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Last updated April 16, 2008.   Recently updated sections are in red.
Compiled by Steve Manfred,  smanfred at comcast.net   (change at to @ and remove the spaces to email me)

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MISSING COMMENTARY NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD

When the Doctor Who – The Complete Third Series box set was released last November, it was missing a commentary on the final episode,

Last of the Time Lords.  The commentary should have featured the stars of the show, David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, and John Barrowman,

and in the UK edition of the set, it did, however a musical running gag that the stars used throughout the commentary posed a legal

problem… the music licks they were quoting would have to be copyright cleared before they could be used on the DVD, and there wasn’t time

between the recording of the commentary and the release date to get that done.  So, that commentary was pulled and replaced with the one

on the BBC Online website that has Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Phil Collinson. 

 

The “stars” commentary has now, however, been cleared and made available for free download for North American customers via BBC

America’s website at this URL:  http://bbcamerica.com/content/123/commentary.jsp     You can either listen to it streaming or download a

47MB mp3 file. 

 

STILL MORE CLASSIC TITLES COMING SOON… 3 FOR AUGUST 5.

BBC Worldwide Americas are announcing the release of three more classic series titles for North America on Tuesday, August 5, 2008.

They will be:

            The Time Meddler starring William Hartnell  (4 25-minute episodes, 1 disc, $24.98),

            Black Orchid starring Peter Davison (2 25-minute episodes, 1 disc, $14.98), and

            The Five Doctors 25th Anniversary Edition starring Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall, Tom Baker,

                        and William Hartnell  (2 discs, $34.98, more on the contents below)

 

The first two are conventional releases of stories not released before, with a price reduction on Black Orchid due to it being only a 2-part story

(like The Sontaran Experiment was before it). 

 

The Five Doctors  has been previously released in North America (it was one of the first DVDs we got in fact), but only as a “Special Edition”

and it only had two extra features on it, a commentary by Peter Davison and Terrance Dicks and the music soundtrack.  This new edition will feature

the original BBC TV version of  the story on its first disc, which has never been released unedited in North America before be it on DVD or VHS.

This is accompanied by a full range of bonus materials and a new commentary recorded by four of the actors who played companions in the story. 

The second disc contains the Special Edition again, with the Davison/Dicks commentary it had before, and another full set of extras and

featurettes.  The first disc will also contain a very special Easter Egg.  Highlight the blank area of text below to learn what that is…

The first disc contains a “hidden” full commentary track recorded by David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor), Phil Collinson (producer of

the new series of Doctor Who) and Helen Raynor (a script editor and writer on the new series), watching from their unique perspective

as fans of the original series and of this story and as the makers both in front of and behind the camera of the new series.   

 

APRIL CLASSIC SERIES TITLES NOW IN RELEASE

Two more new classic series releases came out on April 1, 2008.  They are:

            The Time Warrior starring Jon Pertwee  (4 25-minute episodes, 1 disc, $24.98, catalog number 1000035800), and

            Timelash starring Colin Baker  (2 45-minute episodes, 1 disc, $24.98, catalog number 1000035899). 

 

Here are the contents of each of these:

(Both start with a trailer for the Series 3 Doctor Who box set, which is skippable with your remote.)

 

The Time Warrior starring Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who and Elisabeth Sladen in her first story as Sarah Jane Smith.

            Guest stars Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.  This is also the first story to feature the alien Sontarans.

-         All four 25-minute episodes of the story, with digitally restored pictures and sound.

-         Graphical menus, episode selection, scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

-         Commentary track by actress Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), script editor Terrance Dicks, and producer Barry Letts.

-         “Beginning the End”   A new 30-minute documentary about the making of this story and the beginning of the break-up of

the Third Doctor’s era.  Features new interviews with actors Elisabeth Sladen, Donald Palmear (Prof. Rubeish),

and Jeremy Bulloch (Hal the Archer), script editor Terrance Dicks, producer Barry Letts, and designer Keith Cheetham.

