Come and say Hello!!
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