I. This timelord, this timeline
Why the focus on Thatcher and this period of Doctor Who?
Thatcher, who defined Britain in the eighties, wrought great changes upon the British culture and institutions, and Doctor Who, being one of the institutions, was not immune to her influence. After Thatcher's election in 1979, Who quickly evolved from being a TV show of the seventies to one of the eighties, and I argue that it was Thatcher who dragged the show into the new decade. And in that connection, the episodes broadcast from 1979 to 1980 - the first two years of the Thatcher government - reflect the changes taking place in British society and culture at the time; they belong to a peculiar transitional period of Who.
Thatcher's first term encompassed the years 1979 to 1983. I find the stories from these years unusually good, and their quality keeps improving so much so that the show in my opinion reaches a peak. But after the peak came the decline. By the mid to late eighties, the quality had tailed off; and so had the ratings. For various reasons, the British public - and the British Broadcasting Corporation - had lost interest in the show, hence its cancellation in 1989. But in the first half of the eighties, as opposed to the second, we see a Doctor Who which maintains a rapport with the audience and performs consistently. Even the workmanlike stories, such as the much maligned Time-Flight (1982), hold up well; stories such as these are rescued by a good supporting cast - British TV is blessed with plenty of talented character actors. The only Davison story that does miss the mark is Warriors of the Deep (1984), a lackluster effort; for Warriors, the Doctor Who team displays a distinct lack of enthusiasm and from all appearances regard it as a chore.
II. How to type Doctor Who characters
This essay types two of the Doctors (Tom Baker and Peter Davison) and companions Nyssa, Tegan, Adric and Romana (Lalla Ward) plus ten other characters.
For the sake of convenience, I have here grouped the personality types into what Socionics calls Quadras, which you can read about here.
I have detailed several times some of the methods I use for typing characters; any reader who wants a lengthy exposition can read a previous article. For the purposes of this essay, I will do a quick run-through: let us type the Doctor (Peter Davison) and Tegan Jovanka.
Introvert or Extravert, I or E? Obviously Tegan is the Extravert, the Doctor the Introvert; Tegan calls attention to herself, the Doctor does not, etc. As a general rule, extraversion or introversion in a character can be determined by how loud or quiet he is.
Sensor or Intuitive, S or I? How does the type get the information which determines their character? A Sensor obtains his information from what he sees in front of him (Jung says: from the contents of his conscious mind); the Intuitive, on the other hand, obtains his from intuitions - ideas which (like visitors) can drop in unexpectedly. Intuitions come from a mysterious place which is not accessible to consciousness: according to Jung, they emanate from the unconscious mind.
In the case of the Doctor and Tegan, the Doctor gets his information - the information that makes him what he is - from intuition; Tegan gets hers from the senses. The Doctor's being an Intuitive fits in with his character as he is an archetypal mad scientist (well, almost mad) and mad scientists are nearly always Intuitives.
Thinker or Feeler, T or F? This dichotomy can be reduced to: left-brain versus right-brain. The Thinking type displays more often than not left-brain characteristics, the Feeling type, right-brain characteristics.
Clearly, the Doctor is a Thinker, Tegan a Feeler. One incident that illustrates Tegan's being a Feeler can be found in Logopolis. Tegan is horrified by the sight of the mathematicians working like slaves in rows and rows of tiny cubicles; she announces indignantly that Logopolis is a 'sweat shop'. The Feeling function involves value judgments and Tegan is making one here, whereas a Thinking type such as the Doctor would not; the Doctor would be more interested in the mathematical work being done. Thinking, as a function, concerns itself only with systems of organisation and it excludes the Feeling function or at least demotes it to second place.
Judger or Perceiver, J or P? Which functions dominate a character's life: is it his Judging function (Thinking or Feeling) or his Perceiving (Intuition or Sensing)?
A Judging character lives by a scheme which has been thoroughly worked out before he encounters reality; that scheme is founded on either value judgments (Feeling) or a system of organisation (Thinking). It is reason which has produced this fixed order which the Judger scrupulously abides by, even if reason is disdained by the Judger (he may be vociferously anti-intellectual).
