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Doctor Who The Collection Season 13 Limited Edition
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk, www.zavvi.com, www.rarewaves.com and various retailers on www.ebay.co.uk
The standard version is available to order in the USA from www.amazon.com
Bring home Tom Baker’s second season of adventures as the Doctor, plus hours of special features.
Doctor Who fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with an eight-disc box set of the iconic 13th Season, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor.
In his second season, Tom Baker’s Doctor really hits his stride, with faithful companion Sarah-Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) by his side. Together they cross time and space to do battle with the Zygons, the biomechanoid Loch Ness monster, the fearsome Sutekh and his robot mummies, vengeful renegade Time Lord Morbius, an anti-matter creature on a distant planet, the scheming Kraals and the terrifying Krynoid.
All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.
The Collection: Season 13 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:
- NEW DOCUMENTARIES
- WORLDS WITHIN: A profile of actor Ian Marter, who played Harry Sullivan
- RETURN TO THIRTEEN: Philip Hinchcliffe returns to the locations of several Season 13 stories and is reunited with old friends
- IN CONVERSATION: Director Graeme Harper chats to Matthew Sweet about his life, career and Doctor Who
- TOM TALKS: Tom Baker on Season 13 and more
- THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM: The Fourth Doctor team attempt their escape
- BEHIND THE SOFA: New episodes with Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor), Maureen O’Brien (Vicki), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Sadie Miller (Elisabeth Sladen’s daughter), and comedian Toby Hadoke.
- BRAND NEW AUDIO COMMENTARIES: Tom Baker on episodes from Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars and The Android Invasion
- UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS: On Terror of the Zygons
- OMNIBUS EDITIONS: HD recreations of the Pyramids of Mars and The Brain of Morbius repeat screenings, plus a brand-new edit of The Seeds of Doom
- TALES OF THE TARDIS: A 2024 edit of Pyramids of Mars with updated effects and appearances from the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson)
- EXCLUSIVE ARCHIVE TREATS: Including never-before-released footage from Mathshow, Disney Time and more
- INTERVIEWS: Unreleased footage of Elisabeth Sladen and Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars)
- 5.1 SURROUND SOUND: New surround mix on Pyramids of Mars
- HD PHOTO GALLERIES
- INFO TEXT
- PDF ARCHIVE
- PLUS LOTS MORE!
This eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.
Collection S13
Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 13 includes the following stories from 1975-76:
- TERROR OF THE ZYGONS
- PLANET OF EVIL
- PYRAMIDS OF MARS
- THE ANDROID INVASION
- THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS
- THE SEEDS OF DOOM
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Matthew Janovic
October 25th, 2025 - 8:22pmI’ve watched the first stories on this Series 13 set up-to-and-including “The Pyramids of Mars” and only noticed a few oddities such as the gap in Tom Baker’s teeth being weirdly corrected (being misread as some kind of revisionism by some!) and some of the smearing and ghosting when there is a lot of abrupt action and movement, but that’s always been an issue with these materials. They will always be imperfect.
Like a lot of other decaying people I watched these episodes on cathode ray tube in the late seventies and early 1980s and believe the filmed exteriors looked absolutely distracting, terrible, even on the DVD versions where there was light DNR and color correction. That’s a matter of taste, of course. But it has been an issue to fans for some time. I believe the restorationists had wanted to find a way to conform both the video and film exteriors and had to weigh the consequences of doing that. They had a surprising level or success on that count ion Mars, others, not so much. Yet, I still believe there should’ve been better quality control and that on BBC.
I don’t expect them to make any of it right, but I do contend that considering the materials this is a great set overall with some minor flaws that some will notice but now that some of it’s been pointed out, people are going to notice, sometimes to the exclusion of much else. I only noticed a couple of the visual errors but didn’t find any of them glaring outside of Tom’s missing gap!
Before all the complaining–and some of it is definitely valid–I still believe too much is being made of this and nothing impacted my viewing negatively, just the opposite; the experience was and is wonderful and sucked me in. The show has always had its technical problems.
That being written, I’m also hearing about missing fingers, limbs, loss of detail (something I believe is generally untrue having watched most of the set) and so on, which has been a problem for a long time in digital restoration and is present when there has been too much automation, a problem that has existed well before anyone was thinking of “AI,” which is just more automation. What I think you have here is a lack of proper quality control on the part of the BBC.
The fact is, before all of these “observations,” and I don’t fundamentally disagree with them, I didn’t notice more than a couple of reviews pointing these issues out, but that’s alright, I get it. You want there to be a greater integrity with some of these restorations, yet, I believe if we did that you end up with no real non-historical fixing of say poor color timing and the ravages of time on the original materials, namely analog videotape and film elements.
RPG74
October 25th, 2025 - 7:00pmThis is shaping up to be the worst merchandise related faceplant since Web, episode 3. One wonders if the range could be discontinued completely due to poor sales, especially if any of 21, 16 and 11 have already had the AI treatment.
On an off-topic note, it’s sad to hear of Nabil’s passing.
Amypondfan
October 25th, 2025 - 8:04pmYes, gone at 72. Sad news.
Tony Cotterill
October 26th, 2025 - 10:40amTotally agree. Dreadful boxset.. defence and excuses etc, complete nonsense.. Paul vanezis does the blakes 7 blu rays, more than adequately. According to some on this forum, faults are minor and being exaggerated! More nonsense. Right from the off on Zygons part 1, John woodnutt pulls up in the car, and a guy, puts his head down, to ask a lift.. he’s dressed like the dr.. who is it.. Eric bristow perhaps.. nose wrong, blood drained from his face. No good moaning. But folk entitled after shelling 55 notes out.. mines gone back to the supplier!
daz
October 26th, 2025 - 4:00pmTony, did you watch the full box set before sending it back then?
Rob
October 26th, 2025 - 4:38pmIt’s awful. If people can’t see it, then they need to get to Specsavers immediately. Right from episode one of Zygons you can see the smoothness of faces and clothing.
This has to be one of the biggest cockups the range has suffered and to do to the best season as well!
Rob
October 26th, 2025 - 4:40pmI won’t be buying anymore of these sets now or any other Doctor Who blu rays unless they can guarantee they don’t use AI
Tony Cotterill
October 26th, 2025 - 6:10pmDaz.. mine, thank heaven, still sealed, now gone back.. luckily for me, I’ve viewed a friend s boxset.. he’s pulling his hair out, over it.. really dreadful. First, shameful, on actors, in these, now re- modelled. Liz, wouldn’t Ave been impressed looking like something from an early Halloween party.. mainly, all the lovely Original restoration, now gone, with this mess.. if u guys think its good for HD.. OK.. my HD.. Hard to Distinguish.
