All Tom Baker Doctor Who Prime Computer Ads
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- These are all the Prime Computer Ads done by Tom Baker and Lala Ward in their Doctor Who costumes in 1980.
These are in very good quality and are uncut. Enjoy.
Doctor Who belongs to the BBC, though I'm not sure of the exact copyright for these clips, they don't belong to me, that's all I know... No copyright infringement is intended. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Tom and Lalla making fanfiction before fanfiction existed
not quite
They got married you know
Sadly their marriage didn't last long...
The Trek fandom basically invented fanfic back in the 60s because of how quickly it was canceled... As Doctor Who stayed on air until '89 its fans didn't get _that_ desperate until much later.
@@deadmetalbr it's amazing that they were so quick to start with their pencil and papers...
even the term 'mary sue' came from them
Fun Fact: Tom Baker wrote the script for these commercials himself.
YES! Tom Baker shipping the Docmana ship
timeladyjamie I imagine that's because they were married at the time
I don't believe that, because I never heard that before.
Baker and Ward *were* married, for a couple of years, but I'm not clear if they were married *yet* when these were shot.
Not so fun. More like 'shameful'. These are TERRIBLE!
I love that he explains to Romana that Gallifrey is in the constellation of Kasterborous. It's not like she's born there or anything.
Well maybe that’s just the way the Doctor likes to discribe Gallifrey regardless of whether she knows it or not
Ah unless that wasn't Romana but Princess Astra taken from his past while Romana was taken prisoner by those over-excited Prime Buyers... and he knew. :p
@@SiouxW4rrior3856 No 'maybe' about it. It was so ubiquitous, on the show "Dead Ringers" the actor _impersonating_ the Doctor always found a way to work that schtick in!
It's theatre. He's telling the audience.
"Don't patronize me Doctor. I'm a prime computer." That plus Tom Baker's reaction afterwards.
And when he puts his hand in front of Romana as if to say Don't look at it!
😁
"I've seen them on Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous." I'm sure Romana knows where Gallifrey is, Doctor.
Considering she's a Time Lady from Gallifrey herself, I should think so!
+HowlingSnail Daleks run on Macs we are superiour to the TARDIS ALL HAIL MAC ALL HAIL MAC
+Cecil Macs are great but you SUCK1
she had early onset Alzheimer's
@Aussie Nerd
Does that mean Cybermen runs on Windows?
They really did get married. Good thinking Prime Computer!
Sadly it only lasted two years.
The Phantom of the Paradise please make get them together please
That last commercial was funny as hell. "We just want to buy one."
If only all the episodes were that simple to solve! Daleks: We really just wanted a Prime computer!
A little spooky, too.
They kidnap and threaten the Time Lady companion to a feared, unpredictable galactic legend merely to extort a brand name from him for comparison shopping. What would these aliens employ at Black Friday sales? Interplanetary fighter craft at the least.
Reeks of Douglas Adams.
hhooookay when Romana gets real close to the camera and gets this suggestive face on and says 'it's terribly interactive' makes me LAWL. EVERY TIME.
"Ok Prime, how long's my scarf?"
Ok Google, how long is Tom Baker's scarf?
Keaton Smith Prime did it before it was cool.
+Keaton Smith Daleks use apple computers they are superior and the doctor stays away
Tom Baker's scarf is as long as a nine year old boy.
+JUSTIN “JUSTINtheTRAIN” O.K. You must have a sucky computer. Google says it's 25ft. long.
Ok Siri how long is Tom Baker’s scarf?
"Romana, will you marr-"
"Yes"
"Oh, Prime!"
Clever prime
@@Howyaduing You could say that again
OVA is better than Anime “clever prime”
Now here's the really fun question - was this written before he proposed to her? Was that his actual proposal? :-)
Imagine Michael Craze and Anneke Wills getting married when he was still alive
"Clever prime."
"You can say that again!"
"Clever prime."
XD
Tom Baker had an incredible acting presence even in these cheesy ads.
It probably would have worked better on the show than it did in real life.
All kidding aside, Tom and Lalla had excellent chemistry. You only have to watch "City of Death". It's one big date. Four and Romana is part of my personal canon.
"lm finally up to date"
(spongebob narrator) : 24 years later.........
