May 6th, 2024
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Doctor Who Season 1 DVD
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Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk and www.rarewaves.com
Season One of Doctor Who follows the Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday as they travel across time and space, with adventures all the way from the Regency era in England, to war-torn future worlds.
Throughout their adventures in the TARDIS – a time-travelling ship shaped like a police box – they encounter incredible friends and dangerous foes, including a terrifying bogeyman, and the Doctor’s most powerful enemy yet.
This brand new season release includes:
- Complete Season 1 Episodes; Space Babies, The Devil’s Chord, Boom, 73 Yards, Dot and Bubble, Rogue, The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Empire of Death
- Christmas Special 2023 – The Church on Ruby Road
- Accompanying Unleashed Episodes
- Exclusive Special Features
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Anon
August 3rd, 2024 - 12:49pmFor people complaining about the price of £39.99 please remember that the retail for this is £59.99 which is what it is being sold for by some shops (galaxy 4, speedyhen etc.) The average film release is £9.99 for a single disc so 7 discs for £39.99 is still good value.
Jeff
August 7th, 2024 - 4:36pmThis is due to the picture of Donna Noble and the 14th Doctor being shown on the back cover.
3 DVD set
USA release will include
The Star Beast
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Giggle
The Church On Ruby Road
My guess is the specials will be disk 1 and the other 8 episodes (Space Babies – The Empire Of Death) will be on disks 2 and 3 with 4 episodes each on all 3 DVDs.
My order has shipped so I will check and confirm when I get it. – NTSC format.
Rex F
August 7th, 2024 - 7:04pmAnon: I recently learnt how little is paid to license even A-tier movies, and it’s a wonder disc releases happen at all – there’s almost no money in it for rights owners or contributors now.
Jeff: Are you talking about bootlegs…?
Sofia Fox
August 8th, 2024 - 12:31amJeff – the USA release is just the three 60th specials, like the UK release. 1 special per disc. Church is not included.
Anon
August 8th, 2024 - 1:13am14th and Donna aren’t featured on the back of the packaging.
anon
June 29th, 2024 - 1:24amConfirmed by the BBC Doctor Who Website: 7 Disc set with all Unleashed Episodes, the Christmas Special 2023 & the Tales From The Tardis Pyramids Of Mars Special Version…
anon
June 19th, 2024 - 4:11amI’m wondering if the hour or so ‘Tales From The Tardis’ spin-off which is on BBC4 this Thursday 20/6/24 at 8PM will feature on the new Series 1 /Season 14 DVD? I would like to think so, considering it leads directly into the next Episode coming out on iPlayer Friday night?
Bellal
June 19th, 2024 - 10:33amI am really hoping it does. Republic of Ireland (me), does not have the iplayer annoyingly. So i really hope it’s on the boxset. Would feel wrong without it included anyway, as you’ve said it leads directly into the last epsiode
Gordon
June 19th, 2024 - 2:18pmI’m not sure it does lead directly especially as where the characters were left off at the cliffhanger. Considering not everybody will be able to see it I’m sure Russell will have designed it so that’s not essential to the main show even if there is some connections to the finale.
MJS
June 19th, 2024 - 4:14pmI’d hope so. The story was included on a Sarah Jane adventures boxset. It might have been kept under wraps in order to avoided spoiling this upcoming broadcast on Thursday
RPG74
June 21st, 2024 - 3:00pmInteresting version of Pyramids, but slightly controversial in places. I get that combining certain scenes helps, pace wise, but it’s a more modern editing style that is at odds with the rest of the piece. Also, the use of Season 18 incidental music when Laurence operates the marconiscope threw me for a loop-just what on Earth was that doing there? Still, it was a pleasant diversion and will make for an interesting special feature on an eventual Season 13 boxset-assuming there are no separate rights issues?.
daz
June 21st, 2024 - 6:18pmI think we’ll be seeing a Tales of the Tardis box set soon as it now covers 7 Doctors.
They might still be doing something for the TV movie though considering it is part of the title sequence.
