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Dr Who Is Top Cult Show

By Pa Reporter

The adventures of sci-fi hero Dr Who have been voted the most popular cult TV show by television fans.

The Time Lord topped a poll of weird and wonderful programmes stretching back more than 30 years.

Dr Who returned to British screens earlier this year with actor Christopher Eccleston playing the lead role and 19-year-old former pop princess Billie Piper as his side kick Rose Tyler.

Eccleston, 41, is the ninth incarnation of The Doctor. The others were William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Sylvester McCoy, Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Tom Baker and Colin Baker. Paul McGann played the Doctor in a one-off TV movie.

Dr Who knocked American sci-fi series Star Trek from the number one spot in the poll conducted by the website Cult TV - a position the US show had held since the first survey was carried out in 1994.

In third place was the demon slaying teenager Buffy and the spin-off series Angel.

A sci-fi series based on the 1994 movie Stargate and its spinoff Stargate Atlantis hold the next spot.

The classic British outer space series Blake’s Seven is fifth, and Gerry Anderson’s puppet series Thunderbirds was voted sixth.

Next was the off-beat 60s show The Avengers followed by the equally eccentric programme The Prisoner. In ninth spot was the sci-fi show Babylon 5 and in 10th was the Mulder and Scully double act The X Files.

The top 100 in full, with previous positions in brackets:

1 (2) Doctor Who

2 (1) Star Trek

3 (3) Buffy/Angel

4 (18) Stargate SG-1 / Atlantis

5 (4) Blake’s Seven

6 (10) Thunderbirds

7 (6) The Avengers

8 (8) The Prisoner

9 (7) Babylon 5

10 (9) The X Files

11 (16) Battlestar Galactica

12 (17) Captain Scarlet

13 (14) Red Dwarf

14 (05) UFO

15 (12) Farscape

16 ( - ) Firefly

17 (11) Xena/Hercules

18 (13) Space 1999

19 (15) Quantum Leap

20 (19) The A Team

21 (20) The Persuaders!

22 ( - ) 24

23 (21) Department S / Jason King

24 (29) Sapphire & Steel

25 ( - ) CSI/Miami/New York

26 (40) The Saint

27 (44) Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

28 (43) Fawlty Towers

29 (28) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

30 (22) Man/Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

31 (37) Robin of Sherwood

32 (24) The Tomorrow People

33 (26) Batman

34 (47) Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic Woman

35 (27) Monty Python’s Flying Circus

36 (38) The Professionals

37 (30) Survivors

38 ( - ) The Monkees

39 (39) The Simpsons

40 ( - ) Alias

41 (42) The West Wing

42 (31) The Champions

43 ( - ) Spooks

44 (68) Quatermass

45 (45) Highlander

46 (23) Stingray

47 (48) Starsky & Hutch

48 (65) Mission Impossible

49 (46) Lost In Space

50 (49) The Twilight Zone

51 (50) Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea

52 ( - ) Hustle

53 (36) Danger Man

54 (51) Dad’s Army

55 ( - ) Dead Like Me

56 (34) Callan

57 (55) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

58 (59) Charmed

59 (54) Blackadder

60 (41) Due South

61 ( - ) Strange Report

62 ( - ) Seven Days

63 (52) Alien Nation

64 ( - ) The Outer Limits

65 (63) MASH

66 (61) The Goodies

67 (72) The Sweeney

68 ( - ) Desperate Housewives

69 (83) The League of Gentlemen

70 ( - ) Charlie’s Angels

71 (25) Only Fools and Horses

72 ( - ) Nip/Tuck

73 (75) Man in a Suitcase

74 ( - ) On The Buses

75 ( - ) Smallville

76 (76) Timeslip

77 (82) Jonathan Creek

78 (70) The Muppet Show

79 (53) Bagpuss

80 (56) Dawson’s Creek

81 (58) Earth Final Conflict

82 (60) Space: Above & Beyond

83 (86) Grange Hill

84 (84) Roswell

85 ( - ) Hex

86 (32) Adam Adamant Lives!

87 ( - ) Carnivale

88 ( - ) Dream Team

89 ( - ) Tru Calling

90 (78) V

91 ( - ) Yes, Minister

92 ( - ) Futurama

93 ( - ) Andromeda

94 (88) Airwolf

95 (71) The Clangers

96 ( - ) Knight Rider

97 (73) The Time Tunnel

98 ( - ) Lost

99 (69) Spaced

100 ( - ) The Sentinel