For Doctor Who Fans: Who was your favorite Doctor

[JCMach1]

Fess up which Doctor was it

[JCMach1]

1. I think the reason the show ended was that Colin Baker

Was such a disaster... Man he sucked.

The writing was better for McCoy, but the show had lost a good deal of audience.

I just wish the BBC would bring it back!

[Khephra]

3. What? I actually liked him just a tad bit more than Tom

[Khephra]

4. Ummm, JC, where you been?

There's been about 10 threads here in the Lounge about the show coming back.

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Comedy writers join Doctor Who

The creators behind BBC Two's League of Gentleman and Coupling are to join a group of writers working on the new series of Doctor Who.

Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt will join the team led by Russell T Davies, the man behind shows such as Queer as Folk and Bob and Rose.

Filming begins in Cardiff this spring, for transmission on BBC One in 2005.

"I really believe we've got the best people in the business now working on the best show," said Davies.

"The Doctor and Rose (the doctor's new sidekick) already have the best allies on their journey - brilliant writers with brilliant scripts," he added.

more........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3533011.stm

[Deja Q]

6. But no Daleks?

The last I heard, Terry Nation's pig-headed estate is throwing a wobbler over licensing fees. Terry himself would be proud. x(

Sigh. The Daleks no longer have the chrisma they once had. And Terry's dead, so why should he care? Most important of all, Terry didn't design the things. Ray Cusick did. Why doesn't he get the credit or a say in their use?!

[JCMach1]

9. Must have missed them... I am on opposite hours from you guys

So I might very well have...

[Deja Q]

5. It wasn't as much writing as it was production...

Just about all of the 6th and 7th Doctor stories were decent stories. Each needed a bit of work, tidying up, or embellishment - but to varying degrees. And, honestly, "Timelash" is far more entertaining than "Time and the Rani", "Delta and the Bannermen", or "Ghost Light". That's pretty good, to have the 2nd worst Colin story outdo three McCoy stories, one of which is purported to be "good"...

It was the production that was off kilter.

Compare the TV versions with the Target novelizations. You'll probably prefer the Target book for almost every one of them.

Even "Silver Nemesis" benefits greatly in novel format.

Doctor Who was also placed opposite some tough programming. It couldn't regain viewers.

The BBC is bringing it back, though: Spring 2005. (forgot to add: Thirteen 50 minute episodes. That's the same length as season 22 was...)

Also, the correct spelling is "Davison". But Doctor Who Magazine and other forms of British media kept screwing his name up too. :-)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. I think the problem was set and costume design,

that's what ruined a lot of Colin Baker's stories, as well as otherwise intriguing concepts like Meglos and Planet of the Spiders. Good set and costume design is crucial to suspension of disbelief, which is why The Keeper of Traken works and The Nightmare of Eden doesn't.

[Deja Q]

16. "My arms, my legs, my everything!" didn't help "Nightmare of Eden" either

:-)

Given the loudness of the 6th Doctor's costume, subsequent costumes and sets had to be similarly bright or else viewers' eyes would focus in on the Doctor, rather than the whole screen. ("The Mark of the Rani" does prove you can mix a loud costume with a quiet background and get away with it...)

Nightmare of Eden got too silly at times, though some of it has aged quite well.

"Meglos" simply tries to do too much, which strained credibility. I thought the sets were mostly decent, although the interior of Meglos' control tower looked like a bathroom... :-) While the idea of "Meglos" itself is cool, Meglos could shrink objects, fold space and time around an enemy, and so on, without needing the Dodecahedron energy source. While looking cool, it was hard to believe he could just do things. Add in a gigantic unexplained history leading to this story, and you've got some confusion until the "fanboy imagination mode" kicks in. "Meglos" desperately needs a prequel to explain off their civil war, how they got all their powers, abilities, and technology, and so on, along with setting up the feud on Tigella.

As much as set design counts, so does the atmosphere. "The Caves of Androzani", parts 7-10 of "The War Games", and "Revelation of the Daleks" all have a distinct and equally strong atmopshere that contributes heavily to its success, created by the director. A lot of season 22 tried to capitalize on certain elements of "The Caves of Androzani", but lacked the underlying atmosphere to make it retain interest.

[Sibanetta]

15. Are you guys crazy..

Jon Pertwee was the quintissential "WHO"...no one else ever came close!!!...and don't you remember "The Ark In Space"?...Bloody brilliant!

Sibanetta

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Uh? The Ark in Space was a Tom Baker storyline.

[Nikia]

2. Baker, Davidson, and McCoy were all good

I don't know if I can really pick a favorite.

[bucknaked]

7. Baker...

I had some pretty disturbing nightmares, instigated by watching ol' Tom v. the Daleks...

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

I wouldn't go near a vacuum cleaner for years after watching those shows!

[Mobius]

8. check out mt dr who avatars in my avatar gallery

link in sig line :7

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. You really need a poll to tell you Tom Baker is the Sean Connery of Who?

The definite article, you might say.

:P

[flaminbats]

12. It has to be William Hartnell...neither the hero or enemy

The scene in "The Unearthy Child" when he raise the stone, and Ian stops him and asks him what he was going to do to the wounded caveman that the others planned to carry back..

"I...I was going to get him to draw our way back to the Tardis" he says dropping the stone.

Another classic scene is when he convinces the tribe why the caveman whose knife has blood on it must be the one guilty of murdering the old women. He the gives an unforgettable performance, when he convinces them to stone the murderer out of the tribe...

[NorthernSpy]

13. that curly one

Tom Baker. Whenever our PBS station re-broadcasts Dr. Who, they always choose the Baker episodes because they're the only ones most people will watch.


Mary

[non sociopath skin]

14. Maybe folks in the States didn't see a lot of Patrick Troughton ..

... cos a lot of his episodes were wiped by the Beeb and not shown in the US.

Otherwise American good taste would have recognised that his unique combination of humour and intensity - without ever going "over the top" - made him the ideal Doctor.

The Skin

[MurikanDemocrat]

17. Where's Marcus Welby!

:(

edit - nevermind - I misread the first post.

[JCMach1]

18. Kick!!!

:kick: