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 | Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks DVD Video Review Colin Polonowski has reviewed the Region 2 DVD release of Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks |
 | Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space DVD Video Review |
| Doctor Who: Vengeance On Varos DVD Video Review Mike Sutton has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Vengeance On Varos. An interesting story gets a typically good release which continues the excellent quality of the BBC's Doctor Who range. |
 | Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen DVD Video Review In the first of three reviews of Doctor Who DVDs, Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2/4 release of The Tomb of the Cybermen. Once feared lost, this classic adventure featuring the Second Doctor appears on DVD. Picture and sound quality are as good as it's likely to get, and as usual the BBC have ... |
 | Doctor Who: The Ark in Space DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2/4 release of Doctor Who: The Ark in Space, the second adventure featuring Tom Baker's Doctor, and one of the best. Once again the BBC have provided a well-thought-out DVD. |
 | Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2/4 release of Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters, a pleasant but lightweight Third Doctor adventure on a DVD that's up to usual standards. |
 | Doctor Who: The Aztecs DVD Video Review A big welcome to Mark Campbell who has reviewed the Region 2 Doctor Who: The Aztecs, a historical first-Doctor story painstakingly restored for this DVD release. |
 | Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks DVD Video Review Mark Campbell has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks. |
 | Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death, in which the Second Doctor has a rematch with the Ice Warriors on near-future Earth. Another well-thought out Doctor Who DVD from the BBC: a six-part story that's packaged as two discs, but commendably not at a higher ... |
 | Doctor Who: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang DVD Video Review Mike Sutton has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Talons Of Weng-Chiang. One of the finest stories in the programme's history, this Tom Baker extravaganza has been granted a marvellous 2-disc DVD release by the BBC. |
 | Doctor Who: Earthshock DVD Video Review Roy Gill has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Earthshock. |
 | Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2/4 release of Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Hartnell serial of 1964 presented on an excellent two-DVD set from the BBC. |
 | Doctor Who: The Two Doctors DVD Video Review Originally broadcast back in 1985 the BBC recently released The Two Doctors as part of their ongoing range of restored Doctor Who titles. Graham Nelson offers his thoughts on this set inside... |
 | Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani DVD Video Review Doctor Who was first broadcast forty years ago today. In a recent poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine, The Caves of Androzani was voted best ever story. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2/4 release from the BBC. |
 | Doctor Who: The Robots of Death DVD Video Review In the week of Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary, Gary Couzens has reviewed one of the Fourth Doctor's most popular adventures, The Robots of Death. This Region 2/4 disc was one of the earliest BBC releases in the UK and Doctor Who DVDs have developed a lot since then, but it's still a good solid st... |
 | Doctor Who: The Three Doctors DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2/4 release of The Three Doctors, in which then-Doctor Jon Pertwee was reteamed with his predecessors Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell. An obvious choice to mark Doctor Who's fortieth anniversary, this is a typically good DVD though less extras-packed than ... |
 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric DVD Video Review James Gray reviews the Seventh Doctor release for the 40th Anniversary. Coming in two versions, one a specially re-edited movie version with 12 minutes of extra footage, new effects and remixed 5.1 Surround Sound, this is one of the most impressive disks for the series so far. |
 | Doctor Who: The Visitation DVD Video Review James Gray takes a look at the first Doctor Who release of the year, which sees Peter Davison's Doctor taking on alien intruders in Seventeenth Century England. Its a time of plague and pestilence, but does the greater danger lie from the rats or the strange shining lights in the sky? |
 | Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars, in which the Fourth Doctor and Sarah take on the might of an Egyptian god. One of the best ever Doctor Who serials, and the one most requested on DVD by the readers of Doctor Who Magazine, is released on a disc which doe... |
