Tracey Ullman
Tracey, most notable for…well…The Tracey Ullman Show, is a brilliant versatile comedian who would rock the pants off of the character. Like Bill Nighy, I would expect the unexpected. I am sorely ignorant of other British female actresses suitable and therefore have not included others here. However, I suspect that there is not someone to whom Ms. Ullman would so terribly pale in comparison to.

Rik Mayall
He may not be the best choice. He might just ruin the franchise…but holy hell could it be fun to watch. As a kid, I loved him as the title character in the odd film Drop Dead Fred. Later, I found him as Rick, The People’s Poet, in the classic BBC anarchy series The Young Ones. Imagine if Doctor Who was a crack addict who never kicked the habit, the hunger for which somehow unquenchably grew as he insanely spoiled to old age. That and a thousand catastrophes would be the result. Oh…perhaps more mellow…but still frighteningly odd and disastrous.

Jason Thomas Kocher
That’s me. Outside of an ever increasing list of such intellectual properties, sports, and people that I have grown to worship just so, I still maintain that I hate the British. I have no ability as of now to produce a British accent that is in any way acceptable. However, if given the role I promise that I will actually…truly…travel in time and fight villainous aliens. Additionally, once in each episode I will cream my pants in a manner that is almost unnoticeable, but which will then provide the true enthusiasts at home an additional ounce or so of joy as they – glued to their screen – attempt to pinpoint the exact frame of this occurrence. Should things not in fact go my way…at least I was – as of this posting – in the conversation.

Hey…look everybody…I wrote the most about me! Good for ME!

Michael Palin
A true explorer in his own right and my favorite Python, Palin would be the choice surefire to transition to an older Doctor while maintaining if not increasing the show’s appeal and subsequent ratings. If he were in fact interested – dubious – the only downside would be that he may be so inextricably tied in the minds of the audience to other personalities and properties that his casting would leach away from the mystique of the show itself. Can’t help but put him on the list, however.

David Walliams
Oh hell…just give it to him. The Little Britain star is rather regularly rumored for the role and he is a Doctor Who…uh…enthusiast…quite evidenced by his and Mark Gatiss‘ series of geekily brilliant spoofs (1, 2, 3). He doesn’t have too much range, so what you see is what you’ll get. But I personally like what I see and you have to think he’ll give it more than his all. I’m not too sure how successful it would be, but it is an increasingly attractive chemistry experiment.

These would all be quite grand and I could go on, but I wouldn’t stop if I did. Indeed, I’ve already thought of adding Alan Cumming, but I tend to think of him every night about this time anyway.

Chances are that the 11th Doctor will be someone I know nothing of and the selection of whom will immediately depress me…but then it will grow on me like the geek cancer that is Doctor Who and I will be left speechless, but for one uttering…BRILLIANT!

Reversing the Polarity of the Neutron Flow

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