-     Trails and Continuity.  A 1-minute featurette of all the trailers for this story from the 1973/74 broadcast on the BBC.

            -      CGI Effects.  Turning on this option will replace most of the video and model effects in this story with newly made computer-

                        generated ones.   (The default setting is to play the story with the original effects.)

-         Photo Gallery.   A 9-minute featurette showing production still photos taken during the making of the story.

-         Information Text.   Turning on this option will play the story with production trivia subtitles appearing throughout the story.

-         Doctor Who Annual and Radio Times Listings.   Place this DVD into a computer’s DVD-ROM drive and you’ll be able to

access pdf files containing the 1974 Doctor Who Annual and the original Radio Times programming listings for this story.

-         2 Easter Eggs.  Highlight the blank area below to see what they are and how to find them.

1st Egg: On the main menu, highlight the Special Features button, then press the left arrow.  A Doctor Who logo will appear.

Click on this and you will see a 1:30 featurette that shows various bits of extra trivia about this story.  It seems like

cutting-room floor scraps from the “Beginning the End” featurette.

2nd Egg:  Go the second page of the Special Features menu.  Highlight the “BACK” button and press the left arrow.

A Doctor Who logo will appear.  Click on this and you will see 40 seconds of Terrance Dicks explaining the meaning behind

a particular photo of himself, Barry Letts, and Jon Pertwee on location.

 

Timelash starring Colin Baker as the Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri.

-         Both 45-minute episodes of the story, with digitially restored pictures and sound.

-         Graphical menus, episode selection, scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

-         Commentary track by actors Colin Baker (the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), and Paul Darrow (Tekker).

-         “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”  A new 25-minute featurette about the making of this story, with new interviews from

actors Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Paul Darrow, David Chandler (Herbert), and Robert Ashby (the Borad),

script editor Eric Saward, writer Glen McCoy, and Doctor Who Adventures editor Paul Lang.

-         Photo Gallery.  A 9-minute featurette showing production still photos taken during the making of the story.

-         Information Text.  Turning on this option plays the story with production trivia subtitles appearing throughout the story.

-         Radio Times Listings.  Place this DVD into a computer’s DVD-ROM drive and you’ll be able to access pdf files of the

original Radio Times programming listings for this story.

-         1 Easter Egg.  Highlight the blank area below to see what it is and how to find it.

On the main menu, highlight the Special Features button and then press the left arrow.  A Doctor Who logo will appear.

Click on this and you will see a 1:30 featurette that assembles all the trailers and continuity announcements from the

Missing from both of these DVDs are the “Coming Soon” trailers that were on the UK editions of these discs.  This is due to the story

that Timelash trailed already being in release in North America (so it’s an “already been” rather than a “coming soon”) and in the case

of The Time Warrior, the trailer was for a set that’s not coming out in North America soon (the new version of The Key to Time Box Set). 

 

Also, a mistake was made in the reconstruction of The Time Warrior DVD in the UK edition that has carried over into the North American

one.  The credit for the actors playing Irongron and Bloodaxe on the closing titles of Part One went missing and is still absent in this edition.

1985 BBC broadcast of this story.

THE MARCH CLASSIC SERIES RELEASES

Two new classic series releases were released in North America on Tuesday, March 4, 2008.  They are:

            Planet of Evil starring Tom Baker  (4 25-minute episodes, 1 disc, $24.98, catalog number 1000036283) and

            Destiny of the Daleks starring Tom Baker  (4 25-minute episodes, 1 disc, $24.98, catalog number 1000036282). 

 

And here’s what you can find on each of those:

(both of these releases start off with a new 1-minute trailer for the new series Series 3 box set, which is skippable with your remote.)

Planet of Evil starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith.

-         All four episodes of the story, with digitally restored pictures and sound.

