Danny Stewart

Now all they have to do is fire Murray Gold, confiscate Steven Moffat’s supply of mind-altering drugs, get Matt Smith like three companions (each from different planets and times), create a rule that all stories must be AT LEAST two 45 minute parts in length, permanently destroy the sonic screwdriver, stop making Christmas specials, stop treating premieres and finales any differently from any other episode, switch to a classic style control room, bring back the Time Lords, erase the RTD era from continuity, and get Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland in to do a new theme and all the incidental music. Then the new series would be pretty sweet.

—Ian Stewart

UPDATE:

Damn. I forgot the most important thing of all: NO MORE STANDING REGENERATIONS, FOR THE LOVE OF RASSILON.

I have a solemn confession to make. Over the past few years, as money has been tight and I’ve been living on my own and having to contend with bills and various other things I haven’t previously had to worry about, I have fallen gravely behind on my Doctor Who DVD collection. Once, I prided myself on this collection. As of January 5, 2009, I owned every single Doctor Who DVD that was available in North America. But since that point, I have stumbled. I picked up only the occasional story that I simply had to have, like The War Games and The Deadly Assassin.

But now it’s time for me to return to the fold and make up for lost time. I’ve put together a comprehensive spreadsheet showing me every Doctor Who DVD release in Region 1, sorted by release date, and marked off which I own and which I don’t. From that list, I have assembled an Amazon wish list of Doctor Who DVDs that I need to restore my collection to its full glory. The list starts off with quite a few, but I’m going to be buying them myself as I have the funds, so I hope it will become shorter very quickly.

But if you have ever wanted to get me a little something or are a family member or friend looking to get me a gift, this is the absolute best thing you can get for me. I’m terrible at picking gifts for myself and I’m never able to come up with lists of what I want, but if you really want to make me happy, you probably can’t do better than getting me one or two DVDs off this list. I promise you it will really make my day.

I’ve assembled the list below, and I will update it both here and on my Amazon wish list as I begin collecting the DVDs I have been missing out on for so long. Thanks.

William Hartnell

• The Rescue/The Romans
• The Space Museum/The Chase
• The Ark
• The Gunfighters
• The War Machines

Patrick Troughton

• The Dominators

Jon Pertwee

• Terror of the Autons
• Colony in Space
• Day of the Daleks
• The Curse of Peladon
• The Mutants
• The Time Monster
• Dalek War (Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks)
• The Monster of Peladon
• Planet of the Spiders

Tom Baker

• Revenge of the Cybermen
• The Seeds of Doom
• The Masque of Mandragora
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang – Special Edition
• The Sun Makers
• Underworld
• The Creature from the Pit
• The Horns of Nimon
• Meglos
• The E-Space Trilogy (Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors’ Gate)

Peter Davison

• Four to Doomsday
• Kinda
• Snakedance
• Black Guardian Trilogy (Mawdryn Undead, Terminus, Enlightenment)
• The King’s Demons
• The Awakening
• Frontios
• Planet of Fire

Colin Baker

• The Twin Dilemma
• Attack of the Cybermen

Sylvester McCoy

• Time and the Rani
• Paradise Towers
• Delta and the Bannermen
• Remembrance of the Daleks – Special Edition
• Silver Nemesis
• Battlefield

Paul McGann

• Doctor Who: The Movie – Special Edition

P.S. Please don’t get me anything from the new series.