Doctor Who: Ranking All 12 Doctors From Worst To Best

12. The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker)

STORIES: 4

ALIENNESS: 4

HEROISM: 3

LIKEABILITY: 1

LEGACY: 2

OVERALL SCORE: 14

Poor Colin I was hoping that this scoring system would see him off the bottom of the list (for a change), but alas, no. Unless there’s a category for the most outlandish costume, it’s hard to see what permutation could give the Sixth Doctor a better deal.

Some argue that had Michael Grade not put the show on temporary hold and later demanded that Colin Baker be replaced, then we would be remembering the Sixth Doctor with greater fondness. But if the recent audio reconstructions of the cancelled episodes are anything to go by, even if he had been given more material to work with, Colin Baker would not have been served well by the writers. The stories we did get were at least engaging, if a little continuity obsessed.

Colin Baker is a fine ambassador for the show and a mainstay of the convention circuit, but sadly the Sixth Doctor simply did not work out. A character as ‘in your face’ as his costume who commanded centre stage, even when he had softened his nasty side the Sixth Doctor was hard to like. The costume was supposed to represent his alienness, but instead it highlighted an attention seeking self-obsession which unlike Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor is not a temporary phase in the hero’s journey towards enlightenment.

At least the Sixth Doctor only came last in one of the five categories, but despite that saving grace there is still a massive 10 points between him and the Doctor in eleventh place – the biggest gap in the entire list.