Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nyssa Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Dr. Who The Pirate Planet Revisited (was: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-08 (Saturday)) Followup-To: rec.arts.tv Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:11:10 -0400 Organization: At River's End Lines: 38 Message-ID: Reply-To: Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:10:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a92c8276f9b115da7966e244b0e0e1ea"; logging-data="252509"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WbsxuGMOaVq4QmKdJ8+KT" User-Agent: KNode/4.3.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hMVaKoW3X2pMDHk07zRURljdbr0= Bytes: 2627 This all started because Ubi watched The Pirate Planet and complained that Tom Baker's cold sore distracted him from the story. I have the DVD for The Pirate Planet, so watched the episode to see what was going on. The injury was written into the story with the Doctor having a face-plant into the Tardis console when he and Romana went through some temporal turbulence. Since the DID was already in the player, I decided to finish watching the rest of the episodes this afternoon. Afterward I noticed that there was a commentary track, so restarted the first episode with commentary on. The commentators were the director and the actor who played the pirate captain. The mystery of the facial injury of Tom Baker was explained by the director. YAY! It seems that Baker was playing with a friend's dog, and the naughty dog bit him on the mouth, leaving the two cuts around the corner of his mouth. (Didn't the dog know that he was playing with a big celebrity?) The director and writer came up with the cover-up scene of the face-plant that gave a reason for the cuts for the rest of the four episodes. The intro to the initial scene on the Tardis where Baker's mouth was unhurt was taped after the cuts healed and was edited in to lead into the face-plant portion of the scene. So for all of you who have been losing sleep wondering about the Doctor's mysterious injury can now get some sleep. Nyssa, who probably could have found more productive things to do this afternoon, but at least she finally got the answer we've all been wondering about Doctor Who and his blemish