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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1157295" data-attributes="member: 151">Actually, most Dr. Who stories are fairly self-contained.  Unless the same villain has appeared multiple times in a season, they usually give some quick summary to keep you up:  "Who are they?""They're called Sontarans.  A nasty race of clone warriors.  Terrible chaps." And so forth.  The videos that are available are snippets from all over the series history, with no clear cut history, per se.  The Doctor had NO continuity to speak of until the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee.  If I were to recommend starting somewhere, it might be there (I think that's "Message from Space"?  I forget the title). The fourth doctor, Tom Baker, is universally the most famous, and did it for the longest, namely 8 years.  His successors each had their time, but I think it's safe to say that the Doctor's best years to most fans are most of the Tom Baker years, pre-Romana for me (although City of Death is one of the best episodes EVAR). Any episodw with more than one Doctor is fun, but if you're not familiar with the doctors involved, it takes away from it a good deal. Hartnell's years are the least fantastic, and more to do with time travel on earth.  Patrick Troughton's years are more about space monsters.  Pertwee's years are when many of the classics really start appearing, and the budget rose with the advent of color and a helicopter!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   The two last doctors are the least enjoyed, one unfairly and the other due to poor scripts.  Your mileage may vary.</blockquote>

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