The BBC has confirmed that Season 13 will form the contents of the next Blu-ray box set.

The season, first broadcast in the UK in 1975 and 1976, was Tom Baker's second season. Together with Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, it features some of the best-known and highest-regarded stories of the classic era of Doctor Who. 

The eight-disc box set sees the Doctor and Sarah cross time and space to do battle with the Zygons, the biomechanoid Loch Ness monster, the fearsome Sutekh and his robot mummies, vengeful renegade Time Lord Morbius, an anti-matter creature on a distant planet, the scheming Kraals and the terrifying Krynoid.

All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media. 

The Collection: Season 13 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material, including:

NEW DOCUMENTARIES

• WORLDS WITHIN: A profile of actor Ian Marter, who played Harry Sullivan
• RETURN TO THIRTEEN: Philip Hinchcliffe returns to the locations of several Season 13 stories and is reunited with old friends
• IN CONVERSATION: Director Graeme Harper chats to Matthew Sweet about his life, career and Doctor Who
• TOM TALKS: Tom Baker on Season 13 and more
• THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM: The Fourth Doctor team attempt their escape
• BEHIND THE SOFA: New episodes with Colin Baker (the Sixth Doctor), Maureen O’Brien (Vicki), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Sadie Miller (Elisabeth Sladen’s daughter), and comedian Toby Hadoke.
• BRAND NEW AUDIO COMMENTARIES: Tom Baker on episodes from Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars and The Android Invasion
• UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS: On Terror of the Zygons
• OMNIBUS EDITIONS: HD recreations of the Pyramids of Mars and The Brain of Morbius repeat screenings, plus a brand-new edit of The Seeds of Doom
• TALES OF THE TARDIS: A 2024 edit of Pyramids of Mars with updated effects and appearances from the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson)
• EXCLUSIVE ARCHIVE TREATS: Including never-before-released footage from Mathshow, Disney Time and more
• INTERVIEWS: Unreleased footage of Elisabeth Sladen and Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman in Pyramids of Mars)
• 5.1 SURROUND SOUND: New surround mix on Pyramids of Mars
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES
• INFO TEXT
• PDF ARCHIVE

This eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD, including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.

The Collection: Season 13

The season can be pre-ordered on Amazon

The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who will return to screens worldwide on Saturday 12th April 2025.

The eight-part series will be screened on BBC One and Player in the UK and on Disney + worldwide. It stars Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor and Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra

It has also been confirmed that the Scottish actor Alan Cumming will feature in the second episode as the voice of Mr Ring-a-Ding. Cumming previously played King James in the 2018 story The Witchfinders.

Mr Ring-a-Ding is a happy, funny, singalong cartoon, who lives in Sunny Town with his friend Sunshine Sally. However, in 1952, after years of repeats in cinemas across the land, Mr Ring-a-Ding suddenly looks beyond the screen and sees the real world outside - and the consequences are terrifying.

Russell T Davies, Showrunner said:

The new season also stars Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday as well as previously announced guest stars Rose Ayling-Ellis, Anita Dobson, Christopher Chung, Michelle Greenidge, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruth Madeley, Jemma Redgrave, and Susan Twist.

Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC and Disney Branded Television.

The makers of Doctor Who Magazine have announced the latest issue of Chronicles, looking at Season Seven, first broadcast in 1970. 

Editor Marcus Hearn

Chronicles 1970 covers all the stories in Season 7: Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno, alongside exclusive features, insightful commentary and previously unpublished images.

Highlights include:

• Assistant script editor Robin Squire speaks to DWM for the first time, revealing his contributions to Spearhead from Space and Inferno.

• New interviews with actors Constance Carling (Spearhead from Space), Nigel Johns (Doctor Who and the Silurians) and John Levene (Sergeant Benton).

• Costume designer Christine Rawlins describes inventing a look for the Third Doctor, and the other challenges of Season 7.

• Scene by scene on The Ambassadors of Death with camera operator Mike Minchin.