In contrast, the Perceiving character does not live by a fixed order; he acts in response to information - information of what there is. Take Marvel's Hulk, who is a Perceiver. He is a Extraverted Sensing (Se) dominant and his Extraverted Sensing is to be defined as will-power, volition, directed at the world like a laser that eliminates all obstacles - anything that stands in its way, any resistance, must be overcome. The degree of resistance the Extraverted Sensor meets with provides him with a sort of feedback, and it is this feedback which gives him information. He rides the wave of this data and works constantly at keeping himself upright upon it; to the Se-dominant, life is a struggle for self-assertion.
I think, from the above and our knowledge of Who, we must say that a Judging function dominates the Doctor's life and a Perceiving function Tegan's. In the case of Tegan, she shares with the Hulk the leading function of Extraverted Sensing; in the case of the Doctor, he shares with the Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner the leading function of Introverted Thinking.
So putting it altogether, we have, in Tegan E + S + F + P, which makes her an ESFP in MBTI and an ESFp in Socionics; we have, in the Doctor, I + N + T + J, which makes him an INTP in MBTI and an INTj in Socionics. (I will stick to MBTI lettering here throughout as MBTI is the system of typology that most of my readers are familiar with).
Interestingly, Socionics tells us that the relationship between the Doctor's and Tegan's types is one of Conflict: the Doctor is deeply unsettled by Extraverted Sensing, Tegan by Introverted Thinking. This lends weight to the charge, leveled in many discussions of the MBTI types, that the Doctor's type is weak and Tegan's is stupid; this brusque assessment does not take the complexity of both types into account, but nevertheless, we can see - from watching all the Doctor Who episodes with the Doctor (Peter Davison) and Tegan - how such assessments may come about. One must recognise that personality types lack balance and proportion: each type is biased towards some functions over others, not all functions are present in equal proportion. The Hulk's type, the ESFP, is super-strong, Bruce Banner's type, the INTP, is super-smart: a type cannot be both.
III. The Types
**** WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead ****
Alpha Quadra
The Doctor (Tom Baker) - ENTP
This quirky, eccentric, annoying, and inventive incarnation of the Doctor embodies what Jung calls Extraverted Intuition (Ne). Others may perceive Ne as random and chaotic, eccentric and unpredictable, an impression which is reinforced by the behaviour of the typical Ne-dominant character, who in his conversation will often jump from one subject to another and speak in non-sequiturs. But to the Ne-dominant, the randomness is not so random: he sees underlying connections underneath - he sees the order underlying chaos. It is this quality that in part makes the typical ENTP character an explorer, inventor, discoverer, scientist.
I think this Ne was evident in the Baker's Doctor from the outset - right from his first appearance in Robot (1974).
Baker in real life is, I think, an ENTP, and so you could say that for his tenure as the Doctor he was playing himself.
Romana (Lalla Ward) - ISFJ
A fellow Time Lord, Romana is assigned to the Doctor by the Gallifreyan High Council when it entrusts him with a dangerous mission in the Key to Time arc. Originally played by Mary Tamm, she is recast for the first story of the Thatcher era, Destiny of the Daleks (1979) and played by Lalla Ward, Tom Baker's real-life spouse. And as usual when a character is recast, the character's personality type is changed. Unlike Mary Tamm's Romana, Lalla Ward's is introverted, nondescript, somewhat mousy, and a warm and nurturing individual - and a complete contrast to Baker's at times overbearing Doctor. Typically, a character whose dominant function is Introverted Sensing (Si) will be calm and passive who forms part of the background - often if you blink, you miss them.
Reading between the lines, the Doctor and Romana do live as husband and wife in the Tardis in what was the only instance of the Doctor shown as being in a romantic relationship.
I believe that as was the case with Baker, Ward was playing herself. I type her as an ISFJ.
The Doctor (Peter Davison) - INTP
After Baker's Doctor dies, he is regenerated as - and here was another first for Who - a handsome young man. Davison is distinguished from his predecessors by his youth and his penchant for Edwardian-era clothing. (The reason for giving the character the latter is that the success of Chariots of Fire (1981) and Brideshead Revisited (1981) led to a revival of interest in early 20th century British fashion and culture, something that Who at the time wanted to cash in on).
Unlike Baker's Doctor, Davison's is introverted, nervy and confused. I found this description of what Socionics calls an INTP sub-type here:
The intuitive subtype appears soft even a bit diffident in communication. In conversation, he is restrained, attentive, attempts to come into good favor of his partner by giving advice and impressing him or her with his knowledge and conclusions. In such cases, his serious demeanor and gaze soften, goodwill permeates his voice... His usually imperceptible emotions become visible during moments of extreme nervous pressure within intonations of his voice and impulsive gestures. Gait is calm and synchronous. Pose appears a bit restrained, especially in the shoulders which may be stooped. His movements are somewhat unsure and dilatory. Gestures are stingy and constrained, occasionally unconsciously impulsive and poorly coordinated.
