Oddly enough, I thought the series ended with Sylvester McCoy.
I was insanely obessed with DW when I was in high school, I'm glad to see that it is still going on. I hope it will be shown on BBC America, I'll check it out. Though I am a hardcore Pertwee and Davison fan and no one will ever top them in my book! Peter Davison was the Doctor when I first started watching the show so he is "the first" for me, and once I eventually saw all the available shows I found that I liked the Pertwee/UNIT era best of all. Somewhere I have a rather silly picture of me as a teen hunched over a TARDIS control panel at a convention- oh my!
Sherrie