For sure "Terror of the Zygons" - sometime ahead of this year's 50th anniversary special.  Maybe "Three" or "Five Doctors," too.

Battlefield?  Really?

I was actually at their baby shower, and judging from the fact that someone designed them a TARDIS onesey and I designed them a Dalek onesey, they no doubt will grow up to be excellent and well informed newcomers to Dr. Who fandom! :)

I'd take Underwater Menace of Moonbase any day.  I recently watched/listened to Menace and I think it's actually quite good.  Whimsical, of course, and not really representative of Troughton era stuff, but entertaining nonetheless.  Why it's so poorly regarded is beyond me.  (Well, actually it isn't beyond me.  The…

I really like Sun Makers, too.  It's basically the only "Williams style" serial of the season that actually works.  (Fendahl and Fang Rock are basically remnants of Hinchcliffe era stuff, no?)  Of course, I'd take Invisible Enemy over Underworld any day, but that's not really high praise for Invisible Enemy.

Each of the THREE seasons you haven't written about.  Maybe consider adding "Image of the Fendahl" or "The Sun Makers" to the pipeline?

So excited for season four!  I again suggest "Power of the Daleks."  Absolutely wonderful stuff!

Awful, awful, awful music.  But what less could we expect from someone who preferred Pip and Jane over Robert Holmes?

Totally agree with you: 5th Doctor series is the last of the original series' long golden era.  I'd go so far as to say that "Androzani" is the last watchable episode until "Rose."

I'm putting "Power of the Daleks" out there again.  And I recently watched/listened to "Underwater Menace," and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Why it gets such a bad wrap is somewhat confusing.  Did they actually listen to it/watch it and then cast judgement?  Or are they only repeating what others said based…

Moffatt does, indeed, get way too unnecessarily complicated, packing way too many things into a single episode.  I think series six was a culmination of way, way too much in one stretch of episodes.

I can't even imagine what those scene would have been like had Tennant had them.  We never really got to see the Tenth Doctor's heart the way we do the Eleventh's.  The Tenth was all loud and bombast, and while the Eleventh can be that way too, we get these wonderful scenes where I really believe that he's an…

Nope.  Sorry.  Seasons 12-14 is the best of the best of the best… hands down… no competition… nothing rivals it.  Period.

Smith is a nice blend of Troughton and Hinchcliffe-era Baker, which is probably why, of all the new Doctors, Smith is my favorite.

At least with Moffat we didn't get:

If you want to see why in 1996 the TV movie didn't go to series, then by all means jump right in.  Everyone essentially agrees, though, that the TV movie is a disastrous mess, checking all the boxes of how NOT to introduce Dr. Who to a new generation of viewers.

I second starting with Baker.  I commented above, but if you watch seasons 12-14, you'll get the best of the best.

You can go in any order, although I highly recommend starting with Brain of Morbius and then pick and choose from there.  The only two where it matters to watch chronologically are Kinda and Snakedance.  Watch those two in that order.

"Two Doctors" is so obviously Holmes critiquing and bashing the Saward/JNT approach to Dr. Who.  Watching it with this in mind is the only way I can get myself to sit down and get through it.  And he again takes it to a logical endpoint: the Doctor killing someone brutally and then ending the scene with a…

Oh yes… everyone involved takes everything so seriously in this one which is why everything work so well, from the acting, direction, music, effects, writing.  That's why "Ark in Space" works so well, too, turning bubble wrap into the scariest bubble wrap imaginable.