Who Played The Doctor for the LONGEST? | Doctor Who Video Essay 

Such an interesting video!

a doctors era starts when they are the one to say "remember to subscribe to the official doctor who youtube channel" and ends when there successor takes over

I think when an actor starts as the Doctor is a pretty open and shut case. It's when they first appear on-screen as the lead character to the public.

Peter Cushing could be argued to win, since in his continuity, he was never replaced. As of writing, he has, from a certain point of view, been the incumbent doctor for 58 years, 5 months, 12 days, and I will be surprised if this ever stops counting.

Last I checked, Peter Davison has the most total hours of content with him performing as the Doctor (TV and audio added together). Last I checked Paul McGann was in second place, and then approximately a tie for third/fourth between Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.

Don’t forget Tom as the curator…. Though not confirmed on screen he does indicate that he is indeed the Doctor.

I just started doctor who for the first time 2 months ago. I wanted to start from the 1st doctor but finding old doctor who is a pain so I just do hbo which starts on the 9th Doctor, It’s crazy to think the 9th doctor was only 1 season because of difficult shooting, yet for me it’s what really hooked me to start the show. Tenant made me a fan and I just finished the 10th doctor and just started the 11th and I’m already missing Tenant.

I want Paul to get a spinoff, so badly! More people need to discover his incredibleness.

I really appreciate that you answered in so many different ways, and not to prove "your" Doctor is the longest, but just for the fun of it. It's really interesting to see how a seemingly simple question can be looked at from so many different angles. Personally, I'd judge it based on screentime or episode count, but does it really matter at the end of the day? It was fun to think about and compare. Anyway, I'm gonna go find more of your videos to watch. Edit: removed the first sentence, as it seemed a bit aggressive. I'd just read some weirdly nasty comments. People need to chill, including myself.

Peter Capaldi, 4.5billion years.

It’s amazing to me that Big Finish has surpassed the TV show in total hours of content. They did so around the time of the 50th anniversary, if memory serves, and the gap grows steadily every year. All of it officially licensed by the BBC, so to me Big Finish *IS* Doctor Who. Freed from special effects budget limitations, and with impassioned performances from actors getting second chances at their roles, and new actors possibly getting their only chance at being part of Doctor Who. There are some amazing new companions (Evelyn Smythe and Charlie Pollard are two of my favourites), and it’s often amazing stuff. I listen to Big Finish every day.

Me seeing the title of the video without having all the hard data presented in the video yet: TOM BAKER Me after the video: TOM BAKER

Answers: Longest (in terms of episode counts) - Tom Baker (172) Longest (in terms of first/last appearance) - Tom Baker (43 years between Robot and Shada) Longest (in terms of tenure) - Paul McGann (8 years) Longest (in terms of seasons) - Tom Baker (7 seasons) Longest (on screen duration/no breaks) - Tom Baker (7ish years) Longest (production) - Tom Baker (6 years 9 months) Longest (in terms of height) - Tom Baker (6ft.3in) Longest (in terms of total combined screen time from first frame to last frame as the Doctor) - Tom Baker (3 days if you include Shada, Dimensions in Time, Superannuation, the Day of the Doctor)

Technically Paul McGann is the longest running actor to play the Doctor if you count all of his Big Finish audio stories but do not know if that is canon or not.

3:44 I took that picture of Colin (some 14 or 15 years ago, I think!) I'm so tickled to see it's still on Wikipedia. Great video!

A related question on counting episodes including regeneration would be how we count the 6th doctor regeneration, when 6 was played by McCoy in a wig.

13:57 Ok this is going to be a technicality but didnt david Bradley play the doctor in 2013 an adventure in space and time. So it would be just over 10 years of bradley playing the part

It’s even MORE complicated now. David Tennent is STILL The Doctor!!

For me it’s the actor’s first appearance onscreen as the Doctor to the moment the next canonical Doctor appears onscreen. Dates screened that is as things can get wibbly wobbly with multi Doctor stories, anniversary specials (8th regeneration) etc.

