David Tennant better than Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker/Peter Davison?

Not to denigrate any of those actors.

BBC please do not axe the show ever again.

But I am a bit old for it now. The kids like it though.

Cult?

I'm sad

David Tennant of course

Tennant was too much gurning, running around, yelping, and sanctimonious warbling about the wonderful human race.

Tom Baker every time.

Absolutely not.

John Pertwee was the best Dr, and Sarah Jane Smith was the best companion.

Bring back SJS.

BTW. Isn't this on the wrong board

That dates you Meister. I was inclined to agree. Tom was my favourite. But the new nephews and nieces in my family love David so much, it has changed my mind.

It's the same as the question as to who is the best Bond- it's always the one who you 1st saw on TV/grew up with-

In my case Tom Baker.

(Bond- Roger Moore)

Yes it is the wrong board....but what the hell.

I have been watching Dr. Who since the 60s but I have to say despite really liking Jon Pertwee that I adore David Tennant.

I started watching Dr Who from the Jon Pertwee era.

All of the Doctors have been different, they've had their good points and their bad points.

A lot of people may disagree but my favorite has been the Sylvester McCoy era.

Nothing to do with the quality of the acting per se but because the stories were quite dark and he was not afraid to kill when it was necessary to do so.

Patrick Troughton was the best.

I think kids love Tennant (because it's a novelty) and I think most woman like him because (for some odd reason) they 'fancy' him.

I am looking forward to seeing Matt Smith in the role (the new trailer for series 5 on the BBC website looks great) and I thank god that the abysmal Russell 'T' Davies has left.

Then it's a shame that hardly any of his episodes survive...

He wasn't my favourite, but I think McCoy got a rough deal. He was great, and there were some great stories (The Wolves Of Fenris? AWESOME. Paradise Towers? EVEN MORE AWESOME). That said, people tend to remember crap like The Happiness Patrol, which is unfair on poor old Sylvester.

I'd say Tom Baker first (maybe because he was the first one I saw as a kid, but still... that guy was SPOOKY. At the time, the scariest good guys in my world were him and Paul Darrow as Avon on B7), then Tennant, then McCoy.

Tennant's got kind of an unfair advantage, though, because now it's being sold as less of a kids' show, so he's had more adult scripts to deal with. (So's Ecclestone, I guess, but... loved him at the time, but rarely can be arsed to go back and watch him later).

Pertwee.

There wouldn't have been a new Dr Who without Davies. He's brilliant!!

I just finished 2/2 End of Time on the PVR and posting this thread. Off to watch Michael Caine in "Blow the Bloody Doors Off" now. (The Italian Job)

But Dr Who...remember my first time with The Cybermen....I was 4 years old.....late 60s...they came in a room through polythene. Black and White. Absolutely terrified me.


And whatever did happen to K-9 in later years. I think the vet got him.

Change of plan...Michael Caine can wait....I recorded Gavin and Stacey

No, he was bloody awful. Yes, he was given the go-ahead to resurrect the series but apart from a handful of successes nearly all his episodes and 'innovations' have been squalid rubbish.

Well what did you think? I thought it was drivel, and I was really looking forward to it, but then I cannot bear Simms' dreadful, hammy Master.

The one in the Welsh mines with the giant maggots

He showed up with Sarah Jane a couple of years back...

'The Green Death'

He was in School Reunion, and he made a brief appearance in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Is this a comment about best episode?

If so, then, to my mind, it's a dead heat between Pyramids of Mars and Genesis of the Daleks.