I was a fan since the very first broadcast in 1963, and I have to say I wasn't initially sure about any of the new Doctors at first, even Tom, although he did become my favourite quite quickly. After Tom the casting never quite worked for me, and Peter Davison the least so, he never had any gravitas and the constant exasperated sighing and petty bickering amongst him and all his companions grew very tiresome.
As a child of the 80s, it was the exact opposite. I remember watching (what turned out to be repeats) of All Creatures Great And Small insisting that that vet was Doctor Who!
Tom is a god. I adore him. But I disagree on this. I accepted Peter Davison from the off. I was 10. Never looked at him and thought ‘Tristan’. When well-written for, PD was a great Doctor
@@huwturbervill8476 I think his point is that as it turned out he was wrong, he's just saying that's what he was worried about at the time. That's what he means when he says no one has ever failed in the role. As for having to be the Doctor in everything he's done since, I think that's true for Tom, but not as true for the other Doctors. I think it comes as much from him identifying himself with the role as much (or possibly more) than the audience doing it. The other Doctor for whom it might have been nearly as true is probably Pertwee and for the same reason. Tom and Jon both consider(ed) themselves to be the ultimate Doctor.
You may not have, but I did,as did all my friends. Took me a while to accept him, but he won us all over eventually, and with his Big Finish work, well, he's cemented his position in my affections
I remember thinking that as a lad that he was already on a programme I liked and so the immersion left me and it became a tv show - hard times turning 9 😅
He's right, but I would add that Peter was cast as a big contrast to Tom. No one could really follow Tom as he casts such a huge shadow - even today. I also think that Peter would argue that he wasn't given a free reign to do what he wanted to do with the character.
Yes he was. JNT left it entirely to Davison to create his Doctor and he only found him in his penultimate story!! Look at his 'performance' in 'Four to Doomsday' with that ridiculous high pitched shouting he does.... pure amateur.
@@rnw2739 _"JNT left it entirely to Davison to create his Doctor"_ Except he wouldn't let him be funny. That much is known. That, plus the scripts...it's not all Davison's fault.
Yeah nah. All Creatures was not that big for kids down under so it made no difference to me. And Davison was fabulous at the Doctor, he is electric in his first season.
He's talking about English kids though. Davison was alright but he was far from 'electric' in his first season - In 'Castrovalva' he is comatose for the majority of it and in 'Four to Doomsday', he is downright embarassing in places, topped only by Janet Fieldings cringe inducing attempts at dramatics. Add to that her ludicrous hairdo and its laughable.
@@rnw2739 I like Peter and his Doctor for what it is. However, when I was a kid, I watched live the show go from Tom to Peter. I found Peter......boring, if I'm being honest. The wit and humor of Tom was sorely missed, and that is not Davison's fault. The showrunner John Nathan Turner (JNT) wanted to eliminate the humor in hopes people would take the show "seriously". So, his Doctor never rated super high for me. In fact, I remember loving Colin Baker's character far more (but not the outfit lol)
@@OzBaxter I wouldn't say Tom's humour was wonderful during the latter half of his tenure. His ad-libbed asides and fourth wall breaks (all put in by him in his arrogance when he thought he was God) were painfully stale. I agree with you about Colin though. He was hilarious and is my favourite Doctor of all. His correction of Peri's Anericanisms is always hysterical, as is his habit of not listening to her.... the best case in point being in part one of The Mysterious Planet: Peri: Possible or not, I wanna get away from here! The Doctor: You're absolutely right. We MUST find out what's going on here!
At first, I thought Davison wasn't a great choice, but then, Tom Baker was a tough act to follow. To his credit, Peter took the role and made it his own. Though Tom was always my favorite Doctor, my sister prefers Peter.
Not everyone thought Tom Baker was the best Doctor. I got into the show in 1970 when Jon Pertwee was the Doctor, and I didn't like Tom Baker's goofiness in the role (though he was great when he was serious). I preferred Peter Davison's more serious take on the character, as well as having a fresher, younger face.
Tom Baker was the best Doctor in the series. Best companions. Best stories. Best era. Best final season. His final stories were filled with an incredible mood that made you feel like you were attending someone's funeral. The different approaches to styles such as the wonderfully manic Douglas Adams' take was vast making his era far more compelling than any other tenure. The only actor who could have pulled off an eighth season and still make it interesting would be Tom.