The last few sentences sum up the body language of Davison's Doctor perfectly.
Tanha - ESFJ (appears in Snakedance (1983))
The story Snakedance follows on from Kinda (1982): a sequel to Kinda, it takes place 500 years later. Both stories concern the Mara, a snake-like demon (drawn from Buddhist mythology) that dwells in people's minds and possesses them. Its presence can be detected by looking to the possessed person's arm, which is graven with a snake tattoo.
Snakedance is set on the planet of Manussa which is a member of a space federation and is run by Lon, the son of the federation's ruler. Played by a young Martin Clunes - who would become famous in other roles - the sulky and pouty Lon (who is bored with his job) becomes intrigued by the legend the Mara at the same time as the Doctor Who and his companions are visiting the planet. Inevitably, Lon becomes taken over by the Mara, and in a grisly sequence, the Mara crawls from one of the Doctor's companions (Tegan, who was possessed by the Mara in Kinda) into him.
In Snakedance, Lon's mother Lady Tanha (played by Collette O'Neil) steals the show. Warm and effusive, grounded and down to earth, ESFJ characters are instantly recognisable as a personality type we all have in our lives. In American TV shows, movies and comic books, the ESFJ type does service as the stock American Mom or American Dad. In Snakedance, filmed across the Atlantic, we find the British equivalent: the archetypal British Mum.
Beta Quadra
Organon - ENFJ (appears in The Creature of the Pit (1979))
The plot of Creature from the Pit follows the same path as those of a good many other Doctor Who stories. The Tardis, which has haphazard flight and navigation, crash-lands on a strange planet which is ruled by tyrannical ruler; the Doctor is taken prisoner by the authorities because he has been framed for a crime he did not commit; he escapes capture and teams up with rebels; he foments a revolution, which is successful, and the populace overthrows its tyrannical ruler, thus returning power to the people.
Creature from the Pit takes us to the planet Chloris, which is ruled by the icy and haughty Lady Adastra. After the Doctor is taken captive by Adastra and thrown into a dungeon, the Doctor meets a political prisoner: an astrologer called Organon, a humorous and extraverted man who possesses a deep mystical insight. The ENFJ personality type can be found in many stock characters and one of its archetypes is what I call the Sly Conjurer. This archetype possesses as much mystical power as other archetypes the Evil Wizard or Wicked Priest, if not more so, but he almost never serves as the villain; usually he plays the part of friend or mentor to the hero. Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series gives us the most famous example of the Sly Conjurer (and Palpatine the Evil Wizard). Taylor types Obi-Wan as an ENFJ and Organon looks, talks and dresses like him.
Stott - ISTP (appears in Nightmare of Eden (1979))
One of my favourite stories, Nightmare concerns drug-smuggling on a luxury liner spaceship: you could say it is French Connection (1971) meets Doctor Who. For a number of reasons, Nightmare feels European and it reminds me of a European graphic novel, and perhaps if it were transposed to the 20th century, it could work as a story involving drug-smuggling out of Marseilles.
Stott is a zoologist and passenger on the luxury liner who is in reality a secret agent, which is appropriate, given that the typical ISTP character takes on the job role of spy, private investigator, bounty hunter, mercenary, etc.
The stock ISTP character prides himself on his professionalism, efficiency, competence. Stott, a slippery fellow, is skilled at disguise and evasion and evidently takes pride in it, as indicated by his smug grin as he flees the Doctor and escapes into a crowd.
The ISTP can lead a spartan and ascetic life and Stott's house - in the other-dimensional jungle of 'Eden' - looks neat but threadbare; in it, Stott lives like a monk.
The Keeper - INFJ (appears in The Keeper of Traken (1981))
The elderly Keeper rules the empire of the Traken Union and serves as the custodian of the Source, an otherworldly mystical energy which (according to Wiki) is 'The centre of Traken's technological advancement'. I suspect that: the writers modeled the Keeper on Izaya, the bearded prophet-ruler of New Genesis in Jack Kirby's Fourth World - and Yoda from Star Wars, and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, as well. And as for the Traken Union's Source, the writers obviously took that from the Fourth World's Source.