-         Graphical menus, episode selection,  scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

-         Commentary track by actors Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) and Prentis Hancock (Salamar), and

Producer Philip Hinchcliffe.

-         “A Darker Side” – A new 26-minute making-of-the-show featurette featuring interviews with Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen,

Prentis Hancock, Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Louis Marks, designer Roger Murray-Leach, and director David Maloney.

-         “Planetary Performance”  - A 13-minute interview package with actors from this story, namely Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen,

Prentis Hancock, Tony McEwan (Baldwin), and Graham Weston (De Haan).

-         Studio Scene.  A 1-minute featurette of  video recorded by the main studio cameras before, during, and after a take of the

Doctor and Sarah meeting the anti-matter monster.

-         Continuities – A 2-minute package of the BBC trailers that ran for this story in 1975 and for a later repeat run.

-         Information Text -   Displays pop-up production trivia subtitles throughout the story.

-         Photo Gallery  - A 7-minute package of still photographs taken during production, accompanied by sound effects from this story.

-         Radio Times Listings. A pdf file of the original TV listings for this story in the Radio Times readable by any DVD-ROM drive on a

home computer.

-         Coming Soon Trailer – A 1-minute trailer for the DVD of Destiny of the Daleks, available in North America on this same date.

-         Subtitles for the hearing impaired.

-         1 Easter Egg.  Highlight the area of blank text below to see what it is and how to find it.

Go to the Special Features menu and highlight the Continuities selection, then press the left arrow.  A Doctor Who  logo

will appear.  Click on this and you will see an extra 11-minute featurette called “Hidden Hinchcliffe,” where Producer

Philip Hinchcliffe sits down at the BBC Written Archive center and peruses the original production file for this story.

Portions of this footage are already used in the “A Darker Side” documentary above, and this is just more of Philip and

the files together.

 

Destiny of the Daleks starring Tom Baker as Doctor Who and introducing Lalla Ward as Romana, guest starring David Gooderson as Davros.

-         All four episodes of the story, with digitally restored pictures and sound.

-         Graphical menus, episode selection, scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

-         Commentary track by actors Lalla Ward (Romana) and David Gooderson (Davros) and director Ken Grieve.

-         “Terror Nation”   A new 24-minute featurette about Terry Nation’s writing for all of Doctor Who, focusing, of course, on his

Dalek stories.  Features new interviews with producers Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe, script editor Terrance Dicks,

director Richard Martin, Dalek voice actor Nicholas Briggs, and archival interview footage with the late Terry Nation himself.

-         Directing Who.   A new 9-minute interview with director Ken Grieve.

-         CGI Effects.  Selecting this option will replace most of the original video effects in this story with newly-created CGI ones instead.

-         Trails and Continuity.   A 4-minute package of the trailers and continuity announcements that went with this story in 1979.

-         Photo Gallery.  An 8-minute package of still photos taken during production, accompanied by sound effects from this story.

-         Information Text – Displays pop-up production trivia subtitles throughout the story.

-         Prime Computer Adverts – A 3-minute compilation of ads made with Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in 1980 for an Australian

Computer company called Prime Computers.  At last, you’ll be up to date.

-         Coming Soon Trailer  - A 1-minute trailer for the forthcoming release of Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and

Warriors of the Deep in a box set (though curiously the trailer doesn’t mention the name of the box set, which is

Beneath the Surface).  This will be released in North America on June 3. 

-         Radio Times Listings. A pdf file of the original TV listings for this story in the Radio Times readable by any DVD-ROM drive on a

home computer.

-         1 Easter Egg.  Highlight the area of blank text below to see what it is and how to find it.

Go to the Special Features menu and highlight Audio Options, then press the left arrow.  A Doctor Who logo will appear. 

Click on this and you will see the studio countdown clocks that ran on the master tapes for all four episodes.

