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

Published on November 24th 2013, the day after the 50th anniversary of the first showing of Doctor Who episode 1 (and 50 years and three days after I came into the world myself).

Here are all eleven main incarnations to the date 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 didn't include Pater Capadi as he wasn’t to be the Doctor till Christmas Day. I 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' was also left out because at the time of drawing I didn't know where he fitted 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.