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Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead starring David Tennant as the Doctor and Michelle Ryan as Lady Christina.

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

- DTS HD stereo sound

- 16:9 Enhanced aspect ratio.

- The disc boots up with trailers for other BBC Video DVD sets, but these are skippable with your remote.

- 1 60-minute episode, Planet of the Dead. This the 60-minute special that ran at Easter 2009 on BBC1

in the UK. In this, the Doctor catches a ride on a London bus that has on board an international jewel thief,

and as interesting as she may be, his reason for being there is that the bus is about to drive through a wormhole

to an alien planet! (Features location shooting in the deserts of Dubai, UAE.) It is the first episode of

Doctor Who to be shot in high-definition (1080i).

- Available in both high-definition (1080i) Blu-Ray or standard definition (480i) DVD.

- Also contains a 60-minute edition of Doctor Who Confidential , the behind-the-scenes documentary that

covers the particularly arduous filming of this episode. This is in standard-definition only on both editions.

- There is no commentary track, nor any further bonus features.

If one counts this series as a continuation of the original series, then this is story number 204, and episode

number 764. Originally transmitted on April 11, 2009 on BBC1 and BBCHD.