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Mary Whitehouse didn't like Mary Whitehouse 😂

I recently purchased the Years videos and I can confirm none of them have copy protection thankfully.

Oh I had forgotten about those pieces of history, that has reminded me that I wanted to get Mission to the Unknown before I had the full set when I was a lot younger but wasn’t allowed to for whatever reason. I may have to get them now to join the other magazine CDS I have even if I have mainly focused on the magazine Big finish stories and whatever else I’ve stumbled across at charity shops or conventions

They don't have menu's they loop.

The discs don’t actually have any menus they were produced en mass and on the cheap, you’d put them in you’d be greeted by 2/Entertain and then it would play the episode on loop. Ironically when my only working DVD player was an Xbox but without a DVD remote for said system “Day of Armageddon” and “The Faceless ones” were my only comfort as a result.

As I’m sure I mentioned in the video, I feel a big finish collection says a lot more about a Doctor who fan more than most other aspects as a collector, as it’s often a pick and chose, finding as many as I did in a charity shop was great, mainly because of how ideal it was for me and them, they sold them at a decent price and I bought them for such. The only thing I find any issue with if a small one is it’s more the newer stuff that has come in, especially as someone who focuses on the older big finish stuff first, as the value of those does steadily increase, I think the oldest thing I’ve found was Companion Chronicles 2.2 Helicon Prime, and that was a 2006 release I believe

A lot of these are purely for collectors value but some do have reason and meaning as I said, “the Chase” for example is handy because the DVD version is “edited” to remove mistakes, which isn’t something I’m the biggest fan of, so using an unwatched VHS will give the clearest and crisp image I can for said comparison

I have the Daleks tin, bought it Christmas 1993.

To me my collection isn’t about resale value at all, but I do like to know the worth of some of the items, or how good a deal I’ve managed to get

@@that-british-whovian you asked in the video...

Absolutely

If I was to name the three most expensive items DVD/Blu Ray wise, Speahead from Space steelbook, Series 9 steelbook and The Dalek Collection boxset from Amazon are definitely that, I know Series 9 is a near impossibility, a Facebook group dedicated to dvds and blurays that I Admin even stops accepting posts concerning the selling because its prime targeting for scammers

I’m aware of them but nothing that I’m too knowledgeable about outside of the now defunct Audiovisuals, which I would like to get my hands on at some point. In fact “Minuet in hell” is actually a massive in joke about Audiovisuals, as one of the plot points surrounding Nick Briggs character of Gideon Crane involves him thinking he’s the Doctor a very heavy nod to his time with Audiovisuals when he played the role, ironically that story having been adapted from an Audiovisuals audio.

@@that-british-whovian if you're interested in AudioVisuals, than I have to recommend BBV, granted I'm bias about that, but genuinely BBV grew from AV prior to Big Finish, and features many ppl who went onto Big Finish and the tv show... Many still pop back from time to time as well.

My thoughts on this are simple really, and have been like this for a long time, that they since around 2014 when they animated Episodes 1&3 of “The Moonbase” they’d effectively expanded the animation range beyond a majority surviving story to 50% surviving which meant that we now had the possibility of seeing “the crusade” and “the underwater menace” with two animated episodes. Whilst I’m well aware of the reason we haven’t thus far in the guise of the repeated it would be too costly to animate, that argument to me has become more or less a hypocrisy given that from 2019 to 2022 we saw the animation of no less than 5 episodes that have sat in the archives for at least a decade by the time it was all said and done, time and money I felt was wasted there, the money used on those 5 episodes could have brought us around 2-3 more releases before the BBCAmerica funding ended, one of those releases could have and in my and many others opinions should have been “The Crusade” as fans had been after that for a considerably long time. whilst I’m personally satisfied with the reconstructions, in this case I take umbrage with how it was handled, something I should have clarified better in the video but my thoughts will be expressed more clearly in a later video.

@@that-british-whovian The problem isn't the money, it is the feasibility. In The Crusade, there are so many characters involved in fighting scenes, that is hard to animate. We will face the same issue again with The Highlanders. And orphan episodes were animated along with lost episode to get a uniform look. That didn't increase the production costs significantly.

I love the overall consistency in the design but at the same time I do appreciate the notion that the same gesture is getting tiresome even if I’m personally not bothered by it. And with the new boxset which has been announced today and is available for preorder I love everything but Jon’s face it seems a bit funny to me

Yeah, I’ve pre-ordered too, this box front portrait is the most unconvincing likeness yet. Doesn’t stop me looking forward to the release but it’s a shame Lee Bindings artwork isn’t as consistent as his inner box art work and booklet imagery. Also great to have a ‘firm’ March date from the BBC. Suggests a least three classic releases this year, possible four!