How Was Tom Baker Cast As The Doctor?
Terribly out of work and supplementing his income between acting jobs, Thomas Stewart Baker wrote a pleading letter to William Slater in February 1974 looking for a part. The contents of that letter remain somewhat elusive, as they should. The date in which it was sent to seems to have been mislaid. Baker himself said he posted it on a Monday. The only certainty to come from that correspondence…
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