Tom Baker's face at the end of the third ad as he quickly looks at Lalla Ward is priceless. Wether this is canon or not, you can't deny the Doctor and Romana's chemistry in several episodes, even if it was mostly from Tom and Lalla being in love. Asexual? Yeah right, I heard Lalla once said something to the effect that she and Tom fell in love because the Doctor and Romana were.
I am actually against romance for the most part, and acting "asexual", but Romana was his own species so it made sense that they would have a romance... it always seemed right to me.
1:51 This is the biggest: The Doctor and Romana Relationship teaser I'f ever seen! funny that he needed a commputer to tell him that, that's so like him, never sees what's right in front of him! The oldest child in the universe! :)
+regishel Great description of Tom's brilliant Doctor. He is still the best ever! I really miss the 4th Doctor. Always a pleasure to watch.
Linda Taylor
There's no one like Tom Baker's Doctor he is one of a kind.
Can't wait to read the Doctor Who: The Fourth doctor comic mini this month.
it is with Sarah though, but I am anticipating nothing less than awesome.
+regishel Can't wait either. Sounds like some great talent working on it! I 'M going to start calling the local comic book shops and Barnes & Noble to see if they know what day it's arriving. You can't even pre-order it because of demand and limited printing. Can't wait to see what Tom has up his sleeve when he comes back from his 2 month sabbatical in April. Tom reminds me of a big Teddy Bear. Just watched "The Sunmakers". Very good episode and his Doctor was so adorable in it. Especially the first scene with him and Leela in the Tardis and the very last scene when he grins with a "I was naughty boy just now" after he jerked the Tardis on purpose and pretended to apologize to K9. His Doctor was just to cute.
The Doctor talking about how great a computer from the eighties is, is possibly the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. And it told him to marry Lala Ward?! No wonder their marriage didn't work out.
FatalDownpour it's too bad. Lala Ward was sooooo cute! I actually had a crush on her back then. ❤
She's married to Richard Dawkins now. That lucky old dog.
Friedrich der Weise you got that right brother.
Not anymore lol
@@mikekean8344 Hell, I have a crush on her _now._ Actually, it didn't occur to me how hot Mary Tamm's Romana was until recently, I'd have gladly let either of them board my TARDIS.
1:56
**Later**
Doctor: So when will we hold the wedding?
Romana: haha yea
Doctor: ...
Romana: oh wait you were serious back there
Romana looks so cute in that hat!
MARRY THE GIRL, DOCTOR!!
So, does this count as cannon?
+The Eleventh Doctor not for long though :(
+Jim Tiberius CLEVER PRIME !! I Had a serious crush on LALA WARD as a youngster I wasn't too crestfallen when she married my fav DR TOM BAKER !! just a tad jealous of course!!
Where's River! Somebody call River!
Lala Ward was cute.
Well... this convinced me to buy a prime computer.
same i want to buy one too...gonna use it to play fallout 4 there...
(6 years of loading, later.)
TheLearningCurveBoi
lol 😂
@@MondySpartan What: are you gonna sit inside it like a cockpit?
I really wish Romania would've worn that pink costume more often. It fits so well with her. As well as The Doctor's burgundy costume.
I love both of those costumes, and I share your wish. These two are great together.
Tom Baker's I'm all up to date" and Lalla Ward's "It's terribly interactive" to me just screams potential for internet memes. :D
wow! I am a big Dr. Who fan, and also a programmer who programmed on Prime Computers for years. These computers were prevalent in government, manufacturing, and sales for many years. The operating system and languages on these boxes were used even in Nuclear Power Plants and are still a strong component of computer software for Higher Education. I never knew my favorite doctor hawked them on TV.
1:56 And he did. Didn't last, though....
Ironically, Lalla Ward did end up marrying Tom Baker. It was fairly short though, but either way.
Wasn't it a year that they were married for?
Three actually.
Damn!
18 months I think
@@arguspanoptes9510 wikpida said 16 months
Lalla Ward looks very beautiful here.
Great to see good ol' Tom Baker again in the Doctor Who role during the height of his time... still the greatest.
Agree. Greatest Doctor of them all!
It was odd they had Tom follow Colin. Tom was the second Baker to play the role of Doctor Who.
@@fjccommish And he'd already played a Time Lord... who'd _pulled a gun_ on the Doctor!
