Puggo, that’s all well and good, but I don’t think that’s very helpful in giving a newcomer a starting position. You’re more just listing good episodes.

And FFS, people, it’s Davison and Eccleston, not Davidson and Ecclestone.

I agree that Blink is a bad first episode, however, I have a come up with an untested viewing order of Blink, Love & Monsters, and then everything else starting with Rose. This order builds up the Doctor as some mysterious figure, with people trying to find him until we finally are properly introduced to him personally partway through Rose.

As for Mummy on the Orient Express, although having not seen it since it aired, you’re not alone in recommending it to newcomers.