Hartnell will always be the First Doctor. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />He had some lovely lines too. He gets a bad rap sometimes for fluffing his lines, but given the schedule pressures they were under, it's really no surprise; sometimes they barely got a single read-through before they had to perform. He did a wonderful job of holding up for year after year until his health was too poor to continue.<br /><br />My favorite line from him would be his good-bye to Susan, the first regular to leave the series. Here it is from memory, so please pardon any errors:<br /><br />"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no tears, no regrets. Only go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine." <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>