The truth about River Song is out and the time has come for the Doctor to face his greatest demons. Venturing across centuries and galaxies, the Doctor, Amy and Rory will encounter the greatest war criminal in all of history - and Hitler. Together, they'll discover there's no scarier place in the universe than a child's bedroom, and a visit to an alien quarantine facility will reveal to Rory a very different side to his wife. In a hotel where walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish, death lies waiting. But the Doctor's time has yet to come. He has one last stop to make on his final journey - an old friend needs his help and an old foe must be defeated. But time catches up with us all and the Doctor can delay no more. By the shores of Lake Silencio, in Utah, all of time and space hang in the balance. And a NASA astronaut is waiting.
The above spoiler-ish studio description of
Doctor Who - The 6th Series, Part 2 accompanies today's announcement for BBC Video's releases with the remaining 6 episodes of the current season (which only began broadcasting two Saturdays ago). The 2-DVD set will cost $24.98 SRP, and the 2-disc Blu-ray version will cost $29.98 SRP; both will be available on
November 8th. The episodes consist of "Let's Kill Hitler," "Night Terrors," "The Girl Who Waited," "The God Complex," "Closing Time" and "The Wedding of River Song"; these run approximately 270 minutes. Also on board are a pair of "Monster File" featurettes, one about "The Antibodies" and the other about "The Cybermats." Package art for the DVD and Blu-ray releases can be found below; Amazon.com's
advance listings aren't accepting pre-orders yet, but should begin to rather soon..
Also announced is
Doctor Who - The Complete 6th Series, available on
November 22nd (2 weeks after the half-season set, and on the day before the 48th anniversary of the original show's BBC premiere!). That title is a 6-disc set available on both DVD ($79.98 SRP) and high-def Blu-ray Disc ($89.98 SRP). All 13 episodes of the sixth season will be on board, starring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill. Also included on these 645-minute sets will be the 2010 Christmas special, "A Christmas Carol," with guest stars Michael Gambon (the
Harry Potter films), Laurence Belcher (
X-Men: First Class) and opera diva Katherine Jenkins. For the regular season, Alex Kingston (
ER) returns as "River Song," and so does Caitlin Blackwood (Gillan's cousin) as young "Amelia Pond." Other guests (
spoilers, sweetie!) include Mark Sheppard, William Morgan Sheppard, Frances Barber, Lily Cole, Hugh Bonneville, Suranne Jones, Michael Sheen, Dan Starkey, Simon Fisher Becker, Nina Toussaint-White, Albert Welling, Imelda Staunton, Ian McNeice, Meredith Vieira (
The View, The Today Show), and the return (from last season's "The Lodger" episode) of James Corden and Daisy Haggard as "Craig" and "Sophie" .
While the BBC Video announcement states that the DVD and Blu-ray releases of
Doctor Who - The Complete 6th Series will have "hours of extras" on each 6-disc set, they didn't provide any details about what that bonus material will consist of. We expect the same supplements found on the separate half-season sets to be on board, of course, and surely we'll additionally get the usual commentary tracks and cut-down
Doctor Who Confidential episodes. But that's just our own speculation (i.e., we're guessing), and we'll bring you the official list of extras as soon as its available.
We'll also bring you the finalized package art for
The Complete 6th Series just as quickly as we can get it, but for now we've got an early look at the boxes for you at the bottom, as taken from the e-announcement of distributor Warner Home Video. And underneath that is an online trailer for the second half of the season, as provided by the studio. Check it out:
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