I type (along with Taylor) Yoda and Gandalf as INFJs and the Keeper as an INFJ. Introverted Intuition Ni occupies the primary function slot in the INFJ personality type and when Ni is the leading function in a character, it gives him the appearance of being strange and unworldly. The Ni-dominant is not synchronised with this reality, he is vibrating at a different rate, he exists in a different dimension. This explains why so many INFJ characters appear to be strange - and off-putting to some.
It is the secondary function of the INFJ, Extraverted Feeling Fe, that grounds the INFJ character; Fe serves as a bridge from the inner world to the external. Putting the two leading functions of the INFJ together gives us a character who uses his strange prophetic gifts (Ni) to serve his community (Fe). That is what distinguishes the INFJ from the other Ni dominant type, the INTJ: as we see in The Keeper of Traken, the INFJ character the Keeper cares for those around him, the INTJ character the Master does not.
Captain Wrack - ESTP (appears in Enlightenment (1983))
The Tardis lands below the deck of an Edwardian sailing ship in what is another Who call back to the Edwardian era; but all is not as it seems. The lower-ranking crew members are 'ensorcelled' (hypnotised) and the ship's officers are behaving in an odd and mechanical way. The Doctor and his companions come to realise that the ship is not at sea but in space; it is being propelled by solar winds. Not Earthmen, the ship's officers belong to a race of immortals called the 'Eternals' (another nod to Jack Kirby) who refer to humans condescendingly as 'Ephemerals'. The Eternals have kidnapped humans and appropriated sailing ships from past eras of Earth's history and these ships are being used for a yacht race in outer space. The Eternal who wins gets what the Eternals call Enlightenment - all-encompassing wisdom.
Captain Wrack is a boisterous Eternal who commands a 17th-century pirate ship and is the villain of the story. Determined to win the race at any cost, she cheats: she murders some of her Eternal competitors (Eternal here does not mean indestructible). Her character corresponds to the Girl Gang Boss archetype, much like the Catwoman's, Catwoman being another ESTP.
The Gammas
Scaroth - ENTJ (appears in City of Death (1979))
City of Death is shot in Paris - some gorgeous location work is used - and it revolves around art thefts, reproduction and forgery. An alien named Scaroth (of a race called the Jagaroth) stranded on Earth is using stolen art to finance his time-travel experiments. He intends to travel back to the past of Earth 400 million years; this is the only time period in which his spaceship rockets can attain power sufficient to escape Earth's gravitational pull.
Even though his face underneath his mask looks like minced meat, Scaroth intrigues, charms, beguiles, reminding me of another charming scoundrel ENTJ: Gul Dukat from Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
The theme of time-travel in this case does relate to Scaroth's personality type; the secondary function of the ENTJ, Introverted Intuition Ni, perceives across time and anticipates the future, and the dominant function, Extraverted Thinking Te, organises for that future. (The ENTJ character does not live in the present but the future). Alas, that Te often makes the typical ENTJ character a villain who is ruthless and treats people like pawns.
Olvir - ISFP (appears in Terminus (1983))
This much-maligned story is regarded as one of the gloomiest in all of Doctor Who. It concerns a plague ship in outer space which is traversing to a destination - 'Terminus' - where the plague-carriers who are imprisoned on the ship will receive treatment. The carriers are dying of their disease and their jailers are dying of radiation poisoning. To give Terminus an extra morbid touch, each of the jailers is outfitted with a costume which makes him look like a grim reaper.
Olvir and his partner in crime Kari are two pirates who board the plague ship by mistake, and his sleek and dashing qualities give Olvir a swashbuckler appearance, and these call to mind Legolas from Lord of the Rings, Legolas being another ISFP.
Soldeed - INTJ (appears in The Horns of Nimon (1979))
The plot of Horns is taken from the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The Nimon, a horned creature who possesses advanced science, lives in a labyrinth on the planet Skonnos; in exchange for the technology he gives them, the Skonnans, who are eager to use it to revive their declining empire, regularly pay him a tribute of young people from the planet Aneth and a supply of crystals.
The Nimon communicates to the Skonnans through the priest and leader Soldeed. Like many an INTJ on Doctor Who, Soldeed is a villain; and like many an INTJ villain, he wears all black - a black which matches the blackness of his black heart.
