Dr Who New Series Poll - Choose the best Doctor Who series since 2005.

Doctor Who Poll

Vote for the best Dr Who series 2005-2010

With the Sixth Series of Doctor Who fast approaching, here is your chance to vote for the best series since Dr Who returned to our TV screens in 2005.

Not that you should need reminding, but here are some of the key points from each of the series to date ...

SERIES ONE - 2005
Doctor: Christopher Eccleston
Main Companions: Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith.
Highlights: Rose, Dalek, Fathers Day, The Empty Child.

Doctor Who 10 & 9: Tennant & Eccleston

SERIES TWO - 2006
Doctor: David Tennant
Main Companions: Rose Tyler.
Highlights: School Reunion, The Girl in the Fireplace, Doomsday.

SERIES THREE - 2007
Doctor: David Tennant
Main Companions: Martha Jones
Highlights: Human Nature, Blink, Utopia.

SERIES FOUR - 2008
Doctor: David Tennant
Main Companions: Donna Noble
Highlights: The Doctor's Daughter, Silence in the Library, Journey's End.

SPECIALS - 2008-09
Doctor: David Tennant
Main Companions: Jackson Lake, Christina De Souza, Adelaide Brooke, Wilf Mott.
Highlights: The Next Doctor, Waters of Mars, The End of Time.

SERIES FIVE - 2010
Doctor: Matt Smith
Main Companions: Amy Pond, Rory Williams.
Highlights: The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels, The Pandorica Opens.

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Dr Who - Wit and Wisdom of Russell T. Davies - Part One: The Pre-Dawn of Doctor Who the New Series.

THE WIT and WISDOM of
RUSSELL T. DAVIES

Part One: The Pre-Dawn of Doctor Who the New Series (2003-05)

On the 'Doctor Who' TV show -

"It's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!"

Russell T. Davies on BBC Wales Today (2004)

In 2003, the BBC finally announced that Doctor Who would return to our TV screens. Almost as important a question as the identity of the actor who would follow in the new Doctor's time-travelling tracks after a 16 year hiatus, was which creative talent would be entrusted to oversee and spearhead this much-awaited revival.

As we know now, this proved to be Russell T. Davies [right]. An inspired choice as it turned out, but one the BBC never really had much doubt about, as Mal Young - Head of BBC Drama - confidently announced back in 2003, "We're thrilled to have a writer of Russell's calibre to take us on this journey."

And some journey it was. On the road to resurrection, Russell was to prove more than a mere pencil-pusher ... he was an envelope pusher. As executive producer / show-runner, he was the undoubted guiding light that brought a sadly faded icon back to our screens.

Much has been made of Russell's legacy after the fact of the show's global success, but what were his thoughts before the New Series was unleashed? The following dozen quotations make interesting reading in understanding his creative mindset before he knew what he had (re-)created ...

2003

"I want to make the Doctor the best character ever. He should be so fascinating he's radioactive. He's funny, clever, wild and fast. Your best friend times 500."

"None of us is talking about a reboot, it's the same old Doctor Who. I want the Doctor, at least one companion, whose name is probably Rose Tyler. I want the TARDIS, I want it to look like a Police Box, and I want them to fly through the universe and all its history, facing death and danger and braving it out with a fast and funny fighting spirit. That's Doctor Who, isn't it?"

in Doctor Who Magazine

2004

"I have a philosophy - I can do what I want. If we can think of the perfect story for him to fall in love then he will. The purists may be up in arms, but there are more things to worry about in life. There is no pure Doctor Who. He is 41 years old - it is the only way to do it, to change."

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