• Mark Ayres, Peter Crocker and Paul Vanezis explain how the episodes in The Collection: Season 7 were restored for Blu-ray.

• Behind the scenes on the new Nicholas Courtney documentary, Splendid Chap.

• The surprising links between Doctor Who and soap opera Crossroads!

• The life and career of writer Malcolm Hulke.

• Tributes to Jon Pertwee, Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney.

• Special effects and production techniques.

• Target novelisations, TV Comic strips and the Doctor Who annual.

• … and much more!

Doctor Who: Chronicles 1970 is on sale Thursday 13 February, RRP £12.99 from panini.co.uk and selected branches of WH Smith while stocks last. 

It’s also available digitally from pocketmags.com priced £11.99.

The first Jon Pertwee season will be the next to be released on Blu-ray as part of the Doctor Who Collection series. 

The SEVEN DISC box set of the 7th Season of Doctor Who stars Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor along with Caroline John as Liz Shaw and Nicholas Courtney as The Brigadier. The series was originally broadcast in 1970 and was the first series made in colour. 
 

In his debut season, the Third Doctor is exiled to Earth, teaming up with UNIT’s Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and scientist Liz Shaw to confront alien invasions and threats from our own planet’s primeval past.

All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 7 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:

NEW DOCUMENTARIES
SPLENDID CHAP 

• A profile of beloved actor Nicholas Courtney
• LOOKING FOR MAC
• Uncovering the story of writer Malcolm Hulke
• TERROR IN THE SUBURBS
• When Doctor Who came down to Earth
• LUCKY 13: ROCKETS, ALIENS AND SPARE PARTS
• How the science of the day influenced Doctor Who
• BEHIND THE SOFA
• New episodes with Katy Manning (Jo), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric),
• Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Toby Hadoke,
• and the late Caroline John’s family: husband Geoffrey Beevers (The Master) and daughter Daisy Ashford
• IN CONVERSATION
• Matthew Sweet chats to John Levene (Benton) about his life and career
• THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM 
• Will Team Third Doctor escape the room of doom?
• MOVIE-LENGTH OMNIBUS EDITIONS
• The Silurians and Inferno
• EXCLUSIVE CONVENTION FOOTAGE 
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES 
• INFO TEXT 
• PDF ARCHIVE
• PLUS LOTS MORE! 

This seven-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.

The set can be pre-ordered on Amazon

The First Doctor story The Savages has been animated and will be released next year.

The four-part series, first broadcast between May and June 1966, will return as an animated series to be released on DVD, Blu-ray and a limited-edition Blu-ray Steelbook next spring.

With the original master recording lost, as many of these television episodes where historically wiped after transmission, the BBC Studios Home Entertainment teams worked with original audio recordings and soundtracks of all four episodes and a team of animators to bring back to fans this long-lost story arc.

In this early story, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions, Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane), arrive on an unnamed planet where they encounter two distinct people - the Elders and the Savages. They soon discover the Elders are the evil ones, draining the primitive Savages for their life source to remain young and powerful forever. This story marks the final appearance of Purves as Steven.

This three-disc release will include all four 25-minutes animated episodes in colour and black and white, as well as exclusive bonus features.

Paul Hembury, Executive Producer commented:

The story is available for pre-order on Amazon

THE SAVAGES RETURNS

In addition, BBC Studios Home Entertainment will release the new colourisation of The War Games. Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone – but all is not as it seems. They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have been abducted and are being manipulated in a cruel game. As they work to uncover the mystery behind the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces one of his most difficult challenges.

For the first time, these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience to appeal to today’s modern audiences. With updated sound and a new score, this newly updated version of The War Games offers both fans and newcomers even more ways to watch the much-loved classic story. This title will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and limited-edition Blu-ray Steelbook and will air on BBC will air on 23 December 2024 on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.

