Doctor Who - Favorite Doctor

Watched from mid-Tom Baker and followed Peter Davison, but went off the show around Colin Baker's time. (An error on my part as re-watching his stories, he was quite good!)

Of the new ones, David Tennant but I have to vote for my favourite from my younger day - Patrick Troughton. I loved the episodes with the Yetis in the Tube tunnels.

Tom Baker

Its a toss up to me of Tom Baker and David Tennent.  Gave it to Tennent to tie it up a 5 between the two of them.

Again, this only one, black and white model is counterproductive for my favouritism of the grey/gray areas.

caretaker wrote: I think they all did a great job. Everybody that saw him loves Tom Baker. Tennant and Smith were good as is Capaldi. But no love love for Eccleston?

Guy Guden wrote: Again, this only one, black and white model is counterproductive for my favouritism of the grey/gray areas. But for after dinner discussion of the salon variety, I voted for Pertwee, for his shadings.  And his companion Jo was my favourite tingle .  I like Capaldi and had hopes for his interpretation, but feel he is regularly betrayed by the direction the writer/producer has consistently taken.  The Soul and Magick is missing for me even though I stay with it. cheers!

Traditionally I would say Jon Pertwee, but he was also the first one I was exposed to. I love his Doctor (not so much his Venusian Aikido). Just re-watched Inferno.

I agree with Capaldi, I think it's mostly the writing that has let him down. Most agree that he is a great actor, but the scripts have not been that great on the whole. One thing I haven't liked with him is that there has not been sufficient story-arc (I like serials). That said, I think Heaven Sent is my favourite of any Doctor Who episode (it doesn't make enough sense to some, but I can make sense of it). It's so dark, and I had long wanted for him to do more of a solo performance in Doctor Who (lose companions and focus on him).

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I haven't watched many of the episodes of the first two doctors. I don't have a problem with black and white as I have loved the original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits shows since I was a kid (and many other black and white shows). One of these days I will watch more of their eras.

Tom Baker was excellent, even if I prefer the Pertwee years. I did think it started to go down hill, got a bit too silly, later on in his tenure.

I never fully warmed up to Peter Davison (who is David Tennant's father-in-law). I liked him. That said I have seen and enjoyed all of his episodes, some much more than others. Liked him a lot in All Creatures Great and Small and his Five(ish) Doctors Reboot for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who I absolutely loved.

I'm a fan of Colin Baker's tenure, though the writing was really spotty. I did not rally like Perry with her fake American accent and not even her "not fake" chest accents. Sorry, if that sounds sexist, but they really did seem to want to show them off in the show. I wish they hadn't dressed him like a clown and probably made him too abrasive at the outset (plan was to have the audience grow to like him, but since he failed to strangle Perry... I won't go there).   Loved Revelation of the Daleks.

Sylvester McCoy just rather irritated me with the rolling Rs, and had some real stinkers.

Paul McGann: I used to frequent sci-fi forums before I joined this site and hadn't considered him cannon back then, but no he is now. I liked his mini-epsiode the Night of the Doctor, but I could not make it through his Doctor Who made-for-TV movie, which was hoped to spur on anew Doctor Who show. I found it terrible. And I was a fan of other work he had done.

Christopher Eccleston: He was good. I didn't like the new Doctor Who at first much with Rose (despite also liking him as an actor beforehand), but quickly became a fan and was very sad to see him go.

David Tenannt I loved at the time, and he is my wife's favourite Doctor. I was extremely sad to see him go "I don't want to go", and he had great episodes but I found his character a bit limited and now seems kind of dated. Many of my still favourite episodes were during his time, though.

Matt Smith: I think he was brilliant and a year ago I would have said that he was definitely my favourite of the new Doctors. He is my daughter's favourite.      
Again, was so sad to see him go. His series six in 201l is for me the strongest year for new Who.

Anyway, i have seen all of the episodes aside from much of the two seasons, and of course the made-for-tv movie, its not easy to vote even if I lean towards Pertwee. I just hope the next series can come close to Heaven Sent in terms of my appreciation, but I don't expect it to.   Very sad that Doctor Who is on hiatus.

When the new show runner makes episodes, it will be interesting to see how it goes. I don;t have very high hopes considering the episodes that he has written for Doctor Who.

What an embarrassing fanboy I am, my post is far longer than all of the other responses combined, and yet I still haven't managed to convey anything of any value even to myself.

EDIT: Just wanted to add this (love the Dead Ringers/ Jon Culshaw spoofs of Doctor Who:



Edited by Logan - April 01 2016 at 15:46

Logan wrote:   Traditionally I would say Jon Pertwee, but he was also the first one I was exposed to. I love his Doctor (not so much his Venusian Aikido). Just re-watched Inferno. I agree with Capaldi, I think it's mostly the writing that has let him down. Most agree that he is a great actor, but the scripts have not been that great on the whole. One thing I haven't liked with him is that there has not been sufficient story-arc (I like serials). That said, I think Heaven Sent is my favourite of any Doctor Who episode (it doesn't make enough sense to some, but I can make sense of it). It's so dark, and I had long wanted for him to do more of a solo performance in Doctor Who (lose companions and focus on him). ....

Edited by Guy Guden - April 01 2016 at 18:30

Pastmaster wrote: Tom Baker, he is THE doctor.