3. There Are 11 Doctors
If you get into Doctor Who one of the first things you learn is that there are eleven Doctors; with William Hartnell as the first debuting in 1963 to Matt Smiths present-day eleventh incarnation. However, in reality theres been a lot more. But fans tend to pick and choose. The most famous other Doctor is Peter Cushing who starred in two movies in the 1960s which saw his Doctor Who, a human scientist who had invented a time machine, face the Daleks on their home planet and on a dystopian future Earth. Ok, perhaps he doesn't count for obvious reasons. But, in 2003, before the show returned to our screens, fantasy writer Paul Cornell tried to relaunch Doctor Who as a web-based animated series in which Richard E Grant played a new incarnation of the Doctor. However, although one story was completed this was quickly swept under the carpet when the new TV series was soon announced starring Christopher Eccleston. All right, these two can perhaps be written off but, wait, theres more. Theres an infamous scene in Tom Baker story Brain of Morbius where the villainous Morbius attacks the Doctors mind and trawls through all his lives, revealing the faces of Doctors we are familiar with plus many we are not. Its heavily implied that these are past regenerations of the Doctor from before Hartnell's. So why do we insist on calling Matt Smith the Eleventh? I'll leave you to ponder that one.