A couple people in the comments mentioned an "In Universe" category. As in, how long did each incarnation of the Doctor live in universe before their regeneration. So I went and worked it out to the best of my ability. Note that there is simply not enough information to include Jodie's incarnation (or Tennant's 2nd incarnation as the 14th Doctor). This bit in brackets is where I got the data from... 1. 4,500,000,233 years - Peter Capaldi (Before the Flood, Heaven Sent, The Husbands of River Song, The Pilot) 2. 1194 years - Matt Smith (A Town Called Mercy, Tales of Trenzalore - Novel) 3. 720 years - Paul McGann (The Ancestor Cell - Novel, Escape Velocity - Novel, Orbis - Audio) 4. 450 years - William Hartnell (Tomb of the Cybermen) 5. 400 years - John Hurt - (Engines of War - Novel) 6. 250 years - John Pertwee (Tardis Wiki Estimate) 7. 153 years - Colin Baker (Time and the Rani) 8. 130 years - Christopher Ecclestone (Tardis Wiki Estimate) 9. 56 years - Sylvester McCoy (Vampire Science - Novel) 10. 54 years - Tom Baker (Cold Fusion - Novel) 11. 50 years - Patrick Troughton (Tardis Wiki Estimate) 12. 37 years - Peter Davison (The Ultimate Treasure - Novel) 13. 6 years - David Tennant (The End of Time Part 2) If you don't count the time the 12th Doctor spent in the confession dial then the ranking becomes: 1. 1194 years - Matt Smith 2. 720 years - Paul McGann 3. 450 years - William Hartnell 4. 400 years - John Hurt 5. 250 years - John Pertwee 6. 233 years - Peter Capaldi 7. 153 years - Colin Baker 8. 130 years - Christopher Ecclestone 9. 56 years - Sylvester McCoy 10. 54 years - Tom Baker 11. 50 years - Patrick Troughton 12. 37 years - Peter Davison 13. 6 years - David Tennant Some clarification on the process I used to work this out (for those that are interested): I started by working out the Doctor's overall age (including all incarnations) as of the time of each incarnation's regeneration and then calculated the difference between each one to figure out how long each version of the Doctor lasted in universe. The problem with this method is that the Doctor's age is often impossible to work out using information only from the show, so I did use information from other Doctor Who media to work out the Doctor's age when using only the show became impossible. In situations where information from the show contradicts that of other Doctor Who media, I favour the information from the show. Another issue is that the first age the 9th Doctor claims to be closest to his first on-screen appearance is 900 years, which is impossible given the timeline of the Classic Doctors. In order to handwave this, I am assuming the Doctor both lost track of his age in his 8th incarnation (this is attested to in the novel "Vampire Science") and that he chooses to not remember the War incarnation due to the horrors of the Time War. Even with all this, it is sometimes impossible to come up with a logical age for each period of the Doctor's life, so in these situations, I have used the Tardis Wiki's estimates. Furthermore, because the 9th Doctor's claim to being 900 years old is impossible, I am calculating his age based on the Tardis Wiki estimate and then using canonical data to work out the age for the rest of the Doctor's incarnation. (e.g., it is impossible for 9 to have been any younger than 2259 years old as of his regeneration into 10, but we know that 9 claimed to be 900 years old close to his regeneration and that 10 claimed to be 906, a difference of 6 years. As a result, I put the 10th Doctor's age at 2265 years old, 6 years more than the 9th Doctor's age.) Edit: Fixed a major mistake in the maths :P

lovely video! little note- at the end, you say "I am sure there is a generation of kids who site Jodie as their doctor" I am a teenager, and was rather young when Twice Upon a Time aired, and yes, she is my personal favorite. my doctor. (Yes, Chibnall's writing has some issues, (the morals of kerblam is one of my biggest issues), but I adore JODIE as the doctor, the peppy, happy, caring personality. I met her at a convention too! she is just like her doctor.)

My money is on the doctor with the longest time between their regeneration stories-Paul McGann, 17 years, (1996-2013).

Okay but who played the Doctor for longest from the perspective... of the Doctor? As in, roughly how old is the Doctor in each regeneration and which incarnation had the longest life. I remember it being wild that the first 9 Doctors lived collectively for about 900 years, with the 2nd Doctor noting at one point that he was 500 years old, then the 10th Doctor only lives a shockingly short 6 years (which counts two whole regenerations since he kept his face and caused the meta crisis), and then the 11th Doctor lived for around 1100 years, doubling his lifespan and then some, and although the 12th Doctor spent a billion years in the dial, those were composed of countless clones of himself and so he only really experienced it for a few hours, meaning that doesn't factor into his age. And then the 14th Doctor, with the same face as 10, somehow almost outdoes his incredibly short lifespan by regenerating literally less than 24 hours after his last regeneration, but luckily for him the bi-regeneration split him apart from the next Doctor, and so it's up for interpretation if you count that regeneration as the end of his time as the Doctor (from the perspective of 15 onwards, you would count it, but from the perspective of 14 and his future incarnations, you wouldn't). If you thought calculating who played the Doctor for the longest period of time from our perspective was hard, imagine trying to figure out the in-universe answer.