In Soldeed we find an instance of the archetype of the Evil Wizard, Wicked Priest, Mad Monk. His leading function of Introverted Intuition Ni makes him a strange person (and if you read Jung's description of the Ni-dominant type, you will see that the Ni-dominant is a strange person indeed, the strangest of all of Jung's types); his secondary function of Extraverted Thinking Te makes him a character who possesses considerable organisational acumen.
INTJ and ENTJ characters appear plenty of times in Doctor Who and usually are the villain; as Taylor writes, NTJs are always villains.
Tegan Jovanka - ESFP
Tegan is a series regular who is one of the Doctor's companions; she works as air stewardess before blundering into the Tardis after a series of mishaps and winds up staying with the Doctor. The Wiki entry for the diminutive but pugnacious Tegan says:
Tegan is stubborn, loud, and direct, with a no-nonsense manner and not afraid to speak her mind (in Earthshock she describes herself as "just a mouth on legs"). Her time in the TARDIS coincides with that of Adric, Nyssa, Turlough and Kamelion. While she often bickers with them (particularly with Adric) as well as with the Doctor, her strength of character keeps them together and her loyalty and affection to her crewmates is unquestionable.
That trait of loyalty reveals itself in the first Peter Davison story Castrovalva. She shows much strength of character and physical endurance when carrying and nursing the ailing Doctor. You find her willingness to make sacrifices for the Doctor all the more remarkable when you consider that she hardly knows him.
On the flip side, Tegan does complain and whine a lot; the combination of Introverted Feeling Fi and Extraverted Se can make the ESFP character something of a prima donna. Some MBTI systems call the ESFP 'The Performer': scratch the surface of Tegan and you will find one such performer.
The Deltas
Adric - ENFP
A child prodigy from the planet Alzarius, Adric is another series regular and companion. The teenager Adric excels at mathematics and wears a special medal - shaped like a star - which is a prize given to him for this, but we see little in the way of mathematical and intellectual ability throughout Adric's tenure. Adric, as the British say, comes across as being somewhat dim. What is more, he is annoying and Doctor Who fans really do not like him; they see him in the same way as Star Trek fans saw Wesley Crusher (another ENFP): that is, they think of him as a glib, flippant, arrogant know-it-all and a tag-along who makes life difficult for the leading characters and is constantly getting them into trouble. I agree with this assessment. Adric reminds me of another notorious ENFP pest: the Impossible Man from Marvel's Fantastic Four.
The article 'Adric: The Boy We Love To Hate' notes Adric's chameleon quality and I think this is significant; the standard ENFP character shape-shifts, he changes his form. This is true of at least two ENFP characters - Fantastic Four's Impossible Man and Superman's Jimmy Olsen. The dominant function of the ENFP, Extraverted Ne, works together with the secondary function, Introverted Feeling Fi, to give us the peculiar ENFP, who is always perceiving possibilities for change and transformation (Ne) and empathising with others and to a certain extent adapting to them (Fi).
The ENFP looks at life as something that blossoms and then explodes with delightful possibilities - possibilities which must always be pursued.
The ENFP can charm and inveigle, which explains why he can so readily adapt to new environments and mix with new sets of people. But this may give him the appearance of treachery and inconstancy - hence Adric's being singled out by commentators as a traitor for his fraternising with the villains in a few of the stories. The slippery and discombobulating quality of the ENFP unsettles and annoys; like the Greek deity Proteus, how can you catch him if he is always changing?
Nyssa - ISTJ
Another Doctor Who companion, Nyssa is the daughter of Tremas, an important politician and leading scientist of the Traken Union (see Keeper of Traken above). After the Keeper of Traken story concludes, Nyssa stows away aboard the Tardis and learns in the next story (Logopolis) that Traken has blown up as a result of the Master's machinations. She stays on with the Doctor until Terminus; at its end, she leaves the Doctor so as to help the Lazars - the plague-carriers - overcome their affliction.
The quiet and mousy Nyssa works as a foil to the loud and attention-seeking Adric, and as the daughter of scientists, she exhibits all the scientific (and mathematical) ability that we are meant to find in Adric but alas rarely do. Because of their braininess and technical aptitude, the ISTJ (Nyssa's type) can be easily mistaken for the INTP (the Doctor's (Peter Davison's) type). But the INTP differs from the ISTJ insofar as the INTP behaves in a more arrogant manner, and what is more, seeks to mark himself out as an individual. We see those INTP characteristics at work in the conflict between Bruce Banner, who is meek and introverted, and General Ross, who is bullying and extraverted. In spite of his INTP mildness, Banner does assert himself against Ross. Banner looks down upon him: he clearly regards himself as being on a level above the General. (But the best example of an arrogant and disdainful INTP remains the third Doctor (Jon Pertwee)).