RC
October 27th, 2025 - 4:55amA lot of the images claimed is ai is only really visible if you pause it and zoom in and screengrabbed. Planet of evil I didn’t see anything wrong with it. A fully blown up 50 foot projector. But I was angrily told by others how stupid dumb idiotic and wrong I was for not noticing a shot in ep 1 paused zoomed in and screengrabbed with a bunch of other zoomed in screengrabbed shots. Almost like people are taking every second screenshotting it just trying to nitpick anything that’s remotely weird looking and passing it as ai and tell everyone else it’s wrong. These episodes weren’t meant to be zoomed in or screengrabbed thousand images or watched like that. At most they were shown on a 26 inch screen if you were well off in 1975. Of course these things are far more noticeable if you blow them up as much as possible zoom in and every second is captured and analysed to an inch of its life.
I’m not saying it does not have issues. Parts 1 and some of 2 of zygons is badly overly sharpened but the rest of it looks fantastic. Planet of evil is great if you ain’t nitpicking. Pyramid is fantastic and I actually thought they found the film sequences. If they have used it it’s far more successfully used here than in zygons or android. Android’s film sequences are sharpened way too far. There is absolutely nothing wrong with brain of morbius and seeds of doom looks great for the most part bar a couple of poor quality film sequences. It’s a flawed box set for sure but to call it a terrible disaster and the worst piece of merchandise faceplant since the web of fear animation is ridiculous hyperbole. It’s nowhere near the level of pointless awfulness of doomsday. To label the box set terrible means everything on it is terrible. Is the Ian marter or Douglas camfield biographies terrible? The making ofs of the brand new season overview? The answer to those are no so the set isn’t terrible in my eyes.
Think it’s a bit too late and silly making demands of people to stop using something they have been using since the blu ray range began with shada 2017. It’s only been since season 15 that it’s become apparent as the usage has been increased. AI is a tool and with any tool is only good when it’s used correctly which it clearly wasn’t for about 6 eps in this set.
Ian Levine loves this release so it all can’t be bad!
Babelbro
October 25th, 2025 - 12:28pmI agree with Bob – I’m certain there won’t be a disc replacement programme, and would be risky to assume there’ll be one. If you don’t like it, send it back to the retailer while explaining crystal clear your reasoning.
There’s only one logical way forward with Season 21 onwards – Stop using generative Ai. Completely stop using it. First and foremost the principle of it but also the fans will now be inspecting future sets under a microscope – you’d be an utter fool to use any ounce of it for now on.
Having watched the Type40 podcast, one suggestion by the group really hits hard as feeling more like the real reason behind the Ai – it feels highly likely the BBC are directly pressurising Peter Crocker to add the generative Ai on top of the finished restorations – given Crocker’s silence compared to his owning up to the colourisation errors on Season 7 – something about this stinks of BBC higher management directly wrecking these sets.
What’s more a member of Type40 allegedly has a social media chat history with Peter Crocker, whereby Crocker openly admits his personal disdain for generative Ai, doubting it would reach the Classic series restorations on his watch. If that is legit then something very much feels off and outside the control of the restoration team themselves.
Given the quality work online by fans using the existing dvd sources… Honestly, as hard as it would be to do, I feel Peter should honour his previous work, and tell it exactly like it is as to what really happened. He’s currently working with other film studios so, while still difficult on a personal level, I think if the BBC fired him for letting the real reason slip on how this set was botched, I don’t think it’ll harm him financially – and if the restoration work is anywhere as painful to his personal life as it was to animate like Rob Ritchie’s wherby the latter ended up putting in a ton of extra unpaid work out of passion, then I’d say c’mon Peter the BBC are taking the p155 out of you while you’re getting part of the blame for this.
Just reveal all – admit the error of using generative Ai, chuck it in the bin and move on with Season 21 without it. If the BBC’s got a problem with the truth being out then they can get stuffed. Fans do it better anyway.
WhoRU
October 25th, 2025 - 12:50pmBasically some YouTubers appear to be out to do anything to kill all Doctor Who in any form.
The only reason BBC Studios would push anything would be to save money, if sales are dropping off.
And as The Collection is meant to be one of BBC Studios money making pits you would hope its unlikely.
Gordon
October 25th, 2025 - 11:13pmWel I certainly doubt type 40. Just say they have a habit of making up sources for clicks and to push their narrative. It’s funny how they were extremely quick to give Ian all the support in the world to Ian’s ai crap and how marvelous ai is yet they instantly condem the use of it when it’s the official blu ray releases.
Here is quotes from Peter Crocker earlier in the week in a radio times article:
“At present, the benefits for any vintage TV made on old, non-digital equipment are relatively minor,” he told RadioTimes.com. “All of the programs for upscaling images have been developed primarily for the movie industry. The vast majority of films recently have been shot or post-produced at 2K resolution and for cinemas, upscaled to 4K.
“That process is very good because the source is typically clean and ‘digital’. Old TV is inherently noisy and smeary, with lots of artefacts. The AI programs just don’t know what to do when pixels are present that might be picture detail but are actually just noise in the image.”
Part of the problem, Crocker said, is that the jump from a 405-line picture to even standard definition, let alone HD and 4K, is just too big.
Who.
“Going from 405-line to SD is a 250% increase in pixel number and SD to HD is 400%, HD to 4K is 400%, and so on,” he said.
“Another factor is the range of brightness and colour that can be displayed. One reason modern productions look so much better is the high dynamic range that just isn’t there in recordings from the first few decades of TV. In future, AI might be able to guess what detail might be present hidden in the bright whites or dark shadows that are currently just white or black.
“We have to be realistic, though, and for old TV like Doctor Who or Dad’s Army, the aim should be to make the programmes look acceptable on modern huge flat TV screens which would be horribly unforgiving if fed raw, unrestored recordings.”
Without any kind of a slick-up, there’s a danger that older television will become hard to find, the preserve of cultural scholars and cult TV devotees only. But Crocker believes that the technology will one day be there to digitally recreate vintage TV episodes.
“My Tomorrow’s World prediction is that eventually image and data processing will be fast enough for software to assess a TV programme, identify the elements within the pictures – people, faces, costumes, sets, props, lighting, etc – and create a full 3D library of those elements which can be replaced with HD versions generated piecemeal from other matching details and textures,” he explained.
“High quality photos of the sets and actors if they exist could help. The movements will be tracked and reproduced and the elements will be mapped back to produce what is effectively a photo-real, high-resolution computer animation based on the original production.
“My Tomorrow’s World prediction is that eventually image and data processing will be fast enough for software to assess a TV programme, identify the elements within the pictures – people, faces, costumes, sets, props, lighting, etc – and create a full 3D library of those elements which can be replaced with HD versions generated piecemeal from other matching details and textures,” he explained.
“High quality photos of the sets and actors if they exist could help. The movements will be tracked and reproduced and the elements will be mapped back to produce what is effectively a photo-real, high-resolution computer animation based on the original production.
“That technology is there now, in high-budget movies for quite limited use. I think in another 10 years it might be feasible for short, easy clips, but really it’ll be 20-30 years before it would be achievable to an acceptable standard on the sort of budgets – and material – I work on.”
So while we shouldn’t necessarily expect Evil of the Daleks to look as piercingly clear as Eve of the Daleks anytime soon, there are, and will be, AI-assisted ways of smartening up those older stories.
“It could certainly give old shows a bit of spit and polish, but it’s not a magic wand.”
Doesn’t sound like he has destain for ai.
I do think there is some overblowness on this release. Sure zygons and androids is really bad but it only tells one side of it. Pyramids looks fantastic to my eyes and looks a big step up over the dvd. Brain of morbius is fine. Most of planet of evil looks fine bar a couple of scenes. Seeds I thought looked a bit odd in places but having looked at the dvd masters it looks pretty similar so might just be my set up. Even the filming inserts on 2-4 that do exist of zygons look great for the most part. If you listen to some it’s the entire thing from start to finish that has been ai’d and terrible which isn’t the case at all. Plus the calls for some of the members heads and demands of losing their jobs seems ott. There are other ways for things to change than firing people. Plus if they had is there any guarantee that the person replacing Peter is not going to want to use ai sweetening? There isn’t at all. His replacement could be worse. He’s planning to retire within the next 12 or so months so those will probably get their wish anyway. It doesn’t make any sense to try and deliberately get someone fired that is leaving anyway. He’s also mentioned about the colour “errors” in season 7. He said that it was never going to be perfect. I could probably work till 2030 and its still not perfect. Ambassadors in particular is still the best it’s looked since 1976.
I would rather they didn’t use ai sweetening. However I’m not against them not using it at all. It is a tool at the end of the day and in most cases it’s not that it’s used at all is the issue rather how it’s used and for season 13 they used it incorrectly. Let’s not forget ai has been used sparingly since 2017ish in a low level. It’s only since season 15 it’s becoming far more apparent and heavy handed which clearly needs to be dialled down.
Technology will also move forever forward and though the results are far below par for season 13 in future it may not be the case. Plus there are some that actually like the new restorations not that I’m one of them. Best way forward is to include 2 versions. One ai and one not. Then both will be happy.
Season 21 shouldn’t be as heavily handed due to the majority of the film inserts existing.
Rex F
October 26th, 2025 - 1:24amI’ve not heard about PC working for anyone else for years, since a handful of BFI titles. (Surely he doesn’t have time anyway, what with the Collection sets being rushed?) What’s he supposed to be working on?
I also doubt he’ll actually retire, just reduce his workload with many b/w stories being based around DVD masters with additional fixes.
Gordon
October 26th, 2025 - 2:14amHe said on the power of 3 that he does some work for a studio based in paris. He also mentioned recently restoring a Japanese film in 4k for them.
Peter Crocker is in his 60s. It could be very plausible that he’s planning on his retiring from things soon. Steve Roberts has just retired. Mark Ayres is 65 in December. Richard Bignell is 59. Derek Handley isn’t exactly young either. None of them are going to want or be able to continue to do it forever.
Rex F
October 26th, 2025 - 2:39amCheers, Gordon. I have a vague idea of who he could be working with.
Tony Cotterill
October 27th, 2025 - 10:14amIan levine thinks its great! Laughable!! He would, after viewing his wreackcons! Tommy Cooper, couldn’t Ave come out with a better gag!! Seems, the vast majority, don’t like..I’ve actually spoken to some of the folk, who do these boxset s. Very upset, way its turned out… fundamental, these, should Ave been checked, before passing off. Quality control!
Ian Cotterill
October 24th, 2025 - 10:44amI finished watching ‘Terror of the Zygons’ last night. I enjoyed it, though agree that some of the AI-remastered shots in Episode 1 look on the weird side, and I feel they could have done so much more with the new Skarasen, which ends up feeling like a wasted opportunity. That said, I did think some of the shots of the Zygon spaceship in episode 4 look rather better than before.
In regards to using AI for stuff like this, I think it can be a useful tool, BUT it does need to be carefully used and should be manually re-edited afterwards to make certain that you do get the desired result, rather than leave it entirely to its own devices and produce weird results, as appears to have happened here. Frankly, I’ll be fascinated to see for myself what they’ve done to ‘The Android Invasion’.
Tony Cotterill
October 24th, 2025 - 9:45pmHow on earth, is this set, any different from levines wreackcons.. scanderlous.. keep your dvds , guys.. deluxe edition.. laughable.. not funny though.. 55 notes, for hall of mirrors. Do a cbbc scooby cartoon, it would look closer to the original! It’s now , winging it’s way back to supplier! Let Zygons be bygons. Pathetic!
DeliveryRus
October 25th, 2025 - 12:53pmThe other week when the BBC broadcast Terror of The Zygons the other day via YoiTube in the UK.
Everyone was saying how great it looked.
Ryan
October 23rd, 2025 - 7:27pmConsidering we’re now getting disc replacements for Season 20, is it possible for Season 13 to get the same treatment considering the backlash the restoration for this season has gotten.
Ano miss
October 23rd, 2025 - 8:52pmIt’s pretty much the whole season so maybe not. I think they should seriously rethink the use of AI programmes in future.
Bob
October 23rd, 2025 - 10:39pmI could see Terror of the Zygons and The Android Invasion at least getting redone for the standard edition or even the US release if there’s enough time.
The AI upscaling technically doesn’t count as a fault, rather an aesthetic choice that proved unpopular, so the BBC aren’t really obliged to offer replacements, however, not living up to expectations is still a valid reason to return the set so free updated discs would be a good gesture to keep their customers.
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 11:10pmIt’s always worth asking especially if the noise is loud enough it may affect the decision of things going forward. I already put in my complaint and got a response which I posted below.
