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Doctor Who The Collection Season 20 UK Standard Packaging
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
CONTINUE YOUR DOCTOR WHO ARCHIVE WITH THE STANDARD EDITION:
- Arc Of Infinity
- Snakedance
- Mawdryn Undead
- Terminus
- Enlightenment
- The King’s Demons
- The Five Doctors (20th Anniversary Special)
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the programme, these stories feature the return of old friends, enemies and even past Doctors! Over seven exciting stories, the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) face off against the Black Guardian, Omega, the Mara, the Master, Cybermen and the Time Lords themselves!
All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources including original film elements for The Five Doctors – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.
The Collection: Season 20 Blu-ray box set also includes extensive Special Features including:
THE FIVE DOCTORS – 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- A brand new version of the 90-minute anniversary special, with updated special effects,
- Dolby Atmos & surround sound, plus an exclusive new commentary with Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson.
UPDATED 2023 SPECIAL EFFECTS
- Exclusive to Blu-ray, on Snakedance and Enlightenment.
BEHIND THE SOFA
- Seven new episodes with Peter Davison, Colin Baker (The Doctor), Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor),
- Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Katy Maning (Jo) and Sophie Aldred (Ace).
BLU-RAY TRAILER
- A brand new episode of classic Doctor Who.
IN CONVERSATION
- Interviewer Matthew Sweet chats to Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton.
LET’S GO DUTCH!
- The TARDIS crew travel to Amsterdam to revisit locations and reminisce about Season 20 and their time on the programme.
LOOK WHO’S DRIVING
- Join Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton on an hilarious European Road Trip.
WHEN JANET MET MARTIN
- Janet Fielding chats to Martin Clunes, 40 years on from his appearance in Snakedance.
MAKING THE KING’S DEMONS
- The regular cast return to the castle location and reminisce.
MAKING THE SEASON 20 TRAILER
- A look behind the scenes
LONGLEAT CELEBRATION FOOTAGE
- A previously-unreleased look at the iconic 1983 convention, plus panels featuring Peter Davison, Tom Baker, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and many more.
STUDIO FOOTAGE
- Hours of material going behind-the-scenes on production of Arc Of Infinity, Snakedance and The Five Doctors.
LOCATION FILM RUSHES
- From The Five Doctors.
RARE CONVENTION FOOTAGE
- Including Australian interviews with Peter Davison and Janet Fielding shot during production of this season.
ONCE UPON A TIME LORD
- A rare US documentary from the 1980s.
NEW 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIXES
- On Snakedance and The Five Doctors. Plus Dolby Atmos mixes on The Five Doctors.
ARCHIVE TREATS
- Hours of rare and previously unreleased material from the BBC Archives.
HD PHOTO GALLERIES
- Including many previously unseen images.
INFO TEXT
- Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode.
PDF ARCHIVE
- Including scripts, exclusive unseen BBC production files, the Radio Times 20th Anniversary Special and other rarities.
PLUS LOTS MORE!
This nine-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries, The Five Doctors Special Edition and more.
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Babelbro
August 21st, 2025 - 2:44amReally interesting coming back to this page to read the speculation here on where physical media might go next.
I agree with Gordon’s points – It’s not possible to be able to see *what* physical form that media will be stored on beyond discs, of which Doctor Who’s sold on for the last 25+ years.
Without knowing how it would look, just at a guess – I wonder if the broad consumer generally would want physically smaller sets, and a storage medium that can hold far more than a BD 50 Blu-ray disc, perhaps more than a 4k disc – something that can really sell Classic Who as not having to be on hundreds of discs and shelves of cardboard boxsets – rather, something much more robust with less manufacturing cost.
If the above is doable in the future, I would say the next, likely next logical route would then be a per-Doctor-all-in-one-sets – containing all the disc contents from the collection sets, but without all the elaborate physical cases and packaging of the limited edition sets – something even smaller and sleeker than the standard editions.
Who knows, but it’s quite fun to try and imagine it.
James
August 2nd, 2025 - 9:59pmBabelbro
Pretty sure after the Classic College sets are all done, the animations for all are completed and a NewWho Collection is done, that the next step is Doctor Sets.
The best version of each story housed in a hard case box set per season, then housed in a hard cardboard box set per Doctor.
