Said it before and will say it again - if you’re a Doctor Who fan and AREN’T subscribed to Josh’s channel, you are missing a LOT. The missing episodes omnibus is worthy of putting on a DVD. Well-researched, smart, wonderfully edited and Josh just comes across as a good dude. Fantastic work!

That Audio Navigation cushion is so awesome!!! I could hear the person saying it in my head as I read it 😂

On the subject of CGI. "Invasion of The Dinosaurs" needs it, because those models take you out of a pretty decent story.

Season 2 is my favourite Hartnell season, and The Time Meddler is one of my all-time favourites overall. The entire Hartnell era radiates a charm that few other programmes or eras within the show manage to recreate to its fullest. I am stoked about this set. Can't wait.

The reconstruction instead of animation is a big let down. I am just guessing, but I think the reason BBC America pulled out of funding the animations is because the ratings in America fell off the cliff. AMC Networks is part owner of BBC America, and no matter how hard they pushed the new show, the ratings never bounced back. That in turn lowered interest in the animations, and they were not getting their return on investment. RTD needs to turn around the new show or funding for releases of the classic show will eventually dry up.

The fact The Crusade is seemingly being left as is really kills my hopes for ever seeing a Troughton Blu-Ray set, which is a shame because I'd love to have more of my favorite classic doctor on the shelf. Maybe if the season 2 set does well the rest of the black and white era will get more of a recon budget? Hopefully?

I will admit one thing. Seeing Vicki in the trailer was absolutely wonderful!

Terror of the Autons has become one of my favourite stories ever since the Blu-ray edition. Destiny with the new audio options too.

David Whitaker is indeed a really important figure in the show's history, so it's good they're giving him some much deserved attention.

I was 6 when the first Doctor Who was broadcast and the show immediately became my favourite despite needing to peep between my fingers during the scary bits - which was often! Really looking forward to seeing these stories again.

When it was announced, despite my excitement I did get the feeling that something was missing and I feel like this video really helps identify why. I'm happy with that is on it though and in my opinion Season 2 is the peak of William Hartnell's era, if not the whole of Doctor Who in the 60s, so I'm looking forward to it. Something I've only started to appreciate recently on these sets are the pieces of convention footage, so seeing Adrienne Hill and Michael Craze will appear in this set's convention footage made me more excited than it probably should've. I feel like they're about as close as you get to "forgotten" actors involved with the show (within the main cast), so any spotlight on them is great.

Super interesting hearing the thoughts of the biggest Hartnell stan I know! It's a shame about the budget limitations on the box set, I feel like for season 3 the budget will really need to be upped to do it properly. I'm surprised they did a Harnell season so early into the collections releases!

Don’t forget, though, even if we did have the original studio tapes, that wouldn’t be much help for a 5.1 surround sound track, as the music and sound FX were still played into the studio under all the dialogue (which is why you sometimes get them misplaced/miscued, especially near complicated scene change points). (That being said, the Tristram Cary-scored stories could still have the music elements done more easily than the others, as he did keep almost all his tapes.) TL;DR The dialogue literally could never be available separately from the music and sound FX as they’re both baked into the same audio track.

I love the moth people costumes from the Web Planet. And nobody seems to talk about them.

Josh, I love how genuine you are and I look forward to every video you make. Keep up the good work!

Ordered this box set as soon as it was available. Really looking forward to adding this to my dr who collection row of boxsets. Glad to see you uploading new content again.

Love the takes and the excitement! Always enjoyable, Josh.

Hey Josh ! Love watching your KZfaq posts! All very interesting and informative 😊

I really enjoy your honest opinions here, as well as the info you provide. Your enthusiasm and humor is contagious, and it makes me more excited to see the new sets as they come out!

You're so great! Thanks as always for these videos.

Davison and Fielding are the Waldorf and Statler on Behind the Sofa. They're so great! Thanks for calling that out! I agree, I think if this set had all the bells and whistles, it would be far more expensive than other sets. Yes, it absolutely deserves as many extras and upgrades as possible, but at the same time it needs to be affordable and profitable. And in the end, too many upgrades would take away some of the DW charm for me.

