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Post by jno on Jul 4, 2016 6:04:52 GMT
Inspired from a post by: yoyopickles Who are your TOP THREE TV doctors? |
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Post by ace5150 on Jul 4, 2016 16:47:25 GMT
Pertwee Baker Ecclestone.
No contest.
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Post by mrschisholm on Jul 4, 2016 16:53:37 GMT
I only voted for two. Peter Capaldi and David Tennant. Capaldi is wonderful in the role, it is a pity he got sidelined so much for Clara.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 4, 2016 18:50:58 GMT
Where's Peter Cushing?
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 4, 2016 18:54:01 GMT
I was gonna go Troughton, Pertwee and Baker (Tom), but I don't think Dr Who should've come back... So now I'm torn!
Rubbish show nowadays.
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Post by daz on Jul 4, 2016 20:57:22 GMT
I think Tom Baker was the best ever Doctor, but I cannot really comment much on Pertwee, Troughton and Hartnell as well before my time and have only seen a few episodes.
The only one I remember not liking was Colin Baker, and I think it was a shame Chris Ecclestone only did one series, as he was a fantastic Doctor IMO. Peter Davidson got my 3rd vote, as I quite liked him.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Jul 4, 2016 21:16:07 GMT
Easy choice: the 3 I grew up watching: Troughton, Pertwee and Tom Baker. ....is the right answer. |
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Post by Portland Road on Jul 5, 2016 5:24:19 GMT
William Hartnell probably has few votes because he was before most forum members watched the show?
He made the role what it was, for others to develop the character further.
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Post by gustav on Jul 5, 2016 23:42:34 GMT
I've gone for the Troughton, Pertwee, Baker trio because they were the ones I grew up with. I would be tempted to add Christopher Eccleston because he did a truly brilliant job of reviving it. I would also put William Hartnell high on the list because he was the first. He was a great actor in his time (Brighton Rock and This Sporting Life for instance) although he doesn't come over brilliantly in the surviving videos of Dr Who, often looking and sounding more than a bit tetchy and fluffing the lines.
But the list of Doctors to vote for is not complete. You should have John Hurt there as well as Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall who also played the First Doctor.
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Post by jno on Jul 7, 2016 2:26:02 GMT
But the list of Doctors to vote for is not complete. You should have John Hurt there as well as Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall who also played the First Doctor. Well, thread title is 'TV Doctors' so with my anorak on that sort of excludes Cushing, doesn't it? Granted, the film might have been repeated for TV plus the other two probably should be on the list. Not sure if they'd get too many votes but nevertheless...hats off!  |
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Post by arnie on Jul 12, 2016 16:20:51 GMT
Pertwee and Baker for me.
Never been a massive Dr Who fan. Grew up watching these two as the Doctor - anyone else seems to be an imposter in my eyes, not the same.
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Post by larchlapriley on Jul 12, 2016 21:05:23 GMT
Not a great fan of Doctor Who since I was a boy but Troughton, Baker and Davison although I preferred Davison's work as Dr Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice where he played opposite Michael Troughton, son of Patrick and brother of Michael, aka DC Mellish.
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Post by KarinB on Jul 13, 2016 13:26:30 GMT
Tom Baker  Christopher Ecclestone - I was very dubious about Dr Who returning so watched the return episode ready to criticise, BUT I loved it ! This actor did a brilliant job of taking a tough role. It was a pity he only stayed for one series, but it was an important one. David Tennant  (He emphasized the fun side of the Dr) I don't watch it anymore. It seemed (to me anyway) to try and get too clever with its plots and twists and turns. I'll still watch an old one if I see it's on the telly. I suppose the next natural Death match is which is the favourite Dr's assistant, or have we done that one already ? |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:08:07 GMT
A forum tale:
AS the boards official "recovering Doctor who fan I can say that this story of yours is a GEM! you are right, a stand in for William Hartnell was used in the SMUGGLERS, for the scenes where the doctor boards and disembarks a boat, Bill Hartnell was coming towards the end of his career as the doctor and was finding the show exhausting. The SMUGGLERS was his second to last story, and a stand in was used quite a lot in his last story THE TENTH PLANET, which introduced the cybermen and of course, the fact that the doctor's body could regenerate.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:11:58 GMT
But the list of Doctors to vote for is not complete. You should have John Hurt there as well as Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall who also played the First Doctor. Well, thread title is 'TV Doctors' so with my anorak on that sort of excludes Cushing, doesn't it? Granted, the film might have been repeated for TV plus the other two probably should be on the list. Not sure if they'd get too many votes but nevertheless...hats off! If we are being technical John Hurt's WAR DOCTOR incarnation of the doctor had about the same amount of screen time as Paul McGann's 8th Doctor........ |
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:15:12 GMT
I voted for the first 3 t.v doctors
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:18:41 GMT
Brian Mosely, AKA Alf Roberts from corrie also worked on that story as a stuntman
The audio soundtrack still survives I had an off air recording of it on cassette, back in the mid 1990s, before they were all released officially by the BBC on CD.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:22:55 GMT
I remember a story about the actors being on a ship called the Lyoness, and they crew joked that it was good that it was not filed in colour, as most of them had gone a shade of green due to the choppy water!