John Pertwee was the Doctor when I started watching Doctor Who. Pertwee to Baker was my first experience of a “transitioning” Doctor Who. When I saw it happening on tv (1975?), I thought the Pertwee Doctor was just becoming a younger person. Looking at Tom now, he looks just like John Pertwee!
I remember seeing his picture on Doctor Who Monthly in cricket gear with stumps painted on the front of the TARDIS and I vowed I would not watch Doctor Who anymore. After his first episode I was convinced and Tom and Peter are my favourite Doctors.
If some viewers struggle to understand that actors play more than one role, then that's on them and their stunted imaginations. It's funny how some people deliberately watch stuff with their favourite actors in, while others completely misunderstand what acting is about 😂
I think being well aware of the fakery that is acting, I had no problems switching on Peter Davison as the Doctor. In All Creatures, he is Tristan Farnon. He is infallibly The Doctor from his first moments in Castrovalva. i suppose, also, that seeing all this happen before, from the switch from Hartnell to Troughton and seeing Patrick in so many roles since has given that sort of compartmentalizational ability to say that, right, Peter Davison is The Doctor now and that was perfectly acceptable. Maybe that also allows a degree of scepticism when I see both political and religious fakery as the nonsense that it is. As did Tom.
@@dangerman5617 Doesn't matter if he's around another ten, this statement is going to date badly and I'm not an optimist and I don't think tom looks well now to be honest he's lost all the weight and is looking emaciated, not a good sign.
This is why the introduction of a new Doctor is so critical. The actor has to break out of every past role so viewers already familiar with him. Do this poorly and the audience won’t be invested in the new actor. Look at Matt Smith. They had the same issue with him, but they knocked it out of the park with his introduction.
I agree with Tom, he was too identifiable as Tristan the vet. A more unknown actor like Tom himself ought to have been cast. A young Jonathan Pryce would have been a perfect 5th Doctor.
Honestly, I absolutely love Tom Baker. But by 1981 it probably was time to go, and Peter Davison did it well. Being crude, his ratings were better too. The only significance I attach to that is that clearly he wasn't *not* accepted, so overall I think Tom is wrong on this. But still lovely man, and never dull.
@@colinmcdonough4034 I do think Colin Peter was too bland to play the Doctor, and he had some good stories like Earthshock with the dreaded Cybermen but on the whole he was not the best choice of actor to replace Tom Baker and also he was well known as Tristan the vet.
@@colinmcdonough4034 I agree, Tom did have a long innings and a change to freshen things up was needed. But I don't care about the ratings and Peter being "popular", well he was inoffensive at best. The truth is he could have been replaced by a cigar store wooden indian and no one would tell the difference.
I think that was the idea in many respects...I think the BBC realised that it would be impossible to outdo Tom Baker in terms of a "larger than life" character, so they opted for a total contrast instead.
JNT cast Peter because the series was facing cancellation as ratings had plunged from day one on Tom's last season and JNT wanted to keep his job. He knew the BBC were desperate for a starring vehicle for Peter (then flavour of the month) and they needed a twice weekly serial to test out possible time slots for a new soap opera. Once Peter had left and Eastenders was up and running, the show was vulnerable again.
@@normanby100 Ratings did improve by the end of the season. The move to cast Davison was more because JNT didn't want to have to put up with Tom Baker.
@@zyxluz4645 Never heard the McGann audios, so I have no opinion on them. Too expensive to collect various Doctors. I only have the Tom Baker audios unless you want to buy the McGann set for me.
I don't particularly think children cared about 'All Creatures Great and Small' and therefore would not generally have recognised Peter as that, just as you would hope in the more modern era that kids weren't watching The Thick Of It (Capaldi) or Sex Education (Gatwa). I don't think having a famous TV role prior to Doctor Who is that big of a deal unless it was a significant role in another children's TV series specifically. I mean, was there ever a concern that kids would have only associated Eccleston with Clocking Off or Queer as Folk? Lol.
Tom is logically correct, but Peter's Doc was the complete opposite to Tom's Doc... which is the way it should always be... and which hasn't always been the case since the show was revived in the noughties.
You've missed out a lot of his speech in your title, sufficiently so to change the meaning of what he said. "at the time" is important context, as is the qualification about his acting talents. You're making it look like he's dissed Davison, but he hasn't.
