What old Dr Who is good?

[sqbr]

Having watched the first two seasons of the new Dr Who I find myself wanting something I never thought I would: to watch old Dr Who.

But (having watched a lot of it as a kid) I know there's a fair chance I won't like any given plot chosen at random, so which stories would people recommend? I know there's a bunch of Old Skool Dr Who nerds who read this, and hopefully are in a mood to evangelise :)

My local video store has these, any of them worth watching?:
Timelash
Sea Devils
Revelation of the Daleks
and the Silverians
The Sontarian Experiment
Wariors of the Deep
Time Flight
Arc of Infinity

Any others I can look up on Quickflix, but it's not as convenient. I did find a few "best of" lists online I might use, I definitely want to watch the Douglas Adams ones again. And yes, I've seen "Curse of the Fatal Death" :)

Also (and I know this sounds silly) the other night I had a dream I was watching a Dr Who episode where he's lured into a trap by someone who wants to use the Tardis for something nefarious, and realising this he leaves the Tardis somewhere safe in the right time-period and travels the distance another way (in this case, by spaceship) Has that ever happened? I realise one of the Tardis's main points is that it's impossible to take over from outside (as much as anything on Dr Who is "impossible") The plot of the dream was a total rip-off of "The Impossible Planet", really.

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Some all time favourites of mine:
-The Talons of Weng Chiang
-The Robots of Death
-The Invasion of Time.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Obligatory warning for racism re: The Talons of Weng-Chiang. (It's widely regarded as a classic, but it uses "yellow peril" tropes that are dubious at best.)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Good point. That's certainly something that caught me off guard the first time I watched it after a hiatus of over a decade.

To be fair though, all the characters are strongly stereotyped regardless of race or class.

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks! Will have to se if I can get a hold of them.

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

np.
If you have any problems finding them, I've got Talons and Robots on DVD, though I think I've also seen both of those at Planet Video.

I've also just discovered that Face of Evil, Robots of Death and Talons of Weng-Chiang were actually broadcast sequentially - the Tom Baker + Leela era got off to a damn fine start.

[alias_sqbr]

Quickflix has them all, but thanks for offering, and thanks for the advice. *now has enough Dr Who on my queue to last quite some time*