Love this video Josh! Thanks for sharing your thoughts ❤️

I’m always excited when a video gets posted!! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

Love the vid. You do such a good balanced critique. The nice chat is still out there

Hi, Josh. Really enjoyed listening to your thoughts on this upcoming release. Sending well wishes to you from Phoenix, Arizona. They definitely need to consult you before they start on the box sets for Seasons 1 and 3!

Entertaining, informative and charming as ever. Thank you.

Hey Josh. Always love your videos. I’ve pre ordered this and am very excited about it. Been fascinated by the first Doctor era since I was a kid in the 80’s and never been disappointed. This was a must have for me and I’m going to love every little bit of it lol. Keep going with your content. It’s brilliant 😊

I flippin LOVE Hartnell. His sense of humor is there, it’s just understated. An example to me is his breaking the fourth wall to wish all us humans a merry Christmas. The first two doctors, so much content is missing, I think it’s really going to be a challenge to make fulfilling bluray sets.

i saw the reveal trailer and was waiting for your take right away!

i did not think we whould get any of seasons 1 to 6 in these so this was a nice surprise i just wish they had animated the missing episodes from the storys that had them for the set that whould of been a nice extra for our first 60's doctor who release

I’m interested in this new Sound Mix for Dalek Invasion of Earth. Destiny was advertised to have something similar in the Season 17 Set and what they did for that was added new/more SFX & also added Tristram Cary’s original 1963 score for The Daleks to the story (along with Dudley Simpson’s original score for the story). What I think they’ll do (because Francis Chagrin’s score for The Dalek Invasion of Earth was so minimal & hardly there) is that they’ll do the same for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which I approve as not only would that story benefit from a more creepy & fulfilling score but also Cary’s score for The Daleks is just really really good!

An analysis of the next 60's Collection Box Set to be released. Season 5 will have only 4 missing episodes after The Abominable Snowmen animation is released, Episodes 1, 2, 4 & 5 of The Wheel in Space. Episode 1 was half animated, and can be seen on The Macra Terror special features. This would be the next logical release for the collection and Troughton's first. However if animation was to resume The Wheel in Space would be the next obvious choice. It being a popular story, a companion introduction and a Cyberman story, plus some assets from the already started animation. So possibly this will wait. Season 6 has only 5 episodes missing. Episodes 1 & 3-6 of The Space Pirates. But as this is not a popular story it was unlikely to be animated anytime soon even if the animation funding continued. Therefore I think this would be more likely next release. Plus it also has the most amount of original surviving episodes after Season 2, only missing 7 in total. Season 1 will be the next Hartnell release, no surprise there. It is only missing the 7 Episodes of Marco Polo. This could well be released next year for the 60th anniversary with a good reconstruction. However, Marco Polo appears to be the story for which missing episodes are likely to show up. This is due to the fact of so many copies made for international transmission. It is known that at least 6 missing episodes exist in private collections (as Philip Morris has said). Likely at least one of these is a Marco Polo episode, if not more. So possibly the BBC know of these and are awaiting a possible return. If this were not the case then Marco Polo would also be a likely candidate for animation should these resume. However, even if these are not returned or animated, Season 1 is likely not far behind, as after Season 2 and 6 it has the least amount of missing episodes, with 9. Season 4 would logically come after, as it is still missing 10 unanimated missing episodes. However these are not popular or well known episodes, being all 4 parts of The Smugglers, all 4 parts of The Highlanders, and episodes 1 & 4 of The Underwater Menace. None of these seem likely to have been animated even if this had continued at the current pace. Possibly The Highlanders however, as this was Jamie's introduction (and it is actually a good story too) but a pure historical (other than Marco Polo) is unlikely to attract much attention or demand sadly. Therefore I could see this season released as is, with its 10 unanimated missing episodes. (However this was a highly incomplete season with 33 of the 43 episodes missing. It is also the only season with not one complete story, so possibly they will not release such a animation heavy Season so soon, same could be said for Season 5, but to a lesser extent). Season 3 is by far the most incomplete season and likely to be the very last Collection Box Set released (unless they move to the Modern Series). It is missing 28 episodes, less than Season 4, but only Galaxy 4 has been animated. It is also unclear if the UCLAN remake of Mission to the Unknown could be included. However, taking that both of these are included then this season is still short 24 Episodes. Many of which have very little surviving material to even make decent telesnap reconstructions such as The Myth Makers and The Massacre (though both of these work great as soundtracks, I highly recommend The Myth Makers vinyl). Season 3 does however have a number of original complete stories, unlike Season 4. These are The Ark, The Gunfighters and The War Machines. The remaining stories would all be good and popular releases for animation, indeed I would not have expected Galaxy 4 before any of the others (bar The Savages). However with the uncertain future of Doctor Who animation it is unlikely that any of these would be top priority. I still doubt that they would release A Collection Box Set of Season 3 in it's current state however, and likely only would if there was no more animations/recoveries when this is the last set remaining. TLDR; To summarize, I believe the next likely release order for the 60's collection sets is: Season 6 Season 1 Season 5 Season 4 Season 3 Season 1 I do believe is likely for next year, but I do think a Troughton set will be released before another Hartnell. As with the leaks therefore I believe that the next 3 collection sets will be Season 20, Season 6, and Season 1. Remind me in December 2023 and see if I was correct.

