Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

Tom Baker’s first season of ‘Doctor Who’ is undeniably a memorable season, featuring his Fourth Doctor against a plethora of monsters for us audiences to enjoy. It’s also memorable because Tom Baker nails it on the head with his interpretation of the Doctor by making him bonkers and eccentric.

There’s also the Doctor-companion team-up of the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry. Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter clearly get on well with each other when they made Season 12, since it’s clearly shown in their performances and their characters work very well as a threesome in the series.

‘Robot’ is a great opening story for Tom Baker’s era of ‘Doctor Who’. It’s also the only earthbound story that features U.N.I.T. and the characters of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier and John Levene as Benton, since Terrance Dicks wrote the story, and the tale is the only one produced by Barry Letts.

For the rest of Season 12 as well as the next two seasons of Tom Baker’s era, Philip Hinchcliffe became the producer. He wanted the TV series to be more away from Earth and have less U.N.I.T. There’s also the macabre element featured in Season 12, especially since Robert Holmes is the script editor.

Tom Baker’s Doctor meets a new monster in ‘The Ark In Space’ in the form of the Wirrn. For the rest of Season 12, his Doctor encounters classic monsters like a Sontaran in ‘The Sontaran Experiment’, Davros and the Daleks in ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ and finally Cybermen in ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’.

‘Genesis of the Daleks’ is easily my favourite story out of Season 12 and was the first one where I encountered Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, accompanied by Sarah Jane and Harry as his companions. I enjoyed revisiting Season 12 of ‘Doctor Who’ on Blu-ray, and there’s no doubt it’s a well-beloved season.

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