List of BBC DVD releases

Doctor Who has been released by BBC DVD since 1999. Leftover, Rebel Zero, Panopticon, Cold Front and The Elysium have also been released on DVD since their inception.

1999
Doctor Who was chosen as one of six DVDs released to represent the BBC as a "test" of the DVD market by BBC Worldwide. The other titles were The Black Adder, Noddy in Toyland, The Planets, Persuasion and Volume I of The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The title chosen for this test was The Five Doctors. This was picked because of it already existing in a "Special Edition" format from the BBC Video release of 1995. This permitted better use of the DVD format with 5.1 surround sound.

2000
After somewhat of a false start, BBC DVD decided to release a set comprising of the recent BBC Two Remastered & Colourised versions of the first three stories of Doctor Who. The plan had been to then release other Remastered 60s stories, later down the line, in the same style.

2001
After the success of the Beginning set, in the new year, the BBC chose to release Season 37, the season just broadcast, on DVD. Each DVD would use one of the story's title as it's main title but include one or two other stories from the season. After four releases, all of Season 37 was covered. BBC DVD went onto release the other anniversary specials The Lords of Time and The Three Doctors, before releasing special Star Trek crossover episode, A Case for the Blue Box, and the first of several (planned) sets featuring prominent stories featuring certain companions. In addition, the first season of Leftover was released as a whole season Boxset, which was very successful.

2002
Despite the success of releasing Season 37 over multiple releases, as the VHS range did, BBC DVD were encouraged, based upon the success of the Leftover Boxset, to release Season 38 in a DVD Boxset. After its success, charting at #1 in the DVD Charts, BBC DVD commissioned releases of Season 35, Season 30 and a Boxset featuring the episodes of the recent BBC Two & UPN Remastered Editions of Season 1.

These Boxsets were relatively easy to compile, and with a quick turnaround, as they were mostly little more than the episodes on DVD, with limited Special Features, such as one singular documentary about the making of the season, a commentary track on just one story in the season, and then subtitles.

2003
The four DVD boxset releases in 2002 were so successful, that BBC DVD commissioned a further 7 seasons to be released on DVD before the end of the year, especially as the 40th Anniversary was coming up, and the aim was to have released one season from every Doctor by then. Season 16 was the first to be chosen as it features one of the most popular Doctors and it had one long story arc, which made it very suitable for people watching on DVD, at a faster rate than broadcast. As well as this, the latest season, Season 39 and Leftover Series 3, were released too.

2004
BBC DVD increased the number of releases to 10, for 2004, including the release of both Season 40 and the Movie, which had the budget for a couple of more special features than the Season Boxsets. The majority of the releases focused on more recent seasons of the show, as they tended to sell better.

2005
As well as Season 41 getting a release, most other releases focused upon more recent seasons, however, the Remastered Editions of Season 2, were also released on DVD. In addition, Season 37 was also released in a DVD Boxset, which had already been released in vanilla form back in 2001.

2006
The releases continued in 2006, with a further 9 Doctor Who Boxsets being released, including Season 42. As most of the more recent seasons had now been released, in 2006, a lot more older ones were released. The year also marked a more notable difference for the releases, with more special features beginning to appear, usually, one or two extra documentaries appearing, going in-depth about the making of one or two of the stories in the season, and commentaries on every story.

2007
2007 saw the end of the regular Season Boxset range, as all previous seasons had been released on DVD, leaving only 1 release a year for the range, when a new season came out. BBC DVD decided to replace this range with a new range comprising of all the stories in each Doctor's tenure, in one boxset. The main selling point of these sets was the fact that BBC DVD were producing one new documentary for each story on the set, and recording commentaries for any stories which didn't already have them. As these took a lot of time to produce, only one would be released every six months, or so, vastly cutting down on the number of releases a year. The aim was to complete the range before the 50th Anniversary.

2008
BBC DVD only released 3 releases in 2008, due to the new 'Era' Boxsets. All 3 releases did sell very well, however, and did top the UK DVD Chart. Also as from Season 44 onwards, the show was produced in HD, the new Season Boxsets were also released in the Blu-ray format.

2009
The same type of releases from 2008, continued for 2009, but with the edition of a vanilla version of the 2008 Christmas Special, The One Doctor, in January, which would've been released on the Season 45 Boxset, a few months later. The Tom Baker Era Boxset held the distinction of being the highest-selling Doctor Who release ever, at the time.

2010
The 'Era' Boxsets continued into 2010, with the additions of Season 46's Boxset and the release of Doctor Who: Vengeance, both of these were also released on Blu-ray.

2011
Like with The One Doctor, Hark! The Weeping Angels Sing, was also released on its own in January but was also released with the Season 47 Boxset, later in the year. This Boxset was notable for not only changing the naming style of the Season Boxsets, but also changing the Cover Art style of them too, distancing themselves from the previous Season Boxes range, and causing many headaches for fans when trying to line up the spines on the shelf. The 'Era' releases continued in 2011, as well, taking them up to the end of the Ninth Doctor's tenure.

2012
The 'Era' range continued in 2012, with two further Doctor's sets being released, leaving only 2 left for 2013. In addition, both Season 48 and Doctor Who: Endgame were released.

2013
The 50th Anniversary year saw, not just the completion of the 'Era' range, as originally intended when it started, but also the discovery of two 'missing' stories from the 1960s, which were remastered and colourised by CBS Digitial before they were released on DVD. However, only one of these two stories was released in 2013, due to the quick turnaround time of the new remaster. The final two 'Era' boxsets were also released on Blu-ray, as the Joseph and Suchet eras were both produced in HD.

2014
As the 'Era' range had been completed the previous year, BBC DVD only released the newly discovered, The Web of Fear, on DVD, although Part Three was still missing and the 2001 Animated version. was included, as well as Doctor Who: Genesis, which was released separately from the Blu-ray, and the first half of Season 49, which had just completed broadcast. From 2014 onwards, BBC Worldwide imposed stricter brand guidelines on the Doctor Who Merchandise ranges, including the fact that all releases had to use the Chapter Four logo unless they had special dispensation. Due to this, The Web of Fear, used the Chapter Four logo, while The Enemy of the World used the Chapter Three logo.

2015
Wanting to cash in on more money, BBC DVD attempted to increase the number of releasing in 2015, by releasing a 'Complete Movie Collection' Boxset, featuring all 5 Movies between 2003 and 2013, but this set did not include the Dalek Movies. They also released, The Underwater Menace on DVD, as episode 2 had been found, as the original Remastered Release was a cut-down Omnibus Animation, for this release, Episodes 1 and 4 were given completely new, full length, animations.

2016
Like the 'Complete Movie Collection', the previous year, BBC DVD decided to commission a similar, but much larger, collection of Chapter Three, containing every Doctor Who television episode between 2004 and 2011, as well as all 5 movies, and several selected spinoff episodes. Even though Season 41-43 were only produced in SD, they were upscaled for the Blu-ray release of this set. Also, in addition to the normal Season 50 releases, The Third Planet, was released in a vanilla edition, soon after the episode had aired, as the BBC expected, many would be looking to get their hands on it, quite soon.

2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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