I’m very excited to see the Hartnell set being released and being more comprehensive than I was expecting. I was honestly expecting The Crusade to not even be telesnaps but be the audio recordings used on the 1999 VHS release and the Lost in Time DVD which I would have completely understood. I’m also glad that despite being 9 stories we are getting a full in conversation with William Russell and full Behind the Sofa installments with Peter Purves, Carole Ann Ford, and Maureen O’Brien. I’m also okay with the black and white episodes not having a lot of new scans especially since they’re film recordings of videotape and probably isn’t as much they can do from a new scan than what they could do from the DVD scans, especially since the jump from VHS to DVD was already large jumps in quality for Doctor Who (especially pre 1976 Doctor Who)

Always nice to see your love for Hartnell. His era is the perfect rainy day TV for me I love it. Can we also talk about how awesome that cushion cover is?!

Hi Josh, thanks for this video. I was so excited when I saw the initial news of this release I wanted to squee at you! (I sent an IG message which is probably lingering in your "junk mail from random English chaps" folder!! 😂) I can certainly see the disappointment in certain aspects - and you are right it probably won't sell as well. But I just cannot wait! I love the black and white era so much and the new documentaries about it sound fascinating! I also am happy with the telesnap recon for The Crusade! I understand the constraints and a high quality recon will be SO much better than just the audio like they did on Lost In Time! I do hope though that they don't skimp on a making of for this story!! It certainly deserves some feature for it!! I hope you start to feel positive about stuff again. I love your videos, they make me smile and I always look forward to seeing them. I was excited when I saw this one pop up! You take care and thank you for all you do. ❤️

Love you, Josh! Stay true and amazing!

great video. agree with you on basically everything. hopefully I can afford to pre-order soon as I'd hate to miss out

I'm so happy you said that about The Crusade. I've watched a couple of times and still couldn't tell you what happened in it. I need to try again but this time put matchsticks in my eyes and pay more attention haha. And re: social media, I've really missed your social media presence. You're always one of those few people in my Who circle that I genuinely looked forward to catching up with. I'm sure you'll make the decision that's right for you.

Thank you! I'm glad somebody out there is saying exactly what I feel! Exactly!

I will always be down to talk Doctor Who! Love it! Love these videos Josh you did great! ❤❤

Great analysis and review. It's brilliant to see someone young embracing the first Doctor the original episodes. Cheers.

