skyjedi2005 said:
Tom Baker will always be doctor who to some fans, in the same way that Sean Connery will always be remembered as James Bond to old school bond fans.

When i think of dr who i think of the chessyness of the special effects, the cool theme song and that colorful scarf Tom wore, and watching it on an old tv set on pbs before we had cable.

Tom Baker is a spectacular actor wiith a unique talent and mentality. The old show was mostly crap but he shone through in it nonetheless. Really special performance. The Doctor has never been so much the eccentric alien as when Tom played him. Second best I'd say is Eccleston, who did a marvellous job. After that I'd put Pertwee, who was a perfect archetypical Doctor. I often found Doctor Who (the old show) damn near unwatchable but I watched it anyway because I was fascinated by the different takes different actors had on the same character and because some of the actors did a great job. Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are both underrated and turned in their own unique takes with panache. Whereas I think Troughton is overrated. I think there's a lot of pretension involved in Troughton fandom -I think a lot of people think it's clever and intellectual to make a fuss about Troughton. Hartnell's peformance I found unrelatable and basically a hopless caricature. Except for some bits in Castrovalva, Davison's performances were usually bland as hell. I thought the guy had no personality and couldn't act until I saw him elswhere. It's just that his Doctor is probably his worst work. It's like Samuel L Jackson as Mace Windu. Is there any chance George Lucas secretly directed Davison's tenure?