Replacements are more unlikely due to none of this being errors rather being (poor) choices being made.
I’m just wondering how this would affect the next box set. Even if the decision gets made to scale back they may have already been processed already. As we have most of the filming inserts for 21 (awakening, Planet of Fire, The Caves of Androzani, The Twin Dilemma) and they so I think the next one will be scaled back in its usage anyway. The only one they don’t have film inserts is resurection.
D84
October 24th, 2025 - 9:17amI’ve not had a response from BBC DVD Support yet to offer any replacement discs for Season 20 – I’ve emailed twice
I get the automated response email to confirm they have received it – and that’s it
Gordon
October 24th, 2025 - 10:07amI didn’t get a response either but when I chased them up on season 20 I got
Many thanks for contacting us.
We are currently in the process of collating details needed for mailing out replacement discs to everyone who has contacted us.
Kind regards,
BBC DVD Support
Trenzalore
October 25th, 2025 - 11:02pmMy licence fee better not be paying for your disk replacements
Gordon
October 25th, 2025 - 11:15pmThe licence fee has nothing to do with replacement discs or blu ray releases
Rex F
October 26th, 2025 - 1:52amI think Trenzalore is probably making a joke, poking fun at the wackadoodles who post comments on certain newspaper websites. “I don’t pay my licence fee for…”, etc. (No, because they don’t actually use it for that and never have.)
rich
October 26th, 2025 - 3:47pmWhat disc replacements for season 20?
Bellal
October 23rd, 2025 - 3:20pmJust realised that the TV Movje might sadly end up being ‘restored’ this way as a result of the original film negatives being unattainable. I wholly understand that badly needs sharper visuals and would be a dream to see but wouldn’t be at all super if this method is adopted when it eventually comes round to that.
Bob
October 23rd, 2025 - 3:53pmHopefully the backlash this set received will make them reconsider their approach for future releases.
I think the current TV Movie Blu-Ray looks fine but if they were to revisit it then I’d hope for the original frame rate and surround sound. Maybe an option to replace those awful Dalek voices.
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 4:15pmI did contact dvd support highlighting things the best I could and even got a response:
Many thanks for contacting us and for bringing these matters to our attention.
We appreciate your comments and will ensure your feedback is passed on to the relevant team for their consideration.
Kind regards,
BBC DVD Support
Rory, the original you might say
October 23rd, 2025 - 4:54pm@Bob, I’m sure Nicholas Briggs could be reluctantly coaxed to redub the movie Daleks.
Rex F
October 23rd, 2025 - 5:43pmOr pinch Roy Skelton dialogue like they did for the trailer. (I bet Mr Briggs put his name forward as soon as he saw the VHS…)
Matt Y
October 23rd, 2025 - 3:16pmTerror of the Zygons. Now I have watched all four episodes – what was the point of the updated Skarasen? Barely used and it looked out of place in the final scenes in episode four. Too new – it wouldn’t have been as bad if they had replaced all the Skarasen scenes with the new model. When I rewatch I won’t bother with the new effects. What a waste of money. Also, in episode one (possibly) two, there is a line running through the middle of the screen on some of the scenes in the pub. Were they always there or is this the new to this version? My favourite story in my favourite season and so far I am not blown away. The plus is the addition of the deleted ‘invisible TARDIS scene and the 5:1 sound. Would have liked more of that on these episodes – perhaps using the money that got spent on that new Skarasen.
Ano miss
October 23rd, 2025 - 3:41pmThe dvd had the deleted scene and no AI
PJ
October 23rd, 2025 - 6:02pmIt’s really bad the effects there was no need to ‘update’ them the original’s are timeless I think and add to the nostalgia you don’t throw something from 2025 into 1975 to me that’s like historical vandalism likewise the overuse of AI that make the edges of things look so waxy
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 6:38pmWhat people don’t realise is the dvd had vidfire which is a form of ai involved. If you want a completely ai free version you got to
The aim was to fix the shots that Douglas camfield felt didn’t work. The Thames bits had also been shot at the wrong speed and lighting incorrectly in not ideal time conditions which displeased him. that’s why they went for a hand puppet so to match the shots that did work. I don’t really classify alternative effects as historical vandalism as the originals are also there and will also be the default. The irony of calling the new hand puppet vandalism is if we had gotten the cgi skarasan that some wanted it would have been more out of place than the hand puppet they went for
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 6:51pm*got to look at the vhs versions
PJ
October 23rd, 2025 - 8:19pmI agree with that Gordon but I still question why people wanted it replaced in the first place I like the hand puppet idea it wasn’t realised very well though I’d rather remain with the 1975 broadcast version!
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 10:27amThe spelling of continuities is incorrect. It is spelled continuites on discs 1,2,5,6 and 7. The only disc that is correct is disc 3. Discs 4 and 8 don’t have them so are not effected by that
Bookhouseboy
October 23rd, 2025 - 2:32amSo far Terror Of The Zygons & The Android Invasion particularly the exterior film scenes are the worst offenders in terrible ai upscaling, with only the studio scenes looking somewhat adequate. I’m currently watching Pyramids Of Mars and so far it actually looks great! Has anyone seen any ai upscale atrocities on Planet Of Evil, Brain Of Morbius & Seeds Of Doom?
Gordon
October 23rd, 2025 - 3:14amSeeds of doom faces in places look a little too pale and almost plasticky looking in places. As for the others Planet of evil and brain of morbius look pretty much fine to my eyes.
Tony Cotterill
October 23rd, 2025 - 10:04amA typical Richard Big comment. Majority don’t like, he does, so ok .obviously all muckers of his. You won’t to watch the original, stay with the dvds.. perhaps he doesn’t get it.. folk shell out big money.. he probably gets his for free, being a contributor?
Timelord1944
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:18pmDon’t shoot me but I actually like the look of the AI improved picture in the location footage and Ealing footage. Maybe my Blu-ray player doesn’t show up the issues. As they don’t have the original film elements for most episodes they really can’t restore anyway. I found the earlier releases were spoiled by the picture quality on the location scenes, particularly Masque of Mandragora and Three Doctors. Using AI to make the location footage look restored works for me. I think the main issues are when they use it on the studio footage. I’m no fan of AI generally but I do think it serves a purpose here.
The DR.
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:46pmLol Timelord1944.
Ive used a Similar Phrase on here myself from time to Time. “Dont Shoot the messenger’, When I Comment, Because I know some of you Guys can Get a bit intense Sometimes.
