DOCTOR WHO SIXTH DOCTOR REAL TIME BLUE COAT 2009 SDCC Exclusive Colin Baker

Description: "Doctor Who Colin Baker Figure" "Doctor Who Real Time Figure" "Doctor Who The Sixth Doctor Figure" Up for sale is the "2009 Doctor Who Colin Baker Figure". AKA 2009 Doctor Who Real Time Figure" This 2009 "Doctor Who SDCC Exclusive Figure" is used and comes with the "Sonic Lance". This is the "Sixth Doctor in Blue Coat Figure" and is a Variant. This "Colin Baker Figure is approximately 5.5" tall. This "Doctor Who Figure" was originally included in the "Doctor Who Real Time Figure Set" that was released in 2009 and is a SDCC Exclusive. It represents "Colin Baker" from the Doctor Who Webcast episode "Real Time". . We purchased many Doctor Who Collector Sets and loose figures recently so if you are interested in another set please visit our store. We do combine shipping. The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Colin Baker. Although his televisual time on the series was comparatively brief and turbulent, Baker has continued as the Sixth Doctor in Big Finish's range of original Doctor Who audio adventures. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions. At the end of life, the Doctor regenerates; as a result, the physical appearance and personality of the Doctor changes. Baker portrays the sixth such incarnation: an arrogant and flamboyant character in brightly coloured, mismatched clothes whose brash and often patronising personality set him apart from all his previous incarnations. The Sixth Doctor appeared in three seasons. His appearance in the first of these was at the end of the final episode of The Caves of Androzani which featured the regeneration from the Fifth Doctor and thereafter in the following serial The Twin Dilemma, the end of that season. The Sixth Doctor's era was marked by the decision of the BBC controller Michael Grade to put the series on an 18-month "hiatus" between seasons 22 and 23, with only one new Doctor Who story, Slipback, made on radio during the hiatus, broadcast as 6 parts (at 10 minutes each) on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four. Colin Baker had been signed up for four years,[1] as the previous actor Peter Davison had left after only three years. Due to his decidedly short screen time, the Sixth Doctor appeared with only two companions, most notably the American college student Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant), who had travelled with his previous incarnation, before being briefly joined by Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford), a computer technician from his future he had yet to actually meet during his trial. Prior to its postponement, season 23 was well advanced with episodes already drafted and in at least one case distributed to cast and production. Alongside "The Nightmare Fair", "The Ultimate Evil", "Mission to Magnus", "Yellow Fever and How to Cure It", the remaining stories were still under development in a 25-minute episode format after the season was postponed. These were all dropped with the reconception of the season in mid 1985 in favour of the 14-episode story arc The Trial of a Time Lord.[2] The Sixth Doctor also appeared in the special Dimensions in Time. There are also novels and audio plays featuring the Sixth Doctor, and the character has been visually referenced several times in the revived 2000s production of the show. More so than any other canonical incarnation, aside from the Eighth Doctor, the Sixth Doctor has been heavily expanded upon in expanded universe media, most notably in audio stories produced by Big Finish Productions. In The Marian Conspiracy (2000), a new companion was introduced - Dr. Evelyn Smythe, a middle-aged history lecturer on the verge of compulsory retirement whose sharp tongue and unwillingness to tolerate the Doctor's attitude steadily taught him to rein in his more unkind tendencies. Due to this influence, the Sixth Doctor evolved into a more compassionate and likable character. In addition, beginning with the webcast Real Time (2003), his costume was revised into a monochromatic blue variant, displayed on many audio stories' covers since then. The twenty-third season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, known collectively as The Trial of a Time Lord, aired in weekly episodes from 6 September to 6 December 1986. It contained four adventures: The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe; the season also marked the final regular appearance of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. The idea for the serial stemmed from several production changes to Doctor Who, such as reduced screen time for the season and an instruction from BBC1 controller Michael Grade that the series needed to contain less violence and more humour.[1] Several problems occurred during production, including the death of scriptwriter Robert Holmes and the resignation of script editor Eric Saward. When it ended, Baker was dismissed from the role on the orders of Grade.[2][3] John Nathan-Turner produced the series. Before the BBC relaunch of Doctor Who in 2005, it was primarily on the shoulders of Big Finish to keep up any sort of official adventures while the BBC tried to figure out just what exactly it wanted to do with the franchise following the failed backdoor pilot featuring Paul McGann. Following the first official BBCi webcast ‘Death Comes to Time’ featuring Sylvester McCoy, the BBC teamed with Big Finish to offer the much-maligned Sixth Doctor a more official chance at redemption by bringing Colin Baker back into the public consciousness. Fortunately, ‘Real Time’ succeeds admirably in that regard, removing Colin Baker from the behind-the-scenes turmoil that plagued his tenure on television and portraying the arrogance and sense of grandeur that so defined his character in an overall softer and more amenable light. The script wisely does not eliminate the more contentious aspects of this Doctor here, but it admirably explains why such divisive mannerisms and actions that would seem out of place for any other incarnation are perfectly logical and perhaps for the greater good in their own right. This is perhaps best explored when the returning Cybermen threaten to murder his companion, Evelyn Smythe, and other innocent bystanders. Whereas any other incarnation would likely craft some sort of scheme to gain the Cybermen’s trust in order to undo their plans, the Sixth Doctor matter-of-factly states that the lives of the many throughout the universe far outweigh the lives of the few individuals before them. Of course, the Cybermen see through his bluster, in the process proving just how human this character is beneath his sometimes abrasive and boisterous exterior. ‘Real Time’ takes place following a great Cyber war, and while this gives great extra meaning to the lengths that the Cybermen are taking to survive, it does call into question the character of Administrator Isherwood in particular. The script does purposefully treat him as a cliché, but it’s nonetheless tiresome to see a man who is so blinded by avarice that he still believes he can reason with the Cybermen to turn a tidy profit. He is clearly supposed to represent the worst aspects of humanity, even asking the Doctor to give up the TARDIS so that the Cybermen will go away, but he frustratingly fills an unwanted role without progressing the plot in any meaningful fashion. Fortunately, the character of Goddard more than makes up for these shortcomings, the gradual revelations of his origin offering something unique to Cybermen lore. The temporal aspect itself is certainly one that has been done before, but there’s more than enough supporting material as the mystery of Goddard is developed to mitigate any lingering sense of familiarity, and Yee Jee Tso adds the requisite lifetime of anger and emotion to develop an understated sense of realism for the role. The production does sometimes suffer from clunky dialogue, but its portrayal of a weakened Cyber race on the verge of extinction is sublime, and the horror of what goes into making a Cyberman is certainly not glossed over in the least as their willingness to use time as a weapon comes into focus. ‘Real Time’ is also unafraid to present the Doctor with the notion of genocide as the circular and co-dependent nature of war is discussed, and this unquestionably adds an added dimension to the character and story in general. At the same time, Maggie Stables as Evelyn shines just as brightly as anyone else, her fierce intellect and kindness making an instant impact on events and proving straight away for any audio newcomers that she has all of the makings of a truly classic companion. With so many positive aspects to counter the use of clichés and unresolved ending begging for a sequel, ‘Real Time’ is unquestionably a success and, whether with the visual accompaniment or through audio alone, proves that the Sixth Doctor has plenty of well-meaning life in him yet.

Price: 40 USD

Location: Vista, California

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Shipping Cost: 4.5 USD