He was a member of the guards in "The Deadly Assassin".
Second to last one is canon, absolutely, i don't cate
I get the feeling one of them was written by a DoctorxRomana shipper fan. :P
Nope, they were written by Tom Baker who, at the time, was courting Lala Ward.
Stanley Pines can you blame him? She was soooooo cute.
@Me I know. I was a huge fan back in those days. I don't know what she looks like today, but back then she was so adorable!! 💖
@@stanleypines1026 "courting" LOOOOL is that what the kids these days call it?
Vishaan Singh Probably not. I just say it cause I think it sounds stupid and childish to say “going out”
Aliens hack onto TARDIS systems; Can't understand how to hack into Pr1me computer.
Prime was that good
2:51 Wow her screaming is very concerning more chilling than an entire Dr Who episode !
And The Doctor Says "It's A Prime!"
Lalla Ward is beautiful!
cute will give you that
"Doctor who?"
"Nope. Just The Doctor"
Adverts immediately stricken from canon lol
Sol isn't a constellation, it's a star system...
Six years late to the party, but DW named the constellation that earth is in (i.e. the one constellation we humans cant see) "Sol" after the sun.
Why? Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
Though really it's something science fiction writers, astronomers, and astrophysics have been discussing for years.
What exactly is "our" constellation.
And media like DW, that took the characters far from earth, often gives our constellation a boring name like "Sol".
@@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment And it's a constellation that depicts... what, exactly? In Doctor Who, probably a giant "HELP!" !
Haha, I love Tom's face at 1:31.
+Amir Elkassed Love Tom's face as well. Still such a kid at heart. I still think his Doctor had the most natural sex appeal of any of them.....especially with that hair, those blue eyes, big smile and phenomenal voice!
Lalla is too adorable for words.
These are in a class beyond Priceless. I'm just seeing these for the first time.
Brilliant, well done. Good to see this is still around.
Sad that their marriage didn't last. Thank you for sharing this!
Never seen these before. Brilliant, thanks for posting.
His typing is sooo funny, also it's implied that Gallifrey has time travel but no computers.
Wow one day hopefully we will have computers as powerful as that Prime in our homes.
1:46
More real than anything New Who ever produced.
Watch out its an extreme classic who fan that hates all things new who
Angus Tomney Dude, Eccleston is my favourite Doctor.
I just meant that the romantic connection feels far more real than the Doctor's dalliances with either Rose or River.
+DarthRushy HAHAHAHA mine is Throughton
Angus Tomney What's your favourite story of all time?
+DarthRushy The Invasion
Was that the voice of Rowan Atkinson as the alien who wanted a computer? Really sounds like him.
I actually was convinced it was Sylvester McCoy for a minute. It sounds like an amalgamation of their two voices.
Sounded a bit like Phil Davis to me ...
This >>>>>>> any of the romance in "New Who".
Fabulous! Thanks for the memories!!!
Brilliant series of commercials. So fun to watch.
Really enjoyed seeing this. Flashbacks to the mid/late 80's, when I worked at Pr1me.
One of our sales ladies in the Bellevue Washington Pr1me Computer office had a framed print still from this ad series. As a 14 year Pr1me Computer veteran, Thank You Tradisgirlfrance, very much for posting this! Today I just got a message from a fellow former Pr1me employee that I had not heard from since the late 1980's, sending him the link to this, in case he has not seen it yet.
oh my god i really love those ads
i think that no one in our days could think of doing something like this.
one more point goes to the 80's
P.S. I'd forgotten how beautiful Lalla Ward was
Romana's scream is for real! Scary, man!😳
This was seriously great.
To be honest, I haven't seen the classic series yet [I'll get around to it....as soon as I get around to it!] but, really, this did make me speechless...can't wait to see what classic will do to blow my mind either negatively or positively!
This is absolutely canon IMHO
So that was like the best three minutes of my life.
1:25, I love the way Tom says "Prime". It''s like in "Top Gear", how they say "Jag", and that if you've got a jag, you can get away with anything. I wonder if the same could be done with the Prime:
"Sir, I've just crashed the entire office's computer system"
"What?!"
"With my Prime"
"Well, it was a rubbish system anyway"
These are fantastic. Really fun. I didn't even know they existed.
