I'm not particular a pure historicals fan, so that does colour my judgement somewhat. Still, though, The Crusades was pretty good! The Doctor has become less of a moral paragon briefly, Vicki gets some time to not just be Susan The Second, and I did enjoy how floridily everyone spoke

There is, of course, the racism - a white man in brownface plays Saladin and many of the side Muslim characters are stereotypes. Still, though, it's notable that the story puts Saladin in a much more positive light than the Christian Richard