Fair comment, but I'm a journalist who wrote headlines for years, space is limited, I want people to click on the video and if they do, they'll get the full context in the first minute.
@@farmbrough And it's getting thousands of views, unlike my other videos! The title is accurate as far as it goes, and punchier than 'I thought casting the excellent Peter Davison was a mistake at the time'. 😉
Baker was probably my fave Dr Who but in the end is just one of many actors who took on the role. Davidson was ok, McCoy was a disaster, as was Jodie whatever her name was.
Casting Colin Baker was a mistake, casting Jodie Whittaker was a mistake, and casting Ncuti Gatwa was the biggest mistake of them all - but the biggest mistakes were down to the writing and the showrunners, particularly bringing RTD back - his writing was never great and it's a complete shambles nowadays.
I’m a fan of the classic series mostly. I’m not a huge Colin Baker fan but to be fair he didn’t get a fair chance to prove himself. With better stories and a better costume I think he’d be much more loved. By that time the series was on its way out. I never thought Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy were given a chance to be great.
Casting Colin Baker was NOT a mistake and I cannot see where you could indicate it was. He was a wonderful Doctor and has many brilliant stories within his brief tenure. His costume may have been a mistake but Colin was superb. How dare you compare him to the talentless, wooden Whittaker, let alone that prancing, grotesque, perverted KFC afficionado, Shitty Twatwa. Making that absurd and offensive comparison alone shows you don't know what you're on about.
@@dangerman5617 Thats your opinion! Davison was my personal favourite, and while Tom Baker was a good Doctor, he didn't even make my top 3 of the original run! Everyone has their own personal preference, and I prefer Davison, McCoy and Pertwee, and possibly even Troughton over Baker!
@@mdewsall17 Tom Baker is the only one who perfectly captured the alien quality of the character. The actor's eccentric behavior and personality matches the character which becomes the blueprint for others to follow in the 1980s and beyond. Not even Troughton is as interesting as Tom Baker in performance. I wouldn't have been a fan of the Doctor Who series this long if I started with any other actor. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. Tom Baker remains a perennial favorite at the top of the list for favorite Doctor in the Doctor Who magazine for decades. Davison is dull in comparison and McCoy was never suited for the part. Tom Baker was the height of the series. You have my permission to cry more.
@@dangerman5617 As I said before, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just because I, and many others, dont follow the most popular opinion, doesnt give you or anyone else the right to criticise our opinion. I have nothing against Tom, I just preferred others!
@@mdewsall17 You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. Which you do not have. There are many reasons why Tom Baker ran for seven years unlike anyone else in the lead.
@@dangerman5617Colin Baker is not egotistical at all. I have met him four times and he is a delightfully witty and kind man. Please don't speak about things or people you know nothing about.
@@Somedude389I have four times and he is lovely. Tom is the egoist as is Davison. Colin has nothing but respect, kindness and love for his fans so you are clearly chatting out of your anus.
Yeah, Doctor's 1-4 were actors being allowed to play variations of their public personas/own personalities. 5 and 6 departed from that and suffered for it. 7 was a return to that form, but the writing was too far gone.
I think Sylvester and Cartmel worked out how to do it and made something unique and special. Peter and Colin laboured under JNT's control. But all 3 suffered from the Beeb's poor interest in the programme.
Not true Peter definitely put his own spin on it just like first 4 also he was very popular and managed the impossible following tom who was also very popular just shame he left so soon. I loved Peter doctor and Tom's. Tom was prop hoping Peter wouldn't be as popular but he was.
That is utterly untrue regarding Patrick Troughton. He didn't have a 'public persona' at all as he avoided interviews most of his career until shortly before he died. The reason being he said that if you reveal too much of your own character to the public, it is harder for them to suspend disbelief when you are playing a character in a drama that is very different from yourself. Wise words.
I think Pat needed regular work at the time as he was supporting two families, but he was afraid of typecasting, that's why there were initial plans to black up and wear various disguises. I've got a feeling that Pat's way of playing the role (a type of old style naughty schoolboy) was influenced, or maybe aimed at his own young kids.@@rnw2739
@@rnw2739 He was largely known in the public eye for his comedic roles as a supporting actor and thus decided to model his take as the Doctor on that, in the same way that Hartnell's Doctor was based around his typecast as "gruff old man".
He’s right that’s 100% my memory of seeing Davison the first time.
