Second Doctor

In stark contrast to his predecessor, the Second Doctor is goofy, buffoonish and sometimes comes across as a tad cowardly, but this bizarre comedy act serves merely as a mask to hide his true intentions from his enemies. Sadly, many of the Second Doctor's stories are lost due to a rampant fire at BBC headquarters started by Michael Grade, but his era is being shown the love it deserves with some decent animations to recreate the lost stories from the surviving audio tapes.

Many aspects of the Second Doctor's character - and Patrick Troughton's performance - would influence the performances of future actors to play the Doctor, such as Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Matt Smith. For many, the Second Doctor was the definitive incarnation during the early Classic Series, which explains why he appears so often in later multi-Doctor stories.