I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

He later returned to Have I Got News For You as a guest host in 2008. As the Fourth Doctor his eccentric style of dress and speech (particularly his trademark long scarf and fondness for jelly babies) made him an immediately recognisable figure and he quickly caught the viewing public's imagination. He is best known for his role as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who which he played from 1974 to 1981.

Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor.