January 8th, 2020
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Doctor Who Series 5 Steelbook
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BBC Studios to release Doctor Who Series Five as Blu-Ray Steelbook
Transport yourself back in time and space with Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series on Steelbook Blu-Ray, available to pre-order on Amazon now. The Steelbook will feature new and exclusive artwork and is being released on Monday 10th February.
Series Five welcomed the arrival of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as his new friend, Amy Pond.
After his explosive regeneration, the Doctor awakes to discover his TARDIS is about to crash. Pulling himself out of the wreckage, he comes face-to-face with Amy Pond and promises to take her on a journey to the stars. Boarding the TARDIS, Amy and the Doctor embark on a series of adventures that will change her life forever.
Executive Produced by Steven Moffat, the series features Arthur Darvill as Amy’s fiancé Rory Williams and guest stars including Olivia Coleman, James Cordan, Bill Nighy, Ian McNeice, Annette Crosbie, Helen McCrory, Lucian Msamati, Alex Price, Sophie Okonedo, Nia Roberts, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Bonus features include two ‘Meanwhile in the Tardis’ additional scenes, four ‘The Monster Files’, a three-part video diary, thirteen ‘Doctor Who Confidential’ cut-downs, six in-vision commentaries, out-takes and over twenty teasers and trailers.
The 13 episodes are:
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Beast Below
- Victory of the Daleks
- The Time of Angels
- Flesh and Stone
- The Vampires of Venice
- Amy’s Choice
- The Hungry Earth
- Cold Blood
- Vincent and the Doctor
- The Lodger
- The Pandorica Opens
- The Big Bang
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series on Steelbook Blu-Ray is available to pre-order now and is being released on Monday 10th February 2020 at £35.73 RRP.
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Gary H.
September 17th, 2020 - 8:23pmJust bought today off eBay, thats 11 steelbooks and counting.
Not keen on this cover but trying to get most of the Dr Who steelbooks anyway.
Coleman
August 25th, 2020 - 7:09pmThis is the only steelbook cover that I haven’t liked. Never liked Vincent van gogh’s work, and this definitely tries to copy his style.
Coleman
September 1st, 2020 - 5:53pmAlthough not keen on the Shada steelbook either. Too stylised for me.
Sons of Skaro
May 9th, 2020 - 2:12amIf it had been under £20, I might have gone for it. Been spending a little too much money this month. So I’ll pass on this one.
Bobby Fackrell
May 8th, 2020 - 9:37amI’m no fan of the Moffat years, this is the only series of his I do not mind that much and its down to 17 quid on Amazon, shall I?
Anonymous
May 8th, 2020 - 5:50pmSeries 9? That’s an amazing series. My favourite moff one
When The Doctor Was Me
May 8th, 2020 - 10:18pmMoffat’s era for me is hit and miss. But Series 5 is my favourite of new who!
It’s a gorgeous steelbook and at that price it’s an absolute steal!
Bobby Fackrell
May 8th, 2020 - 10:59pmThanks my friend
I’ve done it!
For 17 squid has to be done, limited edition and all!
Everyone has different views on the different eras and that is the beauty of Doctor Who I personally loved how this one started, The Eleventh Hour and Beast Below encapsulated the spirit of the original show. Amy’s Choice and Vincent and the Doctor also were strong efforts. The series finale and everything which followed was too much for me and I personally felt Matt Smith started to ham up the performance far too much. The Calpadi ones were a little more refined but Moffat’s role as a show runner and putting trying to be too clever with time travel and paradoxes got massively in the way of classic story telling.
But that’s just me, I personally love both Chris Chibnall series and can’t stand reading all the childish vile abuse he and Jodie Whittaker get in some dark corners of cyberland. I think 11 in particular it’s the closest to the Hartnell years
I’m waiting for series 12 to come down in price
There’s nearly 60 years of stuff to enjoy not everyone likes the same ones
Bobby Fackrell
May 10th, 2020 - 4:42pmGot it in the end good move it was only 17 quid for one day!
Came today, beautiful steelbook glad I did it
Anonymous
May 10th, 2020 - 5:48pmLol Moffat is my favourite show runner because he gave us Capaldi, not a big fan of the most recent 2 series but like you say, it’s down to taste
Bobby Fackrell
May 10th, 2020 - 6:51pmAre you including Philip Hinchcliffe?