            ***The Region 2 (UK) edition of this DVD had two mistakes in it which have both been corrected for the Region 1 (North American)

                        edition.  One of these was that the Radio Times listings pdf file had been erroneously left off the disc.  The other was in the

optional CG effects, where some laser beams had been added to the scene of the Doctor and Romana approaching the Movellan

                        spacecraft in episode one which shouldn’t have been there because the explosions they’re dodging are actually being caused

                        by Dalek mining operations beneath them, not fire from the Movellan ship. 

 

BENEATH THE SURFACE BOX SET SURFACES IN JUNE!

BBC Worldwide Americas will announce tomorrow the release of a new classic series 4-disc box set on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. 

The set is called Beneath the Surface and contains the three classic series stories that featured one or both of the cave and ocean-dwelling

intelligent reptiles from Earth’s ancient past, the Silurians and the Sea Devils.   Those stories are:

            Doctor Who and the Silurians  starring Jon Pertwee (7 episodes, 2 discs)

            The Sea Devils starring Jon Pertwee and guest starring Roger Delgado as the Master (6 episodes, 1 disc) and

            Warriors of the Deep starring Peter Davison (4 episodes, 1 disc).

The whole box set will be suggested to retail for $59.98.    

 

The three stories will also be available separately.  The 1-disc stories will be suggested to retail at $24.98.  The 2-disc one will be $34.98. 

 

The classic series release calendar for the first half of the year is now as follows:

            March 4th:      Planet of Evil starring Tom Baker  (1 disc, 4 25-minute episodes, $24.98)

                                    Destiny of the Daleks starring Tom Baker  (1 disc, 4 25-minute episodes, $24.98)

            April 1st:          The Time Warrior starring Jon Pertwee (1 disc, 4 25-minute episodes, $24.98)

                                    Timelash starring Colin Baker (1 disc, 2 45-minute episodes, $24.98)

            June 3rd:         Beneath the Surface Box Set as detailed above.

This is a total of 7 new classic series releases in the first half of the year. 

 

TORCHWOODTHE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON  NOW IN RELEASE

The entire first season of Torchwood was released to North America on January 22, 2008.  The suggested retail price is $79.98.  

 

Torchwood is the spinoff series of the new series of Doctor Who starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in charge of the

Cardiff branch of Torchwood, the secret British government agency tasked with collecting and controlling alien activity. 

The first season ran on BBC channels in the UK in late 2006 and ran on BBC America in late 2007.

(The second season, not in this box, has just started its BBC run and will begin running on BBC America on Saturday nights starting

on Jan. 26 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central.)

**Note that this is an adult series, with most episodes rated TV-14 or TV-MA, for sexual and violent content and swearing.

 

This is a 7-disc set.  It contains:

On all discs, 5.1 Dolby sound, graphical menus, episode and scene selection features, and optional subtitles for the hearing impaired.

All but the last disc starts with an advertisement for another BBC or Warner DVD set, but this is skippable with your remote.

Each episode is approximately 50 minutes in duration.   The episodes are all presented in 16:9 enhanced aspect ratio. 

 

On Disc 1:

- Episode 1: Everything Changes, with optional commentary by Executive Producer/Writer/Creator Russell T. Davies,

Executive Producer Julie Gardner, and Director Brian Kelly.

- Episode 2: Day One, with optional commentary by actress Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) and Co-Producers Richard Stokes

and Chris Chibnall

- Welcome to Torchwood.  A 14-minute featurette overview of the series’ first episodes.

- Torchwood on the Scene.   A 15-minute featurette overview of the production setting up the first episodes, including footage from

the first full cast and crew read-through.

- 2 Torchwood Out of this World featurettes: Weevil which spotlights Torchwood’s regular aliens, the Weevils, and Sex Gas which spotlights

the sex-craved alien gas monster from Day One.  5 minutes each.

- Deleted Scenes.    Four scenes cut from Everything Changes, two from Day One, two from Ghost Machine, and two from Cyberwoman.

