Who is your favorite Doctor Who?

1) William Hartnell


2) Patrick Troughton


3) Jon Pertwee


4) Tom Baker


5) Peter Davison


6) Colin Baker


7) Sylvester McCoy


8) Paul McGann


9) Christopher Eccleston


10) David Tennant



Personally, I have a soft spot for Tom Baker, but I really like the 9th & 10th versions of The Doctor.

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I met him in Milwaukee at a Whovian convention, really nice guy, I used to have an autographed picture of him but lost it in a move.

I can watch a lot of Dr. Who on Netflix streaming, but I just can't get into it that much.

I guess because it was a different kind of "Doctor," but I liked that movie, mostly because it had The Cribbens in it (how I wish he was my Granddad--sigh....). And really, how can you go wrong with the Daleks?

I think all of them have their good points. I came in during Tom Baker's reign--never got it to it too much, but since that was my entry point, he was my Doctor--until the new series started. I'm now pretty partial to Eccleston and Tennant, and I've seen Matt Smith, and I think he will do just fine as well.

I just love that the show has such new energy and such enthusiastic fans. It's truly an amazing thing.

when was that from...

Tom was my first Dr. Who but David is my favorite for now.

btw, you missed D11, Matt Smith. Granted, he's only had 2 eps (3 tomorrow) but still...

I came late to the game. Eccleston was my first doctor, and i think i prefer him to Tennant. But I also love a lot of what Tennant did with the part, especially fighting against that hack writer RTD.

Jon Pertwee, that's right, way back in time to the early 70's and then nothing till some geeks were all fussed about some guy with a big scarf and a hat.

Hated Him!

Now Eccleston, a Doctor with Murder in his heart(or at least it looks that way), is my kind O'Doctor.

:evilgrin:

plus
"lots of planets have a north"

he had a sort of goofiness mixed with deadly sincerity that Tennant lacked. I see a little bit of it in Smith, but time will tell.


And, a point I've been wondering about. Is Eccleston really the 9th doctor? In his first ep, he had clearly just regenerated, as he hadn't seen his face before. So is Eccleston the one who ended the time war? or was that the doctor before him?

/nerd ;)

never saw the old Dr Who - ok, I think once I saw an episode on PBS back when our PBS reception really sucked and I couldn't make heads or tails out of what was happening - I was also just a kid - can't even remember now when it was, though.

Liked Eccleston a lot. Liked Tennant, too, and I find it hard to say which I liked better.

Have to say, I mostly stopped watching when Rose Tyler left. She was a great character.

i liked 1st season rose. second season rose kind of annoyed me, and I honestly wasn't that broken up when she left.

Now when DONNA left, that was heartbreaking

the first one I saw and I guess David comes in 2nd.

When someone mentions Dr Who, or I hear the theme music, the first face that comes to mind is Willam Hartnell's. First association is indelibly imprinted I guess, and especially on a young mind. Then Patrick Troughton - it was such a surprise to see a different face in the role and I had to make a conscious effort to "unlearn" Hartnell. Troughton's face has somehow become part of the file-flipping my brain goes through to arrive at the current answer. But before it does arrive, I see Tom Baker. Well he was such a likable fellow and also the longest-serving Doctor so far.

I found Christopher Eccleston a bit annoying, he seemed to shout most of his lines, no light and shade with him.

For style, grace, charm and decent acting David Tennant is my favourite. But then I was already besotted with him after "Casanova" and "Blackpool".

The latest series hasn't started screening in Australia yet but from the shorts I've seen I think I'm going to enjoy Matt Hill's Doctor.

I've been watching them in the US as they come out in the UK. Smith is good, but I want to see him in more eps before i decide. Karen Gillan is great so far.

It starts tomorrow night.

You should get something for that cough. ;)

AND they are working for Churchill!

at least for the bit he was shown in ep 2. but i like the idea of daleks with union jacks on them...

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Also the new ones that (not having BBC America) I can't watch on TV.

Jon Pertwee was the tallest Doctor. He was the one who drove "Bessie." I like all of them, but Pertwee is my favorite.

I think he and Elizabeth Sladen were great together.

and I loved me some Harpo (and he talked in this one :dunce:).

I figured that since we're only 3 episodes into the 11th Doctor, that I'd list the previous ones.

The jury is still out on the new guy . The first episode is shown tonight but he will have to be fantastic to beat Tennant OR Eccleston.

for certain, but matt smith will do well...

Amy Pond: You're worse than my aunt.
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt....

and the follow-through line are priceless...

"I'm not just A doctor, I'm THE doctor. The definite article, you might say!"

I love that line.

And I just found out why the scripts were better when
Baker was the Dr.

"During the Fourth Doctor's run, in Season 17, the science fiction author Douglas Adams was script editor and his distinctive style can be seen in the dialogue and stories of some of the serials such as City of Death and The Pirate Planet. For example, in Destiny of the Daleks, Adams included a scene of the Doctor trapped under a boulder, that resembles of similar scene in the second series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Adams' tenure is controversial with fans, some of whom believe that the humorous stories are uncharacteristic of the series, and others who contend that the diversity of the storytelling was one of the series' strong points."

I have to say Tennant was pretty damn good. I will miss him in the role. But the new guy looks surprisingly and geekily cool.

If I had to go in order, I personally rank them:

Tom Baker
Tennant
Eccleston
Pertwee
Davison
Hartnell
McCoy
Troughton
McGann
Colin Baker

The last 5 or so are pretty much interchangeable to me in terms of how much I enjoyed their tenures as The Doctor. I didn't really dislike any of them, except for maybe Colin Baker.

yeah, Colin Baker got kind of a bad rap. Funny to hear him talk about it in interviews.


How's it going?

Both were great, and make everyone else look like Moore doing Bond in comparison.

PLEASE tell me it gets better !

The Doctor should look and act like a traditional English Eccentric, not a leather-clad Gangland thug.

Worst ever? You don't get out much.

I liked it especially when he complained, in his cockney accent, that he'd "...never been slapped by anyone's mother before!" (when Rose Tyler's mum smacked him for putting her daughter in danger).

He was my first.

Most Who fans say their first Doctor is their favorite. :/ I came in in the middle of 9/Rose, and I hate both of them. A lot. Tom Baker for the win!