Terror of the Autons and the remaining episodes of The Dæmons are sourced from B/W film telerecordings with colour taken from NTSC offair VHSs recorded in the US in the late 70s (with a single clip in Autons sourced from PAL VT as part of an insert reel for the 22/6/73 edition of Nationwide, and cliffhanger material from the orinal PAL Dæmons Episode Four being used in Three and Five). The collection contains five classic stories, 'Terror of the Autons', 'The Mind of Evil', 'The Claws of Axos', 'Colony in Space' and 'The Daemons', which first aired in 1971. Doctor Who - Story #058: Colony in Space". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 30 November 2013.

Jon Pertwee’s second season as the Third Doctor, featuring the debut of Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Roger Delgado as the Master, is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 8 on the 23rd February 2021. No features from the DVD were removed. The original VHS contained colour footage highlights and a restoration credit sequence, neither of which have been reissued digitally. Due to filming taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, two of these pairings are separated by a plastic screen. Mohindra and Dhawan were co-habiting partners at the time, so were able to sit closer. Doctor Who Colony In Space". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2013. Behind the Sofa - Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Stewart Bevan (Cliff Jones), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Sacha Dhawan (The Master) and Anjli Mohindra (Queen Skithra, and Rani in The Sarah Jane Adventures) watch highlights from the opening story of Season 8. (28'25" | 16:9 | 2021)Doctor Who - Story #056: The Mind of Evil". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 29 November 2013. An additional promotional DVD was released in DWM 544 on 17 October 2019 as part of the magazine's 40th anniversary, though it is not part of the official 'The Collection' boxset run.

This is a list of Bonus Features available on the original DVD releases but not ported over to this Blu-ray release. Coming Soon: Shada/More Than Thirty Years in the TARDIS removed, not on season 17 but perhaps The Wilderness Years. It has been a ten long months since the last release in the Doctor Who: The Collection range. (Made even longer by a missed postman and delayed redelivery.) Season 14 was another triumph headlined by the tear-jerking documentary ‘ Our Sarah Jane‘. So can Season 8 compete with the previous releases particularly when hampered by a global pandemic? Remembering Barry Letts - A celebration of the Doctor Who writer, producer and director who died in 2009. (33'36" | 16.9 | 2020)

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Occasionally, material from the standalone DVD releases of serials is moved to a particular season release if it is deemed a more appropriate fit. For example, Tomorrow's Times: The Sixth Doctor, originally included on the Vengeance on Varos Special Edition DVD, was included instead on the Bluray release of Season 23. Most notably, Coming Soon trailer for at-the-time forthcoming DVD releases of serials have been moved to the disc for the preceding story. For example, the trailer for The E-Space Trilogy box set, originally included on the DVD release for Battlefield, is included in the Season 18 set on the disc for Meglos. BBC Studios continues to offer Doctor Who fans the opportunity to build their own home archive on Blu-ray. Debuting on Monday 23 rd December is the acclaimed final season from the series’ original run, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred: Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. New episodes with Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, plus companions Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Anneke Wills and Jodie-Whittaker-era writers Pete McTighe & Joy Wilkinson.

Doctor Who - The Daemons". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2013.The Collection: Season 8". Doctor Who News. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020 . Retrieved 25 November 2020. Optional Updated Special Effects– Terror of the Autons alternate version with new FX and also CSO clean-up In both versions of Axos, several sequences from Episode Two are replaced with footager from a PAL VT studio tape, and the cliffhanger of Episode Three from the PAL VT Four. The Claws of Axos Episode One and Episode Four, along with The Dæmons Episode Four were remastered from their original PAL VTs (with elements of Axos One from an original studio tape).

On all 14 broadcast episodes, plus 5.1 sound on all extended versions of The Curse Of Fenric and Battlefield. Next up is ‘ The Claws of Axos‘. A colourful adventure with some hideous monstrosities, both alien and the Whitehall “England for the English” types. There is also an opportunity to watch an extended version of Episode 1. The additional scenes don’t particularly add much to the story but they are nice to have reinstalled. If you are so inclined then the full studio recording session is also available to watch at your leisure.In some cases, visual effects have been improved - improved exterior shots of the Pharos Project were used to replace models in some instances, including brand-new location shots filmed using drones. As with such improvements on the DVD range, these changes are optional and can be enabled or disabled at will. Serials have also been remixed in 5.1 surround where possible. The Direct Route - Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s. The Master creates the Keller Machine, a device that appears to rehabilitate prisoners, but instead kills them. PDF Written Archive - A treasure trove of previously unreleased material including production paperwork, scripts for all four episodes, Ken Trew's costume designs and Radio Times cuttings.