Thinking about the Big Finish Audios, i think its so beautiful that old doctors get to come back and/or actors get to come back to play one of their most significant roles. Espcially thinking about how many of them are such huge doctor who fans they are themselves its so lovely they get to continue their era in their own way!

Its actually insane to me that Hartnell's runtime was not too dissimilar from Tom's despite the fact it was condensed into less than half the years. Absolutely no wonder Hartnell was exhausted, that's crazy.

What’s going on at 19:55? Is Davison “1 days” and why is his “1 days 9 hours” higher than Tennant’s “1 day 14 hours”?

For me there's 2 answers. 1. Tom baker 2. Paul mcgann

In universe, it’s a toss up between Matt smith (300 years on trenzalore) or Peter Capaldi (like ten billion years in the confession dials) but Capaldi might not count because technically he was only there for a a few days.

That's a rather complicated topic and I even count it a little bit different but I tend to stick to first and last regular appearence as the Doctor in a TV episode. For when it starts and ends I tend to look at it as if it were a job and who someone would consider "THE DOCTOR" at that point in time. - For me Troughton starts beeing the Doctor at the end of "The tenth planet" and stops being the Doctor at the end of "The war games" because that is when he is forced to regenerate. It's like being fired as a janitor. You can't run around still claiming to be the janitor just because the new guy hasn't been announced yet. - McCoy stopped being the Doctor when the show was canceled after "Survival". Otherwise he would have been the Doctor forever if the show had not been revived. If you had asked someone in 1995 who the current Doctor was, they would have said "nobody" because there was no Doctor Who. His appearance in the TV movie is merely a cameo in my eyes. You can't be the janitor of a company that doesn't exist. - Tennant has two tenures added together. Back to the metaphor: If I get back to an old job I had several years ago, I can't claim to have worked there the entire time. It's the time then and the time now added. That's how I see it anyway :)

I'm so glad you did screen time, that was the question on my mind the entire video 😅😅

I'd say the only metric that makes sense is the amount of screen time the show has had with the actor in the lead role. This would exclude guest appearances later when they aren't the current lead. By that standard, the answer is Tom Baker with 172 episodes or 71 hours 40 minutes (presuming 25 minutes per episode on average). If you want to include Big Finish it isn't really my thing but I'd guess that outstrips others who've done far more audio episodes than he has. The argument that pre-broadcast filming and promotional appearances count is nonsense. Stage performances don't include rehearsal time and interviews in the length of the run. Albums that took years to record aren't somehow regarded as longer.

tl;dw: Tom Baker. Tom Baker wins everything. Tom Baker is God.

Tom Baker was Dr. Who for 170+ episodes. A better question would have been, "who played Dr. Who for the most episodes while they were the actual doctor?".

I would be interested in a break down of all the companions like this.

Very well done. The list at 11:16 doesn't say which Doctor goes with each rank and you have to figure it out from the titles, which many of us can do but not everyone. I like the reference to McGann's short episode (minsode?) culminating in a regeneration. Another ranking would be broadcast time. Episode count may not be the best measure since most of the classic episodes were a half hour long while the revival series episodes are mostly one hour long. Tom Baker would still win this way but it would be closer between classic and revival doctors.

If you’re counting “twice upon a time” as David Bradley’s first appearance as the first doctor, and the cameo in “power of the doctor” as David Bradley’s final appearance as the doctor, then wouldn’t you also count the cameo in “the three doctors” as William hartnells final appearance? That means there’s 6,977 days in between William Hartnell’s first appearance in the show, and his final appearance in the show, and only 1,763 days in between David Bradley’s first appearance as the doctor in the show and his last… So actually David Bradley didn’t last longer in the role than William hartnell…

I mean, most modern/newer fans of the series probably don’t factor in the supplemental material, be it the missing adventures books, the new adventures books, the audio dramas, theres good reasons to why people would probably think tennant or baker(Tom, not colin, who technically comes in at least 3rd place with the most audio dramas, 2nd being McCoy and 1st being mcgann.) but Sylvester McCoy does indeed have the most technical appearances in the series, especially factoring in the gap between 1989 and 1996. The seventh doctor also has the most novels to his name as well. Sure, Tom baker has the most televised stories, but he’s not exactly the longest in the books or audio dramas.