Anonymous
May 10th, 2020 - 8:14pmI meant of the modern era, I still curse mary Whitehouse for convincing the BBC that hinchcliffes era was too dark for children as I’m not the biggest fan of the Graham Williams era, especially when compared to hinchcliffe
Bobby Fackrell
May 10th, 2020 - 9:18pmSo true, Philip was very gracias in his interview but he knew was ousted because of Mary.
He and Holmes should have stayed another year and they and Tom should have gone at the same time. I always felt as good as 12 was it was largely inherited by Barry Letts which is why 13 and 14 are true classics, it never felt like they had three full years
Hinchcliffe’s removal started a chain reaction of events which led to the slow painful death of classic Who.
Its ironic, Peter Purves was amazed by Tom Baker’s performance in Behind the Sofa on 14 particularly how he underplayed the role. He says he always thought Tom played it over the top, it would be interesting giving him series 17 to watch
Back to 5 I’m watching it now, I think The Beast Below was Moffat’s last great episode
Anonymous
May 10th, 2020 - 9:35pmTbh I love a lot of Moffat work post beast below, his only stories I have issues with are the series 5 and 6 finales, let’s kill hitler, the doctor, the widow and the wardrobe, asylum of the daleks, magicians apprentice, hell bent and twice upon a time, a lot of the time for reasons of characterisation of his characters, but I do love the majority of his work and heaven sent and world enough and time/the doctor falls are some of my favourite stories of all time, with the latter being my favourite modern series finale
Bobby Fackrell
May 10th, 2020 - 9:37pmVictory of the Daleks now, same issues are Daleks in Manhatten this one
You cannot remake The Power of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks without Patrick Troughton and David Whittaker!
JL
March 24th, 2020 - 6:42pmDoes anyone know if they’ll release series 1,2,3 again but with the current logo and also 11 without the horrible art and with actually good art because I love most of them but I’d just be triggered with 3 of 12 series with the wrong logo if they also re release 9 10 and 11
Anonymous
February 10th, 2020 - 8:55amSo Zoom have dispatched this and taken money but it doesn’t seem to have turned up yet and a lot of people has. Any recommendations?
Anonymous
February 10th, 2020 - 10:34amToday is release day. So I would recommend waiting until the end of the week. If it doesn’t show. Then contact Zoom.
James
February 10th, 2020 - 12:29amGot this set and so happy that the next time trailers have been restored finally.
Only one issue and that is that on the card slipcover, it says that Steven Moffat wrote all of the episodes and it lists the directors of the 2009 specials rather than the directors who actually directed Series 5… the content on the discs though has no issues as far as I am aware
Gordon
February 10th, 2020 - 12:45amFrame rate is 24fps Which means there is slowdown
Anonymous
May 8th, 2020 - 12:48pmWhy do the HD era releases still contain slowdown?
Richard
February 5th, 2020 - 5:30pmDoes this set contain any new content or is it just the same discs in new packaging?
Anonymous
February 6th, 2020 - 11:26amWas wondering the same! Does anyone know?
Anonymous
February 6th, 2020 - 11:52amSame content new packaging
Richard
February 6th, 2020 - 11:57amBit pointless then. I’ll just stick with watching them on iPlayer for now.
Gordon
February 6th, 2020 - 2:00pmNext time trailers have been added. The video commentaries have been switched to just audio
When The Doctor Was Me
February 6th, 2020 - 3:33pmI’ve bit the bullet and ordered. It’s my favourite series of the show, along with reduced discs. Which might suggest different disc art. Stunning packaging and my favourite Doctor. Might pick ip a steelbook frame and keep it protected instead of viewing.
Man being a collector is expensive!
MJS
February 8th, 2020 - 10:40amMine arrived this morning! It’s the same content as previous, but only over 4 discs instead of the previous 6. The first disc has 4 episodes rather than split across 2 discs as in the first release, for example.
dazzleshell
February 8th, 2020 - 1:21pmMine arrived today too.
Lovely artwork. Looking forward to Series 6 and 7. Be interesting to see what they do for the 50th Collection.
When The Doctor Was Me
February 10th, 2020 - 10:36amMine has arrived. Stunning! So happy I decided to purchase!
I’m definitely going to purchase a steelbook frame. Artwork like this deserves to be displayed!
