Yer Granny's haverin' in this case!
Tom Baker was best, even though I remember Jon Pertwee. Period.

In response to the question posed in the thread title: yes, he is rather.

I think I read somewhere years ago that David Frost was once asked in front of a live audience 'Who is the Best Doctor on TV?' and without hesitation, he just said . 'Correct!'


Totally agree. Ecclestone and sometimes Pertwee aside, I enjoy watching all the Doctors. Would be a dull programme if everyone loved the same Doctor.

I do very much like 8. Partly it was the movie, but partly listening to the DW stuff on radio. In which he is helped by having probably my favourite companion ever in Lucie Miller.




Excuse me, I don't know what havering is, but I assure you I never do it.

Christopher Ecclestone... His acting ability re-energised the franchise and was strong enough to make the show a new era success..

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I always struggle to have one favourite anything, but:

Jon Pertwee comes first - loved his dashing style, the lovely courtesy, the cloak... *sigh*

Then probably Peter Davison - he had a hard act to follow in Tom Baker and his Doctor is a sweet character with a tough centre who I found very appealing

Bakers Tom and Colin and Sylvester McCoy come next - TB became a bit of a parody of himself eventually, though there are individual stories in which he's brilliant; enjoyed both CB and SMcC's interpretations though feel they're both sold short by the way their time in the role was truncated.

Then Paul McGann and David Tennant (sorry, David!). Wish PMcG had been given the chance to do Who properly - one dodgy film just wasn't enough. And whilst I *love* DT's energy and fire in the role I got really fed up with his melodramatics. Partly RTD's scripts, I'm afraid, and DT shouldn't be carrying the can for those, but there it is... again, there are individual stories in which I feel he excelled, but others... oh dear!

Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell I've seen only odds and ends of in the role. Suspect I would really take to Troughton if I'd seen more, but haven't the spare cash for the box sets at the moment!

Puting Chris Ecclestone at the bottom... I never really bought him as the Doctor, which is a shame cos I think he's a brillaint actor.

And I've left Matt Smith to one side this time, as I think it's unfair to judge him one one very recent series. He has the potential to be right up there for me - love his portrayal in S5 - but I prefer to let a bit of water go under the bridge before I make a call.

What !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Tennant, by a country mile.

Nu-Who, it would have to be Smith, followed by Tennant and then Eccelston.

I havent seen much Classic Who, and if I went with the Doctor that was around when I was little, it would have to be Baker, but from the little I have seen of Classic Who in more recent times, I'd have to say Davison.

Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker
One of my earliest memories of Who was Planet of the Spiders where Jon regenerated into Tom.....I was only 5 years old and cried 'cos I thought the 3rd Doctor really "died"

Of the new series I'd go for David Tennant. I wish Christopher Eccleston had stayed on a bit longer. Matt Smith's started to grow on me (I like hisTroughton mannerisms) and looking forward to the new series.

Classic Who: Tom Baker

New Who: David Tennant<3 And Matt Smith<3

Little mention of Hartnell

Jon Pertwee has always been mine - however you often find that people's first Doctor is there favourite. Tom Baker often his because he played the part for the longest time - but that period also marked the start of the decline in view numbers.

King Yrcanos is in the buillding!


Given that
a) I've never seen much or any of Hartnell or Troughton and only seen the colour Pertwee
b) I've read a lot of the New Adventures and Missing Adventures,

I'd go:
McCoy
Smith/Davison
Baker,T
Eccleston
Pertwee
McGann
Tennant
Baker.C (not his fault)

Troughton/Hartnell unclassified

Fine, if no one mentions hartnell, then I WILL

Hartnell FTW!

I like Hartnell!

Okay, he isn't my favourite Doctor but I still like him better than Pertwee and Ecclestone. What those two Doctors seriously lacked at times was eccentricity and Hartnell had it in abundance.

Even when he was being grumpy, he could still be eccentric, especially in those first few stories where the friction between him and Ian/Barbara was at it's height.

My favourite moments of his is in The Space Museum where he a)is hiding in the Dalek and b) showing false images on the screen to confuse his opponent!

One of the reasons that The Time Meddler is my favourite Hartnell stories is because he was at his most funniest. Yes, he was in The Romans as well, but in this story, his humour came more out of his confrontations with The Monk than the storyline itself and they bounced of each other superbly.

I often wonder if the reason he doesn't rate so highly with fans is because he wasn't as funny overall as Tom Baker and some of the other Doctors. On the other hand, however, if he hadn't played the original Doctor as he did, he maybe wouldn't have stood out so much from the other Doctors as he has done and maybe that's a good thing.

Doc 10, Doc 10 and Doc 10.

From the Classic series I'm a Pertwee fan

Of more recent times Matt Smith by miles and miles and miles, best Doctor for a very long time - bloody brilliant

I don't think there is a best Doctor, each actor who has played the part has played it in a totally different way than others before them and depend on what the storylines hold. Could the likes of Tom Baker play the same Doctor portrayed by Christopher Eccleston, could Hartnell portrayed Tennant's version and vise versa.

However in terms of plot and so forth, Hartnell wins he is the superior of the lot of them and will always remain that way.

Peter Davison was my favourite.

Remember that many fans, like myself, will not have seen many of his stories, as we weren't around at the time and they have rarely been shown as repeats.

Classic Who - Colin Baker
New Who - Matt Smith

Out of the new series: Ten, then Nine and finally Eleven. Matt Smith doesn't do anything for me.

Here's my list of preference. (Please note that I like them all!)

Peter Davison
William Hartnell
David Tennant
Jon Pertwee
Matt Smith
Tom Baker
Patrick Troughton
Sylvester McCoy
Colin Baker
Paul McGann
Peter Cushing ( )
Christopher Eccleston
Rowan Atkinson ( )

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