Famine Appeal (TV story)

Famine Appeal is a Comic Relief special clip broadcast in 1985, where Colin Baker appeared in-character as the Sixth Doctor.

Synopsis
The Sixth Doctor urges the viewers to donate and help with the famine in Ethiopia.

Plot
We join the Doctor in an unknown fairground-like location, who proceeds to greet the audience. He takes on a sombre tone as he compares the evils he fights as minescule in comparison to the injustice of world hunger. The then urges the audience to provide money in order to prevent hunger and save lives, in which case he would acknowledge them as his friend. He then vanishes as the clip ends.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker

Crew

 * Unknown male - Music vocals

Story notes

 * The Doctor hints that the planet Earth will be renamed to Geldorf at some point in its history. This isn't the only television story featuring Colin Baker where the Earth is renamed at some point in its future. (TV: The Mysterious Planet).
 * The Sixth Doctor appears in his outfit from The Trial of a Time Lord, placing this adventure in or around that period of his life.
 * The Sixth Doctor's hair appears to be larger than it does in any other appearance of this incarnation.
 * The Doctor refers to Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans as examples of his previous adversaries. He'd recently encountered all three on his travels. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen, The Two Doctors, Revelation of the Daleks)
 * The Doctor breaks the fourth wall considerably in this clip.
 * The Doctor refers to governments assisting him in thwarting evil on his previous adventures. Many times, he'd often fought against the governments of other planets (TV: The Macra Terror, The Sun Makers), or even assisted them in achieving a better existence (TV: The Curse of Peladon).
 * The fairground setting is akin to the Fantasy Factory, another location he visited on his travels (TV: The Ultimate Foe).
 * Neither Peri, Mel or any other expanded media companion appears in this short.
 * The Doctor appears to vanish at the end.