Bellal
June 21st, 2024 - 7:36pmOh yeah, a boxset is a good idea. Can very easily see that happening. Would LOVE Mcgann film a couple of scenes for a tales of the tardis
Rex F
June 22nd, 2024 - 3:32amI still wonder if BBC Studios have tried to buy out Universal’s remaining rights to the TVM. Then they could finally do something new with the original characters. (I would hope as part of the Disney deal they made sure to get the rights back to the Fox publicity photos again.)
DodgyD
May 7th, 2024 - 1:19pmAccording to Amazons descriptions, it also includes the 2023 Special The Church on Ruby Road. Hoping that’s correct as I didn’t bother getting the Special when it was released on its own. 🙂
Anon
May 7th, 2024 - 6:10pmThe run time seems to contradict the inclusion of church. We know episode one is 55 mins assuming the other 7 are 45 mins that makes 6hrs 10 mins.
Richard
May 21st, 2024 - 7:08pmBBC DVD Enquiry emailed and confirmed to me that the set will include The Church on Ruby Road 2023 Special.
Rory
May 22nd, 2024 - 9:56am@richard Good to hear as I haven’t yet bought that either. Was hoping it’d be included here (well, in the steelbook). I’m still annoyed that Twice Upon a Time isn’t included in any steelbook release.
Jason
April 27th, 2024 - 8:29pmPeople still buy DVD’s ?
Anon
April 27th, 2024 - 9:24pmYes
Loobop
April 27th, 2024 - 10:17pmdazzler releases more bbc shows on dvd than bbc themselves these days ikve noticed.I love dazzler As long as they keep releasing anything with david tennant in also my secret shames of michael palin and simon reeve documentaries i’m happy. lol
Rex F
April 27th, 2024 - 11:11pmThe good thing about Dazzler is that they try to release a blu-ray where possible/financially viable, whereas Auntie’s default is dvd only (even after the move to Spirit doing the work). “Secret shames” are meant to be embarrassing though, not things of quality/worth/merit. If those documentaries are now things to be embarrassed about then society is really screwed…
daz
April 27th, 2024 - 11:34pmI’m surprised people do buy the dvds still. Personally I want the best quality so HD on Blu-ray it is.
There are fans out there who will buy all 3 versions though especially the animations (DVD, standard BR and Steelbook).
A
April 28th, 2024 - 12:22amOf course. And since I’m on the other side of the ocean, I’m very grateful they still produce them. I can play all DVDs. But my Blu-ray player only plays r1 discs, and I don’t want to wait an entire year for the local release. (I’m already frustrated enough that we still don’t have the latest Peter Davison set lol.)
Anon
April 28th, 2024 - 9:28amIt’s financial as well. DVDs are cheaper.
F D R
April 29th, 2024 - 2:04pmafter getting all of who on vhs and getting it all again on dvd i cant be bothered to get it all yet again on blu ray so everything i get is always on dvd
Bookcollector
April 29th, 2024 - 3:08pmSame here f d r
RPG74
April 29th, 2024 - 5:14pmI imagine a lot of younger kids would have smaller tvs in their bedrooms, so the upswing in picture quality to blu ray would make less sense. Same for some elderly people.
Bookcollector
April 29th, 2024 - 5:41pmTo be honest RP I’m not massively concerned about the picture quality. The DVDs are a massive improvement on the vhs tapes an I’m happy with that. Plus I’m not to bothered by the extras these days. Happy to watch what is on the DVDs but the bluray collections hours and hours of extras just don’t appeal. I’ve bought these stories on vhs and DVD and the idea of paying for them again and sitting watching them all again waiting for the faults to show up doesn’t excite me! For those who want bluerays, absolutely fine, but I’ll stick to the DVDs thank you.