           

On Disc 2:

- Episode 3: Ghost Machine, with optional commentary by actor Burn Gorman (Owen Harper), writer Helen Raynor, and director Colin Teague.

- Episode 4: Cyberwoman, with optional commentary by actor Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Chris Chibnall, and director James Strong.

- Episode 5: Small Worlds, with optional commentary by Eve Myles, composer Ben Foster, and director Alice Troughton.

- 3 Torchwood Out of this World featurettes:  Ghost Machine which spotlights that episode, Cyberwoman which spotlights that episode,

            and Fairies which spotlights the fairy creatures seen in Small Worlds.  5 minutes each.

 

On Disc 3:

- Episode 6: Countrycide, with optional commentary by Gareth David-Lloyd, Chris Chibnall, and director Andy Goddard.

- Episode 7: Greeks Bearing Gifts, with optional commentary by writer Toby Whithouse, Richard Stokes, and director Colin Teague.

- Torchwood: Sex, Violence, Blood and Gore  A 16-minute featurette about the amounts of each of those qualities in these episodes.

- 2 Torchwood: The Team and Their Troubles featurettes: Ianto and Evan that spotlights both of these characters’ actions in Countrycide,

            and Toshiko and Mary that spotlights the relationship between these two in Greeks Bearing Gifts.  5 minutes each.

 

On Disc 4:

- Episode 8: They Keep Killing Suzie, with optional commentary by script editor Brian Minchin, Chris Chibnall, and director James Strong.

- Episode 9: Random Shoes, with optional commentary by actor Paul Chequer (Eugene), Richard Stokes, and director James Erskene.

- Torchwood on the Road.  A 9-minute featurette spotlighting the Torchwood SUV.

- 2 Torchwood: The Team and Their Troubles featurettes: Owen and Suzie which spotlights these two characters’ actions in They Keep

            Killing Suzie, and Gwen and Eugene which spotlights those two characters in Random Shoes.  6 minutes each.

- Deleted Scenes.   Three deleted scenes from Countrycide, one from Greeks Bearing Gifts, three from They Keep Killing Suzie, and

      two from Random Shoes.

 

On Disc 5:

- Episode 10:  Out of Time, with optional commentary by Eve Myles, Ben Foster, and director Alice Troughton.

- Episode 11:  Combat, with optional commentary by Burn Gorman, Chris Chibnall, and director Andy Goddard.

- 2 Torchwood: Moments in the Making featurettes: A Wing and a Prayer which spotlights the plane used in Out of Time, and

            Fight Night which spotlights the location used for the fight club scenes in Combat.

- The Captain’s Log.  A 10-minute featurette based partly on a video diary kept by John Barrowman on the final day of shooting for the season.

 

On Disc 6:

- Episode 12: Captain Jack Harkness, with optional commentary by actor John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Richard Stokes, and

director Ashley Way.

- Episode 13: End of Days, with optional commentary by the same three as are on Captain Jack Harkness.

- 2 Torchwoods: Moments in the Making featurettes:  Officer and a Gentleman about the relationship between the two Captain Jacks in

            Captain Jack Harkness and Bombing the Base about the destruction of the Hub set in End of Days.  5 minutes each.

- Torchwood: On Time  A 10-minute featurette about the location used for the 1941 dance hall seen in Captain Jack Harkness.  This includes

            John Barrowman singing his own rendition of “Anything Goes.”

- Deleted Scenes.  Twelve deleted scenes from Out of Time, five from Captain Jack Harkness, and four from End of Days.

- Outtakes.   25 outtakes from throughout the season.

 

On Disc 7:

- All fourteen episodes of Torchwood: Declassified.  These were behind-the-scenes documentaries that followed each episode’s original

UK broadcast.  They’re each about 8-10 minutes in duration, and apart from the first one (which is an overview of the series),

each is specific to the episode it originally followed.  The titles are (in order):  Welcome to Torchwood,  Jack’s Back,

Bad Day at the Office, Living History, Girl Trouble, Away With the Fairies, The Country Club, There’s Something About Mary,

Beyond the Grave, Dead Man Walking, Time Flies, Weevil Fight Club, Blast from the Past, and To the Endi.

