| The following article is written from an Out of Universe perspective. |
The following is a list of Blu-ray disc releases by the BBC, broken down by year of release.
While the BD format is primarily designed for content produced to high definition standards, upscaled standard definition content can also be distributed using this medium. By taking advantage of the larger disk sizes and bitrates available, the overall picture and audio quality of such an upscale are usually better than DVD.
Doctor Who has been released on BD since 2007. The Silurian Awakening was the first Doctor Who episode to be produced and broadcast in HD, with the rest of Season 44, and this was thus the first season to be released on Blu-Ray. The entirety of Doctor Who: Chapter Three has since been made available on Blu-ray, with the first three series upscaled from their original standard definition masters.
Spin-off series Panopticon was one of the first BBC productions to be produced and broadcast to HD television standards (1080i50 in the UK) in 2008 and has been released on BD since that year. The BD releases for the first and second series were significantly later than their corresponding DVD releases.
As for pre-digital Doctor Who (1963-1998), whilst studio scenes were shot in standard-definition using electronic cameras, most on-location scenes were shot on 16mm film. Where the film negatives from these shoots still exist, they have been re-scanned and combined with upscaled studio footage for their high definition BD releases.
Due to an ongoing studio technician strike at the time of recording, the entirety of Spearhead from Space was shot on film. It is thus the only pre-digital era story that has been re-mastered entirely in HD without any upscaling.
Timeline of Releases
2007
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0004 | Doctor Who: The Movie (2 disc) | Doctor Who | 20 August 2007 |
| BBCBD005 | Doctor Who: Revelation (2 disc) |
2008
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0010 | Doctor Who - The Complete Forty-Fourth Season (6 disc) | Doctor Who | 4 April 2008 |
| BBCBD0015 | Panopticon - The Complete First Series (3 disc) | Panopticon | 30 June 2008 |
2009
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0021 | Doctor Who - The One Doctor | Doctor Who | 19 January 2009 |
| BBCBD0034 | Doctor Who - The Complete Forty-Fifth Season (8 disc) | 11 May 2009 | |
| BBCBD0040 | Panopticon - The Complete Second Series (3 disc) | Panopticon | 22 June 2009 |
2010
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0065 | Doctor Who - The Complete Forty-Sixth Season (8 disc) | Doctor Who | 29 March 2010 |
| BBCBD0083 | Doctor Who: Vengeance (2 disc) | 5 July 2010 | |
| BBCBD0094 | Panopticon - The Complete Third Series (4 disc) | Panopticon | 2 August 2010 |
2011
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0132 | Doctor Who - Hark! the Weeping Angels Sing | Doctor Who | 24 January 2011 |
| BBCBD0133 | Doctor Who - The Complete Season 47 (8 disc) | 28 March 2011 | |
| BBCBD0153 | Panopticon - The Complete Fourth Series (6 disc) | Panopticon | 21 November 2011 |
2012
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0171 | Doctor Who - The Complete Season 48 (8 disc) | Doctor Who | 2 April 2012 |
| BBCBD0196 | Doctor Who: Endgame | 10 September 2012 | |
| BBCBD0215 | Panopticon - The Complete Fifth Series (6 disc) | Panopticon | 29 October 2012 |
2013
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0221 | Doctor Who - The Paterson Joseph Era (21 disc) | Doctor Who | 11 March 2013 |
| BBCBD0225 | Cold Front - Season One (3 disc) | Cold Front | 20 March 2013 |
| BBCBD0230 | Panopticon - The Complete Sixth Series (6 disc) | Panopticon | 15 July 2013 |
| BBCBD0235 | Cold Front - Season Two (3 disc) | Cold Front | 2 August 2013 |
| BBCBD0236 | Cold Front - The Complete Collection (6 disc) | ||
| BBCBD0241 | Panopticon - The Complete Seventh Series (6 disc) | Panopticon | 24 September 2013 |
| BBCBD0242 | Panopticon: Doctor | ||
| BBCBD0247 | Panopticon: The Complete Box-Set Collection (34 discs) | 2 October 2013 | |
| BBCBD0250 | Doctor Who - The David Suchet Era (19 disc) | Doctor Who | 28 October 2013 |
2014
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0271 | Doctor Who: Genesis | Doctor Who | 26 May 2014 |
| BBCBD0274 | Spearhead from Space | 15 July 2014 | |
| BBCBD0287 | Doctor Who - Season 49: Part One (3 discs) | 24 November 2014 |
2015
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCBD0295 | Doctor Who - The Complete Movie Collection (10 disc) | Doctor Who | 26 January2015 |
| BBCBD0301 | Doctor Who - Season 49: Part Two (3 discs) | 27 April 2015 | |
| BBCBD0298 | Panopticon: The Complete Collection (22 discs) | Panopticon | 20 July 2015 |
| BBCBD0301 | Doctor Who - The Complete Season 49 (7 discs) | Doctor Who | 13 July 2015 |
| BBCBD0314 | The Elysium - The Complete First Season (3 discs) | The Elysium | 19 October 2015 |
| BBCBD0321 | Doctor Who - Season 50: Part One (3 disc) | '''Doctor Who' | 2 December 2015 |
2016
|
BBCBD Cat No. |
Title | Show | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBCDB0356 | Doctor Who - Chapter Three: The Complete Collection (45 disc) | Doctor Who | 4 January 2016 |