Mythical Characters

[crfriend]

I remember (vaguely) the first or second Doctor has as one of his assistants, a young guy in a kilt.

That would have been the character of Jamie McCrimmon during the Patrick Troughton (2nd Doctor) yeard from 1966-'69.

I'd forgotten about that, actually, until you mentioned it and recalled seeing it on one of the books I have which is where I found the dates.

For Dr. Who, I have a soft spot for the original (William Hartnell) and the 3rd (John Pertwee). Tom Baker's Doctor is the one all the Yanks associate with the character, mainly thanks to PBS (the Public Broadcasting System), but later ones have seen airtime here as well.

[Big and Bashful]

I vaguely remember the very old Doctor (Hartnel?), don't remember the next one at all, Pertwee bored me, I didn't like the TARDIS broken and stuck on Earth side to that era. I really liked Tom Baker but detested K-9 and several of his assistants. None of the other doctors from the first "era" of Doctor Who made much of an impression on me, I think I outgrew it.
I thought Cristopher Ecclescake was excellent when Dr Who was relaunched. Even better was David Tennant, to me he really made the part his, pity about some of the storylines but the way he portrayed the Doctor raised it to a new level. Matt Smith, hmmm, Matt Smith, I liked the eccentric mad element, it was good to see more humour, but was it too slapstick? I still can't decide. He got better story-lines than some of David Tennants. As for the new guy, he is going to have to be good to follow the last three! I live in hope.