 

BBC America held a fan vote for what cover art this set uses.  The choice that won includes the Cardiff Millenium Centre’s water tower

(now nicknamed by locals as the Torchwood Tower) in the background. 

 

Although this series is shot in high-definition, this is a standard-definition DVD release.  BBC Worldwide Americas felt that neither

of the competing high-definition disc formats (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) had enough market penetration yet to make a release of this

series on either format cost effective at this time.  The high-definition versions are being shown in the US on the HDNet satellite channel.

Now that HD-DVD has officially lost the format war and Blu-Ray will be going ahead by itself, this decision may perhaps be revisited.

 

CLASSIC SERIES RELEASE RESHUFFLE

BBC Worldwide Americas have announced a shake-up of the previously announced plans for the first classic series releases of 2008.

The Complete Davros Collection box set and the standalone disc of the Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition

have been pulled from the schedule indefinitely.    They have been replaced by the releases of other titles in March and April as

detailed in the calendar at the top of the page.

 

SERIES 3 BOX SET IS RELEASED!!!

Doctor Who – The Complete Third Series box set was released on November 6, 2007, just one day after it came out in the UK.

Starring David Tennant as the Doctor, Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, and guest starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness,

this is the series that just finished running on The SciFi Channel in the US and the CBC in Canada.   (As they’ve both finished their broadcast

runs early this time, BBC Worldwide Americas are free to release this set here at virtually the same time as it comes out in the UK.)

 

The suggested retail price is $99.98, but can be found in various places at prices more like $68-70.

 

The contents are as follows…

 

  - A textured outer cover featuring the Doctor and Martha on the front and a description of the contents on the back.

  - An interior fold-out digipack box with the Doctor and the Master (the John Simm one) on its cover, and pictures of scenes throughout

            the season on the back sides.

  - An illustrated episode guide booklet, with a foreword by David Tennant. 

  - 6 discs.   On all 6 discs, graphical menus, episode selection, and scene selection features, and subtitles for the hearing impaired.

            (This time, the menus use a “Paradox Machine” theme instead of a straight TARDIS one as in the previous two seasons.)

            16:9 Enhanced aspect ratio.  Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.

            All of the episodes are as complete and unedited as they were when originally aired on the BBC. 

          (The SciFi Channel routinely makes cuts for extra commercial time, so many of these episodes will contain scenes you haven’t seen

            if you’ve only watched it on that channel.  In particular, the final episode, Last of the Time Lords, ran to 51 minutes on the BBC broadcast,

            and the BBC removed 6 minutes before shipping it to international broadcasters, the CBC in Canada included.  The DVD version is

            the original 51-minute one.)

 

            On Disc 1:

            - The 60-minute Christmas 2006 special:  The Runaway Bride

                        Commentary track by David Tennant (the Doctor) and Executive Producer Julie Gardner.  

                        (This is the same commentary track that is available as a downloadable podcast from the official BBC Doctor Who website.)

- The 60-minute documentary Music and Monsters  

                        This was a special documentary made by the Doctor Who Confidential  team that mostly goes behind-the-scenes at a

Doctor Who music concert performed by the National Orchestra of Wales in November of 2006.  It also includes some

behind-the-scenes footage of the making of The Runaway Bride.

            - David Tennant’s Video Diary.    9 minutes of video shot by David Tennant on the sets of The Runaway Bride.

            - Freema Agyeman’s Studio Tour.   Freema Agyeman takes us on a tour of the Doctor Who sets during pre-production on the

                        yet-to-be-finished 2007 Christmas special, also including some glimpses of the Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures

                        productions.  18 minutes

            - Series Three Deleted Scenes.     An 18-minute package of 21 different deleted or extended scenes from throughout the series.

