Reddit reviews Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 10 [Blu-ray] [2019]

> So after they released a grand total of 13 copies of Season 12 mid-last year (before halting production on them for some reason)

They didn't halt production on them, they grossly underestimated how popular the set would be so didn't produce enough. They learned their lesson for Seasons 19 & 18, apparently. I can't see why they didn't start producing them again, though, as it's still widely available in North America.

> they then released Seasons 18 and 19 in an oddly close proximity (3-ish months apart) in December-March.

It's been said by people working on the sets the goal is to release 3-4 a year (4 being the maximum), so 3 months makes sense. Chris Chapman, who works on a bunch of the new bonus features for these sets, has stated that the only reason the next set hasn't been announced yet is to give The Macra Terror time to shine. It's expected to be announced tomorrow (and actually artwork for it leaked today, and if it's a fake it's an incredibly convincing one) with an expected early July release date.

> Question is: whats next?

As mentioned, artwork has been released and there's actually now a page up on Amazon (though it says "currently unavailable") for Season 10, which has been heavily rumoured since last summer. Season 26 and Season 17 are both expected to be next, though in which order we don't know, as we know behind-the-scenes stuff has been recorded for those specific seasons. No idea about when Season 17 will come, but Season 26 is expected to be released in December.

> (Although, it does bring up the question of why they'd bother with releasing a Blu-Ray boxset of something that would be purely 480p, since IIRC from Season 22 onwards they used video for filming both outside and in-studio, instead of the outside-film/inside-video system they'd been using since the first season).

Season 12, the first to be released, has no surviving film elements so none of it was released in true HD. They've done digital upscaling and further restoration work which makes the picture look better than ever and be presented in a higher quality than standard definition - and even without any upscaling, blu-ray doesn't have nearly as much compression so picture quality will be better regardless. Plus there's the benefit of being able to fit more content on the disc.

> Then theres the whole conundrum regarding the first 6 seasons, which not only would suffer the low-quality film issues of early-Pertwee, but also the fact that there are missing episodes.

It's been stated that the 60s seasons will not be left for last, so obviously they have some plan in place for missing episodes...my hope is new telesnaps reconstructions like was done for The Macra Terror, but more importantly still have individual discs for every story that could be swapped out in case new episodes are animated or even found. The animations are produced separately from the boxsets so we know that they aren't necessarily going to be waiting around for stories to be animated before releasing them.

Up on Amazon now
Doctor Who - The Collection - Season 10 - Limited Edition Packaging [Blu-ray] [2019] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QL1MFQ4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-ntTCb055XWKZ

Why do they get the nice stylish casing while we get the generic casing? And why is it called “Jon Pertwee Complete Season Four” and not “The Collection Season 10”?