Best Doctor Who

I voted with my inner 12-year-old.

I surprised myself with who I went for in the end.

surprised myself with who I went for

That was the only choice :)

I went for Tom Baker but I'm enjoying working my way through a load of Hartnells I downlooted.

I went for Davison. (ONLY ONE D)

That's because they are, by and large, awesome (which might give away how I ended up voting). How far have you got?

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Dan, I knew you would vote for the Wet Vet.

I voted for Hartnell for getting the ball rolling, and because I was stunned by how good he was when I watched a bunch on YouTube recently. Also - "You'll be reduced to embers floating around spain!"

Blimey (Eccles)

Not McGann. Not McCoy. Not Baker (C). Not Tennant.

Not Davison altho it's a close call.

Jon Pertwee. Tom Baker will get plenty of votes anyway. Davison almost got my vote.

Troughton, clearly.

No Peter Cushing?

Fuck Tom Baker. I voted for McCoy, he gets an unfair rep.

Actually I think his rep is completely fair but for reasons not under his control.

Perhaps if Baker (C) hadn't worn that ridiculous coat he might have had a better rep.

aldo so far iirc

The Keys of Marinus, The Sensorites (sp?), Planet of Giants

Short eps with stupid cliff hangers so much better than this newfangled single 45 min ep nonsense.

I went with Peter Davison because he's my Doctor... I started watching in the middle of Tom Baker's era and loved him but always felt like I was missing out because I didn't see it from the beginning (little did I know at the time) but when he regenerated I thought Castrovalva was the shit, loving MC Escher at the time. I just bought it and I'm going to watch it tonight!

You missed out The Aztecs? Watch it, it's great.

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"The Aztecs" is fucking awesome.

Aztecs isn't on the thing I downlooted, I don't think. Is it on yuotube/alluc/whatever?

Yep. All the Hartnells are except The War Machines, for some reason.

Oh, it's up now, I just checked.

ok thanks, it's on my list.

Make sure to watch The Ark as well, it's probably my favourite Hartnell.

The Web Planet is some serious trippy shit.

tho peter davison is my generation's who, of whom i am very fond, it has to be tom.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Had to go with Tom. I was introduced to the show through him, and his autobiography is a total classic. Feel tempted to vote Troughton just because he's so cool in the little that I've seen.

the best dr. who i've ever seen is the one with Sally Sparrow, from a week ago!

(NB i have never seen any dr. whos prior to this season)

Feel no shame in voting for David Tennant if you haven't seen anyone else. Recent epidoes have seem him mature into a very good Doctor indeed, in my opinion.

In series 2 it was all "I am wacky gurning Doctor", now it's more "I am dark side dangerous Doctor who will fuck you up, and I will gurn and be wacky if I damn well please".

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Plucky pensioners Hartnell + Troughton cruelly robbed by heartless youngsters McCoy + Tennant.

I watched two eps of THE KEYS OF MARINUS yesterday (before seeing this thread incidentally) and begob strike me down with a fevver if it weren't absolutely brilliant! Acid sea! Barbara bashing GIANT BRAINS with a slipper! Primitive submarines ("not as good as my Time Ship, oh no", wibbles the Doc)! Super spooky AQUATIC VILLANY.

Poor old McGann

I watched two eps of THE KEYS OF MARINUS yesterday (before seeing this thread incidentally) and begob strike me down with a fevver if it weren't absolutely brilliant! Acid sea! Barbara bashing GIANT BRAINS with a slipper! Primitive submarines ("not as good as my Time Ship, oh no", wibbles the Doc)! Super spooky AQUATIC VILLANY.

Also: "No, impossible... not in this temperature. Besides, it's too warm."

I love his wigge. It is beauteous. He suffers big time from attack of the Colins - on watching the TV movie Mcgann is actually really good, there's just BUG ALL for him to do...

xposts: YAY another Marinus fan!

RESPECT for the SILVER FOX OF GALLIFREY.

Watching "Doctor Who & the Silurians" for the first time. One of the things I like about bouncing around in the history for the first time is that doing a dramatic jump between Doctors & decades provides for maximum entertainment from the contrast. Pertwee really did have a much different vibe from all the rest, didn't he? Something about the mix of his speaking voice and physicality(even if he was a little older) than your standard Doctor. This era is neat; it's like watching "Dark Shadows"(similar music cues and crash-zooms)

Also, Paul Darrow's in this story, isn't he? Oh wait, there he is. His voice is weird without that extra decade of gravitas and baritone. I recognize Peter Miles, and it's fun to see him with even less hair than he had many years later.

