Doctor Who: All Doctors Ranked From Worst To Best

3. The Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee

Best Episode: Inferno - One of the greatest alternate reality TV stories of all time. Worst Episode: Planet Of The Spiders - Horrific acting and special effects despite the beautiful regeneration scene. The debonair Doctor with the penchant for fine wines, velvet capes, fencing and karate chops, Jon Pertwee took the role of the Doctor in an unexpected new direction and created one of the best versions of our beloved character in the show's history. No longer was he the carefree traveller across space and time; he was an Earth-bound alien working as a scientific adviser to UNIT and more than any other Doctor he firmly became the protector of humanity. There was great warmth beneath that frosty exterior that was developed so beautifully between the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. The Fourth and Sarah-Jane, the Seventh and Ace, the Tenth and Rose and the Eleventh and Amy; that transition from guide to true friend was founded in that relationship between the Third Doctor and his second companion. So too was the close connection between the Doctors and the Brigadier, a kinship that was paid tribute to so wonderfully in that 'salute' in the recent Death In Heaven. In fact so many aspects of the Doctor were built here, particularly the Master. Delgado was the Moriaty to Pertwee's Sherlock and that love/hate relationship was never bettered. The Hinchcliffe era might be the 'goldern era' of Doctor Who but many of the all time classics came from Barry Letts' tenure. The Silurians, Inferno, The Daemons, The Time Warrior; there are many classics in the Third Doctor's era, but none would have reached the status they deserved without the grandeur of Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor at the helm.