1/Hartnell 1,2,3
2/Troughton 4,5,6
3/Pertwee 7,8,9,10,11
4/TBaker 12,13,14,15,16,17,18
5/Davison 19,20,21
6/CBaker 22,23
7/McCoy 24,25,26
10/Tennant 2,3,4,2009Spls,
11/Smith 5,6,7
12/Capaldi 8,9,10
13/Whitaker 11,12, Flux, Spls
With 8 and 9 id see it as a Time War BoxSet: The Movie, Shada audio and Night of the Doctor for 8/McGann, Day of the Doctor and Engines of War audio for War/Hurt, series 1 for 9/Eccleston.
Also could release themed Box Sets in best quality/version.
Anniversary – Three Doctors, Five Doctors, Two Doctor, Silver Nemeis, Day of the Doctor, Star Beast, Wild Blue Wonder, The Giggle
TimeLords Updated – War Games original and colour, Three Doctors, Deadly Assassin, Invasion of Time, Five Doctors, End of Time
Regeneration Updated – either 1 to 16 OR separate Classic 1 to 8 and then New 9-16
Davros Updated – Genesis, Destiny, Resurrection, Revelation, Remembrance, Stolen Earth/Journeys End, Magicians Apprentice/Witches Familiar, Destination Skaro
Ice Warriors – Seeds of Doom, Monster of Peladon, Curse of Peladon, Cold War, Empress of Mars
Zygons – Terror of the Zygons, Day of the Doctor, Zygon Invasion/Inversion
Sea Devils/Silurians – Sea Devils, Silurians, Warriors of the Deep, Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, Legend of the Sea Devils (maybe Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
Sontarans – Time Warrior, Sontaran Experiment, Invasion of Time, Two Doctors, Sontaran Strategem/Poison Sky
Key To Time Updated – cobviously this will be done as s16 when The Collection does it. But do it as K2T box set
Just some ideas. Doctor Who sells and is a big money spinner in merchandise side. Anyone else have any ideas? Thoughts?
Gordon
August 2nd, 2025 - 11:51pmHonestly I’d lower your expectations.
All I’m expecting is Repackaged doctors sets once the classic doctor who animations and collection sets are done and that’s about it and it may just be repacked to just include the episodes to keep costs and disc count down.
I wouldn’t expect themed sets outside of maybe a complete dalek/cyberman/master set. Think with where physical media currently is and where It will be in another 5-10 years I just don’t see themed sets. Those days are pretty much over. Every thing has an end point. Doctor who has had a 26 year run of dvd and blu ray releases. One day it will reach a natural end
Missyrules
August 3rd, 2025 - 1:07pmSorry James but Gordon is right. By the time the season sets are completed and the animations are done (presuming we even get all of the stories animated) I don’t know if would be commercially viable to release season sets and linked sets.
Snowman
August 3rd, 2025 - 2:00pmYes Gordon I Agree about Lowering Expectations. I Honestly think after the Classic Series Blu-ray Collection Sets and the Remaning Classic Animations that might me the End of Physical Media.
I know some on here will argue that Dr Who is a Big Money Spinner and Physical Merchandise will go on for ever.
But whether it be Blu- Ray, DVD, CDs, Vinyl, Figures, Figurines, Magazines etc. They all seem to be going Through tough times and Sales Numbers are Dwindling fast and won’t be Viable to the point were I think only Digital Merchandise will Exist in the Future?
The DR.
August 3rd, 2025 - 2:17pmYes, if you want Dr Who Content or any other Content for that Matter you’ll Download it onto your Phone, Tablet, iPad, PC, etc.
The Same with Mucic, (It’s happening more and more already). Any Albums or Singles you’ll Download them.
Magazines are the Same, Your Favourite Magazines with be all Digital.
I Don’t Know about figures and Figurines etc but with fewer and fewer people Buying them soon they won’t be Viable to make and will also End.
Just because I’m saying this doesn’t mean I’m happy about it (As I am Not).
Has I’ve been a Collector of Phsical Merchandise for many Decades.
But I think most people can see what will Gradually happen in the Next few Years.
Gordon
August 3rd, 2025 - 2:57pmPlus there is only so many times people will rebuy things no matter how much love there is. There is hypothetically about 18-20 classic releases era left:
Season 1
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 11
Season 16
Season 21
The wilderness years
Marco Polo
The crusade
The myth makers
The massacre
The smugglers
The highlanders
The wheel in space
The space pirates
Plus a mission/masterplan release that may get 1-3 releases.