 | Doctor Who: The Green Death DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Green Death. The "one with the maggots" is an important story from Jon Pertwee's era as the Doctor, and it arrives on a DVD that's up to scratch visually and aurally, but with fewer extras than before. |
 | Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive DVD Video Review Doctor Who was dragged kicking and screaming into the 1980s with this tale, the first in Tom Baker's last season. Out went the silliness and in came the science, but did it really make that much of a difference? James travels to Argolis to find out. |
 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light DVD Video Review The Doctor and Ace arrive in Gabriel Chase, a spooky old Victorian house which holds many dark secrets. Why does their host continually change his appearance, who is the prisoner in the cellar and what exactly is Light? Prepare to be thoroughly confused by this highlight of the Sylvester McCoy era. |
 | Doctor Who: Lost in Time DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Lost in Time, a compilation of eighteen "orphaned" episodes from otherwise missing stories starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. Plenty of fascinating material and some very fine episodes (and some duds), which is most likely t... |
 | Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock, in which the Fourth Doctor and Leela encounter something nasty in a lighthouse in the early 1900s. As ever, the serial looks and sounds as good as it is ever likely to, and the extras are well chosen. |
 | Doctor Who: The Mind Robber DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of The Mind Robber, a surreal Doctor Who serial from 1968 starring Patrick Troughton. The DVD is up to the usual standards and this time includes an appearance from Basil Brush! |
 | Doctor Who: The TV Movie DVD Video Review To celebrate the return of the Doctor to our screens, James casts his mind back to the last attempt to revive the series. Starring Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook and Eric "Julia's brother" Roberts, the film was a flawed attempt with flashes of magic and a wonderful central performance. |
 | Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos, a very typical four-part Pertwee-era story given the customary good DVD presentation. |
 | Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks DVD Video Review Davros is up to his old tricks again in the latest title in BBC Worldwide's classic Doctor Who line, a Colin Baker story from 1985. James travels to the planet Necros where he encounters Daleks, cannibals, assassins and Alexei Sayle, and can't decide which he finds most frightening. |
| Torchwood - A Doctor Who Spin-Off Blog The BBC have just announced a Doctor Who spin-off that puts John Barrowman's character from the series, Captain Jack Harkness, in the lead role of a more adult-oriented TV series. As you'd expect the usual cynics are already writing off the idea of Torchwood with some describing it as Russell T Davi... |
 | Doctor Who: The Web Planet DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 DVD of Doctor Who: The Web Planet. in which the First Doctor and his companions visit the planet of the Zarbi. A story which divides fan opinion to this day, but a fine DVD. |
 | Doctor Who: The Complete First Series DVD Video Review Lesley Smith examines the first series boxset for one of the most avidly awaited series this year: the return of Doctor Who. |
| Doctor Who Titles Confirmed for April and May News As has been rumoured for some time, the next two Classic Series Doctor Who releases from BBC Worldwide will be Genesis of the Daleks, starring Tom Baker, in April and the Jon Pertwee epic Inferno in May. The iconic Genesis of the Daleks, dating from Baker's first season as the Time Lord in 1975, se... |
 | Doctor Who: The Beginning DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Beginning, the first three serials (and a reconstruction of the now-lost fourth) in an excellent three-disc box set. |
| Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani in September News Hot on the heels of last week's announcement of The Hand of Fear in July, BBC Worldwide have now confirmed that September's release in the "Classic Who" range will be the 1985 Colin Baker story The Mark of the Rani. A two-parter from Season Twenty-Two, it sees the Doctor and companion Peri (Nicola B... |
 | Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks. Tom Baker stars in one of the original series' all-time classics, released in a two-disc set from 2 Entertain. |
 | Doctor Who: Inferno DVD Video Review Jon Pertwee faces the end of not just this world, in Doctor Who: Inferno, a classic seven-parter from 1970 which receives a good two-disc release from 2 Entertain, released today. Review by Gary Couzens |
