Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: The one and ONLY true doctor Message-ID: <15513@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:47:36 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15513 Posted: Sun Jun 30 00:47:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:23:31 EDT References: <160@astroatc.UUCP> <2600050@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 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. ----------- 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