Product Details

• Actors: Various
• Directors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 26
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 11, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (145 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B005FQ1OQ8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,043 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In this massive 26-disc collection, the BBC brings together the complete David Tennant Years as the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who! David Tennant made his debut in 2005 in “The Christmas Invasion” and in the four years that followed, Doctor Who grew to new heights of popularity. This collection celebrates Tennant’s tenure by bringing together every David Tennant Doctor Who episode including The Complete Second Series (co-starring Billie Piper as Rose Tyler), The Complete Third Series (co-starring Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones) and The Complete Fourth Series (co-starring Catherine Tate as Donna Noble), all eight specials and two spin-off animated adventures, totaling over 38 hours of Doctor Who plus hours of extras. This is a must-own collection for the legion of devoted Doctor Who fans.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

158 of 162 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea but Poor Execution October 11, 2011

By Jennifer Z

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I just received my set and at first was very impressed. This set has everything I wanted from David Tennant's run as the Doctor and for a lot less than buying the individual seasons thanks to Amazon's pre-order pricing guarantee.

The book presentation is very attractive and the artwork (primarily stills from the series) is nicely laid out. But as I went through the set, my excitement faded with each turn of the page. The discs are very difficult to remove from the sleeves (one won't come out at all) and many of the discs are scratched. Two of the discs won't play at all, which means I have a 26-disc set that's missing three discs in total. That's unacceptable.

I'm exchanging the set for a new one and hope that the replacement will be in much better condition than my original. If it isn't, I will return it for a full refund.

260 of 271 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Fire Whomever Designed It October 11, 2011

By C. Scheller

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I just received my Doctor Who: The David Tennant Years. I was ecstatic because it's beautiful. It looks like a book, and when you open it there are gorgeous graphics and a fantastic quote at the beginning. (The "Fire and Ice" quote). Then I saw how the DVDs are packaged. It's a slot at the top (see picture) that is cardboard on each side and very tight. I very carefully pulled each disc out, one by one to inspect them. The first few were fine, but as you go further, the discs become harder and harder to get out. At first it was only a tiny scratch, but when I got to the last disc (one of the cartoons), it practically gouged the disc. I was pulling them out with the utmost care, gently trying to get the slots as wide and loose as possible before moving the disc, but my efforts were in vain. It is terrible packing. Whomever designed it gets a huge fail. What a shame. I was so incredibly excited about it, and the rest of it is gorgeous. Will be sending it back tomorrow. Disappointing. David Tennant's Doctor deserves better.

Update:
Decided to get another set and try my hand at getting all of the discs out, then stretching out the pouches with a disc I don't care about. Will report on my findings. I REALLY want to keep this set!

Double Update All the Way:
Decided to just get a refund on it. I'm so disappointed. For $100, I don't want to have to put the discs in other cases and worry about losing them. I just want common sense packaging. I'll just keep Netflixing the episodes until the box sets drop in price or they fix this packaging problem.

124 of 130 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Adore the show. Baffled by this collection set. October 13, 2011

By G. C. Trejo

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

After just receiving my set in the post, I've come to the following conclusion - do yourself a favor, prevent stress, and purchase the David Tennant years in their respective individual series sets. I realize you will be forking over more money, but I imagine it's worth it in the end.

Don't get me wrong, the packaging is absolutely gorgeous, inside and out. There are plenty of fantastic portraits and photographs within that showcase pivotal moments throughout the tenth Doctor's run. But the execution behind the structuring of the set is just awful, for lack of a better word. I can't imagine what the creators were thinking when putting this together.

The discs are nearly impossible to remove from their cardboard slots. And once you actually manage, they either get smudged or scratched as you force them out. It's even more difficult putting them back into the slot. And judging from two other reviews, I'm not the only one whose complained about this.

I really wanted to love this collection, I really did. And everything about it is wonderful, that one massive problem aside.

I'll be returning it first thing tomorrow and purchasing series two through four individually.

The show itself: 10/10. I don't see any point in going into the actual mythology behind Doctor Who, as a majority of the people who read this will already know everything there really is to. What can I say? It's pure sci-fi at its best.

