Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-20
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 639 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Most have agreed that the BBC's decision to revive Doctor Who has proven inspired, with the Christopher Ecclestone-led 'first' series proving a critical and ratings success. Yet when Ecclestone announced he was departing the role after just one season, eyebrows were raised. Could the momentum be kept going for a second series?

Absolutely. The seamless casting of David Tennant as Ecclestone's successor in the TARDIS has been equally inspired, and while it's a fair debate as to whether he matches the standards set by his predecessor, the show rarely lets you draw breath to think about it.

This second series collection kicks off with the 2005 Christmas special, which finds the Doctor struggling to overcome the effects of his regeneration, just as the Earth happens to be being invaded. It's a smashing episode, and many of the thirteen that follow manage to match it. Particular highlights? There's "School Reunion", which cleverly works old favourites K-9 and Sarah-Jane back into the mix, while "The Girl In The Fireplace" finds the Doctor in a slightly more romantic frame, "The Idiot's Lantern" is a super, snappy episode set just before Coronation Day, while the two-part "Impossible Planet" and "Satan Pit" shows just how far you can stretch a BBC budget.

Yet the series will ultimately be remembered for different reasons. The triumphant return for the Cybermen for one, and the depature of Billie Piper's Rose Tyler in the superb final two-parter, which also happens to see two of the Doctor's deadliest foes waging war. And while it's not unfair to say that this series of Doctor Who hasn't been without one or two low moments too, the vast majority of it has been really quite brilliant. Fast, energetic, well-written and cracking entertainment, you're only left wondering how they can top all this next time round… --Simon Brew

Synopsis
The complete second series featuring David Tennant as the tenth 'regenerated' Doctor Who. In 'The Christmas Invasion' Christmas trees and seasonal Santa Claus impersonators begin wreaking havoc on the residents of London. Meanwhile the TARDIS lands on Earth with a new Doctor aboard. The Doctor is not yet fully recovered from regeneration. An invasion of the planet threatens mankind and there's only the Prime Minister to battle it out.

Customer Reviews

Doctor Who? HEY Doctor Who!
I loved this series apart from one episode... Love and Monsters left me feeling flat as a pancake! I was really looking forward to my forty minutes of David Tennant's quirkyness, and all I got was Peter Kay gobbling people up!!!!! I found it a rather strange episode.

I loved the two episodes set in the Parallel universe where Rose's father and mother were together but unhappy without any child. They were all the more fantastic by Roger Lloyd Pack's amazing acting ability in that episode. It proved he could play more than just Trigger in Only Fools... and Owen in Vicar of Dibley. Also, for a Potter fan like me, I was THRILLED, that shortly after seeing Goblet of Fire at the Cinema, I saw them together on screen again this time on the opposite sides of the fence: (Roger played Barty Crouch Sr, a Wizard dedicated to putting evil Wizards and Witches, called Death Eaters in the Wizard prison Azkaban, David Tennant played his son, Barty Crouch Jr, one of the evil Wizards he sent down.) So, yeah, for me it was the icing on the proverbial cake.

I also loved the Girl in the Fireplace mainly because of the horse crashing through the mirror before the final showdown, and the greatest Who lines of all time:

Rose: You're not having that horse in the Tardis.

Doctor: Why not I let you keep Mickey!

That episode should have been dedicated to Adam and the Ants it was so Prince Charming!

I actually found Fear Her quite scary, I did almost hide behind the cushion, in fact in The Wire episode I DID hide behind the cushion!

Great series, great show, great Doctor and great assistant... just didn't like Peter Kay!

TENNANT IS THE DOCTOR...better than series 1 but not found its feet
series 1 was very good but this series boasted so much that it forgot to take off...Tennant is by far the greatest doctor of them all but his and Pipers chemistry lacks in between the episodes.
christmas invasion-4/5
new earth-3.5/5
tooth & claw-5/5
School reunion-5/5
Girl in the fireplace-4.8/5
rise of the cyber men-2.5/5-not as epic as id hoped.
age of steel-2/5-lacking that something that makes the cybermen...well...scary.
the idiots lantern-2/5-half decent half unfinished.
the impossible planet-3/5-creepy but nothing for the Ood to do.
Satans Pit-3.5/5-not as amazing as id hoped but it is pretty decent and very scary...watch series 4 Planet of the Ood for a better episode.
Love & Monsters-3/5-a decent episode with loads of humour and Peter Kay makes a fun monster...okay not perfect but it is fun.
Fear her-0.5/5-awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Army of Ghosts-3/5-decent episode...look out for Freema as Martha's cousin Adoela.
Doomsday-4/5-a decent end...watch for the last 15 mins.

all in all good enough...not perfect but worth purchasing

Buy this now
If anyone ever asks you why you can't go out until after 8pm on a Saturday evening you need to show them this box set.

Perfect weekend entertainment for kids aged one and up!

Veering for light and breezy to touching and heart-wrentching (sometimes within the same episode) this is the series that got me hooked on Who.

The series finale will leave you breathless.