| New Doctor Who Titles Announced News The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out this week, had some extremely exciting news about the next set of "classic Who" stories to be released following Mark of the Rani in September. October will see the release of Tom Baker two-parter The Sontaran Experiment. First broadcast in early 1975 as... |
 | Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear DVD Video Review This year in Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Smith came back, at least for one week. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2 release of The Hand of Fear from 1976, which is when she originally left, in another very good DVD release. |
 | Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani DVD Video Review It's double trouble for the Sixth Doctor and Peri when they find themselves facing not one but two renegade Time Lords in this adventure from 1985. James comes along for the ride and finds a fairly mediocre adventure. |
 | The Dalek Collection DVD Video Review Two films, two discs and a psychedelic adventure on Skaro and another in London for Peter Cushing's Doctor Who... |
 | Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment DVD Video Review Gary Couzens has reviewed the Region 2 release of Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment, a two-part story featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry set on far-future Earth, which launches a range of budget-priced Dcotro Who DVDs from 2 Entertain. |
| Doctor Who: Survival in April News The BBC's Doctor Who site has confirmed that the April 2007 Classic Series release will be Sylvester McCoy's final story as the Doctor Survival. Also the last story broadcast before the show's extended hiatus, it sees the Doctor and companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) facing off against the triple threats... |
| Classic Doctor Who Titles For May and June News BBC Worldwide have just announced the titles of the two next releases in their "Classic Who" series, following April's Survival. May 28th will see the release of Robot, the 1974 debut of Tom Baker's fourth Doctor. This four-parter by Terrance Dicks sees the newly-regenerated Doctor teaming up with... |
| Doctor Who: Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity in August News The August release in 2 Entertain's Classic Doctor Who range has now been confirmed as a mini-boxset featuring two stories, Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity. The last story of Season Nineteen and the first of Season Twenty, the Peter Davison-starring four parters were first broadcast in 1982 and 1983... |
| Doctor Who: Survival DVD Video Review The last story of the Classic Series comes to DVD in a two-disc set brimming with goodies. Sylvester McCoy's Doctor faces the twin threats of the savage Cheetah People and cancellation... but which was the more deadly? |
| Doctor Who: Robot DVD Video Review Robot was the Doctor Who/i> serial which introduced Tom Baker as the fourth incarnation of the Time Lord. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2 release from 2 Entertain. |
| Doctor Who: Planet of Evil in October News The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has confirmed that the next "Classic Who" release following September's The Key To Time will be Season Thirteen's Planet of Evil in October. First broadcast in September and October 1975, this four-parter is more than a little reminiscent of Doctor Jekyll and ... |
| Doctor Who - Series 3, Vol 2 DVD Video Review Part two of the most recent series comes to DVD with the Daleks in Manhattan, the Lazarus experiment and a spaceship falling into a living sun... |
| Doctor Who: The Time Warrior and The Key To Time in September - UPDATED with extras News 2Entertain announced two further titles in this year's Classic Who release schedule. September 3rd will see the Jon Pertwee four-parter The Time Warrior hit the shelves, followed on the 24th by the season-spanning The Key To Time starring Tom Baker. The Time Warrior was the first story of Doctor Wh... |
| Doctor Who: Timelash DVD Video Review The worst Doctor Who story ever? James travels to the planet Karfel to takes another look at this much-derided two-parter from 1985, now released by 2Entertain, to find out if it's as bad as legend says. |
| Doctor Who: Time-Flight DVD Video Review Released in a box set with Arc of Infinity, James takes a look at this Peter Davison story from 1982 and wonders what on earth they could have been thinking. |
| Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity DVD Video Review Reviewing the second story in the box set which also contains Time-Flight, James travels to Amsterdam with the Doctor and is rather disappointed at what he finds. |
