{"id":147756,"date":"2015-06-30T06:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/wait-what-is-this-story-about-colin-baker-in-the\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T06:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:48:02","slug":"wait-what-is-this-story-about-colin-baker-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/30\/wait-what-is-this-story-about-colin-baker-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait what is this story about colin baker in the woods, you can’t just say that and leave us hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"

ziyal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0oh god, okay\u2026 this is a fairly long story that colin baker relates in the dvd commentary for mark of the rani, i will be paraphrasing it but i\u2019m pretty certain i remember all the major details because i was laughing SO hard the first time i heard it<\/p>\n

first of all you have to know that mark of the rani was filmed on location in this particular village and the public woods surrounding it, and also that the weather was being rather inconsistent on this one day. it kept raining and then the rain would stop again, so every time the rain shifted, the whole filming crew would immediately jump up and run between two locations \u2013 for continuity reasons, because they were alternately filming one scene where it needed to be raining and one where it was sunny<\/p>\n

so they\u2019re doing this scene where the doctor is tied up and hanging from a pole like so:<\/p>\n

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it\u2019s super uncomfortable to be actually hanging from a pole by one\u2019s wrists and ankles for multiple takes of a scene, so the crew built some kind of contraption to make it easier on him\u2026 it was basically a metal frame-like thing that was hidden under his jacket and pants, supporting his back so that he wouldn\u2019t actually be straining his wrists, i guess? at any rate, the downside of this was that this thing took a LONG time to set up, so it wasn\u2019t possible to UNTIE him from the pole in between takes, so they just kind of. set him down on the ground. during the moments when they weren\u2019t filming<\/p>\n

anyways, in the middle of this situation with the intermittent weather, at some point it starts raining and the director calls for everyone to go to the other current filming location!! everyone is rushing about trying to get the cameras and props and people over there as quickly as possible (because you never know when the rain will change again) and in all of this hullaballoo they somehow manage to<\/p>\n

forget colin baker on the ground<\/p>\n

(actually he said that he sort of noticed them leaving him behind but was initially hesitant to say anything, thinking \u201csurely i\u2019m just missing something and they\u2019ll come get me in a moment\u201d and then by the time he fully realized he was left behind, they were too far out of earshot for him to say anything)<\/p>\n

so he\u2019s just like. well. i\u2019ll just wait. and they\u2019ll figure it out soon enough<\/p>\n

he lies there tied to this pole for a good ten minutes or so until he hears someone coming down the path<\/p>\n

but it is not the film crew, because these are PUBLIC WOODS they are filming in. it\u2019s a random middle-aged couple walking their dog. and the dog comes running up to colin baker (who is a little ways off of the main path) and sniffing him and barking<\/p>\n

and the couple just \u2026 look at him, tied to the pole on the ground\u2026 he said he could tell that they didn\u2019t recognize him as being dr. who, so god knows what they thought about his COAT<\/p>\n

he looks at them<\/p>\n

there is a deeply awkward silence in which he doesn\u2019t know what he could possibly say about the situation of him being TIED TO A POLE IN THE WOODS and they are clearly being TOO POLITE AND PROPER AND BRITISH-Y to bring it up<\/p>\n

eventually one of them is like \u201cnice weather today isn\u2019t it\u201d and he\u2019s like \u201cer yes quite\u201d and they just keep going and leave him lying there on the ground tied to the pole<\/p>\n

he just stays there for another twenty minutes or so until FINALLY he sees one of the camera crew running back to get him while yelling \u201cCOLIN OH MY GOD WE\u2019RE SO SORRY\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026aaand that is the colin baker tied to a pole in the woods story, more or less as related by colin baker himself, aka my all time favorite thing that ever happened behind the scenes of doctor who!! ACTOR DVD COMMENTARIES ARE SO WORTH WATCHING, KIDS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ziyal: \u00a0oh god, okay\u2026 this is a fairly long story that colin baker relates in the dvd commentary for mark of the rani, i will be paraphrasing it but i\u2019m pretty certain i remember all the major details because i was laughing SO hard the first time i heard it first of all you have … <\/p>\n

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