Winning the respect of his girls - and it's about time!

THE current craze for all things Doctor Who has given Colin Baker a new street cred in the eyes of his four daughters.

By The Newsroom

Published 29th Aug 2008, 13:14 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:14 BST

Ranging in age from 23 down to 16, they all grew up during the interregnum of the show as an ongoing series, between Sylvester McCoy hanging up the key to the Tardis and Christopher Eccleston picking it up '“ a hiatus briefly broken by Paul McGann's sole screen outing as the Time Lord in the 1996 TV movie.

Which means that Doctor Who '“ embodied by their dad between 1984 and 1986 '“ meant nothing to them, laments Baker, star of Noises Off at Brighton's Theatre Royal.

"When Doctor Who came back on the TV, after two or three episodes they were glued to it and were interested," he says.

"And so I reminded them of all those tapes on the shelves and that when I had asked them did they want to watch them they had said no! Suddenly I had a bit of status in my own home. And now it has all come back with a vengeance."

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette September 3