{"id":9435,"date":"2010-06-11T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2010-06-11T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:09:49","slug":"trek-doctor-cracks-tv-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/trek-doctor-cracks-tv-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Doctor Cracks TV Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>Star Trek<\/em> doctor is included on a list of the &#8220;10 Classic TV Doctors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ten doctors, whose names are well-known to television viewers,  range from a youthful but gifted Doogie Houser, to the curmudgeonly Gregory House.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/McCoy061110.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9436\" title=\"McCoy061110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/McCoy061110.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Leonard McCoy (Bones), played by <strong>DeForest Kelley<\/strong>, came in at number nine on the list. &#8220;&#8216;He&#8217;s dead, Jim.&#8217; Leonard McCoy was a staple of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> TV series and later film franchise, known for his dry humor and comic pessimism. He even put in an appearance in the pilot episode of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The top ten television doctors (descriptions and short videos can be seen at the source websites) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Cliff Huxtable (<strong>Bill Cosby<\/strong>). <em>The Cosby Show<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li> Doogie Howser (<strong>Neil Patrick Harris<\/strong>). <em>Doogie Howser, M.D.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Philip Chandler (<strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong>). <em>St. Elsewhere. <\/em><\/li>\n<li> Benjamin Franklin &#8220;Hawkeye&#8221; Pierce (<strong>Alan Alda<\/strong>). <em>M*A*S*H.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Doug Ross (<strong>George Clooney<\/strong>). <em>E.R.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Marcus Welby (<strong>Robert Young<\/strong>). <em>Marcus Welby, M.D. <\/em><\/li>\n<li> Miranda Bailey (<strong>Chandra Wilson<\/strong>). <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Julius Hibbert (<strong>Harry Shearer<\/strong>). <em>The Simpsons <\/em><\/li>\n<li> Leonard &#8220;Bones&#8221; McCoy (<strong>DeForest Kelley<\/strong>). <em>Star Trek.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Gregory House (<strong>Hugh Laurie<\/strong>). <em>House.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJQwHwP0ojI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Trek doctor is included on a list of the &#8220;10 Classic TV Doctors.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2677,2486],"class_list":["post-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-kelley","tag-mccoy"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}