Tennant - 5 years Tom Baker (not an option but the point still stands) - 7 years McGann - 9 years McCoy - 9 years Not even close

As pointed out by one of you already, there's an error at 19:54 where David Tennant is listed below Peter Davison despite having a greater screentime. Slipped by me in the writing process.

I can’t wait for Jodie to come back as the 17th Doctor and she’s written right and for Matt to come back as the 18th Doctor

Now calculate how long each Doctor was the Doctor... And whether or not to include all the time 12 spent in the confession dial : D I think it's kinda funny how it's so hard to calculate how long each actor played the Doctor given that it's a time travel show! very timey wimey

The Screen Time one really DOES feel like the reality … it tells you “who got a long run, who got a short run.” The ones who were < 24 hours got a short run. Anyone 24 - 48 hours felt like they could’ve had more. Anyone over 48 hours felt like they had a good innings.

the classic Pat troughton filmed his regeneration scene before the 3rd doctor was cast but by the time they finished studio they did

I use two methods based on context: First is your fourth, when they first appear to when the next one first appears. The other is episode & season count.

There's an awful lot of dross and negativity in RU-vid Doctor Who videos, so it's a genuine delight to randomly watch one that is both positive and informative. Really good video :)

some of these measures are so interesting to think about after the airing of the giggle

I'd argue capaldi was the doctor the longest. He was the doctor for around 4.5 billion years

This goes to prove that time is relative - but before watching I would have said Tom Baker

I think what would make this topic more interesting would be comparing this to each regeneration's in-world lifespan. Tennant for example, has used up 3 whole regenerations but only was the doctor in-world for a few years. Whereas Matt's one regeneration spans over 900 years

It could be possible to reconcile the differences between classic Who, where each story/adventure was multi-episode and new Who generally being one story per episode or two episodes. You could look at how many story arcs/adventures each actor had playing the Doctor. This could be within the broadcast show and/or, within expanded media where the actor has an active role (i.e. not in books or comic scrips where generally, only their image is used). In instances such as the Trial of a Time Lord where the whole season was one over all story arc, the individual blocks of stories could be used.

Hi just got back from the last 60th anniversary special, give it a couple years and your gonna have a hard time with David Tennant 😂

surely hartnell could be argued to be the longest since the release of daleks in colour he would have the length of 60 years precisely.

I love David Tennant...but Tom Baker IS Doctor Who. He is the Sean Connery of the role against which all others will be judged.

It’s just like how there’s technically 4 “first” Pokémon lol

I wonder which Doctor lasted the longest in the Doctor's timeline? Probably Matt Smith (Trenzalore) or Capaldi if you count his recurrances (Heaven Sent)?

Now add the metric which actor covered the most elapsed time in universe… would it be smith? Or capaldi?

The question should have been written as "Which actor had the longest screen-time portraying The Doctor?" That would have both prevented the confusion, and added with a bit well-known trivia for Doctor Who.

Another fun way to count it would maybe be raw number of stories. Like, counting it all: TV episodes, Books, Comics, Audio Dramas, Video Games, everything. I wonder who would win there? Probably either Tom Baker or Paul McGann. Maybe David Tennant would be up there too. There's a ton of 10th Doctor expanded universe content at this point.

19:52 Is Davison meant to be 1 day 19 hours here? Otherwise the position makes no sense.

Question for me is whether David's 10th and 14th Doctors should be counted as one as it's the same actor, or kept aparf due to being different incarnations.

The correct answer would be Tom Baker who played the role for seven years !!