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 13, 2016 18:44:10 GMT
I will have to dig out my old 1st doctor hand book to get the full lowdown, maybe the boat scene was filmed later?
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Post by gustav on Jul 17, 2016 21:14:26 GMT
Fascinating story about seeing William Hartnell or his stand in on the beach. I don't think Patrick Troughton had any health problems but he certainly missed some filming. There was one series - I forget the title but I have it on DVD - and he goes on holiday in the middle of the filming. To get round this the Doctor gets knocked out and lies on the floor for at least a whole episode until he gets back from Malaga or wherever he went and can start filming again.
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Post by Portland Road on Jul 18, 2016 8:02:49 GMT
Like other workers in the UK at the time, actors were only entitled to the standard two weeks off, and 'Doctor Who' was in production almost continuously.
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Post by pr1 on Aug 2, 2016 3:57:53 GMT
Pat, Jon and Tom for me.
I think Troughton is the best Doctor. Pertwee is the first Doctor I ever saw. I was lucky enough to live in an area that showed Doctor Who when it was first sold to America in 1972.
Tom Baker mainly for his first three years which contains some of the best Doctor Who stories ever. I would have voted for William Hartnell if I had one more choice.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Oct 7, 2016 19:53:00 GMT
Hopefully Philip Morris has the answer.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Oct 7, 2016 22:58:09 GMT
I'm not convinced either way on Morris - it's a fascinating story but he does like to encourage the speculation about what he might have found apart from The Web of Fear and The Enemy of The World.
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Post by plasticpenguin on Oct 8, 2016 1:46:23 GMT
Can only remember Jon Pertwee. Not really a Dr. Who fan.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Oct 8, 2016 13:21:26 GMT
She was actually doing a photo shoot for a local photographer who'd asked her if she'd like to visit the locations 50 years on.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Oct 8, 2016 20:06:40 GMT
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Post by Portland Road on Oct 10, 2016 8:05:26 GMT
I'm not convinced either way on Morris - it's a fascinating story but he does like to encourage the speculation about what he might have found apart from The Web of Fear and The Enemy of The World. Yes, it sounds like something important from Doctor Who history is in the wind. |
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Post by billyfarmer on Feb 9, 2017 18:23:43 GMT
Tom Baker, is definitely my favourite Doctor Who, followed by Jon Pertwee, third favourite Doctor, difficult choice, but it would definitely be one of the Doctors, from classic Doctor Who (1963-1989).
1970-1981, was a great period in the history of Doctor Who, many classic Doctor Who stories, were made, during the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras, a period which also featured my favourite Doctor Who assistant - Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen).
Re - Colin Baker (the sixth Doctor Who), I can remember meeting Colin (a very nice experience), in a Store, in Norwich, Colin, is definitely the nicest Doctor Who star, I have ever met.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Feb 9, 2017 21:29:26 GMT
Tom was great in the role but I missed a lot of his tenure initially through living abroad so we were only getting the Pertwee shows that I'd already seen in the UK, hence he's my favourite Doctor. Tom would probably be second but that's only because I've seen so little of Patrick Troughton in comparison, thanks to the BBC's shortsightedness.
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(He emphasized the fun side of the Dr) 