Good to see you back,. As a Doctor Who fan, I will get all the series when they are released. But I will wait for the non limited re-releases as they go nicely with the modern Doctor Who Blu-Rays

This is the first collection set I've pre-ordered and I'm very excited about it, did not expect them to give us our first 60s set so soon and am delighted they've started with S2.

So excited for this set it’s about time the 1st doctor got some more love and this boxset will be perfect! Thanks Josh for another great video love your channel and your amazing

You know, I really didn’t feel like Jon Pertwee in the Season 10 cover looked much like Pertwee even though it obviously is. I’m really excited about this set, although I am going to miss all of the other exciting bits you’ve detailed here like the CGI and surround sound. I do kinda wish they had spilt the Hartnall and Troughton seasons up like you said just to really dig into each story.

I live in the UK & am a Flight Attendant. Every time I visit Sydney I go to JB Hi-Fi. In 2018 I picked up season 12 & it was sold out in the UK so that was fantastic.

Welcome back Josh

Another great video Josh👍👍👍

You raise a few points that had me going "Aw, shucks." as well - but in the end I don't mind them enough to spoil my excitement. (Well, except for that some stories apparently don't have a BTS.) With these sets I mostly look forward to the experience of watching all the stories in sequence, something that is especially rewarding in the b/w years. Also, since they started to put out these sets, I've been holding off on rewatching stories that haven't been in collections yet, so I can see this experienced whovian right here can see them with the freshest eye possible. It'll be a treat! 💚

Josh you videos are always exciting to watch and view. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the upcoming season two bluray set. I’m always looking forward to them no matter what. I understand your critiques and well appreciated. We as fans should be pleased and disappointed at the same time. Thanks again and keep up the good work!

I wonder if they will add those extra few seconds in 'The Time Meddler' that was an extra feature on the DVD. It's only a small thing to tac on but it would be interesting to see.

Good video and good Hartnell. Congratulations on avoiding social media. Many of us know that it's no good, but few are successful at cutting it out.

Loving the dark hair. It looks fantastic! 🔥

agree with the budget comment by you josh xxxx p.s send love to you , nice to know am not only one love the first doctor

I love the Audio Navigation pillow :)

I love the cushion in the background.

The Adipose on the right of the lounge definitely wants this set, just look at their smile!

I kinda hope that not just DIOE gets enhanced sound. What would be great is maybe a 2.1 mix, so it’d be stereo plus the sub channel, so it’d give the episodes some low frequency emphasis without a whole 5.1 mix. But also acknowledge that even finding a place in a stereo mix from the limited audio that exists might be tricky / pricey to do.

This was interesting. Loving the hair, btw. 😘

I know what you mean about Season 24 not selling. We have JB-HI-FI in New Zealand, and there’s still always one copy left sitting in the Doctor Who aisle. I know it isn’t a particularly popular season, even among Seventh Doctor fans, but I hope it finds a good home some day.

A very thoughtful observation on the series two box set.

My Dr Who dvd/blu ray collection is lacking a lot of the First Doctors stories, so I'll probably get this set just to have it. There are a few on this set that I've never seen too. Thanks for another great video/review!

brilliant video. i cant wait for this one. my favourite season

I've been avoiding the fandom for a while now. Particularly after big news after big news that's just nesting all the negativity like bacteria on Petri dish. It's 2017 all over again. So thank you so much for this video. Somehow re-ignite my excitement to the show again. I'm still gonna nerding in solitude for a while though, not constantly feeling that I need to debate/express my opinion to internet void seems a bit healthier for me.

Have you ever watched Out of the Unknown Josh? It's genuinely intelligent science fiction stuff and has some of that 60s low budget charm. It even has photographic reconstructions of three episodes, an incomplete episode and a script synced to surviving audio of one episode. Incredible boxset. Then it did a complete 180 and became a horror show with some Science fiction elements in the last series

Great content can't wait for this release got it on preorder love alot of the stories from this era the wonky sets and the acting keep up the dr who content josh brill 👍 Manchester england

The Tardis in flight scenes from The Chase might be my biggest sentimental favorites in all of Doctor Who. You can't improve perfection.

