I've never done the big finish but I want to. Out of curiosity where would you put six on the scale if you count it?

@@deliciousdallas8555 my doctor ranking tends to fluctuate, but I usually cite Six as my favorite doctor, if not #2 or #3 behind McGann and/or Troughton. I once gave a friend Big Finish recommendations and without realizing it all my recs were Colin Baker stories.

@@timetot Thank you for your answer, I'm actually quite excited to get into his stories now.

Christopher is my second favorite. I loved how he showed the side of the doctor who is truly devastated after the war. He had great chemistry with Rose, and had a amazingly human feel that helped you empathize with him.

Love Eccleston, too bad he didn't want to be associated with Doctor who after his appearance. Also 6th doctor needs more Love. Colin Baker tried to portray himself as a darker doctor but executives meddled so much into this, it fudged everything up. If it had been handled differently, the 6 would have been more like 9. It is so upsetting. Great talented actor too.

I love Eccleston. He’s my 5th favourite. My favourite was Tennant (my childhood Doctor), and my second is Tom Baker (my dad’s childhood Doctor). Smith, Capaldi, then Eccleston. Pertwee, Davison, Troughton, McCoy, Hartnell, Paul McGann, and finally, Colin Baker.

Eccleston is my favourite!

I will do my Rankings I have not seen the old who's the first Dw was Christopher Eccleston because I was like 1 in 2005 #5. The war Doctor #4. Joddie Whittaker #3. Peter capaldi #2. Matt Smith #1. David Tennant

@@milkpigeon he was though he died at 67

@@milkpigeon War ages people. Also -- the costuming played The Doctor's age up during Hartnell's tenure.

Dongle Quart Could be because of the black and white.

I dont rank him 1, but you have to remember that when Doctor Who started it was touted as an educational show - hence so many visits to historical places such as Rome, South America, etc.

This is only vaguely true. Firstly, he was 55 when he started Doctor Who, and already experiencing the first signs of bad health that would plague his later years. He didn’t go “senile” (I assume you actually mean that he suffered from dementia) during the run of the show, and didn’t have his daughter as a prompter, but found the show’s almost-all-year-round filming schedule exhausting due to developing arteriosclerosis by 1965, and always struggled with committing scripts to memory anyway, especially given that Doctor Who’s scripts were very dialogue-heavy. He died following a series of strokes in 1975 at the age of 67, and only had to read lines off cue cards for filming “The Three Doctors” in 1972, by which point he was very much in decline, hence why he only appears on pre-filmed inserts rather than in person alongside Troughton and Pertwee, in part because by then he was barely able to walk. He wasn’t a comedian and never described himself as such, preferring the term “legitimate actor”, and he wasn’t a “genuinely kind man” going on the recollections of cast and crew of him being quite difficult to work with and holding some very... shall we say OLD-FASHIONED views. But he was a talented actor, and gave his all to the show, never once treating it as anything inconsequential or not serious.

That is... not a bad head cannon explanation for all of this.

Damn, that is extremely interesting.

I always thought of 5th as slightly off since his regeneration was interrupted and that meant not everything got the chance to "reboot" so he had to kind create his own definitions of things

This theory is really going to fuck with my perception of his acting once I get around to watching his seasons.

Now that I think about it, the Classic Who doctors (apart from maybe Patrick Troughton) are all quite dark in the same way that you're bringing up. 1st manipulates his companions, 2nd makes a habit of putting himself in danger to make him not look like a threat, 3rd is overall very detached to the human world he's shoved into, and 4th is the same but more enthusiastic, 5th you already talked about, 6th doesn't NEED to be talked about, and 7th is your textbook Machiavellian. The first to really change was #8... Did the Time War change him more than we thought?

Exactly that's part of why he's my favorite 😌

I do still like him, but I'm required to rank him relative to the others and I just don't have as much fun with him.

That's fair! When you consider how good so many of the other doctors are, it's certainly understandable. :)

I remember seeing this and not agreeing, but after doctor who on twitch i completely see what you mean!

His grandpa moments just melt my heart. I just want his version of the Doctor to talk to me

Azura Bayta That smacked bottom line does sound dated and weird.

