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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the longest running and most influential Sci-Fi properties of all time, Doctor Who. With eleven different incarnations of the character over the decades, it's inevitable that there will be interpretations of the character you gravitate to more than others.

This month we ask: Who was your favorite Doctor in Doctor Who?

Ellen Katina

The first Doctor was my very favorite. William Hartnell handled this role with grace and elegance. Unlike the current Doctors who have a story that can go just about anywhere, the first Doctor had stories that drew on history. This made the story more difficult to construct because it needed to have the elements of science fiction while sticking to the limitations  of being historically correct. The stories themselves were hooky and stilted which made it difficult for the actors to give pertinent performances. Hartnell proved himself to be up to the task of bringing sub-standard stories to life. The temptation to overact the part would have made the show unbearable to watch. Hartnell played it seriously and therefore saved the day.

Stephanie Vannello

For me, it's a tie between my two favorite Doctors. On the one hand, the 10th Doctor is a charming, witty, and funny time lord of handsomeness. On the other hand, the 11th Doctor is a sentimental sweetheart who reminded the world that bow ties are cool. But I think I would have to go with the 10th Doctor because he was my first Doctor and you never forget your first Doctor because of all the wonderful, magical places he takes you to, and how his personality shines with every new location.I remember my first episode with the 10th Doctor was The Christmas Invasion; it was a terrific introduction to his personality especially when fighting the alien on a physical and mental level. David Tennant provided multiple layers to the Doctor, which showed me various sides of him. It was a treat to learn about my favorite Doctor and watch him grow through love, danger, and adventure. When he left, I was in tears, and although the new Doctor has grown me, I'll never forget my first Doctor.

And this Month's winner:

Mike Dolan

My favorite Doctor has to be number Four, Tom Baker.  Until David Tennant and Matt Smith, if you told someone to describe Doctor Who, they'd mention the traits that Tom was most famous for:  The ludicrously long scarf, the Harpo Marx hairdo, the googly-eyed lunatic's grin, the bag of jelly babies and the frequent offers thereof.
 
Tom was the first Doctor I ever watched.  I remember being five years old, and just coming in the door at 9PM after a family outing to Philadelphia.  The TV was still set on PBS from where it was left that morning, and I turned it on only to see the most simultaneously bizarre and awesome thing my little five-year-old mind had ever witnessed.   A tall man in the most unusual outfit was in a basement, and a hulking silver machine was trying to kill him.  But the strange part was, the man in the scarf wasn't trying to defend himself with his fists or a gun, like most action heroes would in that situation.  Instead, he was calmly trying to talk to the monster reasonably, even cracking jokes!  Who was this crazy person, and what was going on?  I needed to know more.  And from that moment, about halfway through Tom's first serial "Robot," I was hooked.
 
Tom is my favorite because he was the embodiment of the Doctor Who ideal that a quick wit, in the form of a wide and varied knowledge base coupled with irreverent flippancy, will carry the day over brute strength and aggression any day, more so than the Doctors who followed him (again, at least until Tennant and Smith).  No one else could do that hairpin turn from clowning mockery in the face of evil to righteous anger like Tom did.  Also, Tom was one of the most quotable Doctors:
 
"Well, of course I'm being childish! There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes." - Robot, 1975
 
[Standing outside the opened door, in the pouring rain]  "Could you spare a glass of water?" - The Brain of Morbius, 1976
 
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - The Face of Evil, 1977
 
"Now drop your weapons, or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!" - The Face of Evil, 1977
 
"No, 'eureka' is Greek for 'this bath is too hot.'" - The Talons of Weng-Chiang, 1977
 
[When asked if he's in charge] "No, but I'm full of ideas!" - The Horror of Fang Rock, 1977
 
"I've stopped the universe.  Still, they'll never notice.  Just imagine, somewhere someone's just slipped on a banana skin and he'll be wondering forever when he's going to hit the ground." - The Armageddon Factor, 1979
 
"I say; what a wonderful butler, he's so violent!" - City of Death, 1979
 
"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands." - City of Death, 1979
 
"Interfere? Of course we should interfere. Always do what you're best at, that's what I say." - Nightmare of Eden, 1979
 
"It's the end... but the moment has been prepared for..." - Logopolis, 1981
 
And not just Tom himself, but his era had the best Companions as well:
* Sarah Jane Smith, the feisty embodiment of pluckiness and the Third Doctor's statement that courage is being scared and still doing what you need to do anyway.
* Harry Sullivan, whose earnestness and basic decency shone through despite his clumsiness and occasional lack of familiarity with all this space and time business.
* Leela, the fierce-tempered and fiercely loyal huntress, who only ever screamed at a monster's arrival because she was charging it with a battle cry, knife at the ready.
* K-9, that multi-functional and miraculous mechanism, always ready with useful data, a handy stun-beam, or deadpan sarcasm.
* Romanadvoratrelundar, or "Romana", the elegant lady Time Lord who was the first Companion to be on an even footing with the Doctor, and sometimes even more than his equal.
Most of all, the Fourth Doctor is my favorite because, growing up as a nerdy fat kid, his outlandish eccentricities showed me that fitting in isn't everything in life; that being seen as weird may not be a goal but it's nothing to be ashamed of; and that sometimes, just sometimes, being smart and funny will get you farther than you ever believed.  All the way across the Universe, in fact....

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