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The Doctor Who Series 2 DVD brings home all 13 episodes of the 2006 series, from “New Earth” to “Doomsday.” David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, facing the Cybermen and the mystery of Torchwood. This repackaged edition is a brand-new copy, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | DVD |
|---|---|
| Discs | 6 |
| Studio | BBC Home Entertainment |
| Released | September 11, 2012 |
| Run time | 10 hours and 45 minutes |
| Condition | New |
| Availability | In stock |
The Doctor Who Series 2 DVD set brings home all 13 episodes of the 2006 series starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, broadcast on BBC One from April 15 to July 8, 2006. Billie Piper co-stars as companion Rose Tyler, with Russell T Davies as showrunner and head writer.
This is a brand-new copy of the repackaged DVD edition. It is a DVD, so it plays in standard US DVD players and in Blu-ray players, which also read DVDs.
Series 2 follows the Doctor and Rose across ten stories, opening with "New Earth." In "Tooth and Claw," Pauline Collins plays Queen Victoria, and other standalone adventures include "The Girl in the Fireplace," "The Idiot's Lantern," "Love & Monsters" and "Fear Her."
In "School Reunion," Elisabeth Sladen returns as Sarah Jane Smith, and John Leeson voices K9. The Cybermen come back with a new origin in a parallel universe in the two-parter "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel." Later, "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit" form another two-part story.
A single word links the whole run: Torchwood. The organization is founded in "Tooth and Claw," and its role builds through the series to the two-part finale, "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday." Noel Clarke plays Mickey Smith, and Camille Coduri plays Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler.
Series 2 is the season that set up Torchwood, brought back Sarah Jane Smith and K9, and gave the Cybermen a new origin. With ten stories across 13 episodes, it is a strong pick for fans of the Tenth Doctor and Rose.
In the UK, the BBC first released Series 2 on DVD in five volumes before collecting it in a complete series box set, which reached US shelves in January 2007. This repackaged edition keeps the series together, so you can watch the Torchwood arc in order without a streaming subscription.
Continue with Doctor Who Series 4: The Complete Fourth Series, or jump ahead to the Peter Capaldi era with Doctor Who: Complete Series 9. Explore more in our sci-fi collection and every TV series on disc. For episode details, read the Wikipedia article on Doctor Who Series 2.
Doctor Who Series 2 DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
How many episodes are in Series 2?
All 13 episodes of the 2006 series, from "New Earth" to "Doomsday."
Which Doctor is in this series?
David Tennant plays the Tenth Doctor, with Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.
Will it play in my US DVD player?
Yes. It is a DVD, so it plays in standard US DVD players and in Blu-ray players.
Is this copy new?
Yes. This Doctor Who Series 2 DVD is a brand-new copy, covered by our 30-day return policy.
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Crazy Fox –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
“He’s just regenerated. It’s gone wrong. And he’s hurtling towards London.”
Fear this DVD set, at least if you are pressed for time. A season full of thoroughly entertaining, enjoyable science fiction TV episodes straight from the UK are to be found within, and the temptation to put the next disc in and keep watching is terribly hard to resist.
David Tennant certainly had some pretty big shoes to fill (nine pairs of them, actually), but he has really done a wonderful job in taking on the role of the eccentric space/time-wandering Doctor. He’s as delightfully quirky as ever, yet in a more hyperactive manner. Full of frenetic humor and yet less distant emotionally, with more warmth and less sarcasm than his immediate predecessor. This makes him a bit more likeable but also a bit too human perhaps; it’s easier to forget that he’s not of this earth, although traces of #9’s convincingly alien mean streak remain. And his oddball sense of wonder in the face of the unknown–even werewolves have a certain “beauty” for him. In general, Tennant’s Doctor will prove to be a memorable one, I suspect, faithfully true to the character’s general persona while engagingly eccentric in its own very unique way.
The storytelling has thankfully improved very much since the prior season. Don’t get me wrong, I liked “The Complete First Series” quite a bit, but this second time around the plotlines seem less rushed and the solutions less sudden and out of left field. More of the stories are two-parters, which helps immensely in this regard. After all, the good old classic “Doctor Who” tales gradually developed through four episodes of about half an hour each; two hour-long episodes back-to-back amounts to much the same thing, which may be about the ideal time necessary for a Doctor Who plot to unfold. This season has a good mix of stories too. Many are good solid straight science fiction, and this is especially so of “Rise of the Cybermen” (okay, even if the Cybermen’s inventor does seem like a carbon copy of Davros), and along the same lines the Doomsday battle between two classic Doctor Who foes in the season finale is totally and utterly inspired! I’ve dreamed of such a confrontation ever since I was a nerdy teenager watching this show religiously on PBS. More characteristic perhaps of the season as a whole though are stories that straddle the boundary between sci-fi and horror in intriguing ways, including a face-off with the devil himself. Sounds corny, but it’s actually pulled off well, downright scary but with just the right dose of agnostic ambiguity.
Not every episode is a masterpiece, of course. The masterpieces wouldn’t stand out then. And everyone will have their favorites. But overall this is a fine year’s worth of an excellent show in its latest incarnation, the New New New New New New New New New New Doctor Who.
Howard Jones –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Readz Alot –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Very Mixed Feelings
I am another viewer who has been a long-time fan of the original show. When I first heard about the new series a few years ago, I was unsure. In fact, I was sure that I was going to hate it. After all, I’d hated the TV movie and I knew that nothing new could ever live up to the best of the original series. (Though of course, rotting pond scum would be an improvement on the WORST of the original series.) Then I caught the first episode of the new series — and shocked myself by loving it. Enough to immediately buy the region2 DVDs, which were the only ones available at the time. (Which were then replaced by region1 as soon as THEY became available. It didn’t feel quite like “Dr. Who”, but it was entertaining nonetheless, with good acting and good production values.
Now, onto series 2. I haven’t seen all of it yet. (Disc 2 of my set was defective, so until the nice folks at Amazon send me my replacment set, I have to miss out on Sarah Jane’s return.) And … I like it … The worst stories (“New Earth”) are a bit better than rotting pond scum, and the best come very close to the best of the original.
But
Yes, it’s a new series. Yes, it’s wonderful that it has the budget to do things with a thousand times more flash than the original. But flash can’t replace heart, and there IS a definite lack of heart. And the sexual tension between Rose and the Doctor (which is much stronger in the second series than the first, if only because Tennant is so much younger and classically hearts-throb gorgeous than his predecessor) is a poor replacement for the more fatherly love and concern that we saw in the original. Yes, any one of the doctors would have sacrificed his life for any one of his companions. Sexual love is not required for that sort of emotional attachment. Tennent also seems to never quite convince that he’s an alien — a non-human character with exeptional intelligence, but with real characer flaws. He seems to teeter between utterly human and utterly god.
On the positive side, the 2nd series gets points for making at least an effort to remember its roots. Too often the Doctor, and indeed the series (think console room) seems to completely forget that it had an existance before Rose appeared. But here we see real Daleks and Cybermen. The Doctor mentions, however briefly, previous planets and previous adventures. And my daughter and I had a blast ticking off all the similirities between the alternate universe Cyberman story here (forget the title), and Troughton’s “Invasion.”
Now, if they could just remember that they’re supposed to be telling compelling stories rather than demonstrating their ability to generate fantastic CG characters, they’ll REALLY have something worth watching.