Tom Williams
April 30th, 2024 - 11:34amI’m currently getting the DVDs off the odd seasons that ain’t realised yet in blu ray but once come out I will just sell them on too people who would rather still watch DVDs
RPG74
April 30th, 2024 - 8:50pmI have a mixture of classic DVDs and some of the newer BD collections, and I’m happy with both. I see no need to replace the DVD seasons, unless the VAM/cgi additions of specific collection versions make it irresistible. I was watching a couple of Tom dvds some months back, digitally remastered of course, and I was sitting there thinking what a great picture, comparatively speaking, and wouldn’t you know it, simple pop in and play-no problems with difficult discs! I understand many people wanting higher quality BDs for nuWho, but for the classic range there’s nothing wrong with those
DVDs.
Richard
May 21st, 2024 - 6:28pmI can no longer afford Blu-ray so am going back to DVD instead. So it still serves a purpose to a lot of people. But then I guess a lot more don’t bother with a physical copy at all and just stream. But where I live trying to stream is useless due to very poor internet.
Anon
June 19th, 2024 - 11:06amStreaming is fine until they are removed from the platform
Drwhofan08
April 27th, 2024 - 10:50amHopefully I find it cheap in cex
I did for power of the dr and the 60th specials
David Minter
April 25th, 2024 - 11:08pmWhy number it Season 1? It’s not even Season 1 of the 2005 series. Definitely not Season 1 of the 1963 series. And why Season? I thought only we in the USA used that term and in Europe it was Series.
Rex F
April 26th, 2024 - 2:52amClassic Who has used the term “season” going back to the late 80s at least, possibly borrowing the term from American fans. Hence using it on all the UK Collection sets.
Calling this new Bad Wolf/Disney version ‘Season One’ differentiates it from the previous 2005 ‘Series One’, and they’re presumably starting again because it’s a new production and they also want it to be a shiny new, no baggage product.
Classic Who is presumably so unimportant now in sales terms, at least in its original season format, that they can keep those as “seasons” too without any issues arising. It also looks, in merchandise, like they’re having a numeral/word distinction.
Bobby Davros
April 26th, 2024 - 6:58amIt’ll quickly be abandoned, like when Moffat tried to do the same with his first season and no one was biting.
Anon
April 26th, 2024 - 9:31amSo the next season will be season 15? I doubt that Bobby. Season one is how this is marketed so it will not be dropped and the next season will be number two (however daft it is)
Bobby Davros
April 26th, 2024 - 5:25pmNah, posterity will call it Series 15, Anon. Bit daft to call eight episodes a season anyhow.
Anon
April 26th, 2024 - 6:20pmDoesn’t matter how many episodes there are, could be 13, could be 8, could be two it would still be a season.
Gordon
April 26th, 2024 - 8:44pmThere are plenty of shows these days that get 6-8 episode seasons though. It’s becoming more and more the norm
Anon
April 27th, 2024 - 1:08amMost British comedies have 6 episodes and that’s a series/season
Rory
April 29th, 2024 - 11:36amDisney+ only have the new series starting from Ncuti. It is a lot easier to sell people on season 1, with a lot of backstory available commercially if you want it, than to sell series 14 but you don’t have access to the previous 13.
It’s a business decision, pure and simple, and if it brings in new viewers then fantastic. They can call it whatever they like, so long as it’s still Doctor Who.
ThatsDifferent
April 25th, 2024 - 4:58pm8 episodes £39.99
What extra do you get for that price ?
Does Millie hand deliver the DVD
Anon
April 25th, 2024 - 6:55pmWonder if it’s an episode per disc making 8 discs? Seems steep for only 4 discs
Anon
April 25th, 2024 - 10:50pm7 discs according to amazon. Doesn’t look like the special is included
Anon
April 25th, 2024 - 4:45pmHow much!
anon
June 28th, 2024 - 12:30pmI certainly won’t be buying it at £40! I refused to do that on a previous release & waited a year until it dropped to a more reasonable £20. I can bide my time…
Zygonxd
April 25th, 2024 - 2:37pmIs there a realise date?
booboo
April 25th, 2024 - 2:40pmAugust 12
simonhanlon77
April 25th, 2024 - 4:47pmjust looked at amazon it says – 12th august at £39.99.