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Sorry Samuel, but McCoy???? I can't believe he has any votes at all.

Can't speak for Samuel but that's exactly how I feel about Tennant. By far his best performance for me was in 'Tooth and Claw', when he was actually allowed to be Scawtish.

Not to mention George Gallaccio, Robert Holmes, Graeme Harper, Douglas Camfield, Robert Banks Stewart, Christopher Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe and Christopher Barry . . .

Ah, they were just poster boys, though. Trevs put in a full month's wage!

You forgot Peter "Hello, I'm Doctor Who" Cushing.

I've no problem with his inclusion, mind, but Cushing's not in-continuity. Include him, then Trevor Martin gets a shout.

The Great Tom, for me.

Followed by Troughton (between him and McGann as to who's the best actor to have played the good Doctor officially) and Davison (gave the best single performance of any actor to have played him despite not quite reaching the potential of Albert Campion, or so I seem to remember).

The others often depend on my mood or at which point during their tenure, but it usually ends up as:

• Hartnell (a Doctor unencumbered by continuity)
• Pertwee (slowly warming to yer man Wurzel, despite his paternalistic tendencies)
• McGann (as with Father Brennan, it's the ease of his portrayal)
• McCoy (when intelligible, brilliantly understated and sought to put back the WHO in the show's title)
• T'other Baker (a missed opportunity, yet gave the best debut performance of any of the actors)
• Ecclestone (as appealing as he was, it's not the Doctor)
• Mallett

I've no idea where my timeline is, so dug up this (and tweaked it) from a previous thread:

• Unlike RO-BUSTERS (set from 2078 to 2080), no explicit dates are given by A.B.C. WARRIORS during its original run (Progs 119-139)
• During A.B.C. WARRIORS: 'The Black Hole' (Prog 562), Hammerstein has a flashback to when he was being reprogrammed for the war effort. A Robo-Psychiatry Award bearing the date 2042 can be seen
• HAMMERSTEIN (Progs 960 to 963) has a couple of flashbacks showing him fighting the Judges as part of Booth's Presidential Guard [qv JUDGE DREDD 'The Cursed Earth' (Prog 83)] during the Battle of Armageddon in 2071. HAMMERSTEIN also dovetails into RO-BUSTERS (2078), despite Tharg attributing the former's date to 2118

If like me you're so inclined then, the original series of A.B.C. WARRIORS is set at some point between 2042 and 2071. Furthermore:

• RO-BUSTERS: 'Hammer-Stein's War Memoirs' (Prog 89) contains an allusion to aeroball, thus suggesting mechanized warfare doesn't commence until after 2050 [qv HARLEM HEROES (Prog 1)]
• It's unlikely the Martian colonies would be established prior to those on the moon in 2061 [JUDGE DREDD: 'Luna-1' (Prog 42)]
• Thinking has it that male dinosaurs were sexually mature after ten years, so the existence of Satanus and his son Golgotha [who has his own harem on Mars (Progs 134-136)] could place the original series as late as the mid 2060s*]

Of course, Pat now seems to be ignoring his own continuity for the series, so now it's anybody's guess!

* A date in the 2040s (2043? Can't remember) is given in JUDGE DREDD: 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo', in which the first batch of genetically-engineered dinosaurs are said to have been hatched.

Anne Robinson. Because Dredd's a bit ginger.

The one where Carlton dances.

Some of it seemed a bit by the numbers - internationally demographic pleasing crew . . .

Didn't have so much of a problem with that as them all having to talk with American accents; except Pinbacker (but of course). Or that, of the line-up playing that internationally demographically-pleasing crew, it was an American actor that inevitably played the character wot was right all along.

My enjoyment of it at the flicks was also kind of spoiled once it turns into EVENT HORIZON; although I didn't have that problem once I bought the DvD, a rare occurrence of a purchase even the Souster woman has enjoyed. And it's still gorgeous to look at and listen to, even on the small screen.

And Michelle Yeoh. Yumm.

She's still gorgeous to look at and listen to, on any screen.

RTD at least seems to have learned one lesson from the past.

This is true. He proved in his first season alone only one third of DOCTOR WHO will ever be any good.

By writing the other two thirds of it.

That reminds me. I still haven't seen MOON 44.

Hah! And just to spite Jim, the Byrnester's started a thread about the Nephilim!

As an intended comedy, 2012 could have been less offensive on any number of levels. That's not to say there's any unintentional laughs, though. It's not so-bad-it's-good, so-be-warned.

The general public is never ruder, more short-sighted or selfish than when confronted by someone who's reminding then they don't actually have that much to be upset about.

Thing is, no chugger has any way of knowing that. As-likely-as-it-might-be-for-perhaps-the-majority-of-people-stopped, it's assumed of everyone. Guilt-tripping potential donors is surely far less effective than appealing to someone's better nature. If nothing else, it's bloody discourteous.

Despite it's militant nature, however, most chuggers thankfully seem content to accept a simple "Sorry, no" and move on to someone else.

Not many. It's just a job.

That didn't go down too well with one chugger I politely enquired of. I think what annoys me most is the guilt they throw at passers-by. "Oh, surely you can spare only a fiver a month."

Yes, luv. And if I'm able to, you most definitely can with that extra two quid an hour you're earning than me.

And how many of these chuggers are even involved with the charity they're acting for?

"All of this probably occurs about fifteen minutes into the movie . . .'

If only. As it turns out it's more likely forty minutes.