Question:
I voted christopher all the way...David Tennant annoys me he's way too cheesy.

Choices:
Christopher Eccelston
David Tennant

 

Jon Pertwee dammit!!!

Tenny is way better than Eccles for many reasons, chiefly the fact that he's got the character in his heart already. Eccles was trying too hard to be offbeat, but Tenny's got the whole Who thing captured perfectly.

Neither one of them is the best one ever, though, although Tenny's twenty minutes of screen time is not nearly enough to judge him by. I'd rate them:

Davison
Hartnell/Pertwee
Troughton/McGann/[insert Tennant here in a year's time ]
Baker Snr
Eccleston
Baker Jnr
McCoy

Poor Colin's low rating isn't really his fault, though.

I'm not a fan of the new series, but of the old ones, I'd probably put Davison top too.

Although I've recently seen some Pertwee stories, and he's quite impressive in the role.

Tom Baker (despite being in lots of amazing episodes) is just too weird for me. When he's being serious he's good though.

Yeah, early era Tom was good. It's his later stuff that's not to my taste. He was OTT, and playing it for laughs too much.

Tom was the one I grew up with and so he'll always be "My Doctor". I liked the eccentricity.

Of course eccentricity isn't "cool" in this conform-or-die culture of ours, so I don't know if Tennant will be allowed to display much of it even if he wants to

The Doctor can't help but be eccentric. He's not human, so he's always going to be at least one step out of phase with the masses.

Tom Baker was OTT, though. I didn't find him eccentric or weird as a kid. Just like some big clown trying to be funny. I much preferred Blake's 7 in those days. Tom was good to begin with, though. He genuinely was playing it eccentric then. I'm glad I've been able to see his early episodes now.

Although I like what Iv`e seen so far of Doctor 10, I agree we havent seen enough of him to rate his performance.

So my list would go:

Chris Eccleston
Sylvester McCoy (probably put Tenny here next year)
Peter Davison

My least favourite Doctor is Fancy Pants Jon Pertwee. But most people have him or Tom Baker as their most favourite.

I`m in the minority, even in a minority group!!

Aw, Jon Pertwee is brilliant! The frilled shirts, and the velvet jackets - and that's just off camera! And the bouffant - all those white curls, that just scream "seventies action hero". The gadgets, the extravagant gestures, the air of lordly splendour. And Mike Yates. Who could ask for more?!

And giant maggots, and dinosaurs, and killer daffodils, and the deadly killer see-through plastic box on legs!! And Mike Yates, with his burgundy cords. The perils of letting a soldier out of uniform in the seventies.

Jon Pertwee is great.

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Aw, Jon Pertwee is brilliant! The frilled shirts, and the velvet jackets - and that's just off camera!

Probably a reaction against wearing mud and straw as Worzel Gummidge.

best dr-baker
best seasons- 1970-77,80-81,82, 25-26

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Originally posted by Angelus the Vampire:

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Aw, Jon Pertwee is brilliant! The frilled shirts, and the velvet jackets - and that's just off camera!

Probably a reaction against wearing mud and straw as Worzel Gummidge.

Oh Angelus - how can he have a reaction against something which came later on?
Oh yeah - he's a time lord, innit?

Eccleston, Eccleston, Eccleston Pie.... A fly can't bird but a bird can fly... Ask me a question and I'll reply... Eccleston, Eccleston, Eccleston Pie!
(Sorry, that just came into my head and I had to type it... any A.A. Milne fans also getting the joke?!)

I'm not sure how much I like David Tennant yet but I did like Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor from day one. He was completely unpredictable and had all that energy and depth and warmth and all those levels which was a lot of fun to watch. I liked Tom Baker's weirdness, he also had an unpredictability that was a lot of fun. Not one of my doctors though so I'm only going on repeats I've caught.

I wasn't exactly sold on Peter Davison (who I've later found to be a wonderful actor but he never worked for me as the Doctor, even watching it years later) or Sylvester McCoy although one of them should probably be my favourite doctor since my brother and I used to watch Peter Davison together when I was a tiny child and, later on, I watched Sylvestor McCoy so I have fond memories of both. I think Eccleston, Eccleston would still be my number one choice, though (I'll try not to do the Pooh rhyme again...).

No one understands something vital here. In another life, worlds away from here, I met the originator of the Dr Who character, the author, together with his role model for the character, in a library in Cairo where he was engaged in research. It seemed he believed he had found his own mummy, and had realised he was himself the Timelord in question.

The consequent series did all they could to disguise his identity in a mish-mash of creations, all amusing because they were quite obviously being led astray by their author who by this time had achieved a level of paranoia matched only by that of the erstwhile author of the Hitchikers guide. Both feared divine intervention and admonishment for attempting to found and head yet more new fictional religious cults, disguised as their own characters.

The subsequent proliferation of these new religions informs us, decades later, that they were correct to fear retribution, since the websites and airwaves now are bare of intellectual inquiry, whilst they sink and stink beneath the cess that is gossip about imaginary beings, yet again.

I eagerly await their own Armageddon, when Babylon 5 comes up against Superman, with Captain Kirk and his henchmen etc. I wait for all of them to migrate across the web and onto one single site, and on TV onto one program (not even a series!) in which they all ingloriously anihillate one another.

Then the website closes down and the TV channel goes off-air, bankrupt- wonderful!!!

TAXI!! for Jagganath!

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Jagganath

Hey don't try to out-weird me Jagganath, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal

i like the new one.

Christopher Eccelston does not appear to have much of a personality, (at least as Dr Who) and I think he is extreamly arogant and foolish to think that he is too big an actor to be the Doctor... What else has he been in lately? I suggest a reality check

He's never said anything of the kind. He quit as the Doctor mainly because he didn't enjoy doing it.

And he's been working very happily in a play since quitting, so I should imagine that he's not regretting the decision at all.

I agree with Mickey.

Christopher Ecclestone has been a very busy actor since Doctor Who.

Thats apart from all the charity work he does. He`s also raced in a couple of marathons raising money for local charities for his area.

Plus he only ever signed on to do one series, the producers KNEW that from the outset. So did the BBC.

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Originally posted by Mickey:
He's never said anything of the kind. He quit as the Doctor mainly because he didn't enjoy doing it.

And he's been working very happily in a play since quitting, so I should imagine that he's not regretting the decision at all.

Thats not true, i quit because he thought he was too big a star

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Originally posted by Welshguy:

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Originally posted by Mickey:
He's never said anything of the kind. He quit as the Doctor mainly because he didn't enjoy doing it.

And he's been working very happily in a play since quitting, so I should imagine that he's not regretting the decision at all.

Thats not true, i quit because he thought he was too big a star

Quote your source, Welshguy.

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Originally posted by Angelus the Vampire:

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Originally posted by Welshguy:

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Originally posted by Mickey:
He's never said anything of the kind. He quit as the Doctor mainly because he didn't enjoy doing it.

And he's been working very happily in a play since quitting, so I should imagine that he's not regretting the decision at all.

Thats not true, i quit because he thought he was too big a star

Quote your source, Welshguy.

any national paper would have told you, don't you guys read?

Yes, but the newspapers got it wrong. I prefer to go by the word of Christopher Eccleston himself, and the people who were around him when he made his decision. The newspapers blew the whole thing out of proportion, went off half-cocked, and told stories that were a load of balderdash, in part cooked up by an underinformed BBC publicity person. Christopher Eccleston was only ever signed up for one series. He never does anything for long, in keeping with many actors who don't like to be tied down. If he thought that he was "too big a star" for the role, he wouldn't have gone out of his way to get it in the first place.