I tried watching “The Three Doctors”....

[C.E. Evans]

I also found the relations between the Doctors rather odd, though very entertaining. It didn't make much sense that the first Doctor would know what to do when the other two were unsure. After all, they both know more than he does.

I think it was a case that the First Doctor was simply more pragmatic than the Second and Third Doctors. He cut straight through a problem rather than try to figure a way around it like his successors. He also had the luxury of not having to argue with himself.

I loved the bickering between Two and Three but I also thought that Three's hostility towards Two didn't make much sense. As he was forced by the Timelords to regenerate and didn't want to go, wouldn't he look back more fondly on this incarnation?

Not necessarily, IMO, because of how the Doctor's style changes from one incarnation to the next--especially with the earlier Doctors. The Second Doctor was somewhat messy and prone to improvisation, while the Third Doctor was refined and methodical. It's actually little surprise that they wouldn't like one another. For the Third Doctor, he was likely grateful he wasn't a galactic hobo anymore.

Another example was that the Sixth Doctor didn't think too highly of the Fifth Doctor--thought that he was too nice and maybe a bit of a pushover...

 

[Count Zero]

On the other hand, Three sounded rather enthusiastic when he was described as a vagabond in Carnival of Monsters by those earnest aliens. I don't think he minded being a galactic hobo.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The Third Doctor sure didn't dress or act the part, though.

 

[Count Zero]

Well, he was a stylish vagabond.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Yeah, the downside of that is that it portrays the First Doctor as an older, wiser authority figure, whereas obviously he's the kid of the group really

The same applies in The Five Doctors, when Hurndell, as One, is spelling things out to Davison's Five at the end.

My theory is that, when the Time Lords use the time scoop to bring past Doctors to help the current Doctor, it removes the current Doctor's memories of his past incarnation. It isn't until the previous Doctors are returned to their own times that the current Doctor regains his memories of them.

 

[Bones2]

All that rubbish with them going "contact" like a trio of tits as well. I couldn't watch it with a non fan and not squirm with embarrassment.

You know, I was thinking the other day that we probably saw more of Hartnell in series 5 than in The Three Doctors. (Yes I know about his health. Still, the poor old guy had to make do with about three minutes of sitting in a climbing frame.)

 

[CaptMurdock]

Not necessarily, IMO, because of how the Doctor's style changes from one incarnation to the next--especially with the earlier Doctors. The Second Doctor was somewhat messy and prone to improvisation, while the Third Doctor was refined and methodical. It's actually little surprise that they wouldn't like one another. For the Third Doctor, he was likely grateful he wasn't a galactic hobo anymore.

I think Terrance Dicks' novelization of T3D sums it up best: Doctor Three looked at Doctor Two like a kid brother who had a lot of irritiation mannerisms that he (Three) had himself outgrown.