In terms of repackaging I see
Season 2 with an animated crusade release
Complete season steelbooks if the market for them haven’t fallen off in the next 5-10 years. Plus you need to take into account will the market fall off before the end of the 27th steelbook.
Complete first doctor
Complete second doctor
Complete third doctor
Complete fourth doctor
Complete fifth doctor
Complete sixth doctor
Complete seventh doctor
As I’ve said I do see the possibility of a complete daleks/cybermen and master sets as they are probably the ones that would appeal to more casual audience and buyers more. Obviously they need out masterplan wheel and season 21 first before that can become the reality
The DR.
August 3rd, 2025 - 3:28pmJust look at Big Finish with more of there Storys becoming Digital Only. Some are still Digital or on CD Format but others are Digital only.
Will this become more and more in the Next Few Years?
Bookcollector
August 3rd, 2025 - 4:00pmPhysical media is all I’m interested in so the less there is the less I bother with. In the case of books I only buy physical books due to ebooks triggering my migraines off. But as a collector the idea of having a collection made up of electronic bits just seems pointless to me. And at my age (I’m 55 this year) I’ve more than enough physical books (around 8000 at the last count), DVDs (around 400) and CDs (around 1000) to keep me going into my second childhood lol. The only who merchandise I get now are the animations, target books, certain art books but not all, some charity books from obverse and chinbeard and the erimem series.
You youngsters can enjoy your digital loaddowns and going on facex and I’ll stick to reading my books by good old reliable candlelight and watching my DVDs on my steam powered TV!
James
August 3rd, 2025 - 4:03pmGordon
Why would dmp/mission have up to 3 releases?
Steel books would cost a lot wouldn’t they? Or could they do standard box sets and steel books?
Would a rerelease s2 with crusade be a 2nd edition S2 limited {like s12} or just a standard version?
What would you have in your dalek\cybermen/master sets?
Would they do a newwho doctor sets also?
Amypondfan
August 3rd, 2025 - 6:55pmMasterplan would probably be split into three. Mission. Masterplan 1-6 and masterplan 7-12 mission would presumably be included with masterplan volume one but I’d hope it would have it’s own box rather than be on masterplan itself.
Gordon
August 3rd, 2025 - 10:12pmBecause masterplan won’t be cheap to do. It might need 2 or 3 releases for it to become viable.
The collection sets are already being released under standard sets. It wouldn’t be a cheap purchase. Hard to predict how much each would cost as the market could be a lot different in 5 or so years time when they get round to it if they agreed to do it. Another thing that may decide things is how long it will take to release them. If the market can only sustain say 3 a year it’s a 9 year commitment to do them all. Considering you are talking 2040ish
A repackaged Season 2 would be a standard repackaging with an additional disc to include the crusade animation and any new features that would feature on the stand alone release.
Well the complete dalek/cybermen/master sets would be what it says on the tin. It will be 3 seperate sets and each one will include every story featuring that villan.
I suspect they will test new who but it’s years off. I suspect there will be a drop off as the episodes have had multiple blu releases already.
Macra
August 4th, 2025 - 8:27amCybermen Mondas/Telos Trilogy – Tenth Planet, Tomb & Attack.
Linda Joy Smith
August 1st, 2025 - 2:04am@”Peter Davison is my favorite ”Doctor Who!
Coleman
August 1st, 2025 - 3:11pmIn Met Him a Couple of Years ago at a Convention in Barnsley. He also Signed a Montage Photo I had. Great Day.
Coleman
August 1st, 2025 - 3:16pmGarrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter) in Star Wars and Chris Barrie (Rimmer) in Red Dwarf Were Also signing that day Aswell. I remember it well.
Tom Williams
July 30th, 2025 - 8:01pmIn honesty the discs are different I brought season 23 one time as my two bonus discs got damaged and the only difference I noticed is actually the age on the discs too the limited ones especially if anyone had season 23 standard/limited edition versions and saw between the two with age on the discs it’s no similar
Tom Williams
July 30th, 2025 - 8:03pmWhich I checked by Google images and one is a brighter white colour on age compared too the other as this is clearly needed incase off selling them too cex for showing the right correct ones between the two
The ergon
July 30th, 2025 - 4:04pmTime to buy it again.