In my eyes, the answer will always be Tom. As logical as it is, I don't count Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann's tenures as being the longest because the show was not broadcasting officially during those years so their tenures started and ended with the final episode of their regular run, though I would add an extra day for McCoy for his return in the TV movie. Also, while Jodie Whittaker is technically the longest-serving Doctor of the revival, I do believe David Tennant has reclaimed that title because yes, whilst he is playing a new incarnation, it's still the same actor playing the Doctor so his two tenures will be combined and as a result he is second behind Tom once again - in terms of first appearance-final appearance. He also overtakes Whittaker again if you take into account the time between first story and last story - the two weeks added by Fourteen's tenure increasing that lead again. Then, in terms of episode count, Tennant's appearances as 14 brings his total to 50 (51 if you include his return as Ten in Day of the Doctor). But that increases once again if you include episodes in which Tennant is officially credited as the Doctor. In terms of official episodes, that increases from 50 to 53 (if you include his appearances at the end of Parting of the Ways and The Power of the Doctor in which he is introduced as the Doctor) and increases once again if you include the two animated episodes: The Infinite Quest and Dreamland, as well as the charity sketches Born Again and Time Crash for Children in Need and interactive episode Attack of the Graske - all perfectly feasible because a title sequence is used for each of these and David Tennant's name is included - so technically a credit - bringing his total to 58 - so Tennant has certainly been one of the most prolific Doctors in more ways than one.

Very well researched and put together. Well done ❤❤

The 8th doctor Paul McGann was the longest because of the audio adventures

Hartnell and Troughton were credited only in episodes, as they was on holiday, keys of marinus e4-e5, the space museum ep3, the time meddler ep 2, the celesrial toymaker e2 and e3. The Massacre the doctor is only in e1 and e4 quick count 10 less that 137 = 127 putting him behind pertwee

How about 1 more round, most years of the doctors age

Consecutive and unbroken, Tom Baker. Peter Davison first appearance 1981 (end of Logopolis), last appearance 2022.

Very good to hear Johnny and Dee managed to get the prize money they deserved! 😁

An incredible video! Great work!

i got baked as hell and watching this incredible video has only improved my day

I think its easier to have 2 distinctions: Lore & Episode Count The former fits well for the show & the latter is just simple to keep track of without any weird caveats like time gaps between appearances If that logic were applied, you could have an actor at like 15 years play a role once, have him replay it at 100 also once and say hes played it for 85 years which is not correct at all

David Bradley you say played the doctor for 5 years, 3 months and 22 days between The Doctor Falls and the centinary special and this means he played the doctor longer than William Hartnell. This is not true - William Hartnell first played the Doctor in November 1963 and his last outing was The Three Doctors in December 1972 / January 1973 which is over 9 years!

You’re really overthinking this. When did they regenerate in? When did they regenerate out.

I think it would be interesting to explore big finish with the same or similar lenz.

I think it should be between appearances on the main show as the main character. So audio drama's don't count, nor does time off screen like McCoy and McGann during the hiatus. And it should be based on the air date, not the recorded date.

Longest run while the show was running: Tom Baker - 7 years Longest run including years off air: Sylvester McCoy - 9 years Longest time including post regeneration reappearances: Peter Davison - 40 years (1982 - 2022) Other contenders: McGann who had 9 years but didnt actually reappear in 2005 like McCoy Nobody else belongs in that conversation.

Its the same with Bond ir Batman, the one you grew up with is always going to be *your* doctor, or if you didn't watch it growing up, then the one who was doctor when you first started watching.

Less impactful, but you could also measure by how long a doctors lifespan was in universe. And that's a conundrum in itself because immediately I think Smith since he stayed on trenzalore for hundreds of not a thousand years, but you could also argue Capaldi since he was trapped in the confession dial for over 4 billion years but also note he was cloned regularly, so is it consistent enough to call it a lifespan?

Great analysis. I like the first appearance to first appearance of successor metric. But it's definitely a stupid question without defining how you are measuring. I've always been amazed that William Hartnell appeared in only slightly fewer episodes than Tom Baker, but recorded them in only 3 years compared to Tom's 7.

ok now lets hear a ranking of who played the doctor the longest according to how long their respective incarnations lived in canon 😁 (awesome video btw)

I think we should count the time between regenerations as all multi episode and special episodes could be considered as part of the original run but just off screen stuff they didn’t film being filmed.