The moment Peter sat up bolt right after the regeneration I expected to say, "right, where's the cow in labour"? 😄
I was a fan since the very first broadcast in 1963, and I have to say I wasn't initially sure about any of the new Doctors at first, even Tom, although he did become my favourite quite quickly. After Tom the casting never quite worked for me, and Peter Davison the least so, he never had any gravitas and the constant exasperated sighing and petty bickering amongst him and all his companions grew very tiresome.
yeah I was like it's Tristan! but after the first series I got over that
How did you feel when a Blue Peter presenter met the Wood Beast in Flash Gordon?
Davidson was weak as the doctor. Because of him the show began to fall into a downward spiral.
As a child of the 80s, it was the exact opposite. I remember watching (what turned out to be repeats) of All Creatures Great And Small insisting that that vet was Doctor Who!
You reversed the polarity then 🤣🤣
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Brilliant stuff, I could listen to Tom all day.
Never take what Tom says as 100% serious lol.
Tom is a god. I adore him. But I disagree on this. I accepted Peter Davison from the off. I was 10. Never looked at him and thought ‘Tristan’. When well-written for, PD was a great Doctor
And I loved All Creatures too!
@@huwturbervill8476 I think his point is that as it turned out he was wrong, he's just saying that's what he was worried about at the time. That's what he means when he says no one has ever failed in the role. As for having to be the Doctor in everything he's done since, I think that's true for Tom, but not as true for the other Doctors. I think it comes as much from him identifying himself with the role as much (or possibly more) than the audience doing it. The other Doctor for whom it might have been nearly as true is probably Pertwee and for the same reason. Tom and Jon both consider(ed) themselves to be the ultimate Doctor.
You may not have, but I did,as did all my friends. Took me a while to accept him, but he won us all over eventually, and with his Big Finish work, well, he's cemented his position in my affections
I remember thinking that as a lad that he was already on a programme I liked and so the immersion left me and it became a tv show - hard times turning 9 😅
Got to love Tom. Thanks for posting this.
He's right, but I would add that Peter was cast as a big contrast to Tom. No one could really follow Tom as he casts such a huge shadow - even today. I also think that Peter would argue that he wasn't given a free reign to do what he wanted to do with the character.
Yes he was. JNT left it entirely to Davison to create his Doctor and he only found him in his penultimate story!! Look at his 'performance' in 'Four to Doomsday' with that ridiculous high pitched shouting he does.... pure amateur.
@@rnw2739 JNT of course worked on all creatures as pum i think peter is the only doctor famous before doctor who and william Hartnell as well
@@rnw2739 _"JNT left it entirely to Davison to create his Doctor"_
Except he wouldn't let him be funny. That much is known. That, plus the scripts...it's not all Davison's fault.
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Pat Troughton was pretty well known
@@davidgraham8299 was he? a character actor, jon pertwee the funny voice, peter was known for tristan farnon
Yeah nah. All Creatures was not that big for kids down under so it made no difference to me. And Davison was fabulous at the Doctor, he is electric in his first season.
He's talking about English kids though. Davison was alright but he was far from 'electric' in his first season - In 'Castrovalva' he is comatose for the majority of it and in 'Four to Doomsday', he is downright embarassing in places, topped only by Janet Fieldings cringe inducing attempts at dramatics. Add to that her ludicrous hairdo and its laughable.
@@rnw2739 I like Peter and his Doctor for what it is. However, when I was a kid, I watched live the show go from Tom to Peter. I found Peter......boring, if I'm being honest. The wit and humor of Tom was sorely missed, and that is not Davison's fault. The showrunner John Nathan Turner (JNT) wanted to eliminate the humor in hopes people would take the show "seriously". So, his Doctor never rated super high for me. In fact, I remember loving Colin Baker's character far more (but not the outfit lol)
Electric 🤯 Hoo Boy. He could have been replaced by a cigar store wooden indian and no one would tell the difference.
@@OzBaxter I wouldn't say Tom's humour was wonderful during the latter half of his tenure. His ad-libbed asides and fourth wall breaks (all put in by him in his arrogance when he thought he was God) were painfully stale. I agree with you about Colin though. He was hilarious and is my favourite Doctor of all. His correction of Peri's Anericanisms is always hysterical, as is his habit of not listening to her.... the best case in point being in part one of The Mysterious Planet:
Peri: Possible or not, I wanna get away from here!