BBC Studios have announced that the 1969 Patrick Troughton story The War Games, has been colourised with the new edition being shown on BBC Four and iPlayer this Christmas. 

Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor who, with his companions Zoe and Jamie, land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone—but all is not as it seems.

They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have been abducted and are being manipulated in a cruel game. As they work to uncover the mystery behind the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces one of his most difficult challenges.

For the first time, these original episodes have been colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience to appeal to today’s modern audiences. With updated sound and a new score, this new version of The War Games offers fans and newcomers even more ways to watch the much-loved classic story.

In addition, the episode will also feature the Second Doctor's never-before-seen regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), alongside recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast.

Russell T Davies, Showrunner said:

The story will be screened on BBC Four on 23rd December 2024.

This special episode is the second time that a classic Doctor Who story has been colourised, following The Daleks in 2023 which was updated to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the franchise.

THE WAR GAMES in Colour - Trailer

Doctor Who fans can continue to build their own home archive on Blu-ray with an eight-disc box set, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

The stories included are Remembrance of the Daleks, The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The stories also feature Sophie Aldred who plays iconic 80s companion, Ace, who joins the Doctor to battle Daleks, Cybermen, the murderous Happiness Patrol and the evil forces of the Psychic Circus.

PLUS, fans can experience this season like never before, with brand new extended special editions of all four adventures, exclusive to this Blu-ray set.

The four Special Editions feature unseen footage, updated special effects, immersive surround sound, and surprises. All episodes have been newly remastered from available sources meaning these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 25 is also jam-packed with hours of new and exclusive material including:

UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
Exclusive to Blu-ray, on the original broadcast versions of Remembrance of The Daleks,

• Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in The Galaxy.

BEHIND THE SOFA

• New episodes with Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Bonnie Langford (Mel), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Dame Sheila Hancock (Helen A), Jessica Martin (Mags), Karen Gledhill (Allison) and Mark Hardy (Cyber-Lieutenant).

IN CONVERSATION

• Three new episodes, with Sophie Aldred, script editor Andrew Cartmel and director Chris Clough.

 LOOKING FOR DURSLEY

• A documentary looking back at the life and career of Dursley McLinden (Mike).

THE MAKING OF DOCTOR WHO

• A rare vintage documentary from 1988, previously only available on VHS.

SILVER NEMESIS – VHS EXTENDED VERSION

• A version of the story originally released on VHS with extra footage.

SILVER NEMESIS – SPECIAL EDITION OMNIBUS

• A special cut-down feature-length version of this adventure, in the tradition of the 1970s Christmas repeats.

THE COLLECTORS – THE 1980s

• Host Emily Cook chats to Doctor Who collectors about their 1980s treasures.

THE DOCTOR WHO ESCAPE ROOM – TEAM SEVENTH DOCTOR

• Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Bonnie Langford attempt to escape the room of doom.

WHEN SOPHIE MET LESLEY

• Sophie Aldred chats to Lesley Dunlop, her co-star from The Happiness Patrol who also appeared in the Fifth Doctor story Frontios (1984).

STEPHEN MANSFIELD INTERVIEW

• The practical effects genius looks back on his Season 25 work.

STUDIO & LOCATION FOOTAGE

• Hours of raw footage and outtakes captured during the making of all four stories.

5.1 SURROUND SOUND

RARE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL FROM THE BBC VAULTS

 EXCLUSIVE CONVENTION FOOTAGE

 HD PHOTO GALLERIES

 INFO TEXT

PDF ARCHIVE

 PLUS LOTS MORE!

This eight-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including documentaries, featurettes, audio commentaries and more.

The Collection: Season 25 will be released on 21st October 2024.

The set is available for pre-order here

Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson, are to appear in a new Tales of the TARDIS with The Doctor and Ruby embarking on a journey to the Pyramids of Mars

Following on from Saturday’s episode, The Legend of Ruby Sunday, in which the Doctor and Ruby came face to face with one of the Doctor’s greatest enemies, Sutekh, played by original actor Gabriel Woolf, the pair are set to take a trip down memory lane in Tales of the TARDIS: Pyramids of Mars.

