Current head writer Steven Moffat's episodes are pretty much golden. Search through the episode list and start with those. I started with The Empty Child - a gorgeous horror tale with the Ninth Doctor, set in Blitz-era London, with a little gas-mask child walking the streets. Properly spooky stuff, superbly written and directed. Blink is a modern classic, inventive plotting, clever ideas and (surprisingly) very little of the Doctor. it also boasts the best monsters (the Weeping Angels) since the series revival.
All things considered (14 episodes) the Eleventh Doctor is my favourite Doctor. He's just the right shade of alien, oblivious, brilliant and full on performance. The Eleventh Hour was the reason I paid the licence fee last year - a gorgeous, imaginative fantasy about a time-travelling imaginary friend, a crashing spaceship, a brilliant magician, spunky eye-candy and a plot of deft nonsense. That story hits all the classic fantasy notes, from Narnia to Roald Dahl's wibblier flights of fancy.
Star Fox came out over a year prior on the SNES, if you lived outside Europe. Fantastic reinvention and evolution of the rail shooter, complete with flat-shaded polygonal 3D goodness.
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Current head writer Steven Moffat's episodes are pretty much golden. Search through the episode list and start with those. I started with The Empty Child - a gorgeous horror tale with the Ninth Doctor, set in Blitz-era London, with a little gas-mask child walking the streets. Properly spooky stuff, superbly written and directed. Blink is a modern classic, inventive plotting, clever ideas and (surprisingly) very little of the Doctor. it also boasts the best monsters (the Weeping Angels) since the series revival.
All things considered (14 episodes) the Eleventh Doctor is my favourite Doctor. He's just the right shade of alien, oblivious, brilliant and full on performance. The Eleventh Hour was the reason I paid the licence fee last year - a gorgeous, imaginative fantasy about a time-travelling imaginary friend, a crashing spaceship, a brilliant magician, spunky eye-candy and a plot of deft nonsense. That story hits all the classic fantasy notes, from Narnia to Roald Dahl's wibblier flights of fancy.
Hope you enjoy the show.
Star Fox came out over a year prior on the SNES, if you lived outside Europe. Fantastic reinvention and evolution of the rail shooter, complete with flat-shaded polygonal 3D goodness.