November 10th, 2020
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Doctor Who The Collection Season 12
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The second edition of Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 12 will be released on 2nd March 2020.
Season 12 was first released as a limited edition on Blu-ray in February 2018, and is being re-released by BBC Studios to bring the total number of copies in line with other seasons in the classic collection.
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Please see below for a full summary – All content, extras and artwork will remain the same as the 1st edition.
Season 12 features five stories over 20 episodes, including The Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor is accompanied by Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and was first broadcast on the BBC between December 1974 and May 1975.
BBC Studios have confirmed replacement discs will be included with this release.
Sold as Tom Baker Season One in the USA in std packaging and available to order from www.amazon.com #ad
Original Press Release:
BBC Worldwide has announced that Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 12 will be released on Blu-Ray on 2nd July 2018.
For fans of Doctor Who and collectors of Classic Who seasons, the Blu-Ray has limited edition packaging with artwork by Lee Binding and has been restored and up-scaled to HD by Peter Crocker and Mark Ayres. The new release also has a wealth of new bonus content.
Russell Minton, Executive Producer at BBC Worldwide says : “We are doing our very best at BBC Worldwide to restore and bring as many Classic Who titles out on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, and this starts with being able to confirm one of my favourites, Tom Baker’s first season. We will also endeavour to include additional archive material and exciting newly-shot features where possible.”
Season 12, Tom Baker’s first as the Doctor, features five stories over 20 episodes, including The Ark in Space and Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor is accompanied in this season by Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) and was first broadcast between December 1974 and May 1975.
The new Blu-Ray release includes existing bonus material from the original DVDs as well as the brand new features below:
TOM BAKER IN CONVERSATION
- A candid new one-hour interview with the Fourth Doctor.
BEHIND THE SOFA
- Classic clips from Season 12, viewed by Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe,
- Louise Jameson, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Sadie Miller
NEW MAKING-OF DOCUMENTARIES
- For The Sontaran Experiment and Revenge Of The Cybermen
IMMERSIVE 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES
- For The Ark In Space and Genesis Of The Daleks
OPTIONAL BRAND NEW UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
- For Revenge Of The Cybermen
GENESIS OF THE DALEKS – OMNIBUS MOVIE VERSION
- Unseen since broadcast in 1975
THE TOM BAKER YEARS
- The 1991 VHS release, on disc for the first time
PRODUCTION ARCHIVE MATERIAL
- PDF files from the BBC Archives
Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 12 will be released on Blu-Ray from Monday 11th June 2018.
The American and Australian sets available from www.amazon.com #ad and www.amazon.com.au
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Anonymous
May 18th, 2018 - 6:37pmNow available from the ABC Shop in Australia
https://shop.abc.net.au/doctor-who-classic-series-12-blu-ray
Anonymous
May 18th, 2018 - 8:05amI hate how on the US release they say Tom Baker Season 1
Shouldn’t it say The Fourth Doctor, Season 1
The Drums The Never Ending Drum Beat
May 17th, 2018 - 5:03pmHey booboo Do you intend in adding the 40th anniversary Dalek boxset to the DVD list? I recently got it and I noticed that it wasn’t there on the list also do you plan to implement a way to check if you’ve got the slipcases or not because I have noticed that a lot of people don’t know stories is Genesis of the Daleks or the hand of fear have slipcases
booboo
May 17th, 2018 - 5:17pmwe left slip cases out as it was the same DVD, there are actually several, will look at the Dalek DVD
BHarribo
May 17th, 2018 - 2:56amSo they’re calling it “Tom Baker season 1” now? If they name all upcoming classic blu-ray box sets in the same manner, how the hell will they handle seasons 4 and 21? Should’ve just stayed with the standard numbering system to avoid confusion.
BHarribo
May 17th, 2018 - 2:59amJust realized that’s only for the American release which they decided to unnecessarily give a different title to for whatever reason.
TigerMan1995
May 17th, 2018 - 2:59amThat’s the US release. I’m American and prefer the UK title.
philip shaw
May 17th, 2018 - 8:28amI’d still prefer ‘series’ 12
Anonymous
May 17th, 2018 - 11:07amBut it’s not Series 12, it’s Season for the classics.
Anonymous
May 17th, 2018 - 7:15pmOnly after JNT took over and wanted to appeal to Americans, British shows don’t use “season”.
Anonymous
May 17th, 2018 - 11:09pmCould be a few years away those releases
Phillip
May 18th, 2018 - 2:05amSeason 4 and 21 would likely be split and added to the appropriate Doctor.