That's a fantastic summary - couldn't agree more!

capaldi is the first doctor i was introduced to this year when my friend got me into the show, and i agree he has so many traits of all the past doctors in his portrayal, and in my opinion at times he's giving a master's class in acting in his performances because he always seems to know what part of his doctor or what emotion to emphasize at any given moment intuitively... he's crotchety a bit at times but its muted and understated and playful whilst recalling elements of the first doctor.. he's honest passionate helpful caring and kind. when other parts of his character lead him to stray from that he corrects himself or gets corrected by clara, who is almost like his mirror in many ways, her own person but so much like him in some respects its uncanny like looking in a mirror. i forgot who said this i think it was moffat but the line went something like how it was easy to believe that the young-old matt smith would regenerate into the old but young peter capaldi. i agree. he seems old on the surface and seems hardened a bit like the war doctor and tennant and eccleston all were, but he still has playfulness like tom baker and matt smith too. he still knows in his heart what it really means to be truly alive. he still has hope faith love and joy and playfullness in his heart. there is also an intangible quality to peter capaldi's portrayal that i don't see or feel or get from any of the other doctor's not even from smith. i can't really name it or put a finger on it but it's there. also capaldi seems a lot like smith but alot less fragmented and more stable then smith's doctor was at times personality wise capaldi came along at a perfect time....following matt smith, travelling with clara, interacting with Missy. everything aligned perfectly in alot of ways to help enhance and support capaldis portrayal and enable him to play the doctor the way he did. smith's childishness and eccentricity helped people accept capaldi more then they would have otherwise and broke the ice and laid the ground work for him, travelling with clara provided a bridge adn contuity and helped people see capaldi wasnt all that different from past doctors and helped people draw parrallels with smith's doctor yet seeing he was his own doctor also, clara provided both a counterbalance and a kindred spirit and put the doctor in the position of occasionally having to reign her in when she became too much like him and try to explain to her the dangers that went with that, a position he was surprised to find himself in and a bit uncomfortable with as usually the companions reign him in not the other way around....,, and Missy despite being an enemy was a friend to him someone who he could relate to someone else who had seen and done it all already someone he could cautiously talk to about just about anything, he was getting tired of being the doctor and being a time lord and forced to live so long and growing weary, and Missy understood him in a way even Clara couldnt sometimes. also capaldi's time on the show made the show seem legitimate and like a real show, like a historical piece or period drama with science fiction elements where by contrast eccleston's run those epsiodes they sometimes seemed like no one figured out what to do with the show or make of it yet adn sometimes those episodes feel too campy like how can the audience be expected to take this seriously as a show. yet you can still draw parrallels beteween capaldi's doctor and all of the new who doctors so far, he somehow ties it all up together at various times in various ways. he's believable that all of what happened to this point still lives on through and within him and has brought us to capaldi's doctor. and i think its great that he's playing with the first doctor in the special as some of 12 harkens back to the 1st i think.

He's my favorite NuWho Doctor and feels like the most Doctorish out of the four. I'm truely gonna miss him because he is the reason I got into the show again. I can only hope Whittaker isn't written like a Matt Smith.

Masoom Rana same

I have only watched the Sylvester McCoy era of Classic Who, so I feel, I cannot make a ranking. However through some specials and by the help of the internet and KZfaq, I feel pretty confident to say, that I love Patrick Troughton (and hate Jon Pertwee)! Still, MY Doctor is Matt Smith!

Tennant is the doctor, while everyone else was just pretending to be

@@tristansteinbomer3256 actually no, thats Tom Baker!!

End The Storm And Rose wasn't? I suggest you to rewatch Series 2.

End The Storm Reviews from regular youtubers? Ha, you made my day...

End The Storm So you assume I didn't watch every Doctor Who episode, or what? I repeat my question, youtube "professional critics"?

End The Storm 1. You shouldn't have to watch KZfaq reviews to form your own opinion. 2. Moffats stories really weren't that complicated. 3. Stop fighting, your blowing up my inbox.

I liked Matt immediately as the Doctor, but I hated where they took his stories. I didn't like the things they had Matt's Doctor say and do. I was very disappointed with the River/Ponds stories and really disliked Clara.

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Nope, I want that coat, and for people to stop hating his doctor

I like the suit!

Phoenix Intergrale No I love it too 👍

Phoenix Intergrale I prefer the blue outfit it's more smooth

Me too

This guy knows

The 9th Doctor did a great job filling some very large shoes, for that I give him a lot of respect. While I don’t have him at the top of my personal list, I do wish I could have seen what he would have been like with more than 1 season under his belt.

Agreed

He is sort of classic to the revival as well

The only thing that holds 9 back is the short run and that's about it. I honestly wish they made some side series about his stuff taking place before Bad wolf and parting of the ways.

A chiefs fan AND Capaldi is your fave??? I'm from KC and Capaldi is MY fave, hell yeah!!!

