Who is your favourite Who?
- Thread starter Tonyblack
- Start date
*high fives Sabra* Right on sister! Welcome to the forum 
I've watched it since series 1 episode 1 and I was one of several thousand little kids who had to do so from behind the sofa.... 8) William Hartnell in retrospect was actually a brilliant doc - he was sooooooo grumpy but, as I had just turned 5, I immediately associated him with the strictest teacher at my primary school (who was female and scary as hell!
) and it was actually him that had me behind the sofa and not the Daleks - they didn't show up until further on in the 1st series.
The only Doctor I really missed out on was Sylvester McCoy - the programme was starved of cash by then and looked really old hat and shabby (I never, ever will forgive Michael Grade for that! And for chopping poor Colin Baker altogether for 18 months
) and I also couldn't stick watching poor Sylvester (who was a really excellent Doctor) with Bonnie Langford, despite her being the best assistant/companion at screaming for the entire run including these latest ones... I've since seen the re-runs of the McCoy Doctor on UKGlod (except for Bonnie's eps - there has to be a line somewhere!) and there wasn't much wrong with it that I could see, certainly not on the writing side of it and really the clunky sets weren't that bad - cheesy maybe, but cute cheesy.
Anyway the New Wave Docs all certainly cut the mustard, so onwards and upwards!
I've watched it since series 1 episode 1 and I was one of several thousand little kids who had to do so from behind the sofa.... 8) William Hartnell in retrospect was actually a brilliant doc - he was sooooooo grumpy but, as I had just turned 5, I immediately associated him with the strictest teacher at my primary school (who was female and scary as hell!
) and it was actually him that had me behind the sofa and not the Daleks - they didn't show up until further on in the 1st series. The only Doctor I really missed out on was Sylvester McCoy - the programme was starved of cash by then and looked really old hat and shabby (I never, ever will forgive Michael Grade for that! And for chopping poor Colin Baker altogether for 18 months
) and I also couldn't stick watching poor Sylvester (who was a really excellent Doctor) with Bonnie Langford, despite her being the best assistant/companion at screaming for the entire run including these latest ones... I've since seen the re-runs of the McCoy Doctor on UKGlod (except for Bonnie's eps - there has to be a line somewhere!) and there wasn't much wrong with it that I could see, certainly not on the writing side of it and really the clunky sets weren't that bad - cheesy maybe, but cute cheesy. Anyway the New Wave Docs all certainly cut the mustard, so onwards and upwards!
jonny said:
I agree with bikkit, matt smith is the best doctor
And the weeping angels are the best enemy
And the weeping angels are the best enemy
Anyway, they had only been open a while and were still trying to figure out exactly were to place the huge statues. So we would drive past in the morning and the statues would be in ONE position... and when we drove past that afternoon the statues would have MOVED! This went on for a week. Freaked the kids out no end. They totally lost it the day I pulled the car INTO the yard in the middle of the statues (Hahahaha) I'm a bad bad mother.
The Mad Collector said:
It used to be said that your favourite Doctor Who told a lot about how old you are. The basis for this being that it was invariably the person playing the part when you were about 10. Of course the huge gap between classic and modern Doctor Who means this no longer works for people less than their mid 30's. But mine is Jon Pertwee, I leave you to work out how old I am
Very funny, actually the weeping angels were the scariest monsters for David Tennant but they mucked it up with Matt Smith because they messed about with the 'don't blink rule' so that Amy could walk though them with her eyes closed. Sorry but isn't that just one very long blink, it was clear that if your eyes were closed with DT then they moved.
Totally agree Mad! In fact it was the first point all my daughters were up in arms (all of them only really being connected with the "new wave" of doctors.. ages 23 to 10). It varies between DYING to point out a clue and being "eye-whipped" into silence but when that happened there were cries of foul play loud and clear. The weeping angles move when your eyes are closed during that microsecond so why wouldn't they move if you had your eyes closed longer? !!!!! (five exclamation points)
I apologise if this has already been covered as I confess that I have not read all the pages of this thread but, some of the Doctors who are not people's favourites (Colin Baker for eg.) were the victims of very poor script writing. And very, very unusual costuming.
Many of us over 32 believe that Tom Baker is the best but then he had the benefit of the great Robert Holmes. Poor old Peter Davidson had to wait until his final story for a decent script - he was also burdened with women who were made to have very bad accents.
I grew up with Tom Baker and so he will always be the Dr for me. But then I think that Spearhead from Space is an absolutley brilliant story. Patrick Troughton was also very good, the poor man had to put up with the story that never ended afterall ...
Many of us over 32 believe that Tom Baker is the best but then he had the benefit of the great Robert Holmes. Poor old Peter Davidson had to wait until his final story for a decent script - he was also burdened with women who were made to have very bad accents.
I grew up with Tom Baker and so he will always be the Dr for me. But then I think that Spearhead from Space is an absolutley brilliant story. Patrick Troughton was also very good, the poor man had to put up with the story that never ended afterall ...
Very true Pandasthumb, and welcome to the board. I always thought Sylvester McCoy was an awful doctor but recently I saw some of his last episodes when he was given a decent story to work with and it all came together. Just in time for the BBC to kill off the program based on the rubbish previous series which had destroyed audience figures.
Colin Baker never had a chance
Colin Baker never had a chance
I stopped watching during the Sylvestor McCoy era. Although looking back, I can't help but feel that the BBC were looking for an excuse to axe what was, for that time, an expensive series to make and deliberately set out to lose the audience with poor stories, scripting, casting, and special effects.
Announcement from the BBC
The sixth series of Doctor Who will open with a two-parter set in the US, the BBC has announced. Scenes will be filmed in the Utah desert for a story set in the late '60s in which the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons to the Oval Office.
Moffat said: "The Doctor has visited every weird and wonderful planet you can imagine, so he was bound get round to America eventually.
The sixth series of Doctor Who will open with a two-parter set in the US, the BBC has announced. Scenes will be filmed in the Utah desert for a story set in the late '60s in which the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons to the Oval Office.
Moffat said: "The Doctor has visited every weird and wonderful planet you can imagine, so he was bound get round to America eventually.
