Doctor Who DVD Guide (Classic and New)
 

Serials are released containing all episodes unless indicated otherwise (note this only applies to the earlier Doctors' "Lost" stories). In these cases, a record of surviving material appears in brackets beside the episode title.
I have broken the serials down by Doctor, and then attempted to list them in the order that they were broadcast.
Please appreciate that this took me a while to collate (especially looking up the order that the serials were broadcast in), and would appreciate any advice on how to improve it that you could give! Also be sure to let me know if this guide is useful to you.

Key
(SR) = Seperate Release (refers to this serial being released by itself on a DVD)
(BS) = Box Set (refers to this serial being released with others in a box set; the set it is available in is listed in italics afterwards).

Well done -- unfortunately, while I do collect Doctor Who DVDs as they are released, this guide is more intended for our Region 2 audience than our Region 1 audience. :(

No worries though -- I am completely caught up, own every one currently out, and keep track for myself, so no big deal.

Region 1 does have the whole Key to Time set out though :P.

If you could give me some details on which are available for Region 2 I'll make a separate listing, I took those from the UK BBC store site.

Would you also agree that it seems the last few Doctors are rather hard done by as far as DVD releases go?

If you mean Region 1, then yes, we do. And I of course have it all. :P

Sure. There's bundles of info up here: http://home.comcast.net/~smanfred/DVD_FAQ.html

Well, their eras are shorter, admittedly, but yes.

According to that listing, there isn't any DVDs on my Region 2 list that are also not on Region 1. In fact, R1 has more as they have the extra Season 16 set. :eek:

I know. There are some differences though, usually in terms of the order released. I do believe you have some additional ones that we do not have yet, such as The Invasion. We will get them soon though.

Looking again I see R1 does not have the TV movie released - though I can't imagine anyone complaining about it ;).

The Invasion is not out until March 2007 in R1, I will update the list.

The original contract for the TV movie stipulated that the Fox network (the network that aired the Doctor Who TV movie over here) had to air the TV movie at least twice in order for it to be released on VHS or DVD. When initially aired, it didn't perform as well as Fox expected or hoped, so they never aired it a second time. Considering that was ten years ago now, it is unlikely it will ever air again, meaning unless they somehow get around that contract, it is unlikely the TV movie will ever be released here.

And I'm complaining. :(

Buy a multi-region DVD player and I'll get you the TV movie for Christmas :P.

That contract is pretty crazy though - you'd think Fox would have aired it again just for the DVDs if nothing else. Perhaps it would have been more popular the second time round if they used better marketing and smarter scheduling. Maybe because it wasn't a success, Fox tried to negotiate an edited contract involving some profit from R1 DVD releases in exchange for airing it again and were refused?

:eek: Yay! That would be very cool! :D

I agree. The same thing had occurred to me. Even if they had aired it at 4:00 in the morning or something ridiculous during off-peak hours when it didn't matter if anyone watched, just to be nice and allow the DVDs to come out, that would have been fine with me.

That also has occurred to me. Too bad it was ten years ago. I really don't think anything can be done anymore, except squeeze around the contract somehow (although we're all still waiting over here...).

I suppose that's possible. No way of knowing, though... I bet that would have helped, considering I guarantee you it would have been more popular on DVD.

Ah but then it wouldn't have gotten many viewers ;). You know how the world of US media is, it pretty much flopped on original broadcasting so there wasn't much chance of them giving it another go. Though I would have thought that the success it reached in the UK may have prompted them to air it again...

Hey, it would have made sense to me. But I don't run Fox, nor would I want to. (I don't like Fox. They usually air crap shows, usually, with some notable exceptions. They're like the network that most caters to the generally stupid American public, with awful reality shows, awful game shows, awful contest shows, and generally awful non-entertaining crap programming. Okay, done with Fox rant now.)

Then lets take over Fox and call it the DS.Channel, nothing but Doctor Who and Star Trek all the time :D

LOL. Didn't we plan something similar once? It wasn't Fox but I remember planning the takeover of some channel or other. :P

We should show Frost on it aswell :P

Not on DS.Channel. :P

Why not? Whats wrong with Frost? There's an idea for a plot- Ronn tries to turn Frost into a big movie fanchise.

What power do you have over it? :P

And I don't want it on my channel -- simple as that. If it's my name on it, it's my shows that appear on it. Frost, while good, ain't one of 'em.

what Captain Scarlet to see if it's good enough to put on (might be good for ratings)

I can watch it without putting it on my channel. :P