Who is the most popular Doctor Who?

Ushering in a Golden Age of Doctor Who, David Tennant is takes the number one spot. Widely considered the most popular Doctor ever, Tennant brought a whole new audience to the already beloved show.
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Who is the most popular Doctor in Doctor Who?

Named the most popular Doctor in the show's history, David Tennant brought a whole new fanbase to the Who-niverse. An evergreen fan of Doctor Who himself, his enthusiasm and love for the character shone through.
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What is the most popular Doctor Who series?

All Seasons Of (New) Doctor Who, Ranked By IMDb Average
  1. 1 Season 4 (2008) 9.0.
  2. 2 Season 9 (2015) 8.75. ...
  3. 3 Season 6 (2011) 8.72. ...
  4. 4 Season 3 (2007) 8.6. ...
  5. 5 Season 2 (2006) 8.5. ...
  6. 6 Season 8 (2014) 8.4. ...
  7. 7 Season 10 (2016) 8.34. ...
  8. 8 Season 7 (2011) 8.32. ...
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Who is the least popular Doctor in Doctor Who?

Paul McGann

Pity the poor Eighth Doctor, who – judged solely by the 1996 TV movie – is one of the fans' least favourite incarnations.
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Who is the most popular Doctor Who companion?

Doctor Who: The 15 Best Companions, Ranked
  1. 1 Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen)
  2. 2 Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) ...
  3. 3 Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) ...
  4. 4 Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) ...
  5. 5 Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) ...
  6. 6 Dorothy "Ace" McShane (Sophie Aldred) ...
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Doctor Who: 13 Doctors Ranked From Worst To Best



Who is the hottest Doctor Who?

7 Hottest Female Companions of DOCTOR WHO
  • Leela (Louise Jameson) The Fourth Doctor picked up Leela on a jungle planet. ...
  • Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant) A companion of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, Peripugilliam Brown was a botany student who decided to hop along in the TARDIS. ...
  • River Song (Alex Kingston)
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Who is the longest running Doctor Who?

As of 25 December 2018, official television productions have depicted fourteen distinct incarnations of the Doctor. The longest-lasting on-screen incarnation is the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker for seven years.
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Is Tennant the best Doctor?

Scottish star David Tennant has been ranked the best Doctor Who ever. The tenth Doctor, who played the leading role from 2005 to 2010 was crowned the first place with 5,903 votes after rising to fame Tennant for this role in the series. Matt Smith takes second place, with 4,052 votes.
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What is the scariest monster in Doctor Who?

The Daleks are best known for their trademark expression “exterminate” and are one of the most feared races in the universe. No matter how many times The Doctor stops them, they always come back with a vengeance, making them one of The Doctor's greatest foes.
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Is Dr Who still popular?

Doctor Who is one of the most popular shows on BBC iPlayer and has been streamed 50 million times in the past year, with 7 million streams so far for the latest series, as audiences increasingly value the option to choose when and where they watch it.
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Did Doctor Who ratings drop?

And in figures released in March 2020, the same month the series ended, Doctor Who's ratings slipped to its lowest since the show made a comeback in 2005. The season finale of series 12 had a total TV audience of 4.6million, making it the lowest Doctor Who has ever had. The previous all-time low was 4.7million in 2017.
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Why did David Tennant leave Doctor Who?

The Doctor, however, must regenerate eventually, and Tennant decided that time should come on his own terms. Like so many of his fellow Britons, he has been a Doctor Who fan his entire life, and being able to be The Doctor was a supreme childhood dream fulfilled.
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Why Tom Baker is the best Doctor Who?

One of the many reasons why Tom Baker is considered to be one of the greatest Doctors is how many brilliant stories he had in Doctor Who. We look at ten of his very best. In seven seasons, Tom Baker had so many great stories as the Fourth Doctor.
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Will David Tennant ever be the Doctor again?

David Tennant and Catherine Tate will return to Doctor Who for the show's 60th anniversary celebrations, the BBC has announced. The duo have reunited after 12 years to film scenes that are due to air next year.
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Who is the oldest person to play the Doctor?

At 55 years of age at both the time of his casting and the time of filming his first scenes as the Doctor in the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, Capaldi was the same age as William Hartnell had been in his place, and the oldest actor since Hartnell to begin playing the Doctor on a regular basis (John ...
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Who is the best Doctor Who writer?

Doctor Who: The 10 Best Writers, Ranked
  1. 1 Russell T. Davies.
  2. 2 Steven Moffat. Moffat's first story on the show is the chilling gas mask zombie two-parter from season one but he did go on to become Russell T. ...
  3. 3 Paul Cornell. ...
  4. 4 Toby Whithouse. ...
  5. 5 Tom MacRae. ...
  6. 6 Matt Jones. ...
  7. 7 Richard Curtis. ...
  8. 8 Robert Shearman. ...
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What is the best Doctor Who episode ever?

30 Best Doctor Who Episodes Ranked
  1. Blink. BBC.
  2. Heaven Sent. BBC. ...
  3. The Forest Of The Dead. BBC. ...
  4. The Day Of The Doctor. BBC. ...
  5. Silence In The Library. BBC. ...
  6. Vincent And The Doctor. BBC. ...
  7. Doomsday. BBC. ...
  8. The Girl In The Fireplace. BBC. ...
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What did the midnight entity look like?

Appearance. Its true form is never shown. According to Claude when he saw it, The Entity was a shadow just for a second, but when he saw it again, it was dark and shifting and could run.
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Is the Doctor a weeping angel?

The Doctor had been tricked and corralled, and separated from her friends, all at the behest of her mysterious ex-employers The Division. And in horrifying scenes, Village of the Angels concludes with the Doctor turned to stone, transformed into a Weeping Angel herself as her friends watch on.
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Which companion did the doctor love the most?

To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
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Was David Tennant a Doctor Who fan?

Unlike his predecessor, Christopher Eccleston, who confessed to having only a passing interest in the 1963 version of Doctor Who, Tennant is a long-time fan of the series and has exhibited extensive knowledge of its history and trivia in interviews, podcasts and DVD commentaries.
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Who will be playing the new Doctor?

In April, a BBC article (opens in new tab) teased that the next Doctor would be revealed very soon; on Sunday, May 8, the announcement finally came along. After months and months of guessing, it was revealed that Doctor Who bosses had chosen Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa as the 14th Doctor.
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Who was the youngest Doctor Who companion?

He was a confirmed Doctor Who fan and had had at least one letter printed in Doctor Who Weekly before he took up the role. Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so.
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What is the shortest Doctor Who episode?

Episode 5 of The Mind Robber remains the shortest episode ever of Doctor Who by only being a little over 18 minutes long while Cold War remains the shortest story in the show's history, being only forty minutes and fifty-three seconds long.
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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