several of Edward Gorey's hang in his home
litho © 1957 Edward Gorey from The Doubtful Guest. "Honest ... Doctor ... I'm only borrowing it."
(has a large collection of reference book including the 16 volume Oxford Dictionary & Dictionary of National Biography in 32 volumes)
Nobel Lecture on Literature -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Complete Angler -- Isaak Walton Tobermory -- Saki (H. H. Munro) A Rebours - Against Nature -- Joris-Karl Huysman Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad The Wind In The Willows -- Kenneth Graham Falstaff -- Robert Nye Sex and Destiny -- Germaine Greer Shoeless Joe -- W. P. Kinsella
Slaughterhouse 5 -- Kurt Vonnegut
#1 -- The Holy Bible (especially The Old Testament)
the Sherlock Holmes tales -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Works of Charles Dickens
Cat's Cradle Jailbird Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Welcome to the Monkey House Happy Birthday, Wanda June Between Time And Timbuktu Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons Breakfast of Champions Slapstick
Oscar Wilde Thomas Paine Rokovsky Kurt Vonnegut Tolkien Charles Bukowski Mervyn Peake Beatrix Potter
Stanislaw Lem
John Cleese
Maggie Smith
Ralph Richardson Alec Guinness Sir Laurence Olivier Vincent Price Sidney Greenstreet
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" "Strange Interlude" "King Lear" "You Can't Take It With You" "On Your Toes" -- Musical "Little Me" -- Musical "42nd Street" -- Musical "A Little Hotel On The Side" "Wild Honey" "Platonov" -- (Tom would like to do it also!) "The Mysteries"
Macbeth
"Ash Wednesday" -- T. S. Elliot "The Cocktail Party" -- T. S. Elliot "To Maeve" -- Mervyn Peake "A Pushcart at The Curb" -- John Dos Passos
W. H. Auden e e cummings Robert Lowell Shakespeare John Donne Lowe Lord Byron
"The Meaning of Life" "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" "E. T." "The Way We Were" "Reuben, Reuben" "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" "Mon Oncle" and ... Thomas Stewart Baker is ... obsessed with horror films.
Dracula Peter Pan/Captain Hook
Saint Francis of Asissi
1) human beings 2) cats 3) otters 4) sharks (who think they are dolphins)
mostly off whites ... creams ... (though Tom did go through a short lived [fortunately] phase of pinks) ... nature's greens ... autum colours
#1 -- Verdi Mozart Bach Beethoven
the occasional rock concert country music of the USA
one who can love one who is interesting
reading photography
Drinking wine with lovely people.
None. (Tom doesn't believe in personal sports. Though he does ride a bicycle, occasionally.)
Talking to anyone who will listen to Tom Baker.
None -- doesn't believe in them ... as pranks hurt people.
nothing -- zilch -- nada
very thin cucumber sandwiches East India Food Chineese Food
A good vintage champagne
As far as Tom is concerned, an absolutely impossible question to answer ... as there are dozens of truly great ones.
Talons of Weng-Chiang Ark in Space Brain of Morbius Seeds of Doom
Douglas Adams
The brain in Brain of Morbius.
Logopolis
#1 -- "Is that finger loaded?" "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
not the Edwardian one!
Davros
The children's talks.
On location once ... Tom asking K9 (actually communicating with John Leeson who was in a BBC van) what the answers were to the London Times crossword puzzle he was working ... and K9 answering back (as John also had a copy of the Times crossword) and people believing K9 was solving it for him!!!
the 18th century -- but only if rich
none ... that Tom has ever admitted to
none ... rather surprising ... don't you think?
the quick wit habit of theirs of dashing off one-liners very, very vital grannies who make great propositions their incredible Heart and Enthusiasm spicy mustard
fruitcake ORANGE jelly babies the colours in the Doctor's original scarf the colour white (but only when feeling cowardly) the colour black (but not always) Kit-Kats candy bars fizzy mineral water bacon butties curry having one of the LARGEST Fan Sites on the World Wide Web