#classic who dvds

[cronch-rat]

Classic who box sets guide

Ever wondered which stories are exclusive to certain box sets or what limited edition ones exist? Unsurprisingly this is a guide for just that.

This covers region 2 DVDs only. Exclusive to boxset features stories only available in that box set. Special edition exclusives feature special editions exclusive to the box set whilst the regular edition is available separately. Non-exclusives can be bought on their own but may have been released early in the box set or in a limited edition box set. All limited edition boxes contain stories available separately and were released in limited amounts or exclusive to certain places/websites.

Note: Logopolis is only available in the Regeneration box and New Beginnings. Terror of the Zygons features in the 4th doctor time capsule but is the only DVD in that set.

Exclusive to Boxset

The Beginning

An Unearthly child

The Daleks

The Edge of Destruction

The Rescue/The Romans

The Space Museum/The Chase

Earthstory

The Gunfighters

The Awakening

Mannequin Mania

Spearhead from Space (special edition)

Terror of the Autons

Beneath the Surface

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The Sea Devils

Warriors of the Deep

Peladon Tales

The Curse of Peladon

The Monster of Peladon

Myths and Legends

The Time Monster

Underworld

The Horns of Nimon

Dalek War

Frontier in Space

Planet of the Daleks

UNIT Files

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

The Android Invasion

Revenge of the Cybermen/Silver Nemesis

K9 Tales

The Invisible Enemy

K9 and Company

Key to Time

Legacy Box Set

Shada

More Than 30 Years in the Tardis

E-Space Trilogy

Full Circle

State of Decay

Warrior's Gate

New Beginnings

The Keeper of Traken

Logopolis

Castravalva

Mara Tales

Kinda

Snakedance

Time Flight/Arc of Infinity

Black Guardian Triology

Mawdryn Undead

Terminus

Enlightenment

Kamelion Tales

The King's Demons

Planet of Fire

Trial of a Timelord

Ace Adventures

Dragonfire

The Happiness Patrol

Special edition exclusives

Revisitations 1

The Talons of Weng-Chiang (special edition)

The Caves of Androzani (special edition)

The Movie (special edition)

Revisitations 2

The Seeds of Death (special edition)

Carnival of Monsters (special edition)

Resurrection of the Daleks (special edition)

Revisitations 3

Tomb of the Cybermen (special edition)

The Three Doctors (special edition)

The Robots of death (special edition)

Non exclusive

Bred for War

The Time Warrior

The Sontaran Experiment

The Invasion of Time

The Two Doctors

Regeneration

All regeneration stories from The Tenth Planet up to The End of Time part 2

Limited editions

Dalek 40th anniversary set (WHSmith exclusive)

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Resurrection of the Daleks

Remembrance of the Daleks

Third doctor collection (amazon exclusive)

Spearhead from Space

Inferno

The Claws of Axos

The Three Doctors

Carnival of Monsters

The Green Death

Cybermen collection (amazon exclusive)

Tomb of the Cybermen

The Invasion

Earthshock

Dalek collection (amazon exclusive)

same as 40th plus Genesis of the Daleks

and Revelation of the Daleks

Davros collection

all Dalek stories from Genesis to Remembrance

Key to time special edition

[soupforsoup]

Some behind the scenes tidbits I feel normal about (classic who edition):

- apparently every story Matthew Waterhouse's hairstylist would say they were going to trim his hair and never did, resulting in all the variations from crusader triangle to fuck ass bob to shaggy mullet

-Peter Davison was unaware he was many people's sexual awakening in his dressing gown in black orchid

-Colin baker was mistaken for a runner by another actor in arc of infinity and asked to go fetch a coffee (which he did)

-he would also walk around making chicken noises on the set of arc of infinity (until he was told to stop)

-Matthew didn't know adric died in part four of earthshock until he read Peter's script whilst shooting, and was apparently more upset over the fact he was being killed off rather than just leaving

-a lot of the doctor who movie was filmed in the same building as the X-files

-Janet Fielding was told she was good casting for doctor who because she "looked slightly alien"

-Deborah Watling and Frazer Hines used to joke that she left the show because she got pregnant, as she left almost nine months after arriving

-Sylvester Mccoy once couldn't find a filming location until after the doctor who fans, who had been waiting there for an hour

-Paul Mcgann thought all the doctors companions were their kids

-Peter and Sarah Sutton had to stop Janet from accidentally prostituting herself in the red light district

-Sylvester once played the spoons on a guy that tried to menace him

-Paul had to wear a wig because he was casted with the long hair you see in the movie but cut it all off for another role a couple months before they started filming

-Janet called Matthew "matte-finish" and "boom-boom waterhouse" whilst filming earthshock

-the cast bought a prop gun for arc of infinity from a sex shop in amsterdam

(Just to stress I obviously don't know the validity of these I just sourced them from interviews and commentaries!! Please don't come for me if these aren't accurate! These are just some funny things I've heard and if anyone else knows any random facts or stories feel free to reblog/share!!)

[lilydvoratrelundar]

"We deal with the odd, the unexplained, anything on Earth, or even beyond." "Alien invaders? Little blue men with three heads?"

Giffing Pertwee Who - Spearhead from Space: Episode 1

[veronicalodgefaghag]

i ❤️ jamie mccrimmon

[artistrichardhfay]

>"most of classic who is unrepentant garbage that most people cannot be bothered to sit through...."<

My wife and I are people. We have no issues sitting through episodes of classic Doctor Who. We can do it.

