Jeremy, overall a nice review of the story arc, but I am wondering if you have seen any recent vintage Doctor Who DVD releases prior to this one? I only ask because of the really low video and audio scores you gave this one. Is this release an anomaly in an otherwise decent track record of releases in terms of A/V quality?

I thought the same way when I read this review earlier today. Nice review - but having looked at a number of earlier Doctor Who releases myself, I was surprised to see the rather brutal A/V scores here.

Oh, and Boba Fett - cool Nick Cave quote! Great song used in the Scream trilogy.

Boba etal, I did struggle with what rating to give to the AV quality. I have seen a number of the re-releases of the classic Doctor Who. I own the Key to Time box set, Robots of Death and Genesis of the Daleks, and have watched several of the others.

What I struggled with was the very poor quality of the initial audio and video. The BBC certainly presents them here about as well, and with as high a quality, as could be done. But the original product is mostly mono sound and video tape. Thus, the low ratings as compared to the general run of DVDs.

This was not an outlier as far as Doctor Who on DVD, and is right in line with the quality of previous releases. I am of course open to suggestions for looking at this in a different and/or better way.