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Doctor Who Circuit Breaker The Black Archive Files Blu-ray

Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk

A compendium of stories exploring the Circuit Breaker arc.

In the depths of UNIT’s most secure facility, the Black Archive, familiar objects have been pulled through time and space surrounded with a dangerous energy signature threatening to tear reality apart. With time running out, newly appointed Head of the Black Archive, Osgood and her assistant Andrew turn to the only person who can help… the Doctor.

This is no ordinary crisis, and not the Time Lord they are familiar with. As the Fugitive Doctor confronts her most infamous enemies such as the Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans and a rogue Weeping Angel, she is forced to complete a mission with an insidious presence lurking in the shadows.

Secrets begin to surface, and trust between UNIT and the Fugitive Doctor begins to erode as those who idolise her start to question if she really is the Time Lord they thought they knew…

Osgood has pulled together top-secret accounts from UNIT’s records of the Doctor’s adventures to help the Fugitive Doctor return these objects and complete the mission. Each file is listed below:

  • Fugitive of the Judoon
  • Dalek
  • The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
  • Time Heist
  • Genesis of the Daleks
  • War of the Sontarans
  • Blink
  • The Shakespeare Code
  • The Girl in the Fireplace
  • The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon

This Blu-ray includes 10 beloved stories from Doctor Who and also includes: An interview with The Fugitive Doctor, Jo Martin, and bonus booklet – both exclusive to this Blu-ray release.

This release also features English Subtitles.


Categorised under: Blu-ray, DVD

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16 comments

  • Gazza T

    May 2nd, 2026 - 7:43pm

    Personally I would have included.

    Spearhead from Space
    The Five Doctors
    The Two Doctors
    Battlefield
    Blink
    The Sontaran stratagem/poison Sky
    The power of Three
    Day of the Doctor
    The zygon invasion/inversion
    Fugitive of the doctor

    Stories with more unit/fugitive appeal

    • Ali

      May 3rd, 2026 - 3:05am

      No notes. The list is perfection.

  • Robert Green

    May 2nd, 2026 - 3:11pm

    Have we ever seen a Time Lord who left Gallifrey who wasn’t a fugitive?

  • DalekAgent

    May 2nd, 2026 - 2:38pm

    I suprised they havent included the day of the doctor and the zygon invasion/inversion seeing as they both feature the black archive

  • DoctorRose

    May 2nd, 2026 - 1:27pm

    This is a waste of money tbh

    • Andy

      May 2nd, 2026 - 9:26pm

      Totally agree this is just what the BBC have done for many years double dipping its probably because they haven’t got anything planned to fill in the gaps. They decide i know we could release another compendium of episodes again i repeat double dipping because they know people will buy it. If any of you take want thid my advice wait until it comes down in the sales.

  • Chris

    May 2nd, 2026 - 10:12am

    Is Jo Martin the next Doctor, hiding in plain sight?

    • Missyrules

      May 2nd, 2026 - 2:04pm

      No.

  • Gordon

    May 2nd, 2026 - 1:59am

    I’ll pass. £33 for esentually an interview as I already got the eps. I’m sure some will buy it as people did buy the time lord victorious set. Personally I think circuit breaker is far more focused stripped back and less convoluted than time lord victorious and at least has a protagonist that some fans actually have an investment in

  • James

    May 1st, 2026 - 2:57pm

    Boo-boo posted the list of eps Amazon accidental listed. Random selection.
    No sja which mention black archive nor day of the doctor. Apart from judoon ep which is an introduction to the fugitive doc it’s an odd collection.

    • James

      May 1st, 2026 - 3:02pm

      Think I’ll wait until it’s reduced. Got time lord victorious the other week for £7.

  • Neil

    May 1st, 2026 - 9:52am

    Another cash-grab, like the Time Lord Victorious DVD/Blu-ray where the link was tenuous to say the least, and here they’re even including ‘Genesis of the Daleks ’ again!

    • SV7

      May 1st, 2026 - 2:03pm

      Totally agree. I’m just sat here patiently waiting for the next missing episode animation announcement.

    • Bob

      May 1st, 2026 - 2:57pm

      To be fair, the Time Lord Victorious one had a bigger emphasis on Classic stories before they were on iPlayer. It was a good value “sampler” for fans of the revival wanting to give Classic a go.

      This however I just don’t get the point. War of the Sontarans is especially a bizarre choice considering it’s a chapter of the Flux storyline, hardly a stand alone episode.

    • Andy

      May 2nd, 2026 - 12:15am

      When i saw this i thought mmm thats the BBC Double dipping again don’t see the point in this one why Genesis Of The Daleks which i might add is the only classic on this set the rest are just from doctors 9-13. So again thats the BBC Double dipping when most of us fans will already have these episodes. Why didn’t they just call it the Time Lord Victorious 2 or something like that.

      As for the animations i think that the 2 missing episodes from The Daleks Master Plan turning up has maybe some hope that more might turn up in the coming months. There is an interesting story on the missing episodes in this month’s Doctor Who Magazine,.

      it does cover a lot when the BBC Enterprises as they were known back then that these Episodes of the Daleks Master Plan that were found are what they are calling cutting copies.

      When BBC Enterprises before they moved from Villers House way back in 1988 cutting copies of Doctor Who had turn up before. Just before moving they found the surviving episodes of The Ice Warriors these were again not masters but cutting copies.

      So that explains how some of these Episodes had got in to private collections. It is thought that film cutting copies cans were just put in to a skip for any member of staff to help themselves to any of these film cans. But read it for yourselves in this month’s Doctor Who Magazine. They are interested in these cutting copies as the recent find was from cutting copies. It also takes you back to the beginning before junking had begun they talk about if the person in charge of the junking and checked the archives first before destroying the master copies. As Sue explains when checking the archive stock but the results could have been much worse. Now the Daleks Master Plan is an example that the masters was the only copies in existence. But apparently it might have been a cutting copy sent to Australia which was never shown as it was to violent for their censor ships. And was either returned to the BBC or destroyed when the licence expired. As for Film is Fabulous they had infact found itv programmes that were missing but wasn’t interested in any of them. But the BBC are always keen to get any missing programme back. They are now interested in the possibility of more of these cutting copies it is an ice breaker that after nearly 40 years since cutting copies were discovered in 1988, that they are turning up now so the possibility of the other episodes from the Daleks Master Plan they now believe that there must be cutting copies out there somewhere and Film is Fabulous know of some other private film collectors in fact ex staff of the BBC and are working to catalogue their collections in the hope they make some discoveries of lost tv programmes. But its all in Doctor Who Magazine very interesting read quite a few pages of the story.

    • Gordon

      May 2nd, 2026 - 4:59am

      The animations and what film is fabulous is doing 2 different things. The animations are done in full due to its funding model. From what I gather the eps that are known to be out there are either from already completed with animation stories or don’t complete anything

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