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by the way, they sell striped scarves at the store on gambino island. (no, not the hat store). They aren't exactly like the Doctors, they aren't even trying to be, but it is still a long stripy scarf, and I had to have one... biggrin

These are the series I have seen.

Looks like you missed the second and the sixth incarnations of the Doctor. I would have to say that I liked the sixth incarnation the least, so don't feel too bad on that one lol biggrin

You forgot HIS NAME?!?
You FORGOT?!?

It's a good thing I'm still in a good mood from having that spider thing removed.

In real life??

Nifty!

What kind of spider?

(I've got four. In real life. Big hairy tarantulas. Which is really strange, because I've been intensely bug-phobic since my early teens.)

Actually, Harbone is in the Avatar Arena this week and he has an icky chestplate of Aracnid(?) on his avatar. No real bugs in the house except the uninvited ones.
Sorry. redface
I was thinking of getting a blue crawfish though. Kind of creepy and spidery looking. Maybe it was a baby lobster. I saw them at my local Petsmart.

I could see one of them magnified a thousand times, chasing the Doctor as Leela tries to stab it.

The Talons of Weng-Chiang kind of monster, growing in the sewers!

Fine. Okay.
Here's a controversy:

Was the Sylvester McCoy stuff really like a Cheap Country Pantomime?

I just thought it was a little faster paced than the previous seasons (the Colin Baker stuff could be really slooooow.) Some of the shows, like Ghostlight, you had to really watch closely.

And I, for one, am a big fan of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and the Happiness Patrol (Umberella's second favorite story arc, her favorite is Stones of Blood for the line "Too Late!" Pronounced "Dooo Laaaate!" by the male druid as he realizes the shapeshifting Calleach is about to lay down some Ogri hurtin' on his hemogoblin-rich behind!)

There is a reason why most of the plots were so abysmal for the Sylvester McCoy episodes. The guy in charge overall (the head of the Beeb? The head of their department of the Beeb? I can't remember exactly what his position was....) hated the show, and wanted desperately to kill it, but it was too dang popular both in Britain and overseas. So he sacked the whole crew of writers/editors and brought in a new bunch from the British soaps arenas, people who knew very little to nothing about science fiction series writing in general and Dr, Who in particular. He wanted to make the show so bad that its ratings would dive, thus giving him an excuse to cancel the show.

The fact that it survived as long as it did even after his sabotage shows how much we Whovians loved our Doctor, in spite of any attempts to kill him off. And in spite of big letter-writing campaigns (in the States at least; I don't know about Britain) to keep the show going, he finally did succeed in getting it cancelled.

For a while, at least.