| Doctor Who: The Time Warrior DVD Video Review Doctor Who: The Time Warrior was the 1973 serial which kicked off Jon Pertwee's final season and introduced a new companion in Sarah Jane Smith. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2 release from 2 Entertain, released today. |
| Doctor Who - Series 3, Vol 4 DVD Video Review The Master returns in a three-part story that drew the third season of the series to a close. Not very well, mind... |
| Doctor Who: City of Death DVD Video Review The last of the Jagaroth does battle with the 4th Doctor in this BBC DVD. |
| Doctor Who: The Key to Time DVD Video Review In Season 16 of Doctor Who, the Doctor and Romana searched for the six segments of The Key of Time. All twenty-six episodes are released on DVD as a seven-disc set by 2 Entertain. Review by Gary Couzens. |
| Doctor Who: Planet of Evil DVD Video Review Mike Sutton reviews a very solid series entry from 1975, presented on a typically excellent disc from 2 Entertain. |
| Sarah Jane Adventures - Invasion of the Bane DVD Video Review Finally! They've followed up K-9 And Company... |
| Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest DVD Video Review Animated and shown in Totally Dr Who in 12 parts, this is not strictly canonical... |
| Doctor Who: The Complete Series 3 Box Set DVD Video Review From The Runaway Bride to The Last Of The Time Lords. But don't let that get you down...there's Blink in between! |
| Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks DVD Video Review The Daleks return, along with Davros, in a Tom Baker adventure from his penultimate season as the Doctor. |
| Doctor Who: Beneath the Surface DVD Video Review Two Pertwee classics and a less-than-classic Davison make up the four-disc box set Doctor Who: Beneath the Surface. Review by Gary Couzens. |
| Doctor Who: The Time Meddler DVD Video Review What are a toaster and a wristwatch doing in England in 1066? Find out in The Time Meddler, in which the First Doctor, Vicki and Steven confront renegade Time Lord The Monk. Review of the Region 2 release from 2 Entertain by Gary Couzens. |
 | Doctor Who: The Five Doctors - 25th Anniversary Edition DVD Video Review Mike Sutton looks at the new edition of the anniversary show from 1983. |
| Doctor Who: Black Orchid DVD Video Review In which the Doctor goes for a nice mini-break and James wonders where all the monsters went. |
| Doctor Who: K9 Tales in June News The Restoration Team have officially confirmed and announced the details for the forthcoming Classic Who release K9 Tales. A twinpack featuring The Invisible Enemy and K9 and Company will be released on 16th June 2008 priced at £29.99. The Invisible Enemy is a Tom Baker four-parter from Season Fift... |
| Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius in July News The Restoration Team have posted details on their website of the forthcoming Classic Who DVD The Brain of Morbius, due for release on 21st July. This Tom Baker four-parter from 1976 sees the Doctor and companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) travelling to the planet Karn where they encounter t... |
| Doctor Who: The Invasion Of Time DVD Video Review Trouble in Gallifrey as the Time Lords face an invasion by Bacofoil. |
| Doctor Who: K9 Tales Box Set - K9 And Company DVD Video Review Bring your daughter...to the slaughter! Or, failing that, Brendan! |
| Doctor Who: K9 Tales Box Set - The Invisible Enemy DVD Video Review Mike Sutton looks at one of the discs from the recently released K9 Tales set from 2 Entertain. |
| Doctor Who: The War Machines in August News 2Entertain have announced that the release of Colin Baker epic The Trial of a Time Lord, originally scheduled for this month, has been pushed back and will now be released on 29th September 2008. To fill the gap they have moved forward what was originally going to be the October release, the William... |
| Doctor Who: Four To Doomsday in September News The Restoration Team have released details for 2Entertain's forthcoming Classic Who DVD Four to Doomsday, due for release on 15th September. Although it was the second story broadcast starring Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor it was the first to be recorded with the new Doctor at the helm of the Tardis,... |
| Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius DVD Video Review Lightning flashes, thunder growls, and Mehendri Solon has designs on the Doctor's head to house The Brain of Morbius. Gary Couzens revisits this classic Doctor Who from 1976. |
| Doctor Who: The War Machines DVD Video Review The Doctor encounters a supercomputer in 1966 London in The War Machines. Review by Gary Couzens. |
| Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord DVD Video Review "Cancellation? CANCELLATION? CANCELLATION!?!" James reviews the superb release of Colin Baker's traumatic final season in the TARDIS, a time when the series itself was battling for its very survival. |
