10 Biggest Feuds In Doctor Who History

10. Tom Baker V John Nathan Turner

Fourth Doctor Tom Baker opened up on the special features of the Season 12 boxset about the unpleasant time that he had to work with producer John Nathan Turner. While the two men only shared a single season together, it was enough to make Baker hang up the scarf for more than thirty years.

Baker claimed that Nathan Turner undermined and diminished him at every turn during filming. The producer's approach to everything, from filming to Baker's acting to the interpretation of the character all served to wind the actor up more and more as time went on. The redesign of the Doctor's outfit, including the addition of question marks on the lapels, was the final straw.

Baker told the man that he was giving back the keys to the TARDIS, after which he felt Nathan Turner's entire demeanour change. Believing that the producer's behaviour had been designed to oust him, he suspected that once that had been achieved, there was no further reason for hostilities.

The Fourth Doctor would not reappear for a long time on-screen unless one counts Dimensions in Time from the early nineties. Though, for better or worse, many Whovians don't count it!