Doctor Who: Peter Davison Complete First Season (Season 19) Now Season 2 too (S 20)

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Originally Posted by Doctorossi

It's how they've done it from the beginning of the home video range. Apparently, there are (or at least were) a lot of Tom Baker fans that will casually pick up a title of another doctor, here or there, while they wait for more Tom releases. Tom is the biggest seller of the "classic" range, so they don't want to blow their entire wad too early.

If it were up to me, I would've started with the first complete season and released them all in order and then gone back to the earlier seasons (to give maximum time for missing episode recoveries). Also, if it were up to me, I would've started releasing season sets on Blu-ray at least 5 years ago.

Clearly, it is not up to me.

But back then they were doing it one story at a time and that factored heavily into their release schedule - they released stories they thought would sell well to help fund the next one.

Most of that work is done now, so they don't have to start from scratch and do each story over. So since they're releasing full seasons, and the vast majority of the work is done, it makes sense to me to just pick a doctor and go through his entire series before moving to the next doctor. And the obvious choice due to popularity is Tom Baker.

I get why they picked him to start with. What I don't get is why they're jumping around. What other series ever has been released like this? Again, back then it's how they did it, one story at a time. Now with full season sets, it makes no sense.

The restoration team says it will take around 8-9 years to finish the whole line, at around 3 sets per year. So I have to possibly wait up to 8-9 years to get the last Tom Baker series, depending on how they choose to release them? Sorry, but that makes no sense to me. Pick a doctor and stick with him.