Okay, so after thinking Doctor Who was a low-budget, cheesy sci-fi series not worthy of my attention for my entire life, I've become interested in the BBC's latest 3 series of the show. Torchwood also premiered on BBCA this week and I'm willing to give it a shot.

Who was the best Doctor? I've seen three of them--Tom Baker, Christopher Ecclestson, and the current David Tennant.

The Baker era was too cheesy for me. Tennant is too jolly and about as edgy as Richard Hammond on Top Gear. I prefer Eccleston. He seemed to have the best balance of seriosness and irreverance.

Your thoughts (on Doctor Who, not that I'm a nerd).

I prefer Tennant, the tenth doctor to all the others, though he does suffer from bouts of melodrama. Eccleston (the ninth) was also excellent, but didn't get a long enough run to develop his version of the character. After that Sylvester McCoy (the seventh) wasn't too bad, but the show at the time still suffered from cheesy writing and poor effects. Baker (the fourth) was enjoyable, but if you didn't grow up watching doctor who he wouldn't be.

I never saw a lot of the others.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

Peter Davidson was the Doctor for two years after Tom Baker (who I liked a lot), and he was pretty good. A good point about not growing up with them, as I saw some of the earlier ones recently and they are truly shite.

I'd go with Ecclestone. Torchwood is terrible, by the way.

Yeah, I got called away before I could mention that Torchwood is shite.

The new Doctor Who is completely different from all the older shows, if you didn't like it with Tom Baker, you probably won't like anything before 2005. The 1996 movie with Paul McGann was done in a more modern fashion though, but played more like an American 'made-for-tv' movie than British sci-fi (to the extent they had Eric Roberts as The Master).

The other option is to look out for the Dalek/Cybermen themes, which I've always preferred to the stand alone stories.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

The recent three (I think) parter with the Cybermen taking on the Daleks (series 1 of Tennant, I believe) is the best Dr. Who I've had the pleasure to watch, it was brilliant. The fact that it was written by a gay bloke really shines through, the bitchy dialogue between them is really funny. I haven't watched any of the latest series on BBC1 over here, but I'll catch them on DVD soon, hopefully.