By 'who's your Doctor?' (heh, a pun) do you mean the one you grew up with or the one you saw first? For me that is McCoy......

My favourite is maybe Tennant but Smith is getting there, he's sneaking up, he's closing in.....

I have a hard time with the whole "MY" Doctor thing. The first one I ever saw was Patrick Troughton, randomly watching at a friend's house, and I had no idea what was going on with the story. But it was pretty entertaining. The first one I sat down and watched seriously was Tom Baker, and obviously he's a great Doctor and part of the upper tier.

The first one I was really in love with was David Tennant, and it was during his run that I got addicted to the show and started buying up all the DVD's I could afford, both new series and classic. But I like Matt Smith better than Tennant now. I think Smith is my favorite Doctor, at least at the moment. I was wary about him after the casting announcement, I didn't think he was very good in The End of Time, but I was on board with him the second Eleventh Hour started. Completely erased all thoughts of Tennant and how I'd been dreading his departure.

So I have no idea which one is mine. Though to be honest, I love all of them except Hartnell, Davison, and McCoy. And they're pretty okay too.

I have always known 'your doctor' to be the one that you grew up with. Ah well, I answered the question anyway.

I started Tom Baker's era today. Watched Robot pt1 thus far. Not too shabby. I'm plowing thru it all starting tomorrow

Jimmy: Except that doesn't make sense for people who didn't grow up with the show.

I started watching with Season 5, so Matt Smith will always be my Doctor. The David Tennant era always seemed really cheesy to me. However, my sister started watching the same time I did, and she's now more obsessed and knowledgeable than me, and her Doctor is Tennant.

As an American, I paid no attention to Doctor Who until I started listening to MMM Commentaries and their Fantragic podcast in 2008. Then I tried it and liked it a lot. (Funnily, the first full episode I watched was "The Unicorn and the Wasp", which made me say, "I like these characters and actors, so I'll bet most episodes are better than this.")

I went back to the beginning of New Who and watched them in order on DVD and liked the Ninth Doctor a lot, then liked the Tenth Doctor even better. His lengthy tenure made him my Doctor, I suppose, so I was astonished to find that I like the Eleventh Doctor better still. Overall, I think Ten has had the best scripts, tho, so I like that era best.

Teague, you have GOT TO stop telling people to watch it in Star Wars order.
Doctor Who goes series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and when it's done; 7.

I have to say I'm quite baffled by people preferring s5 to the earlier shows. But on the other hand It's not like I've been keen to revisit much of it and haven't bought any DVDs since s3

Series 5 is my favourite of the modern run. It has this sense of magic and wonderment that the others don't.

yes, but in Series 6, we got "The Doctor's Wife", which is one of the best episodes to date.

Series 5 was a pretty good one, I'll admit, but for me, it's series 4. I liked having Donna around as the most human of the companions - one that has a strictly platonic relationship to the doctor. Both Rose and Martha fell for him, but Donna was in all honesty just a friend. Also, towards the end of the series, when things really start wrapping up, and not forgetting that we meet this new character called River Song, things got really fucking awesome. It doesn't work without having seen the series prior to it, though, so I'm not sure how that would go about.

Saniss: I'm leaving Vidina behind, after 10 years of using an online handle that's not related to me in any way, shape or form.

In other news, I've gotten around to watching "Genesis of the Daleks" now, and I'm halfway through "Revenge of the Cybermen", but DAMN. D_A_M_N that Genesis of the Daleks was really fucking good. Did NOT see that coming at all. I'm still no huge fan of Tom Baker, I mean he's alright, but that story was really engaging. Actually getting to know HOW the Daleks came about was thrilling. So thrilling indeed, that I stayed up until 3AM to complete all 6 episodes of it.