John Smith
October 23rd, 2025 - 2:33amI mean if you don’t mind Tom Baker’s teeth changing shape and Elizabeth Sladen’s septum flying off out of shot then sure.
Richard Bignell says we’re all daft if we don’t like it so as messengers we were all given five rounds rapid by the officials already bro
Peter
October 23rd, 2025 - 12:46pmI finally started on this boxset yesterday and I have to agree entirely with all the comments about the “restoration”. It’s really not acceptable to have fingers disappearing and SJA’s face looking like a cartoon drawn on by hand for location scenes in “Android Invasion” (among many other instances of AI ‘fixes’). To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. I know we fans can have a reputation of foaming at the mouth over the smallest things… but this is truly, truly bad.
That’s S13 crocked then? There’s no way they’ll fix these problems so we’ll have to like it and lump it. I’m concerned about the range going forward – typically this happens when it’s near it’s end, eh? Do we have similar to contend with for the remaining boxsets? I sincerely hope not. But I’m kind of expecting it.
PJ
October 23rd, 2025 - 6:07pmAI is the enemy why not just a natural restoration not a waxy plastic looking restoration that looks so awful it’s really upsetting they do that to classic TV that should be better loved and protected
Chris
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:14pmAnybody heard about the season 20 disc replacements ? I emailed them but haven’t heard anything since . That was nearly 3 weeks ago . Thanks
Bob
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:26pmI emailed them again and they told me that they’ve received so many requests that it’s going to take a while.
Nick
October 22nd, 2025 - 8:13pmChris, what was wrong with the season 20 discs? Is this the standard release or the limited edition release?
Tom Williams
October 22nd, 2025 - 8:27pmMust be meaning surely standards as there was apparently some issue with them
Gordon
October 22nd, 2025 - 8:34pmJust checked my emails as I chased them up last week:
Many thanks for contacting us.
We are currently in the process of collating details needed for mailing out replacement discs to everyone who has contacted us.
Kind regards,
BBC DVD Support
They are working on it for season 20
Nick
October 22nd, 2025 - 8:38pmAre they doing replacements for the 40th anniversary 5 Drs disc with the missing Raston Warrior Robot effect or otherwise which discs are being replaced?
Gordon
October 22nd, 2025 - 9:32pmAmong other things that has been fixed. There was motion blurring effect that was effecting the encoding of most of the discs. Doesn’t affect all players. Discs 1,2,3,5,6,8 have fixed discs in the new standard edition release though I get the impression we might be getting a new standard edition box set instead of individual discs. It’s probably easier and faster to package than produce individual discs
Nick
October 22nd, 2025 - 9:47pmThank you Gordon for your help. I bought the limited edition a few years back and didn’t realise the BBC DVD support were offering replacements to rectify these issues. Thanks again!
Rex F
October 22nd, 2025 - 9:55pmNick, search for the Season 20 pages and it’s all there (there’s a lot about it). The Limiteds are at fault, but info is on both pages – Standard page has latest info.
Nick
October 22nd, 2025 - 10:04pmThanks Rex F.
Chris
October 22nd, 2025 - 11:06pmThanks for the responses everybody .
John Smith
October 22nd, 2025 - 8:34amYou’re right Gordon they really have crapped the bed with this one https://youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?si=Al9PQqg2VAE6thxS
Nb7
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:41pmIt’s quite bad isn’t it?!
I’ve sent an email to bbc dvd support as it’s a bit frustrating. I don’t mind if it’s used to a degree where it’s not noticeable but on the episodes it’s on it looks pretty terrible really.
Tony Cotterill
October 22nd, 2025 - 3:44pmLooks awful.. deep fake.. Ave to say, most of the last few blu ray sets, not great.. terrible of the autons worst of all.. ready brek outlines , on the figures, colour bars in the sky.. studio footage, over zealous on clean up, so doesn’t actually look real. Normal character s look like mannequin s in that one!!
The DR.
October 22nd, 2025 - 6:11pmNb7 Are You Gargantuan Apple on YouTube. I Noticed a Similar Comment on their.
Nb7
October 22nd, 2025 - 6:23pm@The DR. No, not me. My YouTube channels are Don’t Touch My Moustache and Wirral Wanders.
I oddly enough messaged dvd support about the season 18 disc and thought at the same time I’ll mention season 13.
The DR.
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:53pmAh, Nb7, I only asked as there was a Similar comment about Messaging DVD Support that i saw on a Channel about the Dr Who Collection on Youtube Today.
Goody
October 21st, 2025 - 3:28pmwhats plastic protector fits this
John Smith
October 21st, 2025 - 5:49pmThere’s enough plastic on the Ai upscaling bruh
Snowman
October 21st, 2025 - 6:13pmYou Want Steelbook Central DW2 Plastic Cases for this Set, I’ve Just Checked.
Tom Williams
October 21st, 2025 - 9:05pmDW2 one as I know myself but not currently in stock on there official website they now did a DW7 for season 20 cause off how big it was
Tom Williams
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:29amAlso ment too say DW7 is not currently in stock but DW2 is oops
Alan
October 22nd, 2025 - 7:34amI use Weston Box A5. They’re not snug but I prefer that and easier to get the box out
Nb7
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:42pm@john smith hahahahaha brilliant
PJ
October 23rd, 2025 - 8:27pmWell said John
RPG74
October 21st, 2025 - 6:40amIf Terror’s updated effects are virtually nonexistent then why didn’t we hear people shouting about it after the BFI screening?
Are we sure this isn’t another defective disc issue, with the switchable effects not being fully displayed?
Timelord1944
October 21st, 2025 - 8:11amThat’s what I was wondering. Terror needed more effects alterations than any other story but you get a couple of brief shots. It’s very odd.
Gordon
October 21st, 2025 - 8:40amThe making of the new effects featurette explains that they fixed the couple of shots they felt didn’t work while trying to match the ones that they felt that did work. It was 1 shot in episode 2 and about 3 shots in episode 4
Gordon
October 21st, 2025 - 8:43amSpot the difference
https://youtu.be/kypmvQSp1N4?si=EYHiDYvsW6XX9t3p
RPG74
October 21st, 2025 - 1:26pmOh dear. Well, at least it’ll feel like less of a poke in the eye when I buy it for 35 quid in two years.
Matt Y
October 21st, 2025 - 1:32pmI am really disappointed with the updated effects. Zygons is my all time favourite story and was really looking forward to seeing the updated effects….am only two episodes in so will see what awaits. I wish they had completely overhauled the Skaresan to match the fantastic design and realisation of the Zygons – one of freakishly brilliant monsters in Who.
