My friend who is 35 and grew up in England, never saw the original series. He did see a few of the movies with that cast, but never an entire episode. I got the 3 box sets, and we watched them all. He liked it. He did think a few of the episodes are very dated and foolish ("Spock's Brain", "Catspaw", "Way to Eden"), but over all he was glad he saw it. If a person can remember when this show was made, and likes things with a flavor of the 1960s, then this show is not that bad. If you need everything to be new and state of the art, then you are going to hate it. In return, he showed me a few early seasons of The Avengers, and I love it!