The Doctor: You're absolutely right. We MUST find out what's going on here!
This man is my hero.
Tom was my favourite when I was a kid, the scarves were legendary
At first, I thought Davison wasn't a great choice, but then, Tom Baker was a tough act to follow. To his credit, Peter took the role and made it his own. Though Tom was always my favorite Doctor, my sister prefers Peter.
Not everyone thought Tom Baker was the best Doctor. I got into the show in 1970 when Jon Pertwee was the Doctor, and I didn't like Tom Baker's goofiness in the role (though he was great when he was serious). I preferred Peter Davison's more serious take on the character, as well as having a fresher, younger face.
Tom Baker was the best Doctor in the series. Best companions. Best stories. Best era. Best final season. His final stories were filled with an incredible mood that made you feel like you were attending someone's funeral. The different approaches to styles such as the wonderfully manic Douglas Adams' take was vast making his era far more compelling than any other tenure. The only actor who could have pulled off an eighth season and still make it interesting would be Tom.
"That Dalek's got Colic Mr Farnham!" 🤖🧐🇬🇧
Tom Baker was such a hard act to follow. Even Laurence Olivier wouldn't of pulled it off!
I still think of Peter primarily as Tristin, and I'm a Doctor Who fan. But All Creatures Great and Small is my favorite TV show of all time.
John Pertwee was the Doctor when I started watching Doctor Who. Pertwee to Baker was my first experience of a “transitioning” Doctor Who. When I saw it happening on tv (1975?), I thought the Pertwee Doctor was just becoming a younger person. Looking at Tom now, he looks just like John Pertwee!
I remember seeing his picture on Doctor Who Monthly in cricket gear with stumps painted on the front of the TARDIS and I vowed I would not watch Doctor Who anymore. After his first episode I was convinced and Tom and Peter are my favourite Doctors.
He’s so awesome to listen to
I was the same as a kid! It’s the vet!!!! but I still liked him as the doctor
If some viewers struggle to understand that actors play more than one role, then that's on them and their stunted imaginations. It's funny how some people deliberately watch stuff with their favourite actors in, while others completely misunderstand what acting is about 😂
I think being well aware of the fakery that is acting, I had no problems switching on Peter Davison as the Doctor. In All Creatures, he is Tristan Farnon. He is infallibly The Doctor from his first moments in Castrovalva. i suppose, also, that seeing all this happen before, from the switch from Hartnell to Troughton and seeing Patrick in so many roles since has given that sort of compartmentalizational ability to say that, right, Peter Davison is The Doctor now and that was perfectly acceptable. Maybe that also allows a degree of scepticism when I see both political and religious fakery as the nonsense that it is. As did Tom.
He was lovely as Tristan.
And John Boy Walton!
The whole thing for me when Davison took over was that because he had been Tristan that made it much more exciting!
Thought the casting was inspired. Contrast and radical devision regarding age of the actor. It paid off.
As a former RC monk I wonder if Tom has ever seen Father Ted! 😆😂
We are so lucky that only three Doctor Who lead actors have died.
You realise this statement is going to date badly right?
@@user-et6pj4db9s Let’s enjoy it while it lasts.
@@user-et6pj4db9s Or, maybe, if you're an optimist, ol' Tom will still be around for a few more years.
@@dangerman5617 Doesn't matter if he's around another ten, this statement is going to date badly and I'm not an optimist and I don't think tom looks well now to be honest he's lost all the weight and is looking emaciated, not a good sign.
@@user-et6pj4db9s Yeah, you must be fun at parties. Go mouth a sonic screwdriver.
Davison is my second favorite Doctor next to Pertwee. I don’t agree with him. Lol
This is why the introduction of a new Doctor is so critical. The actor has to break out of every past role so viewers already familiar with him. Do this poorly and the audience won’t be invested in the new actor. Look at Matt Smith. They had the same issue with him, but they knocked it out of the park with his introduction.
I agree with Tom, he was too identifiable as Tristan the vet. A more unknown actor like Tom himself ought to have been cast.
A young Jonathan Pryce would have been a perfect 5th Doctor.
He should respect Paul McGann hes a fellow scouser
Honestly, I absolutely love Tom Baker. But by 1981 it probably was time to go, and Peter Davison did it well. Being crude, his ratings were better too. The only significance I attach to that is that clearly he wasn't *not* accepted, so overall I think Tom is wrong on this.
