Poor Sylvester McCoy, His tenure on the show was right at the end of the classic series, at a time when it was obvious that the Beeb had given up on the show. The acting was bad and the scripts were even worse, most of the stories were so childish that if Cbeebies was around at the time then Doctor Who would have been relegated to that Kids TV channel. Yes, it was that bad that some people have even argued that the show was deliberately run down so that the fuss about cancelling it would be reduced! Sylvester himself actually wasn’t too bad, he did his best with what he was given although it was really hard to take his Doctor seriously when the scripts required him to be angry – the less said about his assistants, the better!