Biography
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent replacement on the orders of BBC executive Michael Grade.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Belinda Chandra has been kidnapped by robots, faced a terrifying god and a creature of pure evil on her travels with the Doctor. With the TARDIS still...

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially sho...

Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
2023
as Self - archive
Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brough...

Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
2023
as Ben
An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.

Talking Doctor Who
2023
as Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doct...

Buckle Up
2023
as Nick
The story of ex-banger racer Jack Elger who has to honor his brothers gambling debt by picking up a rare diamond necklace from an Arab prince off the ...

Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
2023
as Bruce (voice)
When Tim becomes a courier for the app Wallaby, he reckons he can turn his life around: get fit, earn some money, and even get laid. He’s not accounte...

The Caller
2022
as DS Rawlins (voice)
While house sitting for her uncle, a customer service agent working from home gets terrorized by a dissatisfied psychopathic caller.

The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
2021
as Charles Sutton
Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.

You Might Get Lost
2021
as Conrad
After the tragic death of her son, Arlene loses everything, her husband, her home and she starts to lose her mind. When the mysterious Endeavour Insti...

Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
2019
as Himself
This well researched and insightful documentary about producer John Nathan-Turner looks at his career with a special emphasis on his time at Doctor Wh...

The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited
2019
as Self
Brave Doctor Who cast members tackle their original recipes from the official 1985 cookbook.

The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
2019
This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Colin Baker era of Doctor Who to life! This documentary includes the best in-d...

Doctor Who: The Trial
2019
as Self
Colin Baker is back on trial! Can he walk free before the release of Doctor Who: The Collection Season 23??

Remembering Deborah Watling
2018
as Self
Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Debbie Watling who played Victoria Waterfield, companion to Patrick Troughton's Doctor.

Classic Doctor Who Comic-Con Panel
2017
as Self
Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sophie Aldred joined BritBox at Comic-Con 2017 to discuss Doctor Who and answer fan questions.

Last Man on Earth
2016
as Professor James Friedkin
Sixth Doctor Who Colin Baker stars in this sci-fi thriller about two virologists who team up to find a cure for cancer.

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015
as The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon...

A Christmas Carol
2015
as Charles Dickens
When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.

A Dozen Summers
2015
as The Narrator
Maisie and Daisy McCormack are two ordinary 12-year-olds finding their way through life in the 21st century. Oh, and they may have just hijacked a mov...

Shadows of a Stranger
2014
as William Fallon
A haunted investigator teams up with a psychic on a mysterious job that promises a fortune: a search to bring a missing stranger home by Christmas.

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014
as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Peter Davison is on a new journey to discover everything he can about the Doctor's Companion. What exactly is a companion's role, how do you actually ...

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014
as Self
Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor, meets the talented people and stars who have helped create the show both past, present and future, and asks 'Who is t...

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
as Self
Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present, celebrity...

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. B...

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013
as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in spa...

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013
as Self
Behind-the-scenes stories from the cast and crew across 50 years of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013
as Self
Zoe Ball hosts a live celebration in which the next actor to land Doctor Who's lead role is revealed, in the company of former cast members and celebr...

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008
as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familia...

Trials and Tribulations
2008
A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sackin...

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
2008
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord was the umbrella title for a series of four 2|entertain documentaries. Each covered a different story within th...

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission ...

The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as The Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.

Davros Connections
2007
as (archival audio)
Exclusive to this boxset is Brendan Sheppard's new documentary, Davros Connections, which pulls together the whole of the Davros Boxset into a single ...

Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006
The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This s...

Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2005
as Self
Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast interviews, behind the scenes footage, and a look at the ...

The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.

Doctor Who: Real Time
2002
as The Doctor
The Doctor and his companion Evelyn investigate a series of mysterious disappearances on the planet Chronos and once again encounter the dangerous Cyb...

The Home Whovian
2001
In the 1980’s US public television station New Jersey Network produced some groundbreaking documentaries about Doctor Who following the programme’s hu...

TravelWise
2000
as Jonathan Pike
A 4-Part Educational drama for Essex County Council Road Safety Department, this video is aimed at Key stage 2 and 3 pupils. This soap-style drama rai...

The Asylum
2000
as Arbuthnot
Plagued by endless visions and nightmares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a child, she was responsible for the brutal murder of her own mother.

Adventures in Space and Time
1999
as Himself
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.

Carnival of Monsters
1999
A look at the various monsters that have appeared in Doctor Who.

The Waiting Time
1999
as Giles Fleming
When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unr...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999
as Chauvel
Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady...
The Harpist
1999
The Harpist is a 1999 British-German drama film directed by Hansjörg Thurn and starring Geraldine O'Rawe, Christien Anholt and Stephen McGann. Its plo...

Soul's Ark
1999
as Galico
After disappearances during an archelogical dig, Stella Grant (Carole Ann Ford) sends in her two top agents, played by Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury, ...

Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997
Actors from BBV productions discuss their process preparing for performance.

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995
More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its var...

The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder
1995
as The Stranger / Soloman
A reluctant Solomon (Colin Baker), along with his former associates Egan (David Troughton) and Saul (John Wadmore), have (they think!) escaped Earth a...

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995
In the second "Stranger Than Fiction" documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the three latest BBV productions; "The Terror Game", "Breach of the Peace" and...

The Stranger: Breach of the Peace
1994
as The Stranger / Soloman
The Stranger (Colin Baker), still stranded on Earth, has escaped his pursuers and found a safe haven under an assumed name. But his former associates ...

Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years
1994
as Himself
A documentary where Colin Baker himself recalls the Colin Baker years, revealing some of his own favourite memories and clips from the period as well ...

The Zero Imperative
1994
as Peter Russell
Former UNIT luminary Liz Shaw and her assistant Bayliss are investigating a series of bizarre murders, all committed near a soon-to-be-closed psychiat...

The Stranger: The Terror Game
1994
as The Stranger / Soloman
The Stranger (Colin Baker) arrives on Earth with no memory of who he is or why he's there. However, two men on a secret mission seem to know his ident...

Stranger than Fiction
1994
Gary Russell of Marvel Comics' Doctor Who Magazine investigates the world of BBV. In a relatively short space of time and with relatively small amoun...

30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
as Himself
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
as The 6th Doctor
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.

Bigger Inside Than Out
1993
as Narrator
Discover the history of the police box.

The Airzone Solution
1993
as Arnold Davies
The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they...

The Stranger: In Memory Alone
1993
as The Stranger
Something has traveled across space and arrived at a deserted railway station. A train arrives with a single passenger, a woman waits on the platform....

Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years
1992
as Host
A documentary about the early years of the Cybermen. Introduced by Colin Baker, this includes several interviews and rare clips. Also included are fou...

The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
1992
as The Stranger
The Stranger and Miss Brown visit Majus 17 a intergalactic tourist paradise. However, they soon discover all is not as it seems - as they find decayin...

The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows
1991
as The Stranger
Wearied by his travels through time and space The Stranger has rejected his long-time companion and is in self-imposed exile on a barren planet. Can h...

Myth Makers 19: Colin Baker
1990
Colin Baker is walking his dog and Nicholas Briggs is shopping, when they are both teleported to a strangely familiar location by a mysterious alien b...

The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990
5. Dragonfire - How is a Doctor Who story made? Cast and crew from the Doctor Who story Dragonfire got together at Panopticon IX in a lively and some...

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990
4. The JNT Years - Peter Davison and Colin Baker’s portrayals of the Doctor conceded with one of the most controversial periods of the programme’s hi...

The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
3. The Pertwee Years - We take an in-depth look at the Jon Pertwee era, which has been featured more thoroughly at PanoptiCons than any other. Experi...

The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
2. The Early Years - The stars and production team give a unique insight into Doctor Who from its beginning with William Hartnell to Patrick Troughto...

The PanoptiCon Tapes
1990
1. The Main Event - What are PanoptiCons like to organise? What do the fans think of them? What do the stars think of the fans? All this, and there’s...

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe
1986
as The Doctor
Charged with genocide by the treacherous Valeyard at his trial, the Doctor receives help from an unlikely source to turn the tide of the High Council'...

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986
6. Panopticon VII - 1986 was the 10th Anniversary of the DWAS and for the first time professional cameras were there to record the event. This specia...

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids
1986
as The Doctor
As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer na...

Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986
as The Doctor
As the Doctor's trial continues, evidence is presented showing his most recent adventure, one where he faces an old adversary, Sil. As a scientist con...

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet
1986
as The Doctor
The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmful interference to the course of events during his...

Who's Who
1986
Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television series features interviews with actors and actress...

Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
as The Doctor
At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious G...

Doctor Who: Timelash
1985
as The Doctor
The Doctor and Peri arrive on Karfel, a planet ruled by fear where the enemies of its ruler, the despotic Borad, are banished into a time tunnel known...

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
1985
as The Doctor
Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own...

A Fix with Sontarans
1985
as The Doctor
While operating the controls on his TARDIS console, The Doctor accidentally transports his former companion Tegan Jovanka on board. Less than happy ab...

Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
1985
as The Doctor
The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second ro...

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
1985
as The Doctor
When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved b...

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
1985
as The Doctor
An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot to change the course of history.

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984
as The Doctor
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his ...

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984
as Sixth Doctor
Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the hear...

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983
as Commander Maxil
Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cross over into this dimension by bonding with the D...

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
as William Lind
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15...

Drive Carefully, Darling
1975
as Brain
An exhortation to drivers to pay attention to road safety. In just 15 minutes, John Krish manages to give this road safety film something new and diff...

The Moonstone
1972
as John Herncastle
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. T...