Fifth Doctor

The Fifth Doctor is a dashing gentleman who is probably the most human of the Classic Series Doctors. Energetic, breathless and riddled with self-doubt, this incarnation draws somewhat from the Third Doctor in that he is quite unlike the other incarnations of the Doctor, and this is made all the more apparent by the fact that he follows the self-assured, quick-witted Fourth Doctor. Peter Davison takes the character in a completely new direction, which makes sense as he was the youngest actor to take the role at the time.

The brainchild of showrunner John Nathan-Turner, the Fifth Doctor's character is one of the most consistent of the Classic era, and he tragically only truly gets to grips with who he is in his very last story. Like the Eleventh Doctor, the Fifth Doctor's era is very much a love-it-or-hate-it deal, but it is very much the same show just with a radically different coat of paint. With a constantly crowded TARDIS, a tendency to blunder into situations unprepared and a stick of celery on his lapel, the Fifth Doctor is a unique incarnation to say the least.