DVDs in the Works

At long last, BBC Video will be able to fill the gaping hole in many North American collections of Doctor Who DVDs. Or perhaps you’ve been hoping to streamline down from a raggedy old VHS taped off-air fourteen years ago. The 1996 Doctor Who movie marks an important step in the show’s history between the classic years that ended in 1989 and the new series that began in 2005, and the forthcoming DVD has 3 hours of extras to document the production from every angle. Though Paul McGann (Luther, Collision, Our Mutual Friend) was to star as the Eighth Doctor only once on television, he made an indelible impression on fans, and he went on to record a series of Big Finish Audio Adventures and animated webisodes for BBC.com that kept the idea of Doctor Who alive during some very lean years.