A nice standalone adventure to really get us going in the early days of the revived series.  The Unquiet Dead is a great early story to get people more acquainted with the ideas of travelling around in time with the Doctor and what sort of adventures one might expect. For new viewers, it is a great resource, but is very easy to forget and lose enthusiasm for this episode with so many big moments and cool episodes to come.  For that reason, I think The Unquiet Dead is a bit of an overlooked gem.

I like the story, I like how it is all Dickens themed, and I do like the acting, especially for Dickens himself. It's fun to see Gwen's actor here, too. The effects feel pretty dated even if the circumstances of Series 1 do explain that to a degree.  There's a pretty fun twist to the story that gives it just a little bit of edge even if it these aren't the most sophisticated ideas in the world.  It's simply a well-executed ghost story and there's little fault in that.  All told, it's not bad, it's pretty damn good even, and holds up well to time even as the decades have worn on since this initially aired.  Though far from my favourite of New Who, I did enjoy this and have grown to appreciate it more over time.