Tom Baker tops Doctor Who poll
Tom Baker is the most popular Doctor Who, according to the results of the latest tellytunes poll.
Baker, who played the fourth incarnation of the Timelord from 1974 to 1981, bagged 36% of the 477 votes cast. Second with 29% of the vote was the original Doctor, William Hartnell, who starred from the launch of the series in 1963 until 1966. Third in the tellytunes poll was the current Timelord, David Tennant, with 13%.
The poll was carried out on the tellytunes website after the publication of the results from a similar poll in the official Doctor Who magazine which found David Tennant to be the most popular of all the Doctors. I was personally suprised by the result given Tennant's relatively short reign in the role and suspected that his victory may have been less to do with the tenth Doctor's charisma and more down to the bulk of Doctor Who magazine readers being younger, current fans of the show rather than viewers from the bygone times of wobbly sets and dodgy monster creations made of paper mache.
Baker's appearance at the top of our poll would seem to back this up, although I tend to feel that most people's choice of favourite Doctor Who is always as much as generational thing as anything - in other words, you like best whoever was the Doctor when you grew up watching the show. Although I'd argue that this theory does not perhaps apply to anyone growing up in the Colin Baker era - as everyone knows that he was crap!
Full results of the telytunes poll are as follows:
Tom Baker (1974-81) - 36%
William Hartnell (1963-66) - 29%
David Tennant (2005-present) - 13%
Jon Pertwee (1969-1974) - 8%
Christopher Eccleston (2005) - 7%
Colin Baker (1984-86) - 3%
Peter Davidson (1981-84) - 2%
Patrick Troughton (1966-69)- 1%
Sylvester McCoy (1987-89) - 1%
Paul McGann (1996) - 0%
Baker, who played the fourth incarnation of the Timelord from 1974 to 1981, bagged 36% of the 477 votes cast. Second with 29% of the vote was the original Doctor, William Hartnell, who starred from the launch of the series in 1963 until 1966. Third in the tellytunes poll was the current Timelord, David Tennant, with 13%.
The poll was carried out on the tellytunes website after the publication of the results from a similar poll in the official Doctor Who magazine which found David Tennant to be the most popular of all the Doctors. I was personally suprised by the result given Tennant's relatively short reign in the role and suspected that his victory may have been less to do with the tenth Doctor's charisma and more down to the bulk of Doctor Who magazine readers being younger, current fans of the show rather than viewers from the bygone times of wobbly sets and dodgy monster creations made of paper mache.
Baker's appearance at the top of our poll would seem to back this up, although I tend to feel that most people's choice of favourite Doctor Who is always as much as generational thing as anything - in other words, you like best whoever was the Doctor when you grew up watching the show. Although I'd argue that this theory does not perhaps apply to anyone growing up in the Colin Baker era - as everyone knows that he was crap!
Full results of the telytunes poll are as follows:
Tom Baker (1974-81) - 36%
William Hartnell (1963-66) - 29%
David Tennant (2005-present) - 13%
Jon Pertwee (1969-1974) - 8%
Christopher Eccleston (2005) - 7%
Colin Baker (1984-86) - 3%
Peter Davidson (1981-84) - 2%
Patrick Troughton (1966-69)- 1%
Sylvester McCoy (1987-89) - 1%
Paul McGann (1996) - 0%