Some great great stories in the Pertwee era, though I find his Doctor a bit of an acquired taste. May I recommend Carnival of Monsters if you've not seen it already.

When Pertwee gets to the later karate chopping phase, it gets a bit hard to take.

Carnival of Monsters is one of those Pertwee stories let down by hopelessly low production values.

I found the story clever enough for that not to matter.

I like Jon Pertwee as ageing alien James Bond (minus the sex)

I don't want to be one of those people that bitches about the new stuff and worships the old, but I feel like if they did the Silurians today, they'd have the ending be followed by 10 minutes of speechifying by the Doctor about why it was The Wrong Thing To Do, and some grave consequences for the Brigadier. Whereas in the story he really can't do shit about it, and obviously the Doctor's pissed but they do leave it up to the viewer to decide whether it was right or not.

also, one of things I liked about this story is that it shows the doctor sitting down to do brute force science, something that, as they point out in the featurettes, he doesn't really have time to do in the new series. It's one of the things I liked about Blakes 7; how in the 2nd season, they had an ep where Blake and the chief medical officer of the virus-stricken station were shown sitting there thinking thru a problem, something that I don't think that DW or even ST:TNG did often enough. Yes, the basis for much episodic tv sci-fi is action, but it speaks to the creators treating the audience with respect, in my view, to actually show the characters _thinking_. Proper science fiction always has a cerebral element to it, if you will, and as a lifelong sf geek I appreciate when that is demonstrated, as opposed to mere genre flashbang.

On tonight's episode of 'Adventures in the Civil Service,' even the doctor gets a desk job:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5371/deskjobdl3.png
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/deskjobdl3.png/1/w352.png

Although it looks like his boss will be having a talk about workplace dress code. At least he can't get in trouble for posting on ILX all day.

I saw Colin Baker last year. He was shouting in a rather weak manner from about 10 yards at a sullen teenage girl who was stomping away from him,

'And make sure you bloody well PHONE and let us know where you ARE this time!'

Wasn't wearing his annoying coat.

the avengers that was recycled into Seeds ov Doom was on beeb four last week.

FACT

Man-Eater of Surrey Green, I think. A Surfeit of H2O was on a couple of weeks ago, it's one of my favourites.

Watching "The Three Doctors" now. Something about the red monsters waddling about under the full glare of studio lights makes the thing seem straight out of Sigmund & the Sea Monsters:

http://thehub.capcollege.bc.ca/~sstubbs/krofftsite/images/sigmund.jpg

Do people think it would be redundant to do this poll again? 6 years is quite a long time, and another poll would be able to factor in Matt Smith, and Tennant's full tenure (I would argue that Peter Cushing should be included here as well). Would anyone else give a toss about this apart from me?

Wait until after Capaldi

No Cushing, no Hurndall, no Grant

OK. (incidently, is there anyone who would consider voting for Cushing in a poll where he was an option? He wouldn't be my first choice, but as someone who is just slightly too young to remember the original series being on the Cushing movies were the version of Dr Who I was most familiar with for a lot of my childhood thanks to TV showings, I don't know if this is true of many people?)

Has ilx done a poll of 'unofficial' doctors (Cushing, Hurndall, Michael Jayston etc)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JWZU8fg7s

I played the Amiga game last night. Ugh. Bad game. A sidescroller where you fly/run around shooting Daleks. Sounds cool! But the first level is IN A SEWER and underneath is shit-brown water and it just gets worse from there. Make your way to level 2, London, and it starts the level with you being shot at from both sides. Thanks a lot, game! Not only do you control weird and have no in-game music, you're completely unfair!

It's a shame cos the game LOOKS FREAKING COOL. The intro has a chiptune version of the main theme and then the 7th Doctor appears even though you are the 4th Doctor in the actual game. Plus there are a ton of synthesized voice samples including Daleks who were pretty much the best choice to use because they already sound like Amiga bad guys anyways. Oh, and there is a KILLER chillwave version of the Dr. Who theme (1:33 in that video) on the title screen.

the Dr Who pinball machine is GREAT but every video game has been a total turd

Troughton seems pretty good but so little survives.
I'm watching through a load of stories that are largely photo stills. I downloaded them about 5 years ago but they could be older.
So I'm wondering if there might be any more recent recreations.
Abominal Snowman in this series had really poor sound that could be conceivably improved with more recent technology if these are pretty old.
Enemy of the World was discovered in Nigeria last year. Wonder if there is any chance anything else will appear prior to the invention of time travel.
Also wonder if any budget exists for creating animation for the existing audio.
Is there any computer based animation based in photographic stills that could be applied?