As a life-long Doctor Who fan, the hardest and most annoying question to answer is, “Who’s your favourite Doctor?”
Here Liam South provides five reasons why the First Doctor should be your answer…
He doesn’t take any s**t from anyone and, as a result, gets in some wicked burns.
As the very first Doctor, he sets up a lot of the Doctor’s core elements that are still there today.
The Hartnell era is perhaps the most historically educational era of the show with stories depicting the Trojan Horse, the Aztecs, the French Revolution and the Crusades.
His relationship with his granddaughter is adorable and his goodbye to her in ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ is one of his era’s finest scenes.
Throughout his era, Hartnell consistently manages to strike to strike a good balance between stern but sweet, fearsome yet fearless.
Who’s your favourite Doctor? Let us know below…