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Circuit Breaker - The Black Archive Files: What's the deal?

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I often talk about how much care and attention to detail goes into the Classic Series releases to convince us fans to shell out on something a lot of us have already bought at least two or three times. Then comes along a random release out of the blue that makes you ask who does this appeal to? But some unexpected new bonus material alongside some unusual and rare episode variants perhaps gives enough value to justify buying.    Circuit Breaker is the latest multi-platform event from BBC Studios, following on from Time Lord Victorious (2020) and Doom’s Day (2023). This time focusing on the mysterious Fugitive Doctor as played by Jo Martin, who has refreshingly been heavily involved with the entire range. I’ve personally not been following the story that closely, but the premise involves the Doctor teaming up with Osgood who is now working in the Black Archive as objects from the Doctor’s personal timeline have gone missing. This new Blu-ray release features 10 Doctor Who stori...
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Have the 60’s set have got even more complicated?

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It was about a year ago I last wrote on this blog about 60’s The Collection Blu-ray’s, celebrating the news that the animation was in fact continuing, despite BBC America pulling out of funding. With The Celestial Toymaker due to be released next month, it will take us over the 50% mark for number of missing episodes animated. Such an achievement. Also, with Season 15 coming out next month, we will appropriately be 15 seasons sets into The Collection, with another 11 seasons to go. We are reaching a sort of crunch time. Assuming the next Collection set after Season 15 isn’t a 60’s season, for an even spread of box sets throughout the remainder of the range, ever other set really needs to be a black and white season. According to The Mirror, The Smugglers was mentioned alongside The Underwater Menace for animation. Seeing as we haven’t had that yet, maybe we can assume it’s the next serial up for the treatment? This would leave 4 of the 5 remaining 60’s sets tantalisingly close to c...
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