The show started as a children's (boys aged 8-15 and the occasional nerdy girl) show and grew out to be a family show. It's a science fiction/adventure (/fantasy/etc) show. The combination of the abovementioned soon sparked into discussions about the violence showed in the ...uh...show.
It's also said that the Doctor is a pacifist. Hmmm, yeah...Not quite true, he has been known to punch/fire/blast creatures out of the sky or in the face.
Interest in this subject and the fact that I'm setting up to write my first Doctor Who fanfic, I'm doing some research. Here's the first fun fact. Let's first look at the overall death count per episode.
I took this from The Big Doctor Who Death Count.
This made me laugh, because the top 3 stories are all 5th Doctor stories. The sweet, amiable 5th Doctor. Not sure the death count is so high because he's more violent, or less able to prevent death, or because he apparently doesn't go as far to prevent death (cares less?) than his predecessors and successors.
May I also point out there's no 6th Doctor story present, while this incarnation of the Doctor was always regarded as the angry/most violent one.
The research goes on.
Ressurrection of the Daleks (5th Doctor)
The Caves of Androzani (5th Doctor)
Earthshock (5th Doctor)
Spearhead from Space (3th Doctor)
Dalek Invasion of Earth (1st Doctor)
Seeds of Death (2nd Doctor)
Remembrance of the Daleks (7th Doctor)
the Tomb of the Cybermen (2nd Doctor)
the Ark in Space (4th Doctor)
Carnival of Monsters (3rd Doctor)
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