The set: 5/10, for the reasons stated above. Images and art are wonderful. Structurally, the ball was dropped.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars The show is great, the packaging is atrocious! February 15, 2012

By G. Himes

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

A 8/10 for the DVD content.
A 5/10 for the graphics on the packaging.
A 2/10 for the actual packaging.

I can't say anything about the actual DVD content of this, that hasn't been covered by others. It's Doctor Who, it covers all the David Tennant episodes including the standard episodes, the Christmas specials, the year of specials before Tennant left, the two animated episodes, and an assortment of severely trimmed down Confidential episodes. This included some of the best Doctor Who episodes, as well as a few of the worst, but it's still Doctor Who, and it's pretty much a fun ride all the way through, and video quality is great for DVD.

My problem is the packaging. At first, it looks wonderful, beautiful, and a fairly unique way to have 26 discs stored. BUT! Then you just think about it for a couple of seconds, and you realize that they did practically everything wrong except the graphics. It's a very wide book format, containing a dozen pages that are built by sandwiching... cardstock-foam-cardstock-foam-cardstock. The foam is about 2mm (1/16") thick, and has cutouts so the discs slide in between two of the sheets of cardstock, and two slots exist across each side of each page, so most pages have four discs, two on the front face, two on the back face.
The bad part is quickly evident. The book is deep, so it won't fit in anybody's DVD/BD/Tape shelves, it is too deep to even fit in most people bookshelves. Unless stored rotated it just won't fit, so you won't see the spine. Basically, this is only good, by it's size alone, to sit on a coffee table or similar place.
Now the worst part, the slots. The slots are not protected in any way, no inner sleeves, no friction reducing material, no cleaning fabric, nothing.... The slots have notches only in front of the disc, and they are tight... VERY tight. So, with interference from the center piece of cardstock you have to actually pinch/grab the disc and pull HARD to get it out. This can only be done by touching both the front and back of the DVD... something that should NEVER be done, and this can't be helped, because the hub is completely inaccessible until the disc is pulled out. Putting it back in is a little better, but I discovered that there is another issue... when all but one inch of the disc is inserted back into the slot, it stops. You have to really force it to get it the rest of the way in. Is this on just mine? Maybe, but it was consistent across all but two of the slots.
So, if there is any dust, dirt, or worse, bigger particles like sand -- your disc WILL get scratched. It DEFINITELY will. Most of the discs that were removed for the very first time, were noticeably scratched (and my vision sucks). Lord knows what they looked like after forcing them back in.
On top of that, two of the 26 discs were either previously damaged, or damaged enough by the slots, that they were unplayable (one wouldn't mount in any of 3 players, and the other skips, jumps and stutters, across two extensive parts of the disc). It also didn't help that a few of the discs actually had GLUE SPATTER across the playing surface. Was the glue from the packaging or the manufacturing stage? I don't know, but it was transparent, and still tacky even after being removed from the book.

I don't know who thought this was a good design, but they should be fired, and have this debacle follow them in their next attempt at packaging design. This should have been created with DVD-grip pages at the back of the "book," so they could be removed properly, and the art and content pages, on single sheet cardstock, at the front of the book. Nothing is lost, and the discs have the necessary protection. As an alternative, several multi-disc Amaray cases could have been used, and then the graphics could be included in a book the size of the cases (like the Japanese companies do with their DVD and CD special boxes), and that way everything can fit in a standard video library/bookshelf.

I have to send my copy back, and if it's replacement isn't damaged like the first, the first thing I will be doing is to place all the discs in proper protective cases.

Great content, packaging a complete failure.

Also, if interested in this, you should probably get it sooner, than later, since, at the moment, the bootlegging companies in Asia, haven't yet managed to duplicate the "book." However, the actual DVDs have already been bootlegged, in fact, more bootlegs exist now, than real copies, but they are being sold in the older single-season box sets. These are easily recognized since the print jobs suck, and every DVD should be more than 7GB in size (except the animated episode discs). So if you bought a season-box of Doctor Who, and the discs are 4GB or so in size (single layer), then you got ripped off! And these aren't good bootlegs, as they actually have LESS THEN 50% of the video quality of the real thing.

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