Gordon
May 16th, 2018 - 1:55pmAccording to Richard bignall The following extras have been moved to more apropriate
Doctor Forever – Love and War
Scene Around Six – Tom in Northern Ireland from around 1977/78
TARDIS Cam 1
The Doctor Who Technical Manual PDF
Crosse & Blackwell Promo PDF
The original tin and the white witch documentary also won’t be included as there is an extended version on the s12 set.
MJS
May 11th, 2018 - 7:35amAmazon have emailed to state the release date has been moved to June 18th
Philip
May 11th, 2018 - 7:51amMy Amazon email says June 25th !
Anonymous
May 11th, 2018 - 8:02amMine says 18th June also
Gordon
May 11th, 2018 - 1:49pmAmazon has now emailed saying it’s the 11th again
Gordon
May 14th, 2018 - 6:33pmIt’s switched back to the 18th again
Phillip
May 18th, 2018 - 2:06amMine says 19th of may…and has always said 19th of may.
Anonymous
May 9th, 2018 - 5:37amThis will be $85 in Australia
the_4th_doc
May 9th, 2018 - 7:57pmWhat’s the release date (and where did you find it)?
Gordon
May 9th, 2018 - 9:38pmhttp://www.ezydvd.com.au/blu-ray/Doctor-Who-Classic-Season-12/dp/6214870
Gordon
May 4th, 2018 - 9:05pmhttps://mobile.twitter.com/CrocmanSnappy/status/992440117636861952
A screenshot of the optional cgi
Gordon
April 30th, 2018 - 6:21pmSome of the Special features Cleared by the BBFC:
Robot photo gallery – 4:14
Robot clean opening and closing titles – 2:23
Robot continuity – 0:38
The Ark in Space Trail/continuity – 0:50
The Ark in Space photo galley – 7:04
The Ark in Space model effects roll – 7:08
The Ark in Space 3D technical schematics – 1:07
The Ark in Space Roger Murray Leach interview – 10:26
The Sontaran Experiment photo gallery – 4:47
The Sontaran Experiment: On Target Ian Marter – 16:08
The Sontaran Experiment: Like Nothing on Earth (making of) – 36:44
Genesis of the Daleks 90′ version – 85:54
Genesis of the Daleks photo gallery – 7:58
Revenge of the Cybermen: Location Report at Wookey Hole – 5:53
Revenge of the Cybermen photo gallery – 4:36
Revenge of the Cybermen: The Tin Men and the Witch (making of) – 32:12
Tom Baker – In Conversation – 64:18
Gordon
May 9th, 2018 - 1:20pmRobot
Robot Rehearsals Read Through (35mins 57s) Component Listing – TELEVISION DRAMA – THE SCRIPT READ-THROUGH
Behind The Sofa Robot (44m 18s)
The Ark In Space
Alternative Title Sequence for The Ark In Space (though strangely listed under Robot) (0m 42s)
The Sontaran Experiment
Location Report (2mins 55s)
Behind The Sofa Sontaran Experiment (17m 42s)
Gordon
May 10th, 2018 - 10:44amDoctor Who – Times 41m 43s
The Ark in Space
Behind the Sofa 37m 50s
Genesis of the Daleks
Keith Miller audio from TVC Canteen during Genesis 3 41m 53s
Philip
May 11th, 2018 - 5:00pmI’m hoping for a ‘Revenge of the Cybermen’ isolated score…
Gordon
May 15th, 2018 - 9:24amMark Ayres hasn’t said anything on the matter so I’m going to guess there isn’t an isolated score for revenge
In BBFC News:
The Sontaran Experiment
DOCTOR WHO – THE TOM BAKER YEARS VOLUME 2 – 85m 54s
Genesis of the Daleks
BEHIND THE SOFA – 43m 9s
Revenge of the Cybermen
BEHIND THE SOFA – 31m 55s
Gordon
May 15th, 2018 - 4:50pmThe Sontaran Experiment – Tom Baker Years Volume 1 (89m)
the_4th_doc
April 30th, 2018 - 10:58amFor anyone that missed it, the Genisis of the Daleks america cinima release promo cointains a new 3d packshot of the american release. https://youtu.be/h-9XQ0os7cw.