See you in three-to-six months! Appreciate your insights.

Thanks for an interesting discussion, Josh. It is remarkable and extremely gratifying to me that someone of a very different generation and a different country could be so enthusiastic over Doctor Who. I grew up with it, here in the UK (I was 5 when it started). Just like some of us were disappointed by the future when the moon landings petered out and we became satisfied with a series of lesser (and it might be said, more affordable) goals, so I was disappointed to grow up and find that a machine that could travel through time and space was not only fiction today, but would also probably remain so indefinitely (I still wish NuWho had tried a little harder to create a vision of future science that would make it possible). But we have classic Doctor Who to indulge this pipe-dream. Back to the box sets. I have tended to assume that Season 3 will not be released on blu-ray until at least most of its missing episodes have been animated. I doubt if I'm alone in considering The Dalek Masterplan as the most important of these. I realise that it would take about double the budget of any other adventure to animate, but I would argue it is a crucial part of what made Doctor Who great, and simply can't be overlooked or skimped. I would also like to see The Celestial Toymaker animated, and ideally also the Savages. All in all, I would expect Season 3 to be the very last blu-ray set to be released for all of these reasons.

im currently trying to hand animate the crusade as a side project, very difficult but still interesting. i chose to do that one because its relatively short andi wanted to do one that the bbc are less likely to get round to. ive done about 6 mins worth of footage so far, and im excited to someday release it to the fanbase. thank you for uploading, josh, your videos are pretty much the lifeline and inspiration for this project!

Lovely content as always, Josh. Thanks. It occurs to me (as complete conjecture) that a) season 3 will be left until last as b) there is so little of it left - is it not the least represented season? And c) a small amount of budget might have been earmarked from each other boxset, in order to complete the (marketing-wise) unattractive sell of a largely missing season 3. Just my two pennies' worth.

Great Video - oh, in the states we have "Best Buy", that's our "JB Hifi" type store, and our "FYE" is alot like UK's HMV...

I pre-ordered mine but I’m in the States so there is no actual release date for it yet sadly. I’ll be buying them all as they come out because I’m a completionist collector like that. Also gotta say, thanks for the vid. Yours are always an instant watch for me.

Really wish they held off on 60s sets for a bit so maybe when the show gains more popularity from the 60th special and series 14 the animations get funding so we can get a proper complete, definitive set.

Great great video! Season 2 looks nice, I agree with the upscales but we move!!

So good to see you Josh. I glad you tweeted this video as the KZfaq algorithm is useless! 😡

Season 2 coming out 5th December here in the UK. Can't wait for mine to come through the post

I’m very excited for the set, personally! I’m unsure how it is in other places, but in America, the sets have a pretty substantial price drop after a few months, so I probably won’t purchase the set until then. Whenever it gets released, of course. We haven’t even got the Season 22 set yet; it comes out on October 18. So, I’ll probably get the Hartnell set a few days after the series 10 soundtrack gets released :P Love the video, as always! Hope your day is going well.

Woah that hair it's fabulous 😍

Just so glad to see a 60s collection at last. And love Lee Binding ' s art

So excited, I was afraid the b/w era might not be released. We all have our favorite Doctor, but at the core I love everything Doctor Who!! I agree my favorite part of these sets is the behind the sofa segments. I can't wait for it. My dream all 26 seasons released.

love you Josh, more please xxxxxx

I can understand why, but there’s such a lack of the content I love the most in this set. The optional updated effects, 5.1 surround sound and I was hoping that maybe some episodes may be colourised but that was always a bit far for the BBC. Also I do think the cover art is a little uncanny but it’s fine. Also The Crusade would be great as animation but I also would never expect them to do that for this release.

You're an Aussie? I would never had guessed! Seriously though mate I love the accent. Ever since the long lost days of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo I've loved it

I'm not really seeing how the photo of William Hartnell doesn't look like him? It's hardly the pickled head from Dimensions In Time!

