What's Next for the Doctor Who Blu Rays?
Hello all.
In today's blog post we're going to be talking about the Doctor Who Classic Series Blu Ray box sets and what is next to be expected from the line.
As we know, Season 14 is still due to be released next month it is scheduled to be released on the 5th of May. The boxset will include all 26 episodes of the six stories from that season including: The Masque of Mandragora, The Hand of Fear, The Deadly Assassin, The Face of Evil, The Robots of Death, and The Talons of Weng-Chaing (my personal all time favourite Doctor Who story)
So this boxset is a winner for me and contains stories that are highly regarded amongst fans.
But what can we expect next? I'm we'd all love to see our favourite season of Doctor Who on blu-ray if we haven't already. What would you like to see released next?
From what we already know Season 20 is happening because Peter Davison and Janet Fielding announced it at a convention in Germany, and the rumours say Season 11 as well which is Jon Pertwee's final season.
There have also been announcements of plans for filming a documentary which contains location hopping and it's hard to pin point seasons which have multiple locations, the only one that comes to mind is Davison's final season, Season 21.
Personally, I would like to see Season 21 as it has some strong stories in there such as Resurrection of the Daleks, and The Caves of Androzani as well as a few fun ones such as Warriors of the Deep and Frontios. Say what you like about Warriors of the Deep I think it's all right. In regards to the artwork, Season 21 also has Colin Baker's first story 'The Twin Dilemma' so it would be interesting to see the cover art for that, you can include a dalek on the front cover to help with marketing. I would say Season 21 is my personal recommendation to release next.
Season 25 would also be good, perhaps they can do some CGI work on Remembrance of the Daleks or Silver Nemesis.
And Season 11, of course I'd prefer Season 8 or 9 if they were going to release another box set from the Pertwee era, however it would make sense considering we do have Season 10 and 12, it would be nice to fill the gap. We have all the episodes, even though Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part One is in black and white, Special feature wise, because these box sets contain updated special effects on stories I'm sure the obvious choice would be to fix the dinosaurs in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. I wouldn't say use CGI effects more use better dinosaur models. I'm a fan who loves the campness of Doctor Who and to use better dinosaurs models or puppets would be better for the production and that story will always been known as 'the one with the dodgy dinosaurs' so you can't really take that away from the story by having better dinosaur models. Perhaps they could fix the re-colouring of Invasion of the Dinosaurs Part One as that looks very ropey and could be better polished.
My own personal choice if they were add new visual effects to a story of that season would be 'Planet of the Spiders' Imagine a huge CGI The Great One. That would look incredible. Giant spiders are scary and to see that would fulfil the imagination just like the rat in Talons of Weng Chiang which sticks out like a saw thumb and now that they've added new CGI effects it looks seemless. So so good. You can also clean and tidy up other things too such as the Whomobile flying, that looks very ropy, and other CSO backgrounds like Metabelis Three. We could include a similar backdrop which includes the blue moon as seen in The Green Death or something similar.
Another thing about the blu rays is I like how they've released not so highly regarded seasons first such as Season 23. They didn't wait to leave that till the third or second last box set to be released of the sets run. We could expect another two or three years of these releases. As a collector you go to all the trouble of buying them all on DVD only to buy them all again on Blu Ray. But, I've got six of these sets so I'm fully committed, I can't go back now. I also know how stressful it is to get these sets after market, so it's important to bare in mind to remember to pre-order on the day that a new box set gets announced.
Of course I buy these sets for the beautiful cover artwork, and to see the new special features, but these box sets do prove to be worth their money and as a fan I will buy it anyway.
As these box sets continue, I hope to be more amazed and excited about the next boxset as I was the last containing new, fun, orginal material that excites and impresses.