But still lovely man, and never dull.
Sorry Tom but you're mistaken. Peter was a fantastic Doctor and a wonderful change from your Doctor.
Sorry Colin but you're mistaken. Peter was a wishy-washy Doctor and the wrong person to take over from Tom.
@davidgraham8299 The ratings said otherwise. Tom had a long innings and a change was required. Peter was a popular Doctor with the viewing public.
I totally agree with you Colin….I very much enjoyed Peter Davison as the Doctor
To be honest I take everything Tom Baker says with a pinch of salt😂
@@colinmcdonough4034 I do think Colin Peter was too bland to play the Doctor, and he had some good stories like Earthshock with the dreaded Cybermen but on the whole he was not the best choice of actor to replace Tom Baker and also he was well known as Tristan the vet.
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I agree, Tom did have a long innings and a change to freshen things up was needed. But I don't care about the ratings and Peter being "popular", well he was inoffensive at best. The truth is he could have been replaced by a cigar store wooden indian and no one would tell the difference.
I thought Davison did fine.
He's quite right, Peter was a household name for being a vet, and Tom was a hard act to follow.
I think that was the idea in many respects...I think the BBC realised that it would be impossible to outdo Tom Baker in terms of a "larger than life" character, so they opted for a total contrast instead.
@@bettyswunghole3310 Yep, and Colin Baker was a contrast to Peter, etc.
JNT cast Peter because the series was facing cancellation as ratings had plunged from day one on Tom's last season and JNT wanted to keep his job. He knew the BBC were desperate for a starring vehicle for Peter (then flavour of the month) and they needed a twice weekly serial to test out possible time slots for a new soap opera. Once Peter had left and Eastenders was up and running, the show was vulnerable again.
@@normanby100 Ratings did improve by the end of the season. The move to cast Davison was more because JNT didn't want to have to put up with Tom Baker.
Tom is wonderful, but it's just a pity that there was an EARTHQUAKE at this convention!
Paul mcgann was amazing
McGann was the George Lazenby of TV Doctor Who.
@@dangerman5617 But the Sean Connery of Big Finish Doctor Who
@@zyxluz4645 Never heard the McGann audios, so I have no opinion on them. Too expensive to collect various Doctors. I only have the Tom Baker audios unless you want to buy the McGann set for me.
I don't particularly think children cared about 'All Creatures Great and Small' and therefore would not generally have recognised Peter as that, just as you would hope in the more modern era that kids weren't watching The Thick Of It (Capaldi) or Sex Education (Gatwa). I don't think having a famous TV role prior to Doctor Who is that big of a deal unless it was a significant role in another children's TV series specifically. I mean, was there ever a concern that kids would have only associated Eccleston with Clocking Off or Queer as Folk? Lol.
Tom is logically correct, but Peter's Doc was the complete opposite to Tom's Doc... which is the way it should always be... and which hasn't always been the case since the show was revived in the noughties.
So did Bill Hartnell. And so did a fair few of the later ones.
Did what?
@@funfairs__ukAppear in roles the public strongly associated them with prior to being cast in Who.
You've missed out a lot of his speech in your title, sufficiently so to change the meaning of what he said. "at the time" is important context, as is the qualification about his acting talents. You're making it look like he's dissed Davison, but he hasn't.
Fair comment, but I'm a journalist who wrote headlines for years, space is limited, I want people to click on the video and if they do, they'll get the full context in the first minute.
@@culturewarp yep, it read like a headline!
@@farmbrough And it's getting thousands of views, unlike my other videos! The title is accurate as far as it goes, and punchier than 'I thought casting the excellent Peter Davison was a mistake at the time'. 😉
@@culturewarp it's called baiting isnt it. Get it all the time with the likes of the Daily Mail.
It was either that or "Tom Baker - Going to do a poo was an absolute nightmare, well into my thirties - Doctor Who"
Ironically though a vet is a doctor so davison went from playing one kind of doctor to another.
I still dont really like Peter davidson as the doctor BUT he has some good stories in Big Finish.
peter was IMO too bland as dr who
Baker was probably my fave Dr Who but in the end is just one of many actors who took on the role. Davidson was ok, McCoy was a disaster, as was Jodie whatever her name was.
You know.
I have never really been convinced by McCoy either.
People say that Season 25 and 26 were some of the best ever, but I cannot see it myself.