In contrast to the typical INTP character, the typical ISTJ character does not distinguish himself and he seeks to blend into his background; the ISTJ character wants his life to be smooth and harmonious. This desire fits in neatly with the ISTJ's secondary function Extraverted Thinking Te; here the ISTJ wants his life to run on track - Te is organisational or business logic.
Captain Rorvik - ESTJ (appears in Warrior's Gate (1981))
Warrior's Gate has earned the reputation of being the most confusing of all the Who stories, and I think the reputation is deserved. After watching Warrior's Gate twice, I could still not quite understand it. In order reveal its secrets, I needed recourse to Wiki.
The Doctor and his companions for the previous two stories have been trapped in another dimension called E-Space. While seeking to escape it, they become trapped in a dimension (called null-space) which exists between our universe and the E-Space universe. Almost everything in null space is nulled out; the characters appear against what is a blank backdrop. In this void, trapped along with the Tardis and its crew, is a slave ship and its crew. The ship's crew are humans and the ship's cargo are the Tharils, a leonine species who are prized for their psychic ability which allows ships to navigate through space.
The ship's captain, Rorvik, is a down to earth and hard-headed business man who wants to escape the void, deliver his cargo and fulfill his contract; we could say that the stressed Rorvik is a type-A personality who probably suffers from high blood pressure or ulcers. He bullies his crew, who he views (rightly so) as apathetic and lazy. In the explosive finale of Warrior's Gate, he berates his crew, calls them cowards, and exults to them, 'I'm finally getting something done!'.
If you read Jung's description of the Extraverted Thinking (Te) dominant type, you will find in it the classic 'Organization Man'. The Te-dominant occupies a leadership position in any organisation - it need necessarily be a business or an army, it could be a charity, a church, even a newspaper (I type Spiderman's employer J. Jonah Jameson as an ESTJ).
The ESTJ is to be differentiated from that other Te-dominant type the ENTJ by his prosaic qualities; he is not prone to flights of fancy like the ENTJ. The ESTJ's secondary function Introverted Sensing (Si) keeps him grounded.
The ESTJ character is also more inclined to self-assertion and bullying, two traits which are plenty in evidence in Rorvik, and this inclination is one of the reasons why the stock ESTJ character is often an archetype I call the Drill Sergeant.
Plantagenet - INFP (appears in Frontios (1984))
Frontios takes place on a planet which is an Earth colony in the far future, and when the Doctor and his entourage arrives, the colony comes under attack by meteor showers which are being directed at the planet by a mysterious being.
After the colony's leader Captain Revere disappears - he is swallowed up by a fissure which opens up beneath him - his son Plantagenet is appointed the new leader. In Plantagenet, we are presented with the archetype of the Young King - of which Shakespeare's Hamlet is the most famous example.
The typical INFP character can summed up as: ethics and ideals intertwined. This is what Plantagenet (and Hamlet) give us. Plantagenet is unsuited for the role of leader and cannot meet its requirements; he lacks firmness and decisiveness, much like Hamlet. We see here a deficit in Extraverted Sensing (Se), a function which is so much in evidence in Tegan Jovanka and Captain Wrack.
The astute reader will notice that Frontios was broadcast in Thatcher's second term, not her first, and in that regard, I have cheated by going outside the bounds of season seventeen (which begins in 1979) to twenty (which ends in 1983). But I was forced to do so because Who in this period did not favour Introverted Feeling (Fi) dominant characters (ISFPs and INFPs) at all: I had to search high and low to find an ISFP character (Olvir, who has only a tiny part) and I was unable to find an INFP.
IV. Who's next?
I would have liked to have written an essay typing Who characters from the rest of the 1980s, but I do not think I can find an instance of each of the 16 types in this era. Besides which, while some of the Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy stories are quite good (and in my view criminally underrated), most are not all that interesting. Despite having watched the Baker and McCoy seasons at least twice, I find it hard to remember anything from the Dalek and Cybermen stories, for instance, despite the fact that Dalek and Cybermen stories are usually among the most memorable.
So my next Who article will be comprised of stories from the 1970s: the seasons from that decade belong to my second favourite period of Who and feature all 16 personality types.