I'm pretty excited for the boxset

I was so excited by the trailer, it had me hyped for this set. I’m a little disappointed there’s no CGI for The Chase but I get why. This will be the most episodes in a single set, so hopefully other sixties seasons might have some CGI. The extras look great, and I’m glad the budget was spent on new restorations of the two worst looking stories. Even if Season 3 gets nothing more done, it’s still more episodes than a McCoy season. Right now I’d be surprised if we even got recons because most stories don’t have telesnaps. The fan recons use a lot of non-BBC screengrabs that might be a nightmare to clear. I’m guessing it’ll be left to the end!

I can’t wait for this set. I love the sense of adventure throughout the whole Hartnell era it’s why it’s one of the best!

It's pretty easy for me. Every time a box set comes out, i'll buy it. Because one day, i want to own every single episode on blu-ray.

Yeah, the lack of CGI on the Chase is a big shame. I'm hoping that the enhanced DIOE audio will be really effective (the trailer had a new laser sound effect for the Dalek saucer). The audio is very bare on this story - I'm hoping for more background atmospherics and foley effects to give weight to the settings. The Web Planet could probably do with it as well!

A William Hartnell collection is announced and Josh regenerates into the 8th Doctor!

I'm looking forward to this set as I think I've only seen around half of the stories in season 2.

The Troughton years are some of my favorites, but I enjoy the Hartnell years as well. I'm just glad these are making it to DVD in any form. This way we don't have to rely on old VHS tapes or bootleg DVD's to preserve Doctor Who. Nice to see them getting the seasonal treatment rather than just by the story. Glad to see than new generations will have a way to continue to watch and enjoy these classic seasons. Which have some very good episodes! Better than average sci-fi for their time!

I don't get why but every video on this channel feels like home. It makes me feel so comfortable in my excessive love for some lame 60s sci-fi show. Love you Josh

I just recently got my pre-ordered boxset of season 2 & I'm very impressed with it......I got it mainly because I've never seen any of Hartnell's work as the Dr & I'm looking forward to seeing 👀 it the more modern Dr Who seems to be to convoluted & not as well thought out as some of these classic era story arcs so? I'm not exactly holding my breath in anticipation for the newest incarnation of the Dr but? mebe I'm going to be pleasantly surprised only time will tell

Ive been watching the complete (or annimated) serials only, so skipping around a bit. Just finished season 6, about to dive into Pertwee. I love the creativity behind some of these more wild sixties high-concept episodes. Do you have any recommendations for documentaries or articles discussing the creative process of 60s Who?

What do you think of the Time Meddler quality. I find it difficult to watch. When anyone moves there are lines that blur

Josh! Nice to see you back again! Excellent analysis as always. Will the set include the William Russell introductions to the episodes of the Crusades? They are on the VHS that I have and it was so nice to see him as an older Ian Chesterton, one of my favourite companions. My favourite part of the video were the fun facts for each episode from Season 2 and Season 24 that you included at the start. I noticed that the box for Paradise Towers was empty! As my Mom used to say, "If you can't think of anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Looking forward to the next one!

Wonderful video, Josh! I am usually one of the people who cringe to see Janet Fielding is on Behind the Sofa. But I take your points and can see your side of liking her. I love Janet Fielding, and especially Tegan, but I just get tired of her constantly laughing at Doctor Who's shortcomings. But that's just me. Was hoping not to have to deal with that on the Hartnell sets. But yeah, Doctor Who is cheesie and she just points that out. Fair enough. But don't disappear! You are sensational! Doctor Who fans arguing has been a part of Doctor Who forever! Don't let that get you down. And the American outlets for DVDs and Blu-Rays tends to be Wal-Mart, online (like ebay or others), or a company called F.Y.E. (aka For Your Entertainment) for the most part these days. Love ya, Josh!

I remember I would sync the audio cd of The Crusade to the tv episodes and it was like watching the show with audio-description, and my Dad loved it:)