Crash Bandicoot Eccelston was my first Doctor. I actually refused to watch Tennant for a long time (I watched them on Netflix). He is so near and dear to my heart. I think Tennat takes my number one spot though.

I was born then too ❤

I absolutely love him soo you‘re certainly not alone :)

He's such a good Doctor but his era and arcs and everything was poorly thought up

Schwinn D. I think it was Steven Moffat’s egotistical vision for the show that caused people to jump ship, not Peter Capaldi. Peter was served very badly by the writing which was, frankly, garbage imo.

He's my doctor tooo...

i loved capaldi but he got stuck with a companion who i really disliked and i found a lot of his stories a bit boring but he was great

CheshireSmileGaming Ü The fact that Matt Smith was "over the top" with his child-like antics is what made him one of my 2 favorite Drs

"He's was"

I hate Tennant's doctor. He's so whiny and his flavor of arrogance rubs me the wrong way. Especially towards the end of his run. The very first episode I saw of Doctor Who was Weeping Angels. Loved that episode, and Tennant towards the beginning of his run, but he began to become super annoying to me and strangely obsessed with Rose (who I also did not like). So far of the doctors' whose runs I have completed, he's the only one whose entire run I do not love.

agreed Tennant's doctor is my third least favorite doctor of all time! He is so whiny and bitchy that everyone feels sorry for him, I couldn't give a crap about him, the one thing that made the doctor the doctor was not that he whines and he complains that "It's not fair!" when he regenerates just pisses me off even more.

Nope, nope, nope - HATED Tennant as the Doctor. His episode were well written, just didn't like him. (In other stuff I like him in so it's just his performance here.)

“I am the Doctor, and this is my spoon,” was my favorite line of his until he started reusing “be kind.”

Yeah, the whole "be kind" thing is a beautiful theme for him. When I'm old enough, I want to get a Whovian tattoo, and I might use that quote.

That actually happens to me to a certain degree. With the exception of Colin Baker (who I've yet to find a story where he worked for me) I find myself really loving the heck out of each Doctor as I'm watching them. And for the length of whatever story I'm watching, they will be my favorite Doctor. That's part of what makes it hard to step back from it and make a list like this.

And for reference 13. Tennant 12. Hurt 11. Smith 10. Capaldi 9. Eccelston 8. Davison 7. Hartnell 6. Pertwee 5. Troughton 4. Tom Baker 3. McGann 2. Colin Baker 1. McCoy Only Doctor I really dislike is Tennant because he's too human and a rip off of 5 (who is wonderful on audio as well capturing the young but old the show was going for even better).

I don't know why I have never seen a full episode of Colin Baker's, but I have listened to one of his Big Finish and I liked it very much. With no Doctor Who on TV, I may go back to getting more Big Finish episodes. I do a lot of Audible, but only some of those are from Big Finish. most are BBC contracted stories. I may focus on getting Colin Baker stories.

I really liked him, he had some excellent in show moments, and his audio is amazing.

Christopher Kelsey i agree with you but i would swap matt smith with tom baker

Where would you put Jodie after seeing S11

I wont argue with your list, you respect old and new equally, though mine will always be Tom Baker

13. 11th (IMO, the only doctor that got worse as his era goes on) 12. 5th 11. 10th 10. War 9. 8th 8. 1st 7. 9th 6. 4th 5. 2nd 4. 3rd 3. 12th 2. 6th 1. 7th

Spectrum Storms this is why I love these lists, they are just so wildly different! I definitely get why people don’t like Matt smith, although I wonder if when you say he got worse as time went on you mean his scripts did or his performance and characterisation or both? And when you list Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as your fave, is that influenced by the post tv show books and plays? Or do you genuinely like that TV era? I was basing my list on the TV show and whilst I can see the potential in those characterisations I find it hard to see much to enjoy in 6 in particular.