Few interesting things here, firstly confirmation that it is 6 discs (not sure if this was known before), and it appears to be rendered as a standard case rather than a mediabook. Looks like their ditching the mediabook (at least in the US) as I don’t think they would release two different runs of a product so close together. It’s likly the finalized artwork, so the new logo is here to stay as well (but now it’s at the top and smaller, looks better in my opinion)
booboo
April 30th, 2018 - 12:19pmthat’s quite a change, if that’s correct surprised final images haven’t been sent out
Gordon
April 30th, 2018 - 6:20pmIt might just be a mock up just to make it recognisable that it’s blu ray only
the_4th_doc
April 30th, 2018 - 7:57pmIt thought that as well, but they went to the trouble of mocking up a spine and everything. That, and moving the logo to the top suggests there won’t be a cardboard bit at the bottom. I think it could still go either way in the UK though.
Gordon
April 20th, 2018 - 9:05amAccording to Richard bignall the pdfs will include:
489 pages of production documentation
1331 pages of script
19 pages of BBC Enterprises sales information for Season 12
47 pages of Radio Times cuttings
45 pages of the Weetabix 1975 promotion
42 pages of the Wall’s Dalek’s Death Ray
12 pages of the Nestle 1975 promotion
59 pages of the 1976 Doctor Who Annual
so, that’s 2044 pages in total.
Type40
April 21st, 2018 - 10:59pmThat’s quite a list. Thanks for letting us all know.
DANIEL-M
April 14th, 2018 - 11:23pmI thought the bbc would end up making box set seasons of doctor who… Hope they clear up the 60s doctor who and give it some colour and added effects!
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:45pmNOOOOO, now why would you do that?
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:46pmBy adding colour and added effects I mean, that deserves it’s own release. (Doctor Who William Hartnell Season 1: Modern Edition) or (Doctor Who: The Collection: Season 1: Modern Edition)
DANIEL-M
April 14th, 2018 - 11:22pmI thought the bbc would end making box set seasons of doctor who… Hope they clear up the 60s doctor who and give it some colour and added effects!
Gordon
April 15th, 2018 - 12:35amI can see them improving colour in the Pertwee stories that was originally in colour but having Colour in originally b and w stories? Not going to happen. It isn’t the restoration team’s remit to colour originally broadcast b and w episodes. The budget would be better served in filling in the missing episode gaps. The budget on these sets won’t stretch to both
the_4th_doc
April 26th, 2018 - 10:22pmBabelcolour, who worked on the colour for Mind of Evil episode 1, said doing a full episode ’nearly killed him,’ so doing 30+ would likely be very time consuming and expensive. Untill colorization gets easier, it’s probably not going to happen.
Tim M
April 4th, 2018 - 5:35pmI wonder…If they were to release ‘Season One’ on blu-ray, they would consider naming the first three stories 100,000bc, The Mutants and Inside the Spaceship. I don’t like ‘Inside the Spaceship’ as a title, as I don’t regard the Tardis as a spaceship. The Edge of Destruction sounds better.
Type40
April 4th, 2018 - 9:35pmShould that release happen, I think they’ll stick to the names as used on the DVDs.
Anonymous
April 10th, 2018 - 9:41pmI love the mutants title more than the Daleks
but then again there is a doctor who story called the mutants
100,000 BC
April 10th, 2018 - 11:40pmThere’s already a ‘The Mutants’, with Jon Pertwee.
I think ‘The Edge Of Destruction’ possibly has a better ring to it than ‘Inside the Spaceship’.
As for the first story… there’s reasonable justification to the idea that it’s two separate stories, with episode one ‘An Unearthly Child’ having a different plot and setting to episodes 2-4, ‘100,000BC’ (despite being written by the same person and leading into each other plotwise – it’s like the way that Heaven Sent/Hell Bent are linked).
If we are to say that it is one story, I guess the unearthly child appears in all 4 parts, whereas only 3 of the episodes are set in 100,000BC so again the existing DVD’s title wins.
Tim M
April 21st, 2018 - 7:00pmMaybe ‘An Unearthly Child’ should be regarded as a one episode story like ‘Mission to the Unknown’, and the other three episodes regarded as ‘100,000BC’. A 3 parter like ‘Planet of Giants’. That would mean 30 stories and not 29 represent the Hartnell era, and more importantly, mess up the order of subsequent stories. So ‘The Pirate Planet’ would be story 100 instead of ‘The Stones of Blood’ for example. 🙂
Gordon
April 21st, 2018 - 10:08pmAn unearthly child was commissioned as a 4 part story
Mr DVD
April 3rd, 2018 - 10:55pmStill not interested in buying this. Money for old rope.
Anonymous
April 15th, 2018 - 4:52amHey Mr DVD, if you aren’t interested in HD Blu ray, stick to old VHS/DVD quality.
I won’t be living in the 70’s.
