Series 1: Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor is wise and funny, cheeky and brave. An alien and a loner (it’s difficult keeping up with friends when your day job involves flitting through time and space), his detached logic gives him a vital edge when the world’s in danger. But when it comes to human relationships, he can be found wanting. That’s why he needs new assistant Rose. Rose (Billie Piper) is a shop-girl from the present day. From the moment they meet, the Doctor and Rose are soulmates. They understand and complement each other. As they travel together through time, encountering new adversaries, the Doctor shows her things beyond imagination. She starts out as an innocent, unfettered by worldly concerns. But she ends up an adventurer who, by the end of the series, can never go home again…
Series 2: The complete second series featuring David Tennant as the tenth ‘regenerated’ Doctor Who. In ‘The Christmas Invasion’ Christmas trees and seasonal Santa Claus impersonators begin wreaking havoc on the residents of London. Meanwhile the TARDIS lands on Earth with a new Doctor aboard. The Doctor is not yet fully recovered from regeneration. An invasion of the planet threatens mankind and there’s only the Prime Minister to battle it out.
Series 3: The third series of Doctor Who is full of new thrills, new laughs, new heartbreak and some terrifying new monsters. From the moment the Doctor walks into the life of medical student Martha Jones he changes it forever.
Series 4: David Tennant is back in his role as the Doctor in the fourth series of the hit sci-fi show! Award-winning comedienne Catherine Tate returns as the Doctor’s new companion, reviving her role as Donna Noble. Also on hand to help the Doctor are some familiar faces as h
A great boxed set – although it lacks the 10th Doctors final ‘season 5’ specials This Dr Who boxed set has all the first four seasons of the ‘new’ Dr Who starting with ‘Rose’, when Rose Tyler first meets the 9th Doctor. Inside the lidded cardboard box there’s four large [2cm wide] DVD cases, one for each season. There’s Special Feature’s on every DVD disc – these include audio commentaries [some episodes], in-vision commentaries [some episodes], and audio descriptions [all episodes]. The final DVD in each season is just the ‘cut-down’ BBC Confidentials. My son [13] and daughter [15] loathe these how-its-done bits with a passion – they want to believe it’s real. They do however like the well produced and illustrated large colour booklet of Episode Guides [around 30 pages] thats included in the box.This 23 DVD set has only English 5.1 audio with subtitles as English SDH [Deaf & Hard-of-hearing]. There’s 9h 27m [5 DVDs] of video in season 1, 11 hours in season 2 [6 DVDs], 9h 45 mins [6 DVDs] in season 3 and 11h 21 minutes [6 DVDs] in season 4. It’s rated 12: ‘suitable for over 12s only’, which is a bit odd as preteens are often Dr Who’s strongest fans, with the Doctor’s rock-solid moralistic overtones striking a chord within them, although I suppose some episodes particularly ‘Blink’, ‘Silence in the Library’, ‘The Empty Child’, and ‘The Unquiet Dead’ are a bit scary for some under tens. However, this didn’t stop my son at 9 loving the first season on BBC TV, although my daughter was moved to tears watching the emotionally charged ‘Fathers Day’.This all four season set has just the specials between seasons, i.e. the Xmas ones: The Christmas Invasion, The Run-away-Bride, and Voyage of the Damned. The last episode in this boxed set is Journey’s End, the finale of season 4. These Xmas specials are essential for continuity, hence their inclusion. The later tenth Doctor ‘season five’ specials: ‘The Next Doctor’, ‘The Dead Planet’, ‘The Waters of Mars’ and the last two ‘End of Time’ Xmas 2009/NewYear 2010 episodes are not in this set, and they have just been released seperately in a 5-DVD set [January 2010], also with a load of extras.So this series 1-4 boxed set is a great collection of fifty-six Dr Who episodes, with a lot of extras dotted around on the DVDs like ‘Davids video diary’, ‘On set with Billie Piper’, ‘The adventures of Captain Jack’, plus out-takes and the ‘children in need’ specials, and very usefully it’s all quite compact at 10x14x19.5 cm, easily 6*… For young Dr Who fans also check out the Sarah Jane Adventures, and perhaps the BBC’s Roman Mysteries as well that are quite sympathetic to this spin-off series. In fact I actually prefer the Sarah Jane Adventures to the excellent ‘adult orientated’ Torchwood, probably as Sarah Jane’s ethos is far more in keeping with that of the Doctors.
Best boxed set I ever bought! I won’t go into the details of the actual episodes contained within this amazing boxed set – if you’re reading this review, chances are you already know what a great series it is, but if not, just check out the many other brilliant reviewers on here, as they do it far better than I could.I purchased this box set for just under £47 which, considering I was about to buy all four series boxed sets individually, is a great saving. Clearly this boxed set does not offer anything new to the fans who already own the individual series sets, but if you’re new to Doctor Who like I am and looking to start your collection, then this is a perfect opportunity to own a slice of great British TV programming.Some people have commented on the use of plastic DVD cases over the cardboard folders – I personally prefer the plastic versions contained in this set, as I find that cardboard cases tend to get a bit dogged eared after repeat viewings – and I certainly intend to give these DVDs many, many viewings! They’re also more compact – about half the thickness of the individual cardboard cases, which is very welcome if you’re short on shelf space. The box that contains the DVDs is deceptively small – almost of TARDIS-like proportions, the whole thing being roughly the same thickness as two of the cardboard individual series boxed sets. You also get a rather nice booklet which contains episode guides for all 4 series in one volume rather than four individual booklets.So, anything bad about this boxed set? Definitely not! I’m still baffled by the decision to only offer cut down versions of the Doctor Who Confidential programmes, but at this price I’m not complaining!!
A Fantastic Set at a Fantastic Price. I’ll start by saying that I am not a person who has been a fan of Doctor Who forever. Not that I didn’t like it, just that I never saw much of it. So, I guess I’m part of the crowd this revival was intended to grab. And it definitely did grab me.This set contains the first four seasons of the 2005 revival of the classic show, Doctor Who. As someone who wanted to get into Doctor Who, this was a fantastic purchase. Being an Australian, British television is as expensive as sin for me to buy locally… it would have cost me the same to buy one season at the store as it did to buy this entire set here on Amazon.uk. So the value is amazing.The show itself is great… with a fantastic blend of adventure, comedy, drama, horror, etc. It’s just an all around great show. After watching all four seasons, I am now craving more… and now have the specials and the whole Torchwood set on their way to me as we speak! And I’ll be checking out some of the older stuff very soon as well.