So can our daughter.

So can our grandchildren.

Matter of fact, I've built quite the collection of classic Doctor Who on DVD & Blu-ray because I love watching classic Who.

I had plenty of other episodes on VHS, dating back to before there ever was a revival series.

[fantasy-costco]

We got a DVD player from goodwill for like 2 bucks so that we can watch dvds from the library in town this is a fucking game changer I'm so excited

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

Synopsis

The Third Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find it has been evacuated because dinosaurs have appeared mysteriously. As the line between friends and enemies wavers, the Doctor soon discovers the dinosaurs are being brought to London via a time machine to further a plan to revert Earth back to a pre-technological "Golden Age"...

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

The Curse of Peladon

Synopsis

The Doctor and Jo make a test flight in the TARDIS and arrive on the planet Peladon. Seeking shelter, they enter the citadel of the soon-to-be-crowned King Peladon, where the Doctor is mistaken for a human dignitary summoned to act as chairman of a committee assessing an application by the planet to join the Galactic Federation.

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

[thirddoctor]

it's all going to be over for you guys when my DVDs get here

[mariocki]

Patrick Troughton lays down the law as Italian police Inspector Guido Gambetti in The Saint: Interlude in Venice (5.2, ITC, 1966)

[quietwingsinthesky]

shaking with excitement rn. doctor who dvds coming in tomorrow.

[soupforsoup]

Fifth tardis team dvd commentary moments that kill me (with honourary colin baker):

*the doctor walks out in a dressing gown*

Peter Davison: *chanting* sexual awakening sexual awakening sexual awakening

Sarah Sutton: sexual awakening alert

Janet Fielding: personally I'm going to sleep

.

The Doctor: "[a steam train]... I always wanted to drive one when I was a boy"

Matthew Waterhouse: DiD yOu ReAllY?? A sTeAm TrAiN?? oN gALLiFrEY???

Everyone else: *losing their shit*

.

Peter: what is that you're holding there?

Matthew: my, my belt thing! My rope belt

Peter: ohhhhh, trousers have fallen down

*Adric literally dies in an explosion*

Janet: *about pockets* nothing to put your hands in now!

Matthew: no hands either!

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*the cyberman leader is threatening Tegan*

Peter: oh to hell with it, kill her

.

Peter: oh the waitress has just stepped in! Uh should you be sitting down, waitress?

"Waitress" Janet: they're picking on me! I haven't even started yet and you're picking on me!

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Janet: have I just walked into the middle of two saddo middle-aged men talking about who they fancy?

Peter: yep. yep.

Colin Baker: and funnily enough, your name didn't come up

Janet: thank god I haven't had breakfast

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Peter: we've managed to kill off Adric

Sarah: yep, we've dumped Tegan

Peter: and uh, lose Tegan at heathrow airport... Result!!

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Colin: last time I saw you lying on the ground like that, you turned into me!

Peter: fate worse than death Colin

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Janet: *about a piece of set with a green light coming from it* are you cooking something? Nyssa's making a pot of soup

Sarah: cabbage soup!

Janet: broccoli and stilton!

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Janet: I think I was very mean to you on this story Matthew, I took to calling you "boom-boom waterhouse"

Matthew: what?

Peter: *wheezing the whole time*

Sarah: oh yeah, of course and the other one was, "matte-finish"

Janet: *laughing* oh yeah!

Matthew: I don't remember any of this!

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Cyberman in the episode: *about the doctor* "the tall one with the fair hair"

Everyone: *dying*

Janet: and the highlights!

Sarah: the highlights yeah, with the expensive highlights!

Peter: *imitating the cybermen* and the blush on the cheeks

Matthew: *also imitating the cybermen* and the fake tan

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Sarah: That’s the trouble with all this chat, I can’t listen to the programme, find out what’s going on.

Matthew: You’re not missing much.

[cosmic-hoboandthehighlander]

After Jamie wakes from a nightmare, the Doctor sings him a Venusian lullaby to help him get back to sleep:

I had a dream where I was attatcked by a cyberman Jon Pertwee and I melt every time I hear the Third Doctor sing that Venusian lullaby in the Curse of Peladon -- so I wrote a fic about the Third Doctor soothing Jamie with a lullaby after he wakes from a terrible nightmare

I can't get enough of Threejamie -- here, take some!!

[hide-your-bugs-away]

letting my manager borrow one of my copies of Dont Look Back ... please keep him safe.

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 9, 2007, The Man Who Laughs was released on DVD as part of the American Silent Horror Collection Box set in the United States.

[micahdotgov]

ive not really interacted with many classic who fans until recently so idk if this is controversial or most people agree with this but i gotta be honest most of these serials did not need to be six episodes long. and the dalek's master plan definitely didn't need to be TWELVE episodes long that shit was painful to get through. im not slagging off classic who as a whole like im saying this as someone who's only just finished hartnell's run so it could improve as it goes on but christ a lot of episodes have fuck all happening. don't get me wrong i'm generally enjoying it and i would recommend watching it (well. most of it.) but sometimes it feels like im having to drag myself through them

[junkyardbluebox]

Hmm... not sure what I think of the animation style. It seems similar (if not the same) to The Evil of the Daleks. I suppose they decided it would just be easier to make it in the same style, even with Jamie's clothes a bit off (which reminds me... I hope he and Ben will still be wearing those, ahem, wet suits...).

I know I know, beggars can't be choosers... and I am still curious about what it will look like in its entirety, fish people and all. :)