Anyway, to answer your question, this is all rather subjective, but...
Old Who? I would start with Season 2, with Patrick Troughton. There's a few missing episodes, but... It's better than Hartnell, IMHO. Though, if you don't want to miss out on lore/stuff that will get referenced later, start right at the beginning with Hartnell and An Unearthly Child, if you can find it, from way back in '63!!
Stop at the end of Peter Davison/Moffat's era, which is 1980-something... It gets really, really bad, after that (hence the original cancellation).
Re NuWho, which I guess is what you were talking about, I would start with Season 2 (Tennant, but written by Russ-T), and stop at about... 2013/14 Christmas Special (Season 12, I think?), when Smith leaves...
Best period of the show? Season 4 with Donna, and then the following seasons with Smith (Moffatt is now writing), with Gillan and then Coleman as companions. Some of it gets a bit shit, towards the end of Smith/Gillan, and I would argue that the "Specials" between 4 and 5... Leave a bit to be desired, but they are important for "lore"...
As for the show's nadir..? I don't think it has ever been worse than it is now, but honestly Capaldi's first season (12, I think. The first after Smith left) is so... Unbearably bad, IMHO, that the only redeeming feature is how hot Jenna Coleman and the actress who plays Jenny (Katrin such and such? Think she's Welsh) are. There is almost nothing else redeeming about it. :-/
Hope that answers at least most of your question! Happy to say more, though!
As someone else said above, don't bother with Torchwood (RTD's spinoff), though I disagree almost entirely about Gwen. Maybe just because the actress is hot, and, uhh, I have slightly different views of women vis a vis "immortal" gay men. Eh, who knows...
But yeah, even The Sarah Jane Chronicles (Sarah Jane being, arguably, the most important "companion" from Old Who) is better than that shite...
I really don't like John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack in Torchwood, as outlined above, lol... I saw him at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (yeah yeah). It was truly atrocious, and he's a truly atrocious person, ahaha.
Anyway, to answer your question, this is all rather subjective, but...
Old Who? I would start with Season 2, with Patrick Troughton. There's a few missing episodes, but... It's better than Hartnell, IMHO. Though, if you don't want to miss out on lore/stuff that will get referenced later, start right at the beginning with Hartnell and An Unearthly Child, if you can find it, from way back in '63!!
Stop at the end of Peter Davison/Moffat's era, which is 1980-something... It gets really, really bad, after that (hence the original cancellation).
Re NuWho, which I guess is what you were talking about, I would start with Season 2 (Tennant, but written by Russ-T), and stop at about... 2013/14 Christmas Special (Season 12, I think?), when Smith leaves...
Best period of the show? Season 4 with Donna, and then the following seasons with Smith (Moffatt is now writing), with Gillan and then Coleman as companions. Some of it gets a bit shit, towards the end of Smith/Gillan, and I would argue that the "Specials" between 4 and 5... Leave a bit to be desired, but they are important for "lore"...
As for the show's nadir..? I don't think it has ever been worse than it is now, but honestly Capaldi's first season (12, I think. The first after Smith left) is so... Unbearably bad, IMHO, that the only redeeming feature is how hot Jenna Coleman and the actress who plays Jenny (Katrin such and such? Think she's Welsh) are. There is almost nothing else redeeming about it. :-/
Hope that answers at least most of your question! Happy to say more, though!
As someone else said above, don't bother with Torchwood (RTD's spinoff), though I disagree almost entirely about Gwen. Maybe just because the actress is hot, and, uhh, I have slightly different views of women vis a vis "immortal" gay men. Eh, who knows... But yeah, even The Sarah Jane Chronicles (Sarah Jane being, arguably, the most important "companion" from Old Who) is better than that shite...
I really don't like John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack in Torchwood, as outlined above, lol... I saw him at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (yeah yeah). It was truly atrocious, and he's a truly atrocious person, ahaha.
Thank you!