His portrayal got worse. By the end of his era, Eleven was too quirky, too hyper, and too over the top (and the scripts didn't help either). I'll describe him as "all style, no substance".

aside from the fact that in nearly every list i've seen colin is at the bottom

Luna Whinchester_Time Lord i think the 13th doctor is gonna blow all our minds and is going to be the 2nd best ( its impossible to beat tom baker ) doctor

same here, exept that I haven't seen tom baker

Same bro

Thanks Your the first people to agree with me

I can handle that,as long as you remember classic as well as new!

you need to

I admit that I prefer 11 more than 10, but it's not for the alien versus non-alien qualities. tho, I did like smith's more alien approach overall, bc sometimes 10 acted like an angsty teenager. I liked 11 better bc he was more consistent to me actually, and 10 was just way too inconsistent. and when I say inconsistent, I don't mean in tone. I'm fine with both doctors shifts in tone from light to dark. they are both great actors, objectively speaking. the only way that anyone could think smith was bad is if they wanted to see him that way. however, 11 had a dark side in quite a few times in his early run, from him shouting at everyone in the beast below, to hitting the dalek in victory of the dalek, to his venomous tone sometimes when dealing with the angels in flesh and stone, etc. the darkness was always there; people just didn't notice it. what I mean with consistency on what 'the doctor is' and 'does he always keep the rules the same for everyone' and 'is he emotionally independent/has his own identity outside of his companions', which are all things the doctor should have. also does he always say one thing and do that thing, or does he say one thing and do another. 10 seemed too human in the way that he didn't always seem to know what he was, like we humans do. he was just played by an actor who knew how to play him well and make him lovable. but I respect ur opinion and each to his own.

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I'd like to add that the humanity of 10 is by design. He wanted to be someone who could be with Rose so off course he's more human because he wants to be. As far as being alien, with a man who has spent so much time with humans, something is bound to rub off so to speak.

Agree. Can’t stand 11.

First: I agree with you, Vikram Perry! Just more rambling going on here. I can't really compare Ten to the other Doctors, since I only watched a few Eleven and a few Twelve, and other than Ten only Nine got watched throughout. So, that's gotta come first - my explorations now come without comparison but from what I saw in Ten, and Ten alone. Now, because I saw that people get annoyed about big text, so: There's a LOT of text after this. Just don't read if you're not interested. I really like this character. Yes, he acts sometimes like a teenager. He's giddy and overly happy, but I agree with the idea that in a lot of times, it's an act. Where it's not an act, is when he steps out of the Tardis with Rose in The Idiot's Lantern - he's happy and giddy and wants to have a bit of fun-time with the girl he kinda is in love with. There are other instances, too - when they meet Queen Victoria, for example - but in a lot of times after Rose was gone, he acts in the age-old wisdom of "fake it 'till you make it"-fashion. When Martha asks him if he's fine after the sun burned him up in 42, he isn't but shakes it off to pretend he is. And he shakes off everything after "Human Nature", too. Maybe it's true, maybe he IS the most human - because as a human myself, I see the whole run of Ten as character-wise very consistent. I understand where he's coming from. He's RUNNING. All throughout, he's running. He's the most elated when he runs - FROM something or TO something - because it's motion, it's action, it's the opposite of standing still and thinking. He doesn't want to think, shoves thinking out of his way because even though we only really get to see it in Day of the Doctor, when it's clearly stated, *I* see him thinking about all that's happened before he met Rose. When the Doctor ended the Time War, he ended his entire species (he believes - and I actually would have liked it to be that way, but eh... so for Ten during his three seasons, he DID). He committed genocide - not as an accident, but willfully and deliberate. Not to just one species, but two. And one of that species was his own. He made the decision at the time to end the Time War and end everything, everyone on his planet, every timelord in existence. Considering that, I find it highly fitting that he runs and hops and skips through the world, chasing high after high just so he won't get low enough to actually think. But he knows, he remembers. He remembers the exact number of his own species' children he killed. Every life snuffed out. When he stands over the pit with those spider-babies (Runaway Bride) and just listens to their screams and their mother's pain, I bet he's hearing all the screams he'd caused before. And I bet he's thinking "why should I care about them?" If he's thinking at all - not completely sure there. He said "I used to have so much mercy". Somewhere along the way, his mercy got witted down to just enough to not be a complete bastard so that Donna can snap him out again. So yeah... maybe he is too human. But if that's something that sets him apart from the other Doctors, it doesn't really endear the others to me. If I don't understand their thinking, how can I relate to them? Hmmmm... I'd have to watch more episodes of Capaldi or Smith, maybe. What I wonder most about are people's complaints about Ten's end. Why are so many moaning that he doesn't want to die as the incarnation he was then? Why is it 'wrong' for the Doctor to cling to this form and this form's hard-earned emotions? Is it wrong for him to not want to do it all over again, have to re-assemble himself as a personality again? Why do people even call him "selfish" when he doesn't instantly go and rescue Wilfred? Is that what they mean about "not being alien enough"? He wasn't angry at Wilfred! He wasn't even angry at this moment - he'd kinda known he was gonna die. But with every other "knock 4 times" that happened along the way, he had action and grand things to achieve. Save the Master, stop the Timelords, etc. He was prepared to die in the Library, no hesitation on his part! He stood in front of the Daleks in Manhattan, gambling to survive but really... he could have just as easily died there. He didn't hesitate there. But the thing with this "death" was that it had been announced, that "his song" would end. Not that another song would start, but HIS song would end. So when he saw Wilfred in the box and heard the knock, it wasn't even an issue with him. He KNEW he was gonna save him. And not because he wanted to keep the high ground, but because that's what he'd do - maybe because Donna taught him, but he'd saved people long before that without prompting. And Wilfred wasn't even a stranger - he was a good man, he was DONNA'S grandfather, so important to her. Ten KNEW he was going to save him, he knew he was going to die there. His ranting about not wanting to - well, isnt that justified? "Rage against the dying of the light" - he'd quoted that before. It doesn't make a lick of difference to the outcome, he knew he was going to save Wilfred. There was literally no other choice he could make.The Ood knew already. They knew the kind of person he was. So what's the hangup about him giving one last run to himself? One moment of "imagine the highs I can still chase...." But ultimately, it had to end. He had to stop running. So yeah, I really don't understand how people are so angry about that. Let him rage a bit, let him ramble - he earned that.

