A second Doctor Who DVD release has finally been announced for October 11, and interestingly it’s not a classic series story. Rather, it’s a massive new series release – the complete David Tennant years! This 26-disc release covers all of David Tennant’s tenure as the Doctor, from the Pudsey Cutaway in 2005 to The End of Time Part Two in 2010; included is everything in between, even the animated stories [ Read More ]
Following on from the October 3 release in the UK, as recently announced in Radio Free Skaro #264, North America will see the release of the Season 8 story Colony In Space on November 8. The six-part story will be a single disc release with few extras. The requisite commentary track, this time featuring Graeme Harper among others, will of course be present; additionally, the disc will contain a Behind [ Read More ]
North American, aka Region 1, Revisitations DVDs have not been coming fast or furiously thus far, with only the TV Movie being released on this side of the Atlantic. That’s thankfully changing with the October 11 release of The Talons of Weng-Chiang, a 3-disc set, to get us caught up with two thirds of the first Revisitations box set. That still leaves a Region 1 release of The Caves of [ Read More ]
Continuing with the tradition of DVD releases coming the second Tuesday of the month in North America, the first Doctor Who DVD title for September 2011 has been announced for September 13. The much-anticipated Jon Pertwee story Day of the Daleks DVD will see a two-disc release, including revamped visual effects and Dalek voices provided by Nick Briggs, the modern voice of the Skaro baddies. In addition, the set will [ Read More ]
It looks like August 9 will see the North American DVD release of the Seventh Doctor story Paradise Towers; this title doesn’t yet have a UK release date. Amongst the features on the disc are a commentary featuring writer Stephen Wyatt, sound designer Dick Mills and (oddly, perhaps, given he didn’t provide the music score on this story), Mark Ayres. Ayres may be there to offer an insight in David [ Read More ]
July 5 (as reported by BBC America; July 12 seems the more likely date as announced by Warner) will feature the last as-yet-unreleased-on-DVD Peter Davison story, The Awakening, hitting store shelves. Bonus features include a commentary, a behind-the-scenes documentary, a “Now and Then” piece, and the rest of the usual fare (PDF Radio Times listings and so on) as well as deleted scenes featuring Kamelion who was initially meant to [ Read More ]
June 14 sees the next two North American releases of Classic Doctor Who stories, and this time around we get the Peter Davison story Frontios along with Sylvester McCoy’s first outing in Time and the Rani. Frontios tells the story of a human colony in the far future, and as yet no release date is known for other parts of the world. Time and the Rani introduces the world to [ Read More ]
May 10 will see two Pertwee stories hit DVD in North America, two titles which as yet don’t even have UK release dates! Doctor Who Magazine 430 announced these titles would be out this year though no corresponding Region 2 release dates accompanied the article, which isn’t in the least unexpected due to releases being in flux. (We’ve already seen that the 2011 release of The Ambassadors of Death, another [ Read More ]
While not available in a box set as in the UK, April 12, 2011 will see the North American DVD release of the two Mara stories, Kinda and Snakedance. Available approximately 5 weeks after the UK release, each will carry an SRP of $24.98. Click the cover art for larger versions. Check out more details at TVShowsOnDVD.com.
North American Doctor Who fans won’t have to wait long to see the 2010 Christmas Special on DVD, as today it was announced by BBC America that Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol will be arriving on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, February 15 in North America. Usually these one-off releases contain very little in the way of extras (which are saved for the box set that comes out in November [ Read More ]
