List of BBC VHS releases

BBC Video, a division of BBC Enterprises (rebranded BBC Worldwide in 1997), was tasked with releasing Doctor Who onto home video cassette. Fans attending the 1983 Longleat convention were polled to determine the first title to be released. The Tomb of the Cybermen topped the poll but, as that story would not be recovered till 1992 and was thus missing at that point, BBC Video elected to release another Cybermen adventure instead. The choice was Revenge of the Cybermen and was released towards the end of the same year.

While The Five Doctors had an artwork cover, the releases up to and including 1989 were primarily photographic in nature. During the eighties the stories released were also edited into a movie-length format (with other occasional cuts), something that prompted complaints from fans. Until the late nineties the early William Hartnell stories would also be edited to remove the 'Next Episode' captions that led into the next story, and Carnival of Monsters was accidentally released with the 1981 edit instead of the unedited 1973 version and the episodic version of Death to the Daleks released in 1995 contained edits.

While the releases would come to an eventual end twenty years later in 2003, the series was already being released on DVD, by BBC DVD, from 1999 onwards.

1983
 * Revenge of the Cybermen

1984
 * The Brain of Morbius (60 min edit)
 * The Five Doctors

1985
 * Pyramids of Mars
 * The Seeds of Death
 * Day of the Daleks

1986
 * The Robots of Death

1988
 * ??? The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * ??? Terror of the Zygons
 * ??? Spearhead from Space

1989
 * ??? The Ark in Space
 * ??? BBCV4242 The Daleks (2 tapes)
 * ??? The Time Warrior

1990
 * ??? BBCV4311 An Unearthly Child
 * ??? The War Games (2 tapes)
 * May The Dalek Invasion of Earth (2 tapes)
 * May The Mind Robber
 * Jul The Five Doctors
 * Jul The Brain of Morbius
 * Oct The Web Planet (2 tapes)
 * Oct The Dominators

1991
 * Feb The Curse of Fenric (Extended edit)
 * Feb The Krotons
 * Apr BBCV4491 Planet of the Spiders (2 tapes)
 * Apr City of Death
 * Jun The Hartnell Years ( Pilot/ The Crusade: The Wheel of Fortune/ The Celestial Toymaker: The Final Test)
 * Jun The Troughton Years (The Abominable Snowmen: Episode 2/The Enemy of the World: Episode 3/The Space Pirates: Episode 2)
 * Aug The Masque of Mandragora
 * Aug The Three Doctors
 * Oct The Sontaran Experiment/ The Genesis of the Daleks
 * Oct The Deadly Assassin

1992

Shada was released in a double cassette box, a script book for the story filling the the space for a second tape, with linking narration from Tom Baker.


 * Jan Robot
 * Jan The Caves of Androzani
 * Mar Logopolis
 * Mar Castrovalva
 * Mar The Pertwee Years (Inferno: Episode 7/The Dæmons: Episode 5/Frontier in Space: Episode 6)
 * May The Claws of Axos
 * May The Twin Dilemma (Woolworths only - general release Feb 1993)
 * May The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * Jul Daleks - The Early Years (The Daleks' Master Plan: Counter Plot & Escape Switch/The Evil of the Daleks: Episode 2)
 * Jul Cybermen - The Early Years (The Moonbase: Episodes 2 & 4/The Wheel in Space: Episodes 3 & 6)
 * Jul Shada
 * Sep The Tom Baker Years
 * Sep Earthshock
 * Nov The Aztecs
 * Nov Mawdryn Undead

1993

The Dæmons, Terror of the Autons, and Doctor Who and the Silurians were all releases making use of new technology to combine off-air NTSC home recorded copies of the stories with the black & white 16mm film recordings held by the BBC. Silver Nemesis was packaged slightly differently from the rest of the usual range and reatured and American documentary on the making of that story. The Invasion featured linking material from Nicholas Courtney to cover the missing episodes 1 and 4.


 * Jan Terminus
 * Feb Enlightenment
 * Mar The Dæmons
 * Mar Image of the Fendahl
 * Apr Terror of the Autons
 * Apr Silver Nemesis
 * May Vengeance on Varos
 * Jun The Keeper of Traken
 * Jun The Invasion (incomplete)
 * Jul Doctor Who and the Silurians
 * Aug The Curse of Peladon
 * Sep DALEK TIN: The Chase & Remembrance of the Daleks
 * Oct TARDIS TIN: The Trial of a Time Lord
 * Nov Resurrection of the Daleks
 * Nov The Two Doctors
 * Dec Planet of Evil
 * Dec BBCV5181 Dragonfire

1994

More than 30 Years in the TARDIS was a new 90 minute edit of the documentary 30 Years in the TARDIS which had aired on the BBC in November 1993.