Nick
October 21st, 2025 - 7:31pmThank you for the link Gordon. I can appreciate all the hard work going into revamping the Skaresan, but it’s a shame the new effects are on a budget. I think I prefer the original Skaresan effect, at least the head was not floating on calm water without any traces of reflections. I hope Season 21 has better offerings.
AnaBear
October 21st, 2025 - 5:24amThe coating of AI was something that I had mentioned around the time of the Season 15 and 25 boxsets. While I am still incredibly disappointed that this is still ongoing for the restoration team behind both Doctor Who and regular BBC Blu-Ray releases of classic shows (The Young Ones being an example), I’m glad that people are now calling it out. This isn’t how you restore something. Just look at what DEVO does with their music videos. Restore the film to the best quality and restore the video tapes to the best quality possible without the need for any AI upscaling. It is embarrassing that the restoration team really honed in on AI when they were incredibly capable without it.
Gordon
October 21st, 2025 - 8:35amTo be fair there really isn’t much of a restoration team left. It’s just Peter Crocker and mark Ayres that works on the restoration. Steve Roberts did s12 in advisory role before leaving to do things at the bbc archive and is in the process of retiring. Paul Vanezis works on the behind the sofas as a producer and is an adviser for some of the bonus value added material though he’s far more hands on with the Blake’s 7 restoration which I believe he oversees. Plus I do wonder what will happen when Peter retires (he mentioned on blue sky in response to the suggesting the collection would get completed in 2030 that he would be retired about 4 years before then meaning 2026)
Having re listened to Peter’s power of three interview on the season 15 set the aim seemingly has changed. He said the aim is to give it the best possible presentation which sounds different from restoring it to how it looked on broadcast which was the aim previously.
I’m total baffled much of a mixed bag android is. The location scenes have been sharpened way too highly and look artificial. The studio scenes are better but something really feels off about the whole thing. Can’t help but feel they really crapped the bed on this one.
Nb7
October 21st, 2025 - 9:44amIt’s the same with zygons, episode 1 looks more like cgi! Episodes 2 3 and 4 look great.
Can’t they just drop sone of these pointless extra features and focus on a decent restoration of the episodes?!
Rex F
October 21st, 2025 - 10:45amNb7: It’d be cheaper and quicker to just not use the AI software. This “improved” presentation is likely more expensive.
Nb7
October 21st, 2025 - 6:33pm@Rex F I had no idea AI up scaling was more expensive, i assumed it was quicker and cheaper and that’s why been using it.
I’m so torn on this release. I love what everyone does to these sets they’re usually 11 out of 10 for quality and quantity but I feel bad saying anything negative about anything the team do. But needs to be said this I clean up process isn’t right.
Ian Cotterill
October 21st, 2025 - 9:19pmI watched Episode 1 of ‘Terror of the Zygons’ last night. Agreed on the AI making the image look weird in various places, though I think it’s still watchable.
I never really noticed AI being used similarly for the Seasons 15 and 25 boxsets. Seems to be only really an issue with the remastering for ‘Zygons’.
Prowl1701
October 21st, 2025 - 11:05pmOuch! Hearing Gordon say that the AI is noticeably bad in Android has me concerned. My set is crossing the pond so I’m playing the waiting game. Season 13 is one of my two favorite seasons of the show, so hearing that the AI is bad on any of the stories makes me unhappy. Luckily I still have my DVDs (US version and UK version)
Nb7
October 22nd, 2025 - 10:16am@Prowl1701 I haven’t watched Android yet but it’s quite heavy handed on zygons ep 1. It’s still watchable and I’ve heard ep 1 of zygons was quite damaged. It’s still a gorgeous boxset.
Gordon
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:44pmI really didn’t want to be negative but unfortunately the results for android are almost heartbreaking considering the usual standard I normally get and expect from Peter.
Zygons is noticable but still watchable enough to my eyes but android is done to the point it’s extremely distracting
Pip Madeley even made a video on it https://youtu.be/24hwN1NyMs4?si=Zw724dK6_LebRJS6
The frustrating thing the 3 stories around it (planet,pyramids and morbius) I’m fine with the restoration for them. I haven’t seen seeds yet.
Apparently there is a spelling mistake that is repeated throughout 5 of the 8 discs though I haven’t looked closely enough to notice it.
Hopefully as this seems to have been a bit of a backlash there will be some changes for future sets. I will be writing in to dvd support when I’ve finished highlighting my issues with it. Even if a disc replacement isn’t offered enough noise can be made that decisions in future can hopefully avoid this
Rex F
October 23rd, 2025 - 7:15amI wish he would retire before work starts on the remaining b/w seasons… *Bites tongue*
Timelord1944
October 21st, 2025 - 1:15amI have just watched Terror of the Zygons and for some reason the new special effects will not switch on. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it likely to be a player issue, maybe the player needing an update? I’ve never had this problem before.
Timelord1944
October 21st, 2025 - 1:39amHaving now read some of the other comments on here it would seem that the new special effects do switch on, but the problem is there are none. Very little has been changed. Odd.
Nb7
October 21st, 2025 - 1:11amJust finished Terror of the Zygons and in all honesty it looks fabulous apart from episode 1, the ai wax look is really obvious and not good in places especially when Harry is running on the sand dunes, the tall weeds are all blurry as he runs past them. Ep 2 onwards looks absolutely fine and lovely, really good clean up on those eps but ep 1 not good.
Andy
October 20th, 2025 - 9:14pmDoctor Who DVDs and Blu-ray on Amazon are all on sale for a limited time check it out
Dunc
October 20th, 2025 - 7:06pmDoes anyone know when we’re likely to get another black and white season?
Gordon
October 20th, 2025 - 7:09pmAt least a year off -18 months minimum.
daz
October 20th, 2025 - 9:01pmOctober 2027 unless we get Wilderness Years set first.
21, 11 and 16 will be next, although 11 might come after 16.
Lewis James
October 21st, 2025 - 5:45pmI think the remaining colour seasons will obviously be first so they can throw everything into working on the black & white seasons. I think it’s pretty much certain 21 is next, followed by 11 & 16, although I do have a sneaky suspicion they may go for 11 last as it would bring the colour seasons full circle as they started with Tom’s debut 12 & would end with Jon regenerating into Tom.. just a thought
RPG74
October 21st, 2025 - 6:18pmThey started with 18, didn’t they? Or am I losing my mind? I’ll think they’ll go in order of whatever’s ready first tbh.