            - Series Three Out-takes.   A 5-minute reel of 30-or-so bloopers from throughout the series.

            - BBC Trailers.   6 different trailers used by the BBC to advertise the broadcast of the upcoming new series on BBC1. 

 

            On Disc 2:

            - Episode 1:  Smith and Jones

                        Commentary from Writer/Executive Producer Russell T. Davies and David Tennant.

            - Episode 2:  The Shakespeare Code

                        Commentary by actors David Tennant and Christina Cole (Lilith).

            - Episode 3:  Gridlock

                        Commentary by Julie Gardner and actor Travis Oliver (Milo) and Visual Effects Producer Marie Jones.

                        (The commentaries on this disc are all exclusive to this DVD set.)

- David Tennant’s Video Diary.  29 minutes of video shot by David Tennant on the sets of these three episodes.

- BBC Trailers.  2 trailers used to advertise The Shakespeare Code and Gridlock  on BBC1.

 

            On Disc 3:

            - Episode 4:  Daleks in Manhattan (Part 1 of a 2-part story)

                        Commentary by actress Miranda Raison (Tallulah), Costume Designer Louise Paige, and Writer Helen Raynor.

            - Episode 5: Evolution of the Daleks (Part 2 of this 2-part story)

                        Commentary by actors David Tennant, Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Voices), and On Set Visual FX Supervisor Barney Curnow

            - Episode 6: The Lazarus Experiment  

                        Commentary by actors David Tennant and Mark Gatiss (Professor Lazarus) 

            - Episode 7: 42   

                        Commentary by Russell T. Davies and Writer Chris Chibnall.

                        (The commentaries on this disc are also all exclusive to this DVD set.)

 

            On Disc 4:

            - Episode 8: Human Nature (Part 1 of this 2-part story)

                        Commentary by Writer Paul Cornell, Director Charles Palmer, and Music Composer Murray Gold.

            - Episode 9: The Family of Blood (Part 2 of this 2-part story)

                        Commentary by Producer Susie Liggat, Production Manager Tracie Simpson, and Supervising Art Director Arwel Wyn Jones.

            - Episode 10:  Blink

                        Commentary from Writer Steven Moffat and Music Composer Murray Gold.

                        (The commentaries on this disc are also all exclusive to this DVD set.)

                        There has been one change made to this episode, probably by accident.  A caption that should read “ONE YEAR LATER”

                        over the start of the final scene at the DVD store is missing, though the shot is still there. 

- David Tennant’s Video Diary.  40 minutes of video shot by David Tennant on the sets of the episodes on discs 3 and 4 and also

            on the set of the special Doctor Who edition of The Weakest Link. 

- 1 Easter Egg.  Highlight the blank area below to discover what it is (as if you couldn’t guess) and how to find it.

            Go into the Scene Selection menu and go to the last page of the menu for Blink.  Highlight scene selection number 9

            (the one with a picture of Larry’s eyes trying not to blink) and then press up.  The caption above will become highlighted.

            Select this, and you will see the entire uncut 5-minute DVD Easter Egg from the episode of the Doctor talking to Sally Sparrow.

           

            On Disc 5:

            - Episode 11:  Utopia (Part 1 of the 3-part finale)

                        Commentary by David Tennant and Russell T. Davies

            - Episode 12:  The Sound of Drums (Part 2 of the 3-part finale)

                        Commentary by Julie Gardner and Producer Phil Collinson.

- Episode 13:  Last of the Time Lords (Part 3 of the 3-part finale)

Commentary by Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Phil Collinson.

- David Tennant’s Video Diary.  27 minutes of video shot by David Tennant on the sets of the episodes on this disc.

- BBC Trailers.  Four trailers that advertised these episodes on BBC1. 

***********IMPORTANT NOTE******************