David Minter
July 30th, 2025 - 2:00pmI think here in America, we only ever get one version of the Blu-Ray sets. What’s the difference between the sets as originally released and the “Standard Edition” versions?
Thanks!
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 2:30pmHello David, Has Gordon as mentioned on this Site a Few Times. Disc and Content wise there’s no Difference in the Standard Edition and limited Edition Whatsoever.
It’s just the Packaging that Varies.
The Limited Edition is in a Larger Fully Cardboard Box that Contains a Booklet with a Lot more Pages full of Text and Photos than the Standard Edition does.
The Limited Edition also have a Fully Illustrated Pouch Inside the Box which when Opened Reveals the Previously Mentioned Booklet.
The Standard Edition comes in the Usual Blu-ray Plastic Case which is much Slimmer aswell.
Hope that Helps David.
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 2:38pmDavid, Also if you look on this site when there’s a New post for the Blu-ray Collection Limited Edition Sets, Theres usually a photo that accompanies it showing the Larger Cardboard Box with the Illustrated Pouch inside and the Full Colour Booklet etc.
(As I mentioned, The Disc Count and Contents are just the same as the Standard Edition though).
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 2:42pmJust noticed the Photo above is the limited edition Packaging photo.
This Set just comes in a Much Slimmer Plastic Standard Blu-ray Case.
booboo
July 30th, 2025 - 2:46pmchanged that noq
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 2:57pmNo problem Booboo, I’d only just noticed myself that it was the Wrong Photo, When I was Explaining to David the Difference between the Sets.
David Minter
July 30th, 2025 - 4:47pmWe just get, I think, the one release in a blue plastic Blu-Ray case holding all the discs in the United States. No inserted booklets, though I think really early releases had a few pages inserts in them. Some had additional cardboard slipcases.
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 6:00pmHello David.
I wondered which Sets you received in the US. Sounds like you just get the Standard Sets. The Standard Sets are In the Regular Plastic Cases but there usually in a Cardboard Slip Aswell.
The First Few Standard Editions did also have a Booklet Included, but from Memory it only had about 6 to 8 Pages. Where the Limited Edition Booklets have 30 to 40 Pages of Text and Photos.
The Standard Edition Booklets were Very Abridged Versions of the Limited Edition Booklet.
The Limited Sets are really Nice Collectibles if you can get hold of them.
I think a few People From Abroad who Frequent this Site managed to get hold of the UK Sets.
David Minter
July 31st, 2025 - 12:37amIt seems the cardboard slipcases have stopped being shipped with Blu-Ray sets now. The Sylvester McCoy Season Two set was shrink wrapped but didn’t have a slipcase.
MJ
July 30th, 2025 - 1:32pmAnyone have a concise list of the issues to watch out for on this release?
Snowman
July 30th, 2025 - 12:52pmThis Will make Alot of people Happy. I’ve seen many Comments on here recently Asking when Season 20 will be Released on Standard Edition. I’m ok though I always buy the Limited Edition, as I Couldnt Wait Two Years. LOL.
John
July 30th, 2025 - 11:51amWill the stories still have shuddery visuals I wonder?
Timelord1944
July 30th, 2025 - 9:59pmI have the Limited Edition with the shuddery visuals. I find some of the stories almost unwatchable. I am going to buy this one to hopefully get a corrected version.
RPG74
July 31st, 2025 - 6:31pmThanks for reminding me about that. I almost preordered this today, but I think I’ll wait until it’s out and see if people complain about the same problem.
Babelbro
August 2nd, 2025 - 7:05pmI vaguely remember something about this with the limited edition.
There’s nothing to suggest they would but I often wonder if Season 19 will get a re-release considering the many editing mistakes throughout all the serials, that couldn’t be amended after its limited and standard editions went out.
I’m not sure how the above could be financially justified except if the Collection range offered complete per-Doctor sets in a minimal multi-amaray Blu-ray boxset each once the initial range has finished (Similar to the 007 Blu-ray boxset).
OllieOz
August 2nd, 2025 - 11:44pmGiven how varied the perception of the motion issues have been, I think the definitive way to know for sure if anything has been done is for someone to kindly post the codes on the inner-rings of the discs when they finally get the release in-hand and then we’ll be able to check if they match the original LE release. At this stage I’m quite doubtful, but can only hope.