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:49pmAnon, This is upconverted. In fact they did more video location filming than ever in this season and any film segments are long gone so…like Series 1-4 and The Next Doctor this is 1080p upconverted from the PAL videotape masters
John Baker
April 3rd, 2018 - 9:59amI honestly though they would have remastered the sontaran experiment to look like film as a what if
Gordon
April 3rd, 2018 - 11:19pmAll 5 stories have been remastered from the ground up
Anonymous
April 10th, 2018 - 9:40pmSays upscaled and remastered
That confuses me
Was it upscaled then remastered
or Remasted and upscaled
Gordon
April 12th, 2018 - 11:27amwith the original version of enemy and web I believe they were scanned/upscaled to hd then the restoration work was done and then downgraded back down to sd for the dvd. Could be similar without the downgrading. Not sure as the restoration team haven’t been 100 forward on how they are restoring it. I know Peter Crocker said on Twitter that the project took over 3 months of work so it wasn’t just a quick 5 minute job
Nick C
March 23rd, 2018 - 8:51amIs there a specific place to comment on the use of the wrong logo?
It will jar with the new rebrand, why have a logo on the box that never appears on screen on the contents?
I wouldn’t say I was up in arms about it, I just don’t see the sense.
Anonymous
March 23rd, 2018 - 10:00amA logo on the box that doesn’t appear on screen? You mean like the McGann logo being put on the boxes for the past twenty years?
Anonymous
March 24th, 2018 - 12:13amI agree. Each set should use the logo that was appearing on screen at the time.
It would be great if they could continue these on for the new series seasons as well. Perhaps with decent extras this time?
Yunie
March 26th, 2018 - 10:54amI definitely agree that using the new logo doesn’t make sense.
Although for slightly different reasons. The new logo is supposed to represent the upcoming series and new doctor. Using it with the classic series seems like it takes away from the promotion and reveal that came with the logo (i.e. using it elsewhere before the new season actually airs).
Anonymous
April 4th, 2018 - 1:45amI like what they’re doing, using one logo for all eras helps the show seem like all ONE brand, not split up into all these differing logos, that can put people of due to lack of brand recognition. The entire show is unified under one brand, like a far better version of that ‘doctor who universe’ branding theyve been playing with in recent years.
Phillip
March 23rd, 2018 - 12:40amThis has dropped to $52.49 while it remains in “pre-order”! Amazon has this on sale, get those orders in
Jack Frost
March 23rd, 2018 - 12:34amhey booboo swear I already put this but not sure was wondering if there will be a normal release with out Blu-ray like a started version
booboo
March 23rd, 2018 - 7:15amI would doubt it to be honest
Paul parham
March 21st, 2018 - 11:14pmIf you already own the individual stories on dvd for this season and wish to upgrade them to blu-ray but keep them in the classic dvd cases, I wonder if there will be one blu ray disc per story including all the special features plus “The Tom Baker Years” on a separate disc as there are 6 discs in total?
TigerMan1995
May 16th, 2018 - 4:26pmI’m Sure the Discs will say:
Disc 1: Robot
Disc 2: The Ark In Space (includes the Special Edition features)
Disc 3: The Sontaran Experiment
Disc 4: Genesis of the Daleks
Disc 5: Revenge of the Cybermen
Disc 6: Bonus Features
Like they do on the New Series Blu-rays.
Doctor Mysterio
March 20th, 2018 - 8:44pmI hope this is properly packaged and not in the cheap looking cardboard style, like Capaldi’s Series 9 box set. That crease down the from doesn’t fill me with confidence… I’d be buying this as a premium upgrade of dvd’s I already own, so don’t want it looking tatty from the off.
Nicholas
March 21st, 2018 - 11:25amthe crease indicates it’s some sort of mediabook
When The Doctor Was Me
March 21st, 2018 - 4:14pmI’m predicting a hard cover media book in a short sleeve. Much like a steelbook sleeve. I’m hoping for a hardback quality like the regeneration set
Omega63
March 21st, 2018 - 5:52pmIf the discs are held in cardboard I have to say that’d be the decider for me not getting this. I hope they’re held in plastic trays.
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:51pmLee Binding on Twitter confirmed this is a DigiBook like Series 5-9.