I would argue that the most sane way to do it is their tenure on the series, not counting reprisals. Otherwise, you’re just going to have to give it to Tom Baker who returned for the 50th anniversary. With the deaging technology, you could have an actor come back at any point. I have also argue for a while that there’s no reason they couldn’t do specials. When dr who was home when you had the Christmas special I was thinking they should have a Midsummer special which is basically a two hour made for TV movie that is not happening in the continuity of the current show. Give Sylvester McCoy an adventure as the doctor during the time or before he would regenerates the war doctor. Give us an adventure that happens at UNIT with Micky and Martha.

Paul McGann

For me it has to be from the time you start to your final season with no breaks in between. That said, I can see adding Big Finish stories to this.

i know it was reused footage, but I feel like eccleston in day of the doctor should be counted as his last appearance

Great video! The only one to add would be the in-universe time they have spent as the doctor. I could be wrong here, but given heaven sent, that would go down as Capaldi.

I'll watch the video still but there's gotta be at least a few answers: 1. Longest contiguous run as the doctor (I'm imagining this is Tom Baker) 2. Longest span between appearances of the actor as the Doctor (I want to say Tom Baker here for the 2014 special, but now with it having been about a decade ago - yikes - Peter Davidson's appearance in one of Jodie's specials probably edges this out) 3. Longest span between appearances of the regeneration (which will obviously be Doctor #1 played by David Bradley in Capaldi's last episode) 4. Number of episodes (Tom Baker easily wins here from what I understand) 5. Longest span between appearances of the actor (which would include Capaldi, Baker, and Davidson's preexisting appearances as other characters - but probably wouldn't skew anything) I'm including the holograms in Jodie's special since they had the actors in to film it (and kind of showed them 'in person' in a sort of 'regeneration netherworld'), and throwing out reused footage (i.e. Day of the Doctor, Eleventh Hour, Twice Upon A Time, and the episode with Clara in the Doctor's timestream).

I wonder if the new way of filming new new who is better for the actors now. In our point of view were still waiting to get ruby Sunday and 15 but in real life there already filming season 2 with possibly the next companion. Perhaps itll give the actors a chance to breath better between seasons. Although I think the 3 season rule is best not including returns.

If the doctors were Prime Ministers of the UK it would be: William Hartnell, 1963-1966 Patrick Troughton, 1966-1969 Jon Pertwee, 1969-1974 Tom Baker, 1974-1981 Peter Davison, 1981-1984 Colin Baker, 1984-1987 Sylvester McCoy, 1987-1996 Paul McGann, 1996-2003 Christopher Eccleston, 2003-2005 David Tennant, 2005-2010 Matt Smith, 2010-2013 Peter Capaldi, 2013-2017 Jodie Whittaker, 2017-2022 David Tennant, 2022-2023 Ncuti Gatwa, 2023 - incumbent

Well in the narrative Peter capaldi is the longest-serving doctor are you spend 1.4 billion years in a time Lord trap. Meaning the doctor had his face the longest in universe

A debate that would never end and yet, interesting.

A Doctor is a Doctor for life

Cool video! lots of info. I am going to vote the only Doctor with 7 (full) seasons. Tom Baker. I know especially now, David Tenant has so many specials (10 or more?) plus 3 seasons. Patrick Troughton is my favorite Doctor. So let’s just argue him for fun. From power of the Daleks 1966 to the two doctors 1985. lol

Awesome work! I was gonna say by mintues and days and you finally got to that metric, so I'm satisfied. Sort of.... Now we need a number including Big Finish🤣 I don't have a favorite Doctor, I love them all, truly. The Character is what keeps me here through the decades.

You screwed up the list at @20:10. Both Smith and Tennant were in the series longer than Davison. Tennant outlasted his father-in-law by 5 hours, 11 minutes and Smith outlasted Davison by 1 hour 51 minutes.

Tom baker was the doctor the longest he was the doctor for 7 years

For me i think it should be judged by screen time, whoever has the most time on screen as the doctor, to me, is the longest serving doctor

Tom Baker the 4th as he's the longest on his Tele run and BF audio range collectively wise the last time I personally checked

I'd be interested to see how the screentime stats change if you include big finish and the reprisals. I'm sure paul mcganns stat probably shoots up, but i'd be interested to see how everyone else's stats change

I can honesty say that I have no clear favorite, but love them all. There are aspects of a few that I am especially fond of, probably due to meaningful single scenes. For example, my favorite monologue is Capaldi’s exhortation on the horror of war, and love a few moments from each one.