Being a "modern" fan of Doctor Who can be a frustrating experience. I was born between The Ribos Operation and The Pirate Planet, already three doctors down, and I never discovered the series until it was in its new incarnation. Since then, I've tried to gobble up what Doctor Who content I could, but it's a frustrating experience. While most of the series has been released on VHS, these are too difficult to find and to damaged by time to be of much use. And the DVD releases, as wonderful and as well-done as they are, are horribly incomplete. Worse, they are released in random order, perhaps as a "Best Of" for fans first, but almostly inaccessible to a viewer coming to the series for the first time.


For my own use, but perhaps for someone else's, this page gives you and idea of how much of each character's arcs are currently available on DVD. I ignore the fact that some of the First and Second Doctors' stories are lost forever, but perhaps they will eventually be released animated as The Invasion was.


The Doctors:


First Doctor - 134 episodes, 43 on DVD - 32%

Second Doctor - 119 episodes, 35 on DVD - 29%

Third Doctor - 128 episodes, 46 on DVD - 36%

Fourth Doctor - 178 episodes, 102 on DVD - 57%

Fifth Doctor - 69 episodes, 39 on DVD - 57%

Sixth Doctor - 31 episodes, 25 on DVD - 81%

Seventh Doctor - 42 episodes, 18 on DVD - 43%

Eighth Doctor - 1 episode, 1 on DVD in UK, 0 elsewhere - 100% (UK), 0% (World)

Ninth Doctor - 13 episodes, 13 on DVD - 100%

Tenth Doctor - 44 episodes, 44 on DVD - 100% (includes mini-episodes, but not animated ones)


The Companions:


Susan - 51 episodes, 23 on DVD - 45%

Ian & Barbara - 77 episodes, 29 on DVD - 38%

Vicki - 39 episodes, 12 on DVD - 31%

Steven Taylor - 45 episodes, 4 on DVD - 9%

Katarina - 5 episodes, 1 on DVD - 20%

Dodo - 19 episodes, 3 on DVD - 16%

Ben & Polly - 40 episodes, 9 on DVD - 23%

Jamie - 113 episodes, 35 on DVD - 31% (including The Two Doctors, 33%)

Victoria - 41 episodes, 10 on DVD - 24%

Zoe - 50 episodes, 17 on DVD - 34%

Jo Grant - 77 episodes, 24 on DVD - 31%

Sarah Jane Smith - 80 episodes, 36 on DVD - 45% (including The Five Doctors and with the Tenth Doctor, 48%; with spin-offs, 54%)

Harry Sullivan - 28 episodes, 16 on DVD - 57%



Serials not yet released on DVD

First Doctor


  1. The Keys of Marinus

  2. The Sensorites

  3. Planet of Giants

  4. The Rescue

  5. The Romans

  6. The Space Museum

  7. The Chase

  8. The Ark

  9. The Gunfighters


Second Doctor


  1. The Dominators

  2. The Mind Robber

  3. The Krotons

  4. The War Games


Third Doctor


  1. The Ambassadors of Death

  2. Terror of the Autons

  3. The Mind of Evil

  4. Colony in Space

  5. The Daemons

  6. Day of the Daleks

  7. Curse of the Peladon

  8. The Mutants

  9. The Time Monster

  10. Frontier in Space

  11. Planet of the Daleks

  12. Invasion of the Dinosaurs

  13. Death to the Daleks

  14. The Monster of Peladon

  15. Planet of the Spiders


Fourth Doctor


  1. Revenge of the Cybermen

  2. Terror of the Zygons

  3. The Android Invasion

  4. The Seeds of Doom

  5. The Masque of Mandragora

  6. The Deadly Assassin

  7. The Face of Evil

  8. Image of the Fendahl

  9. The Sun Makers

  10. Underworld

  11. The Creature from the Pit

  12. Nightmare of Eden

  13. The Horns of Nimon

  14. Meglos

  15. Full Circle

  16. State of Decay

  17. Warriors' Gate


Fifth Doctor


  1. Kinda

  2. Snakedance

  3. Mawdryn Undead

  4. Terminus

  5. Enlightenment

  6. The King's Demons

  7. The Awakening

  8. Frontios

  9. Planet of Fire


Sixth Doctor


  1. The Twin Dilemma

  2. Attack of the Cybermen


Seventh Doctor

  1. Time and the Rani

  2. Paradise Towers

  3. Delta and the Bannermen

  4. Dragonfire

  5. The Happiness Patrol

  6. Silver Nemesis

  7. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy


Serials Impossible to be released on DVD without animated reconstruction


First Doctor

  1. Marco Polo (0/7 surviving)

  2. Reign of Terror (4/6 surviving)

  3. The Crusade (2/4 surviving)

  4. Galaxy Four (0/4 surviving)

  5. Mission to the Unknown (0/1 surviving)

  6. The Myth Makers (0/4 surviving)

  7. The Daleks' Master Plan (3/12 surviving)

  8. The Massacre of Bartholomew's Eve (0/4 surviving)

  9. The Celestial Toymaker (1/4 surviving)

  10. The Savages (0/4 surviving)

  11. The Smugglers (0/4 surviving)

  12. The Tenth Planet (3/4 surviving)


Second Doctor


  1. The Power of the Daleks (0/6 surviving)

  2. The Highlanders (0/4 surviving)

  3. The Underwater Menace (1/4 surviving)

  4. The Moonbase (2/4 surviving)

  5. The Macra Terror (0/4 surviving)

  6. The Faceless Ones (2/6 surviving)

  7. The Evil of the Daleks (1/7 surviving)

  8. The Abominable Snowman (1/6 surviving)

  9. The Ice Warriors (4/6 surviving)

  10. The Enemy of the World (1/6 surviving)

  11. The Web of Fear (1/6 surviving)

  12. Fury From the Deep (0/6 surviving)

  13. The Wheel in Space (2/6 surviving)

  14. The Space Pirates (1/6 surviving)