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I'd put Genesis of the Daleks and Talons of Weng Chiang at #'s 1 and 2 respectively. I didn't really care for anything from season 18 aside from that one with vampires, and I wouldn't put that one in the top 10 either.

Peter Davison is by far the worst Doc imo. I would rank Eccleston just under Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton.
 
My ranking:

Tom Baker
Peter Davison
David Tennant
Jon Pertwee
Patrick Troughton
Christopher Eccleston
William Hartnell
Sylvester McCoy
Paul McGann (he had real potential to be awesome)
Colin Baker

Colin and Sylvester are bottom listers mainly due to the production teams rather than their acting abilities.
 
Here's my top 10's,

The best
1."Genesis of the Daleks"
2."The Talons of Weng-Chiang"
3."The Deadly Assassin"
4."The Brain of Morbius"
5."The Hand of Fear"
6."City of Death"
7."Inferno"
8."Warrior's Gate"
9."Tomb of the Cybermen"
10."The Invasion"

The worst,
191."The Lazarus Experiment"
192."The Shakespeare Code"
193."Fear Her"
194."The Girl in the Fireplace"
195."Last of the Time Lords"
196."The Runaway Bride"
197.The entire 4th series of Nu-Who
198."Family of Blood/Human Nature"
199."Blink"
200."Love & Monsters"

How I rank the Doctors,
1.Tom Baker
2.Jon Pertwee
3.Patrick Troughton
4.William Hartnell
5.Christopher Eccleston
6.Peter Davison
7.Colin Baker
8.Sylvester McCoy
9.Paul McGann





































10.Matt Smith














































11.David Tennant
 
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Intresting results from the latest poll in Doctor Who magazine to determine the order in which fans like the 200 stories so far

Those aren't the actual rankings. From DWM 413:

Top 10
01 The Caves of Androzani
02 Blink
03 Genesis of the Daleks
04 The Talons of Weng-Chiang
05 The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
06 Human Nature/The Family of Blood
07 Pyramids of Mars
08 City of Death
09 The Robots of Death
10 Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

Bottom 10
10 The Dominators
09 Fear Her
08 Paradise Towers
07 The Underwater Menace
06 The Space Pirates
05 Time-Flight
04 Underworld
03 Time and the Rani
02 Timelash
01 The Twin Dilemma

Ranking of Doctors based on story score averages:
01 Christopher Eccleston
02 David Tennant
03 Tom Baker
04 John Pertwee
05 Patrick Troughton
06 Peter Davison
07 William Hartnell
08 Paul McGann 135 TVM
09 Sylvester McCoy
10 Colin Baker

Highest ranking per Doctor
001 Davison The Caves of Androzani
002 Tennant Blink
003 T Baker Genesis of the Daleks
005 Eccleston The Empty Child
014 McCoy Remembrance of the Daleks
018 Troughton Evil of the Daleks
032 Pertwee Inferno
037 Hartnell The Daleks
046 C Baker Revelation of the Daleks
135 McGann TVM

Lowest ranking per Doctor

200 C Baker The Twin Dilemma
198 McCoy Time and the Rani
197 T Baker Underworld
196 Davison Time-Flight
195 Troughton The Space Pirates
192 Tennant Fear Her
190 Hartnell The Space Museum
187 Pertwee The Time Monster
165 Eccleston The Long Game
135 McGann TVM

In general the poll is mixed well. Fans don't appear to prefer one series over the other and both have placements all over the list, including the top and bottom 10. Eccleston has the strongest showing in story averages, but a lot was riding on that season so it makes sense they'd be stronger scripts than usual. He also benefits from having just one season, so there's less of a chance for clangers (his worst story is 35 from the bottom spot).

Fans seem to like the TVM more than is generally believed. They also seem to enjoy the later McCoy stories much more than conventional wisdom would have us believe, with several stories in the top half and very strong showings for Remembrance and Fenric.

Hartnell and Pertwee are solid mid-tier Doctors without many runaway hits nor clangers. Tom Baker and David Tennant have the strongest presence in the top of the charts. Colin Baker is by far the worst performing Doctor.

I believe DWM readers picked Tennant as their favorite Doctor, but that's revealed in 414 and I don't have it yet.
 
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So Brenden, based on your list of favorite Doctors things are looking up with Matt Smith. :lol

But only slightly! :lol

When making my list of how I rank the Doctors earlier I forgot to include a couple so here's the revised list,

The first 9 are unchanged then it's,

10.Peter Cushing
11.Richard Hurndall


The last 2 are still the same :)
 
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Looks like 2010 will have some Doctor Who worth watching after all as the first 3 months of the year will see the following region 2 Classic DVD releases with region 1 to follow,

"The Peladon Tales" box set

"The Masque of Mandragora"

"Myths & Legends" box set which contains, "The Time Monster", "Underworld" & "The Horns of Nimon"

"Time & The Rani" is also confirmed so it's not all good :D

"The Key To Time" box set also gets a much needed region 2 rerelease this month which means I'll be able to get my Tom Baker collection up to date as I missed the ltd edition release a couple of years back :banana
 
My only concern with matt smith is his age. I am sure I'll get over it if he has the Doctor 'Chops.' Now, his companion looks like she is 16 years old!?!?!? What the..........
 
It's nothing more than a money play by the Beeb. They are young, hire them for cheap, keep the companion for likely 2 series and keep Matt for 3 or 4.
 
sorry for coming in late, but how are the differences between Barbelith's info and bcm77 reconciled. They say almost 180 degrees different things. Were these 2 completely different polls?
 
my wife and i have been trying to watch the old ones in as much chronological order as possible. we are currently on the Pertwee episodes and enjoying them. The 2nd Doctor didn't seem to have many episodes on Netflix unfortunately.

I've seen a few of the Tom Baker episodes like Talons of Weng Chiang and some of the Dalek episodes. I am anxious to see more of his episodes to try to see what the fuss is about. Personally, he's one of my least favorites. Seems very poor acting to me.
 
You know your fanship is truly fanatical when you refer to something as "NuWho propaganda". :lol

Maybe it's not the same in the US but the amount of hype Nu-Who gets in our media is definitely enough to make it seem like the BBC are trying to brainwash people into liking it no matter what and the cult like bias towards it on pretty much every Doctor Who thread on the Internet is undeniable, to the point where I'm starting to lose some intrest in even the Classic era because it seems people only want to talk about the current stuff.
 
You should get a chuckle though that the most commonly liked Tennant story is Blink, which he was barely even in. :lol
 
You should get a chuckle though that the most commonly liked Tennant story is Blink, which he was barely even in. :lol

I certainly appreciate that particular irony :lol

I came in from work on Friday to discover my niece watching the SJA episode that featured HIM, but before I had chance to say something she not only changed the channel but even asked to borrow one of my Classic DVD's instead!

Things like this give me such hope for the youngsters of today :D
 
Nope, it was dodgy second hand info that I couldn't be bothered to double check as I don't waste money on Nu-Who propoganda like DWM.

But your info is the complete opposite of Nu-Who propoganda....you're truly saying here that you can't be bothered with fact checking ANTI-Nu-Who propoganda.

I'm not trying to contradict your opinions about Nu-Who, I just think you shouldn't post a bunch of made up BS in an attempt to validate it.

Anyway, maybe we should start a Classic Who thread. I could happily refrain from posting Nu-Who talk in there and it might be a nice to read a post from you that didn't need to piss on it at ever occassion.
 
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