Peter Davison
Peter Davison played the role of the fith Doctor. He was the youngest actor ever to play the role. In fact, he was only a pre-teen when the show first aired in 1963.
Davison's Doctor made a sharp contrast to the playful, childlike, unpredictable Doctor Tom Baker had portraied. While Baker ran around the universe looking like a walking laundry mat accident and towering over people with his indomitable energy (and hight...he was well over six feet tall), Davison played a far more vulnerable Doctor. There always seemed to be the possibility that, this time, he might just be defeated. He made his way across the universe, often with three companions at a time, doing his best to put right what once went wrong. (Wait, that's Quantom Leap, never mind....) He wore a cricketing (krickiting, krikiting...oh, who knows) jacket with a cricket (kricket...) ball perpetually in his pocket, ready to play a game at a moment's notice. He was kind and even-tempered...except for a touch of his first incarnation's--Hartnel--temper, although he did his best to keep it under control. Davison's Doctor regenerated because of Spectrox Toximea, which he contracted durring the corse of the episode, "The Caves of Androzoni".
INTERESTING FACT: Peter Davison is, quite frankly, HOT. This is a fact. I, because of the sheer levels of truth involved, find it interesting. Therefore, it is an interesting fact.
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Colin Baker
Colin Baker took on the role after Davison decided to leave the show. Baker thought that a radical change was needed from Davison's sweet, caring, compasionate version of the Doctor and decided to play his Doctor as a bad tempered, rude, unpredictable and, quite frankly, unstable individual. *Insert in the background, the Doctor's voice yelling, "Unstable? Me?! UNSTABLE?!!!"* He had the memory loss and disorientation usually experienced by the Doctor after regenerating taken to a new level in "The Twin Deliema", his first episode, when he tried to strangle his companion, Peri. Baker's plan was to start out cranky, unpredictable and unreliable and then, over time, mellow, like Hartnel had done durring his time as the Doctor back in the 60s. He took it to far, however and after the horrificness of his behavior in "The Twin Deliema", which included not only trying to strangle Peri, but cowering behind her, terrified and begging for his life when confronted by bad guys, refusing to help kidnapped children, offering other peoples lives to the bad guys in return for his own, and generaly being a jerk, the public turned against him. Durring his time as the Doctor, the show lost a great deal of popularity. And while Baker's Doctor did mature and mellow rapidly, he never became a big hit with the fans and he left the show not long after taking on the role.
INTERESTING FACT: Colin Baker apeared on Doctor Who durring Peter Davison's time as the Doctor. He played the role of a guard on Gallifray durring "The Five Doctors".
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