“Wonderful chap. All of them.”

Originally published 2 August 2010

Quotation from Brigadier Alexander Lethbridge-Stewart, in the 20th Anniversary special: “The Five Doctors”.

The big day was yesterday, so here’s  my tribute to Doctor Who. Here are all eleven main incarnations so far of the Doctor, interpreted as cats. For the latecomers to the party (hello, America) they are William Hartnell (1963-66), Patrick Troughton (1966-69), Jon Pertwee (1970-74), Tom Baker (1974-81), Peter Davison (1981-84), Colin Baker (1984-86), Sylvester McCoy (1987-89, 1996), Paul McGann (1996), Christopher Eccleston (2005), David Tenant (2005-10), Matt Smith (2010-2013). I’ve not included Pater Capadi as he won’t be the Doctor till Christmas Day. I’ve also left out Peter Cushing’s movie Doctor, Richard E Grant’s animated Doctor, and the Valeyard, a curdled version of future Doctor only ever seen in the Colin Baker story “the Trial of a Time Lord”. John Hurt’s 'War Doctor' has also been left out because at the time of writing (early November) we don’t know where he fits into the Doctors timeline. Is he Doctor 8 towards the end of that incarnation, Doctor 9 before he shaved his head to become Christopher Eccleston, or a hitherto unknown incarnation the Doctor can’t admit to himself ever happened?

The  caricatures I’m happiest with are the ones of Tom Baker (“all teeth and curls” as he used to say), Colin Baker (alien and wonderfully self-satisfied), and Chris Eccleston (“Fantastic!”). And of course, I couldn’t draw Matt Smith without his Fez. He wears a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

The first two Doctors are, of course, in black and white.