| Doctor Who: Battlefield in December News The final Classic Doctor Who release of the year has now been confirmed as the Sylvester McCoy-starring Battlefield. The four-parter sees the Seventh Doctor and companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) team up with the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) as they do battle with the forces of Arthurian legend who trav... |
| Doctor Who: New Beginnings DVD Video Review It's Doctor Who's 45th birthday, and to celebrate James catches up with two consecutive Classic Who releases not yet reviewed on DVD Times. First up is this three-story set which saw Tom Baker regenerating into Peter Davison, heralding the start of a whole new era. |
| Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday DVD Video Review The second of our two reviews on Doctor Who's 45th Anniversary looks at the story which marked Peter Davison's real debut as the Fifth Doctor. |
| Doctor Who: The E-Space Trilogy in January - UPDATED with Extras News The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has announced that January's release in 2Entertain's Classic Who range will be a three-story boxset covering the "E-Space Trilogy" from Tom Baker's last season as the Doctor. Full Circle, State of Decay and Warriors' Gate see the Doctor and companions Romana (... |
| Doctor Who: The Invasion DVD Video Review Looking forward to this year's Christmas Special with the Cyberman, James catches up with a long-overdue review of the last great Doctor Who story starring the metallic monsters. |
| Doctor Who: Battlefield DVD Video Review In which the Doctor becomes Merlin, the Brigadier doesn't die and Ace ends up very wet indeed. James takes a look at this most legendary of Doctor Who stories... |
| Doctor Who: The E-Space Trilogy DVD Video Review In which the Doctor meets lions and spiders and vampires, oh my! |
| Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen in March News Details and the cover for March's Classic Doctor Who DVD from 2|Entertain, the Colin Baker adventure Attack of the Cybermen have now been revealed. The story, the first of the twenty-second season, sees the Doctor and companion Peri (Nicola Bryant) battling to stop the silver menaces from invading E... |
| Doctor Who: The Rescue/The Romans DVD Video Review The First Doctor gets a new companion in the shape of Vicki in Doctor Who: The Rescue/The Romans, two stories from 1965 released as a box set. Review by Gary Couzens. |
| Doctor Who: Image Of The Fendahl DVD Video Review Mike Sutton reviews an excellent serial from 1977 with Tom Baker as the titular Time Lord. |
| Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin (R2) in May - UPDATED with Extras and Cover News It has now been officially confirmed that May's Classic Doctor Who release from 2|Entertain will be the Tom Baker adventure The Deadly Assassin. The four-parter, written by Robert Holmes, is one of the most important in the series's history, establishing as it did much of what we now know about the ... |
| Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin DVD Video Review The Deadly Assassin is one of the most influential, and one of the most controversial, stories in the show's history. Gary Couzens reviews the Region 2 DVD. |
| Doctor Who: Attack Of The Cybermen DVD Video Review One of the more controversial Doctor Who stories hits Region 2 DVD courtesy of 2 Entertain. |
| Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead DVD Video Review Flying Stingrays and a double decker bus on another planet - David Tenant's long goodbye as the Doctor continues |
| Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen DVD Video Review It's a case of Who-di-Who as the Doctor and Mel battle the mercenary Bannermen in a Fifties holiday camp. |
| Doctor Who: The War Games DVD Video Review The War Games was Patrick Troughton's epic farewell to Doctor Who. This landmark ten-part story is released by 2 Entertain as a three-disc set and Gary Couzens reviews one of the DVD releases of the year. |
| Doctor Who: The Black Guardian Trilogy DVD Video Review Mike Sutton looks at the latest 2 Entertain Doctor Who boxset containing one winner, one noble failure and a disaster. |
| Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma DVD Video Review Mike Sutton takes a look at the much maligned debut for the Sixth Doctor which has just been released on R2 DVD by 2 Entertain. |
| Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus DVD Video Review Written by Terry Nation, The Keys of Marinus is a six-part story from the first year of Doctor Who. Gary Couzens reviews the UK Region 2 DVD from 2 Entertain, which is released today. |
| Doctor Who: The Dalek War Box Set DVD Video Review Gary Couzens reviews Doctor Who: The Dalek War Box Set, which consists of two Third Doctor serials, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, featuring Roger Delgado's final appearance as The Master and an episode restored to colour for the first time since its original broadcast. This review is ... |