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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: The one and ONLY true doctor
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Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:47:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 00:47:36 1985
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

While Tom Baker remains my favourite, partially for lines such as the
one about the Jelly Babies in "Face of Evil", I feel you have maligned
the other actors.  (Except for Davison 8-) )

All the actors have had the main central characteristic of the Doctor  -
irreverence for protocol and pomposity.  Other characteristics, also
common, are a love of truth, intense curiousity, and except for Hartnell
a generally warm-hearted nature.


All that aside, C. Baker and Troughton would have been quite in character
threatening somebody with a jelly baby.  Pertwee would have been less
in character, but he had his own way of expressing the Doctor's traits.
Watch him in "Spearhead from Space", "The Green Death" and many others.
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Was Tom Baker your first doctor?  A line like "the doctor must have curly
hair and a scarf" suggests this.  Baker did things very well, but the
others took things well in their own directions, and deserve credit.
Baker stood on their shoulders.   Only Davison failed, because he could
not stand on Baker's shoulders like Baker had stood on those before him.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473