What Matt Smith is to nu-Who followers, so Tom Baker is to unique ones. Baker, tall of stature and lengthy of scarf, got here after the gently eccentric Jon Pertwee and dialled that eccentricity as much as 11. As befitting the Seventies, when he got here to the display screen, this Physician was a childlike free spirit that noticed the universe as a spot of surprise – however was additionally simply more likely to come out with a Chekhov quote as foil an alien invasion. The scriptwriters took this and ran with it, writing classics like The Genesis of the Daleks, The Lethal Murderer and Metropolis of Dying. Plus, anyone that goes round providing jelly infants is a win in our guide.