John Baker
March 19th, 2018 - 8:29amJust want to know how this is going to look on Season 21 / Season 22
Since the last episode ( twin dilemma) is a Colin Baker story
Will it be included on Colin Baker: Season 1 or will they just make a complete collection
Darren
March 19th, 2018 - 12:52pmI reckon if the UK keeps the season title then for season 21 TTD will be on it with a small photo of CB on it and a line saying including the 6th doctors first story or something like that but main photo of PD of course, as for America maybe that line I was on about will be added cause if its season box sets then TTD has to go on it in my eyes
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:53pmIf the Twin Dilemma broadcast as Season 21 then it goes on Season 21. Same with The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet, they broadcast as Season 4 then it goes on Season 4 (By the way hope for animation of the Smugglers)
Gordon
March 19th, 2018 - 7:47amMakes perfect business to use tom’s name for the american releases seing as in America tom is by far the most popular classic doctor
Alex
March 19th, 2018 - 1:00amMost interesting to see. I’m not quite a big fan of “Tom Baker Season 1”, but I can see the reason behind it. More interestingly, it seems we’re going to get more seasons.
Astrid
March 18th, 2018 - 8:33pmIs this meant to be a steelbook? Or just a slipcase?
Gareth Pugh
March 21st, 2018 - 12:46amLooks like it’s meant to be what is sometimes referred to as a ‘Book-pack’ or ‘Mediabook’ format – a hardback book style package with ‘page’ sized cardboard pockets for the discs (and sometimes a booklet bound in, too). Like Big Finish have used for some of their limited edition sets.
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:54pmThis is a DigiBook/Mediabook style casing. Lee Binding confirmed this on Twitter
DalekAgent
March 18th, 2018 - 8:08pmTo be honest i think it should be “The Fourth Doctor: Season 1” instead
The Surgeon
March 19th, 2018 - 7:56amI thought the same until I remembered there were some classic seasons which were split across two Doctors
John Baker
March 19th, 2018 - 8:30amExactly
DalekAgent
March 19th, 2018 - 9:54amOh yeah true but they could just name the season after The Doctor that has the most number of episodes in the season and have both Doctors on the artwork, for example “The Fifth Doctor: Season 4” (Season 21) because The Sixth Doctor only has one episode in that season and then the artwork could have a picture of The Doctor but one half will be The Fifth Doctor and the other half is The Sixth Doctor and then some sort of effect in the middle of them to seperate them so it dosent look too wierd and so it could look like hes regenerating and then all the enemies in the middle like this release. Im not complaining though its just an idea lol
funkadelicish
March 18th, 2018 - 6:48pmAlthough it should totally say Season 12, I can understand why they might choose to put Tom Baker Season 1 for the less dedicated fan – they might be put off by thinking they’ve missed a bunch of seasons before this one, as opposed to realising this is the perfect jumping on point for his Doctor/Classic Who for many. Do you think it is the US release which will only say Tom Baker Season 1, or will it be the same here in the UK, too?
Anonymous
March 18th, 2018 - 8:02pmIt says SEASON 12 on the UK one. The Australian one is still unknown.
TigerMan1995
May 14th, 2018 - 5:55pmAussie release is ‘The Collection: Season 12’ like the UK’s
Pól O’Connor-Pryor
March 18th, 2018 - 6:06pmThe logo is wrong and it is season 12 not one! It nay be Blu-ray format but it can not be Blu-ray quality surely.
Dav
March 19th, 2018 - 3:19pmyeah, i can’t believe they’re using the 2018 branding on classic merchandise
booboo
March 19th, 2018 - 3:21pmbetter get used to it, any new range or line seems be carrying the new logo, even the Titan 7th Doctor Comics are
Anonymous
March 19th, 2018 - 11:15pmI think its a good idea, it helps a casual viewer buyer realise immediately that this is the same brand, whereas in recent years, I feel the brand recognition has really suffered due to so many different logos/branding styles being in circulation. I like the 3rd and 8th doctor logo, but i feel the classic figure line, for example, may have done better if it continued to stick with the recognisable (to a general audience) RTD era logo, or even updating to the matt smith one, in order to keep a sense of uniformality.
Doctor Mysterio
March 21st, 2018 - 11:49amWell the reason they have been branded differently in the past was because the later series have all launched as series 1-10 so it seems odd to try and brand them all together now.
Anonymous
March 18th, 2018 - 5:12pmNo, No, The whole things ridiculous
Tom Baker, Season 1
Can we just call every first doctor who Season for each doctor one
I can’t wait to see how The Real Season 4 And Season 21 is like
Peter Davison Season 3 (with an episode with Colin Baker)
Patrick Troughton Season 1 (with two episodes with William Hartnell)
Should have been Season 14 from the Get-go
Now you are confusing everything
Anonymous
March 18th, 2018 - 5:12pmSorry Season 12
The real ADAM
March 17th, 2018 - 9:44pmWill be nice to have this on blu ray…one of the greatest seasons…with the greatest dr