Full DVD List

[Captain Tancredi]

...and if the range isn't finished by 2013, Steve Roberts almost certainly will be...

[davethesailor]

I was just wondering if there was anyone out there a bit smarter than me that would be kind enough to update this list?

Dave

[Jason Thompson]

The Beginning Boxset - An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Edge of Destruction
The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue, The Romans
The Web Planet
The Space Museum, The Chase
The Time Meddler
The War Machines
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Seeds of Death
The War Games
Lost In Time
Spearhead From Space
Beneath the Surface Boxset - The Silurians, The Sea Devils, Warriors of the Deep
Inferno
The Claws of Axos
Peladon Tales Boxset - The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon
Myths and Legends Boxset - The Time Monster, Underworld, The Horns of Nimon
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Dalek War Boxset - Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death
The Time Warrior
Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
The Cybermen Boxset - Revenge of the Cybermen, Silver Nemesis (due August)
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Brain of Morbius
The Masque of Mandragora
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Robots of Death
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Horror of Fang Rock
K9 Tales Boxset - The Invisible Enemy plus K9 & Company (due out in June)
Image of the Fendahl
The Invasion of Time
Key to Time Boxset
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The Creature from the Pit
The Leisure Hive
The E-Space Trilogy Boxset - Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate
New Beginnings Boxset - The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis, Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight / Arc of Infinity
The Black Guardian Trilogy Boxset - Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment
Kamelion Tales Boxset - The King's Demons, Planet of Fire
The Five Doctors
Resurrection of the Daleks
The Caves of Androzani
The Twin Dilemma
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks
The Trial of a Time Lord
Time and the Rani (due September)
Delta and the Bannermen
Remembrance of the Daleks
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
Survival
The Movie

[Rob McCow]

It might be worth adding to that the 'Bred For War' box set, which contains The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time and The Two Doctors.

As far as I'm aware, the DVDs in the set are the same as the separate releases.

[Paul Monk]

As far as I'm aware, the DVDs in the set are the same as the separate releases.

They are!

[Jason Thompson]

Yes indeed. I could also add the Five Doctors special 25th anniversary edition, the Remembrance of the Daleks special edition, and the Davros box set, which includes Genesis, Destiny, Resurrection and Revelation as per the stand alone releases and the Remembrance special edition, along with a whole bunch of Big Finish audios featuring Davros.

And the planned Revisitations set, of course....

[davethesailor]

Hey, thanks for the update. I really do appreciate it!

[davethesailor]

so here is a question. How many stories are there left to release?

[Logo Polish]

There are currently:

6 Hartnells (including 2 incomplete)
2 Troughtons (including 1 incomplete)
10 Pertwees
8 Tom Bakers (including 1 incomplete)
4 Davisons
5 McCoys

Which makes 35 altogether, or 31 if you only include complete stories.

[shada pavlova]

Bloody hell, that's not a lot, is it, when you think about it?

[brandynigma]

Well, they've been releasing about 17 stories a year, the last few years...

[shada pavlova]

Yes, but it never really sunk in until now!

[Dino]

There are currently:

6 Hartnells (including 2 incomplete)
2 Troughtons (including 1 incomplete)
10 Pertwees
8 Tom Bakers (including 1 incomplete)
4 Davisons
5 McCoys

Which makes 35 altogether, or 31 if you only include complete stories.

Actually, make that 4 McCoy's as "Silver Nemesis" came out this month.
Can we have a "Guess the release" sweepstake?
Without knowing the details, I hope next year we see two stories from each of the above Doctors released. That would make 12. But then are they bi-monthly releases? Pretty shocking to Jon having ten left. "Death To The Daleks" and sod the rest! What odds will you give me on "Greatest Show In The Galaxy" coming out before "Dragonfire"? (But then haven't I read on here that GSITG is part of a box set?) Suppose we'll have "The Krotons" sooner or later.
It's pretty hard to think of what boxsets you could make from the rest?
Good luck for when they bite the bullet with "The Gunfighters"!

[Logo Polish]

Actually, make that 4 McCoy's as "Silver Nemesis" came out this month.

No, it's 5.

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Dragonfire
The Happiness Patrol
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

[Dino]

No, it's 5.