Richard
January 18th, 2020 - 1:09pmAm I the only one thinking it would be better to wait and see if all the new Who seasons are released as part of THE COLLECTION in say 5 years time?
Anonymous
January 18th, 2020 - 5:00pmWe could all be dead in five years. Live in the moment 🙂
Prowl 1701
January 24th, 2020 - 7:10amI mostly buy them because I like the art on the steel books.
Antonio Zambonini
January 13th, 2020 - 9:39pmPreorder bargain for two pound less found on eBay for this just search in doctor who steelbook
Anonymous
January 9th, 2020 - 7:41pmI really hope down the line they do The 50th Specials steelbook but in 4K Blu Ray. Name, Day, and Time would look amazing in 4K
TrixieTiger1995
January 9th, 2020 - 8:02pmI find this very unlikely. If anything it would be an upscale and awful HDR.
Anonymous
May 8th, 2020 - 1:38pmTwice Upon a Time looked amazing upscaled to 4k with HDR so yes please
Star Lord
December 17th, 2019 - 3:13pmAnyone know of any discount codes for Zoom or Zavvi? : )
Bicky
December 17th, 2019 - 3:19pmTry SIGNUP10 for Zoom if you are a new customer for10% off.
Rob W
December 17th, 2019 - 4:45pmYou now need to sign up for Zooms newsletter as the SIGNUP10 code was being re-used and they rectified this. The code will then be sent to you but cannot be re-used.
Alvin
December 17th, 2019 - 9:48amI love the artwork, very Van Gogh 😀
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 6:44pmI hope this one, doesn’t get delayed.
Russell Sellers
December 17th, 2019 - 6:33amI don’t think any of the steelbooks have had any delays yet, so we should be good!
Anonymous
December 17th, 2019 - 7:56amThe specials did
Richard Turner
December 17th, 2019 - 10:59amOnly to improve them from the original series releases. I’ll take that.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 3:35pmThis looks amazing, but Rory’s face looks odd.
Darren
December 16th, 2019 - 3:36pmI think it’s been flipped the other way round
Prowl
December 16th, 2019 - 10:49amI like the starry night look it is taking. A good series to add to my DW steelbook collection. I do wish they would have just had villians on the back like the first 4 did though.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 10:11amAmazing!!!
The Flying Shark
December 16th, 2019 - 9:59amI wonder if they’ll change the content on the discs? There’s no way this series needs to be on the six discs it’s already on, and could comfortably fit on four I think. Pretty please?
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 10:34amRetailers say it’s 4 discs
Rob W
December 16th, 2019 - 3:06pmSo a a new AVC version then (unless the retailers have made a mistake) as the 2010 release was 6 discs and VC1.
The Flying Shark
December 17th, 2019 - 7:44amFantastic! Is it likely Series 6 will be put on four discs if possible as well when that gets its steelbook, as that doesn’t need to be on six discs either , does it?
Rob W
December 17th, 2019 - 10:08amSeries 6 was an AVC encode, so I think they’ll stick with the 6 discs mate.
Gordon
December 17th, 2019 - 10:41amUnless they use the 2013 USA masters which is 4 discs.
Rob W
December 17th, 2019 - 11:37amCould be, the 2013 USA version is AVC 1080p too.
MJS
December 16th, 2019 - 9:39amAw no. I wasn’t going to buy this as I had the ltd ed season 5 Steelbook. But this is gorgeous. Now I must have it.
Mark C.
December 16th, 2019 - 9:53amMe too! I said to myself I’d stop with the specials steelbook as I already have series 5 onwards on blu-ray…but ‘WHO’ am I kidding? Pre-ordered.
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 9:01amI wonder if this will have the next time trailers restored
Kevin
January 18th, 2020 - 5:05pmLooks like it. The episodes including Next Time trailers were all passed for release by the BBFC recently.
Omega63
December 16th, 2019 - 8:49amAgain, pulled it out the park with the art. Better than I could have imagined
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 8:30amArtwork by Sophie Cowdrey
Anonymous
December 16th, 2019 - 8:22amIs it region free?
mrtymcln
December 17th, 2019 - 1:31amMain feature is region-free, special features are Region B.
From S.K
May 27th, 2020 - 6:30amWell, unfortunately all discs are region B. I played it on my region A player and it failed.
Aaron
December 16th, 2019 - 8:10amDesigned by Sophie Cowdrey who also did the Series 4 Steelbook!