Agreed! All I could see was "Tristan" and stopped watching.
Tom was wrong!
Casting Colin Baker was a mistake, casting Jodie Whittaker was a mistake, and casting Ncuti Gatwa was the biggest mistake of them all - but the biggest mistakes were down to the writing and the showrunners, particularly bringing RTD back - his writing was never great and it's a complete shambles nowadays.
I’m a fan of the classic series mostly. I’m not a huge Colin Baker fan but to be fair he didn’t get a fair chance to prove himself. With better stories and a better costume I think he’d be much more loved. By that time the series was on its way out. I never thought Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy were given a chance to be great.
Casting Colin Baker was NOT a mistake and I cannot see where you could indicate it was. He was a wonderful Doctor and has many brilliant stories within his brief tenure.
His costume may have been a mistake but Colin was superb. How dare you compare him to the talentless, wooden Whittaker, let alone that prancing, grotesque, perverted KFC afficionado, Shitty Twatwa.
Making that absurd and offensive comparison alone shows you don't know what you're on about.
That's not true both Paul mcgann has failed and been successful in playing doctor who
What rubbish! Peter Davison was the best Doctor of them all, even better than Tom Baker!!!
Better? Hardly.
@@dangerman5617 Thats your opinion! Davison was my personal favourite, and while Tom Baker was a good Doctor, he didn't even make my top 3 of the original run! Everyone has their own personal preference, and I prefer Davison, McCoy and Pertwee, and possibly even Troughton over Baker!
@@mdewsall17 Tom Baker is the only one who perfectly captured the alien quality of the character. The actor's eccentric behavior and personality matches the character which becomes the blueprint for others to follow in the 1980s and beyond. Not even Troughton is as interesting as Tom Baker in performance. I wouldn't have been a fan of the Doctor Who series this long if I started with any other actor. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. Tom Baker remains a perennial favorite at the top of the list for favorite Doctor in the Doctor Who magazine for decades. Davison is dull in comparison and McCoy was never suited for the part. Tom Baker was the height of the series. You have my permission to cry more.
@@dangerman5617 As I said before, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just because I, and many others, dont follow the most popular opinion, doesnt give you or anyone else the right to criticise our opinion. I have nothing against Tom, I just preferred others!
@@mdewsall17 You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. Which you do not have. There are many reasons why Tom Baker ran for seven years unlike anyone else in the lead.
Tom may be a great doctor, but he’s a very egotistical old man.
No, Tom is not egotistical. But Colin Baker is.
wanna talk about egotistical? Say hello to colin baker
@@dangerman5617Colin Baker is not egotistical at all. I have met him four times and he is a delightfully witty and kind man. Please don't speak about things or people you know nothing about.
@@Somedude389I have four times and he is lovely. Tom is the egoist as is Davison. Colin has nothing but respect, kindness and love for his fans so you are clearly chatting out of your anus.
Yeah, Doctor's 1-4 were actors being allowed to play variations of their public personas/own personalities. 5 and 6 departed from that and suffered for it. 7 was a return to that form, but the writing was too far gone.
I think Sylvester and Cartmel worked out how to do it and made something unique and special. Peter and Colin laboured under JNT's control. But all 3 suffered from the Beeb's poor interest in the programme.
Not true Peter definitely put his own spin on it just like first 4 also he was very popular and managed the impossible following tom who was also very popular just shame he left so soon. I loved Peter doctor and Tom's. Tom was prop hoping Peter wouldn't be as popular but he was.
That is utterly untrue regarding Patrick Troughton. He didn't have a 'public persona' at all as he avoided interviews most of his career until shortly before he died. The reason being he said that if you reveal too much of your own character to the public, it is harder for them to suspend disbelief when you are playing a character in a drama that is very different from yourself. Wise words.
I think Pat needed regular work at the time as he was supporting two families, but he was afraid of typecasting, that's why there were initial plans to black up and wear various disguises. I've got a feeling that Pat's way of playing the role (a type of old style naughty schoolboy) was influenced, or maybe aimed at his own young kids.@@rnw2739
@@rnw2739 He was largely known in the public eye for his comedic roles as a supporting actor and thus decided to model his take as the Doctor on that, in the same way that Hartnell's Doctor was based around his typecast as "gruff old man".
YES!!!!! Thought the exact same thing as a kid
Oh they have failed Doctor Who lately.
No casting Tom Baker was a mistake.