Who is your favourite Dr Who from the BBC series?

Poll as requested by waffler.

I only ever saw one - Sylvester McCoy - and I don't think he is a good bench mark!

Sylvester McCoy was the best Doctor since Tom Baker. Unfortunately, that's not saying much.

It has to be Tom Baker he was the best and longest serving time lord

For me it's Tom Baker with Jon Pertwee not far behind.

Tom Baker... although as a newcomer to Doctor Who, I've only seen about fifteen stories so far, none of which were with Peter Davidson, Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy.

Thought Jon Pertwee was rather good too though, but only seen one of his stories

Can I have two votes please???

I always loved BOTH John Pertwee and Patrick Troughton, yeah Tom Baker was the Doctor, maybe he stayed with it too long and after that it suffered, everything was compared to him and that is not what Dr Who is/was about.

Always thought the 'change' (sorry the precise and correct name escapes me and I expect to be suitable reprimanded for not remembering the proper word) was a b****y good idea for keeping a character going when an actor wanted out.

Can't believe ANYONE thinks Peter Davidson was the best, maybe some misguided, youthful member of the forum could be mistaken and actually think he was half decent, but the best, nah, never in the running.

John Pertwee has always been my favourite ,though i did enjoy the peter davison era as well but really dissliked colin bakers doctor.

As a character, Tom Baker's doctor is the best, but many of my favourite stories and episodes are from the Pertwee years: Terror of the Autons (which gave me nightmares as a child), Planet of the Spiders, The Green Death, the Claws of Axos etc.

What about Peter Cushing (the Dr from the 'Daleks Attack Earth' films)?
and
the McGann brother (Paul, I think) from the UK/US/Speilberg update?

The poll is for the 7 actors who played the doctor in the bbc series only.

The BBC consider Christopher Eccleston to be the 9th Dr, so I think you should include Paul McGann.

I'm old enough to have seen all the Doctors & Tom Baker is my favourite.

i grew up with sylvester McCoy but after watching reruns on uk gold over the years i have to say tom baker is the best

Can I be pedantic and point out it was Jon Pertwee and not John as the spelling of his name.

Anyway - I liked him the best probably because he was the first Dr who I saw and so I always think of him as the proper Dr

Any Tom Baker fans voting please think as it is a Doctor Who vote - not Little Britain!!

Pertwee just ahead of Baker for me.

I voted for William Hartnell.
I liked them all except Colin Baker - what a ham!

Jon Pertwee was my favourite Doc.

Sylvester McCoy was on when I was a kid, but the only story of his I ever liked was Rememberance Of The Daleks.

Much preferred the stories that Jon was involved with.

Could say the same about Pertwee its not Wurzel Gummidge

I had a massive crush on Peter Davison when he was Dr Who, and i was very very VERY young lol

In most cases, the "best" Doctor is the one who was on telly when the viewer was about eight years old.

Incredibly difficult to vote ..

chuff.x.

Well it's a toss up between jon pertwee and tom baker for me

let me just flip a coin



jon pertwee

I like Peter Davison as an actor but he was just so wrong for Doctor Who, I stopped watching, have since seen Colin Baker who was excellent, but the stories were perhaps not as good as they might be. Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee were good also. I cant really remember Patrick Troughton or William Hartnell.

and what about "Daleks Invasion of Earth 2150 AD" which had Peter Cushing as the Doctor , have we all forgotton? or is it its just best forgotton like the feature length one with Paul McGann?

Tom Baker, for me. He had something so great!

The Peter Cushing Doctor Who was never a part of the BBC canon: the film Doctor was a batty inventor, whereas the first episode of Doctor Who established that he was not human.

Although a BBC co-production, and therefore a fully regenerated Doctor, the McGann version was just a one-off and therefore difficult to assess as favourite or not - you might as well judge Richard Hurndall (The Five Doctors) and the many performers in Dimensions in Time.

For my ten bob's worth, the Doctors in order of preference are:

Tom Baker - not only the longest running, but had some excellent material/co-stars to work with. A change of producer (JNT) scuppered his last season up to a point, but he's still the tops for me.

Jon Pertwee - pretty much as above. He also made the character mysterious yet approachable. Some of the productions were amazingly slick, considering the budget.

Sylvester McCoy - potentially a great Doctor, hampered by shoddy production values and some terrible co-star casting. Could have been the darkest of Doctors.

Colin Baker - again, never got the chance to shine. I know he was pretty OTT sometimes, but watching some of his work with hindsight gives a kinder perspective.

William Hartnell - A long way down the list, but it was in the early days and the purely historical stories never got me as excited as the Sci-Fi ones.

Patrick Troughton - could be breathtakingly dramatic, but a little too clownish for my (six year old) tastes. The hindsight softens the view, but somebody has to come near the bottom!

Peter Davison - too young, too wet, too many people in the TARDIS, too little attention given to the timeslot.

Pease note that none of my comments are against the actors portraying the Doctor - I am attempting to critique the characters and production values of the programme.

Where will the new Doctor fit into all this? Only Time will tell

I hope that people will give him a chance - I can remember hating ALL the new Doctors when they first appeared!