# Wanting to jump into Doctor Who. Where should I start? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [August 30, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-jump-into-doctor-who-where-should-i-start/989369 "2023-08-30T22:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-jump-into-doctor-who-where-should-i-start/989369/11 "2023-08-30T22:58:30Z")
From 2022, for additional reference. 🙂 > [@Ok, I'm gonna give Dr Who one more shot. What's a good season to start at?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-gonna-give-dr-who-one-more-shot-whats-a-good-season-to-start-at/957347): > > I so want to like Dr Who. And for the most part I do. The thing that tends to turn me off are those robot things with the annoying voice (Daleks?) I hate that I’m deterred by such a trivial thing but those voices are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Anyway, it’s been a while, so I figure I’ll give it another go with hopes that the Daleks (or whatever they’re called) won’t bother me as much. I was hoping you guys could give me a good starting point because it’s been a long while since I w… To paraphrase part of my response in the older threads, you have a huge advantage over historical watchers, in that it’s comparatively easy to get complete story arcs via streaming / libraries / etc and get to watch a full story. Growing up, yeah, didn’t get that. But you may need to mentally program yourself to get past the style of acting, laughable budget for costumes and sets of the earlier works. Same way you may have to tune it out for Star Trek TOS but perhaps more so. If that’s -harder- for you, then starting with Ecclestone’s run of modern Who and then going back to see how they got there if/when you love the series may well be easier. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-jump-into-doctor-who-where-should-i-start/989369)._