Doctor Who: The Collection, Season 2 (William Hartnell Season 2)

[TwinCitiesBluFan]

Releasing 5 Dec 2022 and can be pre-ordered below:



Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 2 Blu-ray

and also available via:

• Rarewaves
• HMV
• Sanity
• JB
• Amazon US

Official announcement below:

The missing two episodes of THE CRUSADE have been reconstructed using off-air photographs and the original broadcast soundtrack, while remaining 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 2 Blu-ray box set also includes extensive Special Features including:

• Three brand new documentaries: Including an overview of Season 2, FLIGHT THROUGH ETERNITY, a look at 1960s collectables in DOCTOR WHO AND THE COLLECTORS, and a deep dive into the life and career of story editor David Whitaker in LOOKING FOR DAVID.
• IN CONVERSATION: Two exclusive insightful feature-length interviews, with William Russell and Maureen O’Brien.
• BEHIND THE SOFA: New episodes with companions Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Carole Ann Ford, Janet Fielding (Tegan), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Bonnie Langford (Mel) and Sophie Aldred (Ace).
• Exclusive Audio Commentary: Learn about the recovery of THE LION, a missing episode that was returned in 1999, with three of the heroes responsible for its return.
• Convention Footage: A rare chance to hear from actors Jacqueline Hill and Adrienne Hill (Katarina) alongside Michael Craze (Ben) and Carole Ann Ford.
• Exclusive Enhanced Soundtrack: Watch THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH with an optional enhanced soundtrack.
• HD Photo Galleries: Including many previously unseen images.
• Info Text: Behind-the-scenes information and trivia on every episode.
• Scripts, Costume Designs, Rare BBC Production Files and other rarities from the PDF Archive
• The nine-disc box set also includes hours of special features previously released on DVD.

Check out the trailer on YouTube:

The Storyteller | The Collection: Season 2 Announcement Trailer | Doctor Who - YouTube

[StuPod]

Pre-ordered.
It's nice to finally see a new Collection set coming.

[biglou114]

[elvisranger]

Pre-ordered!!! Im so excited for this one!

[Rayjg]

Still don't have the last one. I wish the companies that care: Diabolik, Grindhouse, etc., would carry these UK releases

[jstxanothrxstory]

Hopefully this means standard editions of seasons 8 and 22 are coming soon as well.

[Rayjg]

How well does Zavvi package these Doctor Who limited edition sets?

[mkyuncle]

Originally Posted by Rayjg

How well does Zavvi package these Doctor Who limited edition sets?

I've never had a problem with Zavvi sending to New York. They just send the item in an outer cardboard box. It's $68.99 on Zavvi not incl shipping, but Rarewaves has it for $60.99. I just ordered there for 65.98 incl shipping.

[goldmonkey]

Drew

Originally Posted by Rayjg

How well does Zavvi package these Doctor Who limited edition sets?

A jiffy bag. I wish I was joking but I'm really not.

[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by goldmonkey

A jiffy bag. I wish I was joking but I've not.

To the U.S.? Yikes, will avoid them. I can't believe Amazon UK still isn't shipping certain items internationally.

[-shadow-]

A 60's set?!

Originally Posted by Rayjg

To the U.S.? Yikes, will avoid them. I can't believe Amazon UK still isn't shipping certain items internationally.

They finally opened up a bit to the EU, the entire thing has been such a mess...

[mkyuncle]

Originally Posted by -shadow-

A 60's set?!





They finally opened up a bit to the EU, the entire thing has been such a mess...

This is available on Amazon UK to ship to US, it's £49.99 + £9.96 delivery to United States. It expensive according to conversion, 59.95 Pound sterling equals 72.41 United States Dollar.

[CouncilSpectre]

Interesting that they’ve gone with season 2 for this. Haven’t the other Doctor’s releases been in chronological order starting with their first seasons? I know there’s fewer missing episodes in season 2 but that situation’s unlikely to change and I’d imagine they’d just use existing reconstructions for MARCO and the animated episodes for REIGN OF TERROR anyway so possibly not much more effort than presumably is going into the season 2 release…

Great news either way though, can’t wait to add this one to the collection

[Rayjg]

Originally Posted by mkyuncle

This is available on Amazon UK to ship to US, it's £49.99 + £9.96 delivery to United States. It expensive according to conversion, 59.95 Pound sterling equals 72.41 United States Dollar.

Thanks. I wonder why they allow this one to ship to the U.S. but not season 22?

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by mkyuncle

This is available on Amazon UK to ship to US, it's £49.99 + £9.96 delivery to United States. It expensive according to conversion, 59.95 Pound sterling equals 72.41 United States Dollar.

You forgot to remove the VAT -- it's closer to £52+ local sales tax ($63 with current conversion). Plus of course the inevitable price drop pre-release to closer to £40 around release day like most of the rest of the series

Expensive -- maybe relatively I guess. The US release will be substantially cheaper like normal, but standard packaging and non native conversion

[knuckles96]

Interested in seeing The Lion restored, hopefully looks a lot better than the Lost in Time DVD release.

I haven't bothered with these sets because I have the DVDs but HD Hartnell is tempting, as this is one of my favourite eras of DR WHO

[TwinCitiesBluFan]

Originally Posted by knuckles96

Interested in seeing The Lion restored, hopefully looks a lot better than the Lost in Time DVD release.

I haven't bothered with these sets because I have the DVDs but HD Hartnell is tempting, as this is one of my favourite eras of DR WHO

Peter Crocker, who does restoration work for these sets, confirmed on Twitter that The Lion was Vidfire'd this time, so I'm hoping it looks hugely better than it did previously.

[goldmonkey]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

Interesting that they’ve gone with season 2 for this. Haven’t the other Doctor’s releases been in chronological order starting with their first seasons? I know there’s fewer missing episodes in season 2 but that situation’s unlikely to change and I’d imagine they’d just use existing reconstructions for MARCO and the animated episodes for REIGN OF TERROR anyway so possibly not much more effort than presumably is going into the season 2 release…

Great news either way though, can’t wait to add this one to the collection

Poor Colin who always seems to get a raw deal has had his seasons released in reverse order. All three of them.

[The Hornets]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

You forgot to remove the VAT -- it's closer to £52+ local sales tax ($63 with current conversion). Plus of course the inevitable price drop pre-release to closer to £40 around release day like most of the rest of the series

Expensive -- maybe relatively I guess. The US release will be substantially cheaper like normal, but standard packaging and non native conversion

Wouldn’t expect much if any price drop on this as £50 seems the set price as both Amazon and HMV using it. Zavvi want more plus shipping on top.

This is also 9 discs (from pack shot) not 8 of previous releases plus you’ve got inflation kicking in. Both those easily explain an increase from £45 last time to £50.

[oddbox83]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

Haven’t the other Doctor’s releases been in chronological order starting with their first seasons?

Nope. Pertwee 4, C Baker 2 and McCoy 3 were all first for them.

Only T Baker and Davison have had their first seasons out first.