Theese adverts are sooooooo cheesey
There so damn adorable!!!!
yeah the do give that classic advert charm.
James McBrierty It's so bad it's funny
+Karl Hiramanek Here we go again. If it involves Tom Baker you will hate it. I don't really care who they put in these.....they would still be really fun and adorable ads as long as the two people involved had an ounce of charm. Compared to half the commercials run in America today these are much more enjoyable and intelligent.
Linda Taylor Yeah, I totally hate Tom Baker, that's why he's my profile picture. You're like the modern Tennant fangirls except for Baker. It doesn't matter how the quality is. I'm not even criticizing him, we're joking about how bad the ads are, not the actors. Yet you take offense because you think everything he's ever been in is automatically perfect. Can't take any criticism at all.
2:08 They finally told you the name of the Doctor!
I remember the first two, but not the 3rd -so thanks for posting.
These are awesome.
I hope he didn't try to run his TARDIS with these things...
1:47 O_o Tom and Lalla in character while being out of character.
CARROT JUICE!!!!!
2:06: The "I MUST find out why Superman peanut butter is so delicious!" of computers.
Prime computers were really out of this world... I remember more than 48 people at the same time running s2020 (like excel, but at least functional)
When 4MB ram was enough for more than 48 people at the same time...
0:50 He talks about Gallifrey like he only been there once. Telling you where the planet is. I guess the writer did not know that was his home planet.
I'm sure he meant to advertise the ZX-81 computer, lol
Better than season 11...
or series 11 as some people call it.
lmao these are amazing :D
This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen. It's just so dated.
"It talks to other computers?"
"Of course it does! It's a Prime!"
A community college I worked at had a bunch of Prime mini's like this ;) (they were running Datatel Colleague on Unidata).
That's even closer than you think, they married IRL in December 1980.
These ads are great fun!
I believe it was the third doctor who called computers "sophisticated idiots", yet here's his successor trying to sell them,
I don't remember these at all! I'm surprised they didn't infringe Doctor Who copyright.
Omigosh these are so cute! Love Tom Baker. I hate that these two couldn't make it work.
This fucking ROCKS
These are quite good
This commercial never gets old
Is is amusing to see the Doctor gushing over this primitive computer.
Yeah, not so loud you'll wake Al and Murph in the repair lab of Bldg 21.
I remember seeing these ad's as a kid, they were done for Australian TV.
...And the fact that he was married to her in REAL life just makes me smile every time...
How technology has changed now
I like how back before VCRs were ubiquitous, no one saw "Step into the 80's!" as a slogan that would be around long enough to seem dumb.
I love this ad because we had one of these computers at a community college I worked at.
Im surprised the BBC let them do commercials in character
Why not? - It would have made them tune into the BBC for more Dr Who episodes.
They were made for the Australian market so they probably allowed it cause it was international
Haha brilliant, I love Prime Computers and 4 and Romana, brilliant!
"But can it play DOOM, Doctor?"
THE Doctor Tom Baker and his ex-missus. I think we used Prime's at junior school briefly. That concrete jungle was The Barbican in London ?
Prime Computers are fabulous. I always was partial to museum pieces.
I got these adverts on the DVD of Destiny Of The Daleks.
This was still in the era when computers were little more than a toy or a novelty item. Anyone’s smart phone could do so much more today.
Toy? It was an expensive toy at $165K.
"At last I'm up-to-date!"
Best computer ads I've seen in a while.
Honestly if these were the commercials that interrupted my programming I wouldn't mind in the slightest 😂
the marrying scene forshadowed the future.
Due to forty years of Moore's Law and massive speed hikes, this computer is now less powerful than a Raspberry Pi.
oh I love this...
He saw these on Gallifrey? well then how does Gallifreys computers compare to ours today eh? XD Computers in the 80s were a bit crap wernt they compared to todays :P
***** lol Im not trying to make a point, I just found it a bit funny cuz It gave me the initial impression that Gallifrey's computers were a bit, you know crap XD
Jeremy Xu
Or Outdated, since we have computers with new Operating Systems and new parts coming out (I'm looking at you, GTX Titan and Intel core I9 *If Core I9 is the next Intel Processor*
Most probably he saw them in a museum somewhere.
Sakuramaiden1993 Like his TARDIS? :P
DoctorCrossover possibly :P