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Well, this is going to be an easy review. What separates this massive box set from the seven full-season sets put together is down to two things: new packaging, and one bonus DVD. The packaging’s nice, and makes marginally more sense than the oddball color-coded season sets as they were available individually. Now let’s talk about that bonus disc. With each of the individual season sets, Best Buy included exclusive DVDs with a handful of short bonus pieces that you could only get by shopping there (and paying pretty much whatever they asked for the sets, which wasn’t much of a discount). This bonus disc gathers all of the Best Buy bonus disc features in one place, with three brand new featurettes assembled just for this box set. (more…)

“Don’t ask. I have no idea,” says Sarah “Nyssa” Sutton at one point in the audio commentary for the 1982 four-parter Time-Flight, and later Peter Davison himself admits, “You’re right. I have no idea what’s going on.” Such is the fate of one of the more convoluted early adventures from Davison’s era of Doctor Who, which was released alongside Arc Of Infinity - another story which can’t really be considered a fan favorite. The two back-to-back stories represent the end of the 19th season and the beginning of the 20th, and I think there’s a reason these two examples of how not to top the most-popular-classic-Who-episode polls are already on DVD. It was surprising enough to see Timelash make it to DVD, but a dual release (or, in the U.K.’s case, an actual box set) of not-fondly-remembered material is even more surprising. (more…)