The brand-new episode will feature an appearance from the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) for the very first time in Tales of the TARDIS.

Originally airing in 1975, the four-part story Pyramids of Mars sees the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) battle the almighty Sutekh. The classic story has been remastered into a feature-length omnibus episode that’s had a cosmic makeover, with updated visual effects. 

Phil Collinson, Executive Producer, says:

Experience the moment the Doctor first met his ferocious enemy Sutekh when Tales of the TARDIS: Pyramids of Mars airs on Thursday 20th June at 8 pm on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.

Doctor Who season one is now available on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and on Disney+ in the rest of the world, where available.

To mark Record Store Day 2024, Demon Records are releasing the complete narrated TV soundtrack of the Doctor Who story ‘The Edge Of Destruction’.

This brand new audio presentation, making its debut in any format with this vinyl release, features unique linking narration by Carole Ann Ford.

There’s also a bonus interview with Ford herself, in which she recalls playing Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter, in the original TV episodes.

The vinyl boasts a picture disc Side A, showing the Ship’s melting ormolu clock from a pivotal scene in the story, and an exclusive Zoetrope Side B, depicting the TARDIS swirling across space and time (best experienced using a smartphone running a third-party stroboscope app).

The 12” disc is presented in a stunning die-cut artwork outer sleeve.

2024 is the 60th anniversary of this two-episode story starring William Hartnell as the Doctor. First broadcast on the 8th & 15th February 1964

The disc will be released on 20 April 2024 on Record Store Day, the day when over 260 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture.

The BBC has announced that the next season of Doctor Who to be released on Blu-ray is Season Fifteen first broadcast in 1977. 

The seven-disc box set stars Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor alongside Louise Jameson as Leela.  

This limited-edition set contains six classic stories packed with hours of new and exclusive material.
 

These stories include the character of trusty robot dog K9, voiced by John Leeson and builds to an epic showdown on the Time Lords’ home planet Gallifrey with the Doctor pitted against his old adversaries the Sontarans.

All episodes have been newly remastered from the best available sources – these classic adventures have never looked or sounded so good on home media.

The Collection: Season 15 Blu-ray box set also includes extensive Special Features including:

• UPDATED SPECIAL EFFECTS
  Exclusive to Blu-ray, on Horror Of Fang Rock.
• BEHIND THE SOFA
  New episodes with Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Katy Manning (Jo Grant),  Betsan Roberts (wife of director Pennant Roberts) and comedian and presenter Toby Hadoke.
• BLU-RAY TRAILER
  A brand-new scripted trailer to announce the Season 15 Boxset of Doctor Who.
• DARKNESS AND LIGHT
  A look at the life and career of producer Graham Williams.
• IN CONVERSATION
  Interviewer Matthew Sweet chats to Louise Jameson.
• INSIDE THE LIGHTHOUSE
  Making Horror Of Fang Rock.
• TOM TALKS
  Tom Baker muses on life, the universe and everything.
• AUDIO COMMENTARIES
  Exclusive new Audio Commentaries from Tom Baker.
• 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX
  On Horror Of Fang Rock.
• RARE CONVENTION FOOTAGE
• TOM BAKER BLACKPOOL EXHIBITION LINKS
• RARE ARCHIVE TREATS
• HD PHOTO GALLERIES
• INFO TEXT
• PDF ARCHIVE
• PLUS LOTS MORE!

This seven-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD including Documentaries, Updated Special Effects, Featurettes, Audio Commentaries and more.

The set is available to preorder on Amazon. 

Leela vs the Time War | The Collection: Season 15 Announcement Trailer
Even a warrior as brave as Leela knows when it's time to leave the battlefield... 💥 #DoctorWho: The Collection returns with Season 15, the Fourth Doctor's fourth season, as the next Blu-ray release