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Dragonfire
The Happiness Patrol
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

I stand corrected! Forgot TATR isn't out yet.

[shada pavlova]

It's pretty hard to think of what boxsets you could make from the rest?

Mara Tales?

Things that have a "K" in them?

[davethesailor]

What's this incomplete Tom Baker story then?

[Anthony Williams]

What's this incomplete Tom Baker story then?

SHAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Ant x

[Jason Thompson]

For the sake of completeness, stories awaiting release at this stage are:

The Sensorites
The Reign of Terror
Planet of Giants
The Ark
The Gunfighters
The Tenth Planet
The Ice Warriors
The Krotons
The Ambassadors of Death
Terror of the Autons
The Mind of Evil
Colony in Space
The Daemons
Day of the Daleks
The Mutants
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
Planet of the Spiders
Terror of the Zygons
The Android Invasion
The Seeds of Doom (due October)
The Face of Evil
The Sun Makers
Nightmare of Eden
Shada
Meglos
Kinda & Snakedance (due for release 2011)
The Awakening
Frontios
Time and the Rani (due next month)
Paradise Towers
Dragonfire
The Happiness Patrol
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

So not many really. As far as potential box sets go, there are two Dalek stories in there which could be put together; The Sensorites leads right into The Reign of Terror; The Awakening and Frontios are in sequence and could be combined; there are four Delgado master stories there, including his first. There are probably others. Let us not forget that the last three complete Hartnell stories to be released on VHS were just bunged together in a box set regardless of their otherwise unrelated-ness....

[davethesailor]

Thanks Jason for that.

So how much of Shada exists, is a DVD release likely?

My intention is to watch every single episode from beginning to end once all the DVD's have been released. (believe it or not, I have full complete stories that I have never watched before)! If I am doing this, do you think I should also include the missing stories audio CD's (many of which I have never heard either)?

Has anyone else done this before?

[Jason Thompson]

Thanks Jason for that.

No problem.

So how much of Shada exists, is a DVD release likely?

Enough of it exists for a VHS release, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't come out. Ultimately it is quite a chunk of Doctor Who material that is unlikely to languish on VHS forever and never see shiny disc. The VHS lists the running time as 110 minutes, which is only 40 minutes short of a full 6 episodes. Some of that 110 minutes is of course Tom Baker's linking narration, but I would estimate from memory that there's still about 80 or 90 minutes of actual footage there. The thing is that the amount of footage reduces with each episode! Episode 1 is virtually complete, while episode 6 only has a couple of minutes of footage intact. I would say there is enough to warrant getting it to complete the collection. I wouldn't say it's all that good, however....

My intention is to watch every single episode from beginning to end once all the DVD's have been released.

I did that with the VHS range. It was quite interesting, and made me appreciate som stories a lot more. You're obviously free to watch in whatever manner you choose, but I found two episodes per night with a gap between seasons of an appropriate number of Who-free nights to be an excellent way of getting through it in a sensible period (still took two years though!).

If I am doing this, do you think I should also include the missing stories audio CD's

Definitely. There is a lot in them, especially if you take it in order. I think you'd do the Troughton era in particular an injustice if you don't include them.

Watching two episodes per night also helps in the earlier years when there was no prior information about number of episodes, so you do end up watching the end of one story and the start of another, running into each other just as they did when they were first shown.

[Si Hunt]

"Shada" is apparently not included in 2-entertain's pledge to release "every story" on DVD, on the other hand Mark Ayres once said he had "an idea" on how to complete it, signalling that it MIGHT be on their radar.

In a nutshell, they've not commited to doing it, but us "Shada" fans are keeping everything crossed they will try - preferably before the cast die and become unavailable to take part!

Si.

[Simon R]

Don't forget the 2003 Shada webcast thing with Paul McGann. It's not great but it's watchable on DVD and would be a nice extra with the Tom version.

If it was me I'd release that alongside a re-jigged BBC video Shada with new animation and CGI instead of the awful cut and paste photo shots from the original and maybe get some of the other actors back to add to the narration to pad it out a bit.

[Si Hunt]

I'd get out the slap and force the actors back into their original costumes to finish what they damn well started.

Si.

[Simon R]

Or recreate the missing scenes with Character Option's Tom and K9.