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Yeah I try to make clear there's nothing WRONG with Tennant being more human, it just goes against the qualities I personally prefer in the Doctor.

Council of Geeks Totally understand that man. Love your content! :)

I think Tennant is so high for me cause he was the first one I saw. if you want to know the first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw was The Shakespeare Code (Grade 11 English) and Tennant had me from the word go. His charisma, his seriousness, his smile and his sense of humour turned into a Whovian for life.

troughton was the first true doctor, if he didnt work, the show would not. And he started some basic ideas that has lasted through the entire show. The confusion after regeneration talking your way out rather than fighting strategic retreat, and you can sort of control your regeneration and you dont have to die to do it

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(I say met... seen on youtube... same thing)

That's basically like meeting.

Also, here’s my ranking (though it’s really highly opinionated and based on the show’s writing more than characterization at points;) 13: Peter Capaldi 12: Colin Baker 11: Sylvester McCoy 10: Matt Smith 9: Peter Davison 8: John Hurt 7: William Hartnell 6: David Tennant 5: Jon Pertwee 4: Patrick Troughton 3: Paul McGann 2: Tom Baker 1: Christopher Eccleston

Brian Dusel only one appearance *hurts*

Brian Dusel Paul McGann last is too far, I will now destroy all humanity 💁‍♂️🔥

of course!

Why does everyone hate Matt Smith today? XD

Tom Baker will always be my doctor, so if you swapped 1 and three I do agree with all the rest. I can understand you not liking Willian Hartnell, but he was the first and nothing had been established yet, and he was an older man, an ill one at that!!

Ooh, if you got The Chimes of Midnight with Paul McGann, then prepare yourself to budge Christopher Eccleston out of 1st place! Seriously, it's absolutely fantastic (pun not entirely intended, but it just kind of happened)!

Muldwych the Wise sadly I only got Orion and Storm Warning, I'm keeping a look out for chimes everywhere

Deadralord777 Paul is lord and savior

Id go Tom Baker 1st, David Tennant 2nd Mccoy 4th, otherwise I love your list

So far it's only been Shada, which I do have a review video up for. But I hope to do more as I get more into them.

Don't forget The Holy Terror! Though it is a Sixth Doctor story, it's got one of my all time favorite companions in it from the comics, Frobisher, and that ending gets me every single time.

I think it's sort of overlooked how much good Big Finish has done for the Fifth Doctor when compared to the Sixth and Eighth Doctors. They give him much more presence in each story and Davison's older voice really lends to this "old man in a young man's body" performance that was never really emphasized onscreen, I think. Plus, there's been some truly fantastic writing for him - Spare Parts, Creatures of Beauty, The Council of Nicaea, Psychodrome and Iterations of I, The Peterloo Massacre, and so many more. I think they have consistently nailed the type of stories that really make his Doctor stand out. McCoy's brilliant in the audios, too. He and Sophie Aldred sound like they haven't aged a day in audio and most of their adventures with Hex starting with The Harvest are fantastic - especially Live 34! Colditz, A Thousand Tiny Wings, Survival of the Fittest, and The Architects of History are great too. Gotta agree with everything you said about McGann and Colin, though. I've made it a mission to never miss a new audio with Colin if I can help it!