Doctor Who The Collection

Season 2 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range

16 August 2022 admin Comments 3 Comments

The second season for William Hartnell’s First Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 2.

Doctor Who - The Collection: Season 2

Season 2 is the biggest release yet – a limited edition nine disc box set from the early years of the programme, which sees William Hartnell’s First Doctor take centre-stage.

Across a jam-packed season of 37 episodes, the Doctor is joined by faithful companions Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), Vicki (Maureen O’Brien) and Steven (Peter Purves). Together they face off against the dreaded Daleks, the marauding Mechanoids, the ant-like Zarbi and the Meddling Monk, while visiting fantastic alien worlds and turbulent times in the Earth’s history.

The missing two episodes of THE CRUSADE have been reconstructed using off-air photographs and the original broadcast soundtrack, while remaining episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 2 Blu-ray box set also includes extensive Special Features including:

Three brand new documentaries: Including an overview of Season 2, FLIGHT THROUGH ETERNITY, a look at 1960s collectables in DOCTOR WHO AND THE COLLECTORS, and a deep dive into the life and career of story editor David Whitaker in LOOKING FOR DAVID.
IN CONVERSATION: Two exclusive insightful feature-length interviews, with William Russell and Maureen O’Brien.
BEHIND THE SOFA: New episodes with companions Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Carole Ann Ford, Janet Fielding (Tegan), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Bonnie Langford (Mel) and Sophie Aldred (Ace).
Exclusive Audio Commentary: Learn about the recovery of THE LION, a missing episode that was returned in 1999, with three of the heroes responsible for its return.
Convention Footage: A rare chance to hear from actors Jacqueline Hill and Adrienne Hill (Katarina) alongside Michael Craze (Ben) and Carole Ann Ford.
Exclusive Enhanced Soundtrack: Watch THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH with an optional enhanced soundtrack.
HD Photo Galleries: Including many previously unseen images.
Info Text: Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode.
Scripts, Costume Designs, Rare BBC Production Files and other rarities from the PDF Archive

The nine-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD.

A specially shot announcement trailer has debuted on the Doctor Who YouTube channel, written by new series contributor Pete McTighe (KERBLAM! and PRAXEUS) and featuring Maureen O’Brien back as Vicki.

You can pre order Doctor Who: The Collection Season 2 NOW

Season 26 will be re-issued in The Collection Blu-Ray standard packaging

17 December 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Season 26 of Doctor Who: The Collection is the next Blu-ray title to be re-issued in standard packaging after Season 23.

The Collection: Season 26

The Collection offers fans the opportunity to build their own home archive of classic content, and has proved hugely popular with collectors and fans of the TV series. The new standard packaging range is being introduced in response to this success, offering fans a second opportunity to fill gaps in their collection, and enjoy the classic era of Doctor Who.

Releases within the Doctor Who: The Collection Limited Edition Packaging range will continue to offer fans bespoke, premium packaging featuring a beautifully presented box containing the discs and a full-length, premium-printed booklet which includes illustrations and in-depth, behind the scenes insight.

Whilst this new, standard packaging Doctor Who: The Collection range will feature a standard, plastic Blu-ray case inside a slipcase, with a condensed, standard-printed 12-page booklet featuring disc-breakdowns and selected illustrations. The new range will include all of the watchable content and special features included in the original Limited Edition Packaging release.

The Collection Season 26

Season 26 featured four epic adventures traversing a future Britain invaded by inter-dimensional knights, a strange Victorian house haunted by ghosts from Ace’s past, an alien world populated by Cheetah People and a 1940s army camp under siege from monstrous vampires.

With guest stars including Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Anthony Ainley (The Master), Jean Marsh, Nicholas Parsons, Anne Reid, Ian Hogg, Sylvia Syms and comedy duo Hale & Pace, this fondly-remembered set of stories saw the end of an era for Doctor Who and set the stage for its hugely successful revival.

You can pre-order the standard packaging edition of Season 26 from Amazon ahead of its release on the 17th January 2022.

Doctor Who: Season 24 Coming To Blu-ray Soon!

21 January 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

Sylvester McCoy’s first season as the Seventh Doctor, featuring a full season of Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 24.

Doctor Who The collection Season 24

The Doctor is faced with enemies including the Rani (Kate O’Mara) and the terrifying Tetraps in Time and the Rani, Kroagnon and his cleaning robots in Paradise Towers, the ruthless Bannermen in Delta and the Bannermen and Kane (Edward Peel), the murderous ruler of Iceworld in Dragonfire.

Doctor Who The collection Season 24

With all episodes newly remastered, this Blu-ray box set also contains extensive and exclusive special features including:

Extended versions of all four stories, featuring previously un-transmitted material.
Immersive 5.1 surround sound & isolated scores
Brand new documentaries – Including a feature-length overview of Season 24 – Here’s To The Future, plus The Making Of Delta And The Bannermen.
Rare studio and location footage – Over 25 hours of raw material never seen before, including behind-the-scenes footage from the regeneration scene.
In Conversation – Matthew Sweet interviews Sylvester McCoy about his life, career, and time as the Seventh Doctor.
Behind the Sofa – Four new episodes with Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred, Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Colin Baker & Michael Jayston.
The Doctor’s Table – Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred and Clive Merrison reminisce about the making of the season.
Rare Gems from the Archives – Hours of footage covering the promotion of this season including lots of previously unreleased material.
An Audience with Lady Stevens – A brand new interview with Season 24 actor and Rocky Horror cult figure Patricia Quinn.
Convention Footage
HD Photo Galleries – Including many previously unseen images.
Info Text – Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode.
Scripts, costume designs, rare BBC production files and other rarities from the archive
and much more

The eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD and Blu-Ray.

A specially shot announcement trailer has debuted on the Doctor Who YouTube channel, written by new series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam! and Praxeus) and featuring Bonnie Langford, Sylvester McCoy and many more in 24 Carat.

Doctor Who The collection Season 24

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 24 includes the following stories from 1987:

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannermen
Dragonfire

Pre-order Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 24 from Amazon, Zavvi and HMV in the UK, from Sanity and JB in Australia and Amazon in the US.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks At The BFI

2 May 2019 admin Comments 0 Comment

Image from Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks + Q&A with actor Katy Manning — UK 1973 Dir David Maloney With Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Prentis Hancock 6 x 25 min Courtesy of BBC Studios

Planet of the Daleks screening at BFI Southbank on Saturday 15th June with some updated visual effects and a 5.1 stereo surround mix followed by a conversation with the one and only Katy Manning.

Tickets on sale next week to BFI members then the following week to all.

With the Doctor seriously wounded and the TARDIS under the control of Jo and the Time Lords, our heroes arrive in a jungle environment on the planet Spiridon. Before long, they meet a group of Thals from the planet Skaro and and find themselves at the mercy of the Doctor’s arch enemies – the Daleks. This version of the series contains some updated visual effects and a new 5.1 stereo surround mix.

Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less).

Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 10 is released on Blu-ray on Mon 24 June.

On sale: 17-05-2019 11:30 am