James
October 21st, 2025 - 6:37pmRPG. Started with s12 Tom’s first then s18 Peter’s first. Then s12 was reprinted due to selling out so fast
RPG74
October 21st, 2025 - 6:48pmYep you’re right, I transposed em in the old brain matter. Perhaps because 18 was the first one I bought.
Tom Williams
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:37amCould make sense then for them off course too do season 21 and then off season 11 and 16 last as we had 12 first and could end up last as 16 as 10 was more after 18 so more could be reverse and be 11 off two rengerations ones and 16 last too fit in with before season 18 would happen
Tom Williams
October 22nd, 2025 - 12:40amPractically as my less confusing way lol it would be like the upcoming seasons off 19,10,18 instead but obvs 21,11,16 ? And 10 being swapped with 18
Babelbro
October 20th, 2025 - 6:22pmThis feels bittersweet to come out with, though I’m glad that already plenty of well known names in the Doctor Who fandom are being completely honest in their reviews for this Blu-ray boxset so far within the last 24 hours, despite the angry shouts on X from Richard Bignell calling their critics “absolutely daft”.
I’ve had my own personal deep concerns with the use of Ai in these restorations as far back as 2017’s Shada Blu-ray, but never would I have imagined under the ‘Restoration Team’ banner it would seriously end up in a £65 product looking like a click-generated Remini effect seemingly playing whack-a-mole fighting to find/track random specks of (what it thinks is) faces, objects, foliage, then blurring anything else to oblivion that it deems irrelevant, save for the random edge of a blade of grass or a leaf on a branch – the icing on the cake being a thick layer of fake digital grain that doesn’t look at all like the kind of noise of 8mm, 16mm, 35mm footage of the original filmwork, moreso the kind of ‘film grain’ effects from a modern video game under the graphics settings.
From the aggresive use of ai generative apps (allegedly Topaz Gigapixel), to the online podcast justifications to the verbal slanging on paying fans via social media, after having charged them £65 for it – all of this sounds very much like the same methodology of Ian Levine. I genuinely do not recognize this to be up to the standards and behaviour of ‘the Restoration Team’ as such, though it has been noted to me that many of its original members have since moved on or retired long ago.
For any fans that have bought this set and are actively unhappy with this ‘restoration’ – instead of leaving a complaint then sitting on your hands and never playing the discs ever again you should vote with your wallet and request to return your orders – not because the BBC or any officials will or want to bother listening out of the goodness of their heart, but out of the sheer principle of not shrugging your shoulders and saying “ah well, £65 who cares” of which is going to financially fund this methodology even further.
Whether its Levine charging money for his Ai ‘works’ or the BBC charging money for their Ai ‘restorations’ – if you don’t like it then don’t fund it. Don’t join in on any foul tempered raging on social media – instead I would encourage anyone passionate about Doctor Who just to leave a fair, constructive but honest review. I understand Peter Crocker’s ‘taking notes’ whatever that means, but given this same restoration team flat out denied there to be issues with Season 20 for a very long time until recently, with a disc reissue programme now underway, I’m conflicted as to how long it will take for them to actually really listen.
I would be much more interested to see some positive ideas for this range moving forward – to my mind I think it is time that, in some shape or form, that this range include versions of the main episodes without any form of Ai generative / DNR – akin to the current Blu-ray releases of ‘The Sweeney’ wherby the restoration team at ‘Old Gold Media’ initially considered the Ai DNR path, but specifically listened to their target market, brought that conversation to the board and decided to completely avoid using it.
WhoRU
October 20th, 2025 - 6:28pm£54 actually in most places who on earth is paying £65 they have seen you coming.
Babelbro
October 20th, 2025 - 6:38pm£54.99 is the listed price on most major outlets (there isn’t an edit button anywhere for me to correct this)
Erato
October 20th, 2025 - 6:48pmOnly a few shots of the updated Skarasen, but they still didn’t update the shot where you see it on the screen in the zygon control room from episode 2… Bit disappointing. Really irks me when they have a mix of updated and original, like the Pyramids/Tales version, and the mistake on the season 12 Revenge disc where there is a shot of the old rocket kept in on the updated CGI version.
Erato
October 20th, 2025 - 7:02pmJust watching it now and seriously, what the hell!? Why haven’t they updated the skarasen on most of the shots in episode 2, including the cliffhanger?
Rex F
October 20th, 2025 - 7:28pmThe picture “Restoration Team” is basically just one person now, isn’t it? The one who didn’t have any background in that area but was an enthusiastic amateur when they started.
As for Richard Bignell, technical isn’t his area – he’s the kind of guy who would probably like the look of Picnic at Hanging Rock and not see anything wrong with it. He doesn’t see it and doesn’t understand it, some people are just like that. (Hello, mum!) Then you have people like me, who moaned about the heavy noise reduction application of the old fashioned variety from the first Who blu-ray onward…
BW
October 20th, 2025 - 8:38pmThe Restoration Team has a long history of gatekeeping and essentially either declaring any criticism to be invalid or telling the audience to belt up and be grateful for their work. Sometimes the fan criticism has been justified, sometimes less so.
There’s always a fine line between valid restoration/presentation choices and pointless tampering but this latest release leapfrogs way past that. It might be a viable commercial solution in a challenging marketplace, but it’s in no longer a faithful reproduction of the source material.
Joe Cat
October 20th, 2025 - 9:38pmI haven’t heard about this use of AI in restoration, is there any link to it?
I won’t get to see this set for a while yet, but it’s pretty concerning to hear that AI is being used for “restoration”, and of true actually it’s pretty disheartening, it doesn’t seem like a true restoration to be using such tools.
BW
October 20th, 2025 - 5:57pmThe waxy AI upscaling is very disappointing.
Gordon
October 20th, 2025 - 11:24amHalf way through the set. Done discs 1-4.
The actual episodes are great. Shame the ai sharpening is becoming way more obvious and dialed up. It’s not everywhere but the bits they have used it on are becoming far more heavy. Having listened to Peter’s comments on it I get why he used it but I hope it’s dialed down for future releases. Pyramid does look great and far less noticeable but bits of zygons and a little bit of planet it’s very noticable. I do think it is an upgrade over the DVDs but there is an * attached to it
As for the new extras the new zygon effects are ok. It’s not that different from the original it’s just another hand puppet replacing the old one and it’s shot in better conditions. Some might not even notice as it’s so brief. It’s only about 1 shot in ep 2 and 3 in ep 4. The making of the new puppet does explain why they chose to focus on a couple of shots rather than something more extensive.
