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McCoy suffers from one thing and one thing only.....if the tv movie is anything to go by. If we can forget the only similarities between JNT and Segal as fan type proucers for a moment, we must look at two things: 1) McCoy's BBC years in the series; and 2) the first fifteen minutes of the movie. The first are almost completely awful. The second, well you sit up and think "perhaps it wasn't McCoy's fault all along!!!"

In other words he was a JNT Doctor. All of them seem to have been miscast. To me you have five distinctly different Doctor Who eras (think of Segal's console for this next bit). You have the Hartnell era; the Troughton era; the Pertwee era; the (Tom) Baker era; and finally the JNT era.

Then you have the tv movie. I really liked Davison even though he was miscast. I liked Colin Baker in all his pre-Who tv interviews and couldn't wait for his first story. Then after a CRAP first story, he was given what I regard as the last proper Who season. It wasn't perfect but enjoyable. Then after the you-know-what we were treated to the worst story/season in Who history. Following this we had McCoy. All those four seasons were absolutely dreadful. I thought C. Baker and McCoy were the worst Doctors ever.

Except when I saw the first fifteen minutes of the U.S. tv movie I realised that it was probably the production team, headed by a producer who desperately wanted to leave, was probably to blame.

Under proper direction, on film, made by professionals (and I'm no mega fan of American tv normally but they do do the basics in a very professional way) he was a fairly normal actor.

So to this day after proof positive by way of an almost different medium we can see that McCoy was in fact actually ok. I was left thinking "if only we could have seen him in a season like the tv movie or even just part of a different regime..." but too late of course.

So now I don't judge McCoy by his acting, but by his 'era' and everything else that goes with it. By the same token I must give Colin Baker the same consideration.