Who is your Favorite Doctor? (Doctor Who Fans)

[Justice wanted]

Okay, I'll admit I'm not a HUGE scifi fan. I will admit Gene Roddenberry and his franchise did a lot of great writting.

I don't like Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galaxica (sp?)

I will say I understand and loved Twilight Zone using ailens to explore human emotions and actions.

I will say I have become a HUGE fan of Doctor Who. I know Time Travel and aliens and all that isn't something I normally go for BUT I love the show BUT I will be honest my only knowledge of the character has been from Doctor's 9 (Chris Ecceston) 10 (David Tennant) and 11 (Matt Smith)

So knowing there are 11 total doctors I'm asking

Who is your favorite any certain reason?

I love 10

The Personality David gave the character over all with his greatness and flaws just really sold everything.

Chris got my attention and Matt is keeping it BUT Tennant just --WOW.

Anyone else?

[NYC_SKP]

1. Seuss.

Doctor Seuss.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Dr. Science

"I'm not a real doctor but I have a Master's Degree... in science!"

[pokerfan]

3. Would You Like a Jelly Baby?

Restricting it to New Who:

[Justice wanted]

4. Which one is the picture of ? 1 - 8

Not really restricting just who I know of.

[pokerfan]

6. #4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Doctor

Seven season from 1974 to 1981.

[Ron Obvious]

5. Tom Baker!

Tom Baker! Thread over! Next discussion, please.

[solara]

14. Quirky with a quicksilver wit and delivery,

Tom Baker for sure ( and oh that scarf!)

[Ron Obvious]

17. Jon Pertwee also

Again, Tom Baker, though I retain a massive affection for Jon Pertwee as well. The scripts written for him just weren't as interesting, since he was very earthbound and he rarely got to use the Tardis. Dear Sarah Jane, your years were the best!

"Exterminate!"

"Oh no, Daleks! {sigh} all we have to do is go up the stairs; those overgrown Hoovers couldn't possibly follow us"

[solara]

30. I never had the pleasure of watching Jon Pertwee

Daleks, all we have to do is go up the stairs!!

[mucifer]

7. Tom Baker! I totally agree!

[Archae]

8. Agree with Tom Baker!

I met him briefly at a Whovian convention in Milwaukee about 30 years ago.

GREAT guy.

(But I lost my autographed picture of him in a move...)

[pokerfan]

9. Always thought he would make a great Tom Bombadil

(Tom Baker in 2008)

[Ron Obvious]

10. You have a woman's hands, sir!

Ooh, you have woman's face and hair, sir!

[pokerfan]

12. You have a woman's mouth, milord!

[loli phabay]

11. all of them, but especially peter cushing.

[intaglio]

13. Troughton n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Slyvester McCoy

Not sure why.. I really enjoyed every episode I could find, going back to William Hartnell. I did like Peter Davidson and Tom Baker. Collin Baker was fun too...Thought that David Tennant was excellent. Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee were fun to watch.


Here are actors who played the Doctor in other appearances :
David Warner
Rowan Atkinson
Trevor Martin
Peter Cushing
David Troughton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor

[pinboy3niner]

16. Doctor Fig

Okay, so he wasn't on TV. Doctor Figliozzi was my dentist in Granada Hills (in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley) when I was a kid.

What made Dr. Fig a superhero? After my appointment with him one day, he asked me if I would like to meet Bob Eubanks--then a top KRLA radio jock and later to be a game show host on TV. He was coming in for his appointment.

I was a teenaged boy. A KRLA fan. I swooned.

Dr. Fig is a superhero, and nobody's going to tell me different!

[ceile]

18. Tom Baker n/t

[avebury]

19. Tom Baker. Although the Doctor that first caught

my attention was Peter Davison because I am a huge fan of All Creatures Great and Small.

[Dr. Strange]

20. Tough call: Tennant or Baker.

What's interesting about those two is that they really liked the character they were playing, and I think it shows.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19836_5-celebrities-who-got-famous-by-being-obsessed-fanboys_p2.html

[a kennedy]

21. A huge Tom Baker fan here also....

haven't watched since he's been gone. Loved him and his looooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg scarf.

[OriginalGeek]

22. Tom Baker was our first Dr

so we all loved him the most. Although we do enjoy the rest of them too.

When my son was in Jr High he had his grandma knit him a loooooooooong scarf just like Tom's.


He didn't wear it every day but they had a Dr. Who fan club and he wore it on meeting days.


To the best of my knowledge he remained a virgin though Jr High and into high school.

[jobycom]

23. Tenant, probably. I still say he was trying to be Tom Baker, though.

David Tenant had a great range of emotions, and could switch from silly to serious in an instant, and often did both expressions in the same moment. He tried to capture Baker's quirky, mercurial flippancy, and I think he wound up outdoing him by the end. It didn't hurt that Tenant had some of the best episodes ever written, though, and some of the best companions to work with. Catherine Tate was flat out amazing, and the episodes about Pompeii and about the Ood Planet to me is some of the best sci-fi ever written. He also had the Madam Pompadour episode with Billie Piper, and that's also one of my favorite.

Baker was brilliant, but when I watch old episodes now he seems lifeless and dull. Maybe I've just watched the wrong episodes, or maybe expectations have moved on, but I think Tenant did what he did so well that Baker looks tamer by comparison.

I think Chris Eccleston was perfect to start the new series. His relationship with Rose Tyler carried me into the second season, so I could like Tenant.

It took me a while to warm to Matt Smith, but I really like him now. I thought he was just goofy and missed the whole point for the early episodes, but he showed flashes of depth, like in the Space Whale episode ('Nobody Human can speak to me today!' was one of the more powerful lines in the whole series, I think). He won me over in the episode about the subterranean Earth civilization, when the characters around him were freaking about missing loved ones, and the actor took charge and calmed them down. Good, believable acting that I didn't think Smith had in him at first.

Peter Davidson to me is underappreciated. He played the role serious and smart, while still being quirky. He knew he could never follow Tom Baker's act, so he didn't try to out-goofy him, and instead went for smart and sincere.

Trivia I'm sure Who fans already know: Peter Davidson's daughter played in a David Tenant episode called "The Doctor's Daughter," and David Tenant later married her.

[HopeHoops]

24. My GP.

[Robyn66]

25. Definately David Tennant!

He is my favorite Doctor and I love him in everything else he has done too!!!!

[Xithras]

26. I've had this discussion with my kids, and it's honestly a tie between Baker and Tennant

Part of my affection for Baker may simply be the fact that he was the first Doctor I remember, and so he'll always be stuck in my mind as the "original". But aside from that, the Fourth Doctor was played brilliantly by Baker. His personality was fairly serious, but he had a witty sense of humor and was usually friendly.

Tennant brought something special to the role as well. I can't bring myself to say that he's better than Baker, but he's certainly his equal.

I don't think there have really been any BAD Doctors. All were well played by the various actors. Eccleston and Smith were and are great in the role, but Tennant and Baker will unquestionably always be remembered as two of the best.

[femmocrat]

27. Dr. Herriot, DVM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot

He was a fictional character and the hero of the "All Creatures" series of books and shows on PBS. His life was based on a real country vet, who authored the series.

[KatyaR]

28. And Peter Davison, who was the Fifth Doctor,

played the younger brother, Tristan Farnon, in All Creatures. This was before Doctor Who.

[Tindalos]

29. All of them.

David Tennant is probably my favourite overall, followed closely by Chris Eccleston and Tom Baker. I love them all though.