By far the highlight of the new features of the first half is return to thirteen. It’s kind of like a Toby hosted location hopping season overview with Philip as the anchor with a guest on every story (bar zygons) with some props and recreations of sets to help boost memories. They don’t go to every location (stargrove owners gave Chris a firm but polite no) but it works well.
The behind the sofas are quite funny this time round.
The new effects for pyramids for the 4 part version is fine but unchanged from the tales version.
Omnibus version is fun but can’t see it becoming the default
Tom talks is good fun. If you have seen previous ones you know what you are getting
The convention footage is pure gold.
Nb7
October 20th, 2025 - 12:41pmInteresting thoughts on the AI upscale. I noticed it on the trailer, I know it’s the best quality but it does make it even noticeably.
I’ve mixed feelings about these types of upscaling, I think some things can look brilliant with it but Ive noticed zoomed in shots look a bit ropy. As long as its not going to get to the stage where it’s cleaned up so much parts of the picture is missing like the lord of the rings 4k.
Nb7
October 20th, 2025 - 12:50pmI’d like to also add that this is possibly the compromise we’ll have to take. We know these sets are not cheap so they have to keep costs down and if you want an all round decent quality package some sacrifices have to be made to make it a worth while purchase and if that’s what needs to be done maybe it’s for the best. Depends what people’s preferences are. I personally am not too fussed on all the bonus material, new fx shots and audio are fine with me but the other stuff doesn’t do it for me. It’s about the episodes themselves I’m more interested in. But I know a lot of fans like the behind the sofa stuff etc.
And also season 11 is coming up and I’m assuming that one is going to be pricey for them to clean up, add new fx and a possible colourisation of invasion of the dinosaurs. So if Ai upscaling helps for the those things I’m more than happy with that.
Peter
October 20th, 2025 - 1:09pm@ Lee – from memory, we also have the film inserts from Curse of Peladon for the fight sequence in ep 3 when the Doctor fights Grun in the pit (but I admit that’s very brief – it’s not like all film sequences for the story exist, and we indeed we only have that one due to the generosity of the private owner supplying it for use). Such a shame more film inserts don’t exist for HD purposes these days, but that’s life I guess.
Gordon
October 20th, 2025 - 1:23pmIt’s not as bad as in the trailer. Though I haven’t seen android where apparently it’s at its most noticable and overdone
Rex F
October 20th, 2025 - 3:14pmI’ve seen the framegrabs now. At least we can say that little ol’ Dr Who is getting the same restoration treatment as big, important movies like Picnic at Hanging Rock.
(Maybe “restoration” should be in quotation marks.)
Rex F
October 22nd, 2025 - 10:09pmUpdating my post – Picnic doesn’t go this far, fortunately. That’s just poor, as opposed to “OMG!”.
NickD
October 19th, 2025 - 9:18amThis is absolutely the gold standard for all Doctor Who and really paid off the great work made by everyone involved in the show up to that point.
In case you didn’t know I love it. The 1970s may have had problems but Doctor Who was not one of them. Love watching it now in the best ever quality so far.
Rob
October 19th, 2025 - 5:57pmThe 70s a golden era up to 77, then quality of scripts, cast and effects declined
Lee
October 19th, 2025 - 6:50pmIMO the best season of Who ever made. Just watched Zygons, the location footage looks absolutely fantastic! I’m assuming all the original film elements for this story had survived and it shows. The colour grading done on the sections shot on VT is also top notch, making the transitions between film and VT virtually seamless. If memory serves, isn’t this the first release since spearhead from space where they’ve had surviving original film to work with? It makes such a difference. If anyone has more info on this perhaps you could jump in here. I also love the new skarasen puppet,so glad they did this rather than CGI, you can’t beat practical effects!
This one was worth the wait, looking forward to diving in to the rest of this set 🙂
Lewis James
October 26th, 2025 - 8:17amThoroughly enjoyed this set & I’ve been in tears of laughter watching Katy & Toby together on behind the sofa, really hope they do some more
Andy
October 18th, 2025 - 3:37pmYeah mine came from BBC this afternoon that’s my weekend sorted really looking forward to getting into this.
Deliveryit
October 18th, 2025 - 11:21amArrived from that place that loves his masters voice
Prof Horner
October 18th, 2025 - 10:04amWow! Just got my copy! Despite what the email I got today said it was going to come on Monday. I will go off to work happy.
The ergon
October 18th, 2025 - 9:10amStarting disc 5+ today. No problems with any discs so far. Saving ‘Behind the sofas for last.
Tom Williams
October 17th, 2025 - 11:31pmH seems slower this year then lol
Prof Horner
October 18th, 2025 - 8:40amFirst time I haven’t used Amazon. Got an email today saying my copy coming Monday morning. Lucky not working on Monday.
Tom Williams
October 18th, 2025 - 12:35pmSame here prof so surprised though as moved recently and used too come in my last location every Saturday without a fail
Tom Williams
October 18th, 2025 - 12:47pmOppps maybe not it arrived with out sudden surprise that’s my weekend sorted 🙂
Anon
October 17th, 2025 - 3:20pmArrived 1100 Rarewaves.
Gordon
October 17th, 2025 - 2:14pmSutekh’s gift of blu ray just got delivered through my door
Tom Williams
October 17th, 2025 - 2:43pmWas that zavvi or rare waves Gordon ?
WhoIsWhere
October 17th, 2025 - 3:06pmvia who ?
Gordon
October 17th, 2025 - 3:24pmZavvi
Craig F
October 17th, 2025 - 5:57pmMe to Gordon & Curse of Frankenstein yesterday, Winner!
Bellal
October 17th, 2025 - 7:19pmVery nice. Enjoy Gordon, I’ll be waiting for the standard in a couple of years.
On an unrelated note, is there any possibility of Inspector Morse receiving a new blurray boxset treatment? So many shows nowadays are and if any deserves one its that, arguably the best crime show in television history
Rich
October 17th, 2025 - 8:34pmI love Zavvi!
Gordon
October 20th, 2025 - 10:03amI was actually going to watch curse of Frankenstein if the s13 box set hadn’t turned up early. It’s still in its wrapper.
As for inspector morse itv doesn’t seem that interested in doing blu ray for things. ITV studios did repackaging of morse last year and it was new artwork in a jumbo style case box. If it ever does happen it will probably be licensed.