1. The Sixth Doctor - Doctor Who
So here we are, bathing in the afterglow of the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who, the crown jewel of the BBC and one of the biggest shows on television. But sadly it wasn't always this way there are a number of reasons that people of my generation didn't grow up with the show and this is one of the biggest. By the time Colin Baker took over the role of the worlds favourite Time Lord, the show was beginning to grow stale creatively its height during the long tenure of Tom Baker was well and truly over, the audience was beginning to shrink and high-powered executives at the BBC saw the chance to rid themselves of a series that they weren't particularly fond of. That is probably a concept that those of us who started with the modern Who will probably struggle to grasp, because as of this moment the series is a phenomenal success which begs the question of why the BBC would allow it to swing in the wilderness for as long as it did. However, the eighties were a different time (obviously) and science fiction wasn't exactly a respected genre of television in Britain. Plus, with ratings dropping it was getting easier to justify the end of Doctor Who. Colin Baker had perhaps the slightly easier task of following the guy that followed the iconic fourth Doctor, but the behind-the-scenes turmoil coupled with the rather dodgy writing of his era effectively screwed the guy over. Colin Baker was essentially forced out of the role by Michael Grade the then-controller of BBC One who for some reason decided that he didn't want the actor in the role anymore. So a new Doctor was selected in Sylvester McCoy, and the show was left with the small matter of a regeneration scene. Unsurprisingly, Baker didn't want to return to film the scene, so it had to be done without him. In what may well be the lamest regeneration of all, we see the Sixth Doctor clearly played by McCoy in a bad wig on the ground after a typically dodgy 80s CGI sequence. Then we see the wigged McCoy fade away as reappears and becomes the seventh Doctor. I would love to go on more about the exit, but that really is it. I know a lot of fans are upset that Christopher Eccleston didn't come back to film the War Doctor regeneration, but surely it isn't as bad as Colin Bakers departure is it?