 * Jan Day of the Daleks
 * Jan The Ark in Space
 * Jan Pyramids of Mars
 * Mar BBCV5199 Arc of Infinity
 * Mar The Colin Baker Years
 * May Inferno
 * May Ghost Light
 * Jul Destiny of the Daleks
 * Jul The Visitation/ Black Orchid
 * Aug The Seeds of Doom
 * Sep The Rescue/ The Romans
 * Oct BBCV5432 Kinda
 * Nov More than 30 Years in the TARDIS
 * Dec Snakedance

1995

The Key to Time releases of April, May, and June featured artwork on the spine of the video cases (by Andrew Skilleter). Also, from Carnival of Monsters onwards the releases each came with a postcard with the video cover art on the front that could be put into the album that came with the The King's Demons/The Five Doctors Special Edition release. These would end with The Hand of Fear in 1996.


 * Feb The Robots of Death
 * Feb Spearhead from Space
 * Feb Death to the Daleks
 * Mar The Android Invasion
 * Mar Carnival of Monsters
 * Apr The Ribos Operation
 * Apr The Pirate Planet
 * May The Stones of Blood
 * May The Androids of Tara
 * Jun The Power of Kroll
 * Jun The Armageddon Factor
 * Jul The Mark of the Rani
 * Jul Time and the Rani
 * Aug Frontier in Space
 * Aug K.9 & Company
 * Sep The Sea Devils
 * Sep Warriors of the Deep
 * Oct Paradise Towers
 * Oct Survival
 * Nov The King's Demons/The Five Doctors (Special Edition)
 * Dec The Monster of Peladon

1996

The video range was suspended in February due to the imminent release of the Fox telemovie. This resulted in many back titles being deleted, including the release of The Hand of Fear which made this particular title most sought after. When the range returned in October it had adopted the new logo from the telemovie, although a consistent template would not be established till 1997.


 * Feb The Hand of Fear
 * May Doctor Who
 * Oct The Green Death

1997

The March release of The Awakening/Frontios marked the end of painted artwork covers for the range.


 * Jan The Leisure Hive
 * Mar The Awakening/ Frontios
 * Jun The War Machines
 * Aug The Happiness Patrol
 * Nov THE E-SPACE TRILOGY: Full Circle/State of Decay/Warrior's Gate

1998

The Ice Warriors release came with a CD for the soundtrack of the missing episodes 2 and 3.


 * Jan Timelash
 * Mar Battlefield (Extended edit)
 * May The Mind of Evil
 * Jul Horror of Fang Rock
 * Sep Planet of Fire
 * Oct The Ark
 * Nov The Ice Warriors (incomplete)/The Missing Years & The Underwater Menace: Episode 3

1999
 * Jan Nightmare of Eden
 * Mar The Keys of Marinus
 * Apr Revenge of the Cybermen
 * May The Face of Evil
 * Jul The Crusade: Episodes 1 & 3/ The Space Museum
 * Aug Terror of the Zygons
 * Sep The Curse of Fatal Death
 * Nov DALEK TIN II: Planet of the Daleks/Revelation of the Daleks

2000
 * Jan The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
 * Mar The Invasion of Time
 * Apr BBCV6877 The Edge of Destruction/ Pilot Episode
 * Jul Time-Flight
 * Sep 6959 An Unearthly Child
 * Nov CYBERMAN TIN: The Tenth Planet (incomplete)/Attack of the Cybermen

2001
 * Feb 6960 The Daleks
 * Mar Delta and the Bannermen
 * May City of Death
 * Jul The Sun Makers
 * Sep Four to Doomsday
 * Nov MASTER TIN: Colony in Space/The Time Monster

2002
 * Jan BBCV7263 Planet of Giants
 * Mar BBCV???? Underworld
 * May BBCV???? The Ambassadors of Death
 * Jul BBCV???? The Creature from the Pit
 * Sep BBCV???? The Invisible Enemy
 * Nov BBCV7278 FIRST DOCTOR BOX SET: BBCV7276 The Sensorites/BBCV7275The Time Meddler/The Gunfighters

2003
 * Feb BBCV???? The Mutants
 * Mar BBCV???? Meglos
 * Jun BBCV???? The Horns of Nimon
 * Oct BBCV???? Invasion of the Dinosaurs
 * Nov BBCV7335 The Reign of Terror (incomplete)/The Faceless Ones: Episodes 1 & 3/The Web of Fear: Episode 1