I’m curious to see the results. We’ve discussed it, but it has been a few years I think and I don’t see a poll for it.
So, who is the best Doctor?
If anyone says anything other than Tom Baker they need to be exterminated.
Oh, and I’ve made it so you can only pick one. Deal with it.
Well, I disagree. Tom Baker is my second pick, though.
Oh, I’ve picked David tenant by the way.
I would reverse that. Having been first exposed to Dr. Who via PBS in the 80’s, Tom Baker was what sucked me in to watching the show. His quirky charisma was really a defining aspect of the show at that point. Tenant is great and would be my second choice but actually I think this is a bit of a problematic question. The original series of Dr. Who and the current series are really two completely different things. I’d say comparing the different Doctors from the two different series isn’t really an option.
The only reason Tom Baker isn’t dead last for me is the fact that I’m not familiar enough with Troughton, Davison, or Colin Baker to say they’re necessarily better than him.
But if it weren’t for pure geeky determination, Tom Baker would have prevented me becoming a Doctor Who fan.
Who voted for Matt Smith? I’m curious to hear an explanation.
That’d be me.
2 things to keep in mind - 1) as I said, I can only profitably compare 8 of them (One, Three, Four, Seven through Eleven), 2) my vote’s not for Matt Smith so much as ‘the Eleventh Doctor’, of which Smith is only part of the equation.
The current run, more than any other, plays up all the aspects of the Doctor - the big damn hero, the arrogant Time Lord, the adventurer, the conflicted criminal, the friend, the father, the lover. The giddy joy of exploration, the simmering rage, the centuries of loss, the love of his Companions. Smith pulls all of this off wonderfully.
Some of the other actors could certainly have pulled it off, if they’d been given the material, but…Smith is the first one to have writers who want to balance the Doctor’s various facets the way they do.
Voted for Tom Baker because while he’s not my favorite, I think he defines the roll. Peter Davison is my favorite. I did also quite enjoy all those whole played him in Doctor who and the Curse of Fatal Death.
Tom Baker was my Doctor but, honestly all three Nu-Whos have made for more interesting characters. Tenant gets my vote even though I am very much enjoying Smith’s take so far, mainly because Tenant did a more believable job helping us see The Doctor’s dark sides and the tragic side of the hero. He would be doing much more with the writing Smith is getting, even if he loses some of the Peter Pan, infinite boyish wonder, side of the character that Smith and Baker each hit well. Nu-Who Doctors are more than cartoons; they have growth and development as characters. Smith’s Doctor’s anger seems like The Doctor posturing, or baiting, never really angry, or more so controlling real anger and channelling it.
I chose Troughton because he really embodies all of what the Doctor is to me. Fun, mysterious, comic and has a hidden depth that never really gets seen. I love watching his serials, despite the fact hardly any exist in full.
He made the multi-Doctor serials worth watching. Especially “The Two Doctors.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love the others too. I just really adore Troughton’s Doctor.
Baker got my vote, though Tennant was a nanometer behind. Baker won on nostalgia, getting there first, and defining the character that later actors would interpret.
I find it amusing that out of eleven names, you spell them all correctly except for your favourite one. 
My first Doctor was the arse end of Pertwee: “The Green Death” scared the utter shite out of me as a kid, and later, “Pyramids of Mars” with Tom Baker. I think that Matt Smith is as good a Doctor that has ever been, he’s dead good at the whole old eccentric alien thing, so voted fir him.
Fine fellows. All of them.
Yes, this.
Indeed. All of them have been good Doctors.
Tom Baker is my sentimental favorite. Grew up on his Doctor on PBS in the 70s.
Colin Baker was way too cool for all the scorn he gets (it was a writing problem during his reign).
David Tenant is who I think has actually done the best job as the Doctor.
I voted Tenant.
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