Through 1995, the BBC Video range gained a real sense of structure. After a trinity of reissues in February, the collection settled into pairs of releases that were often thematically linked (eg both Rani stories together) every month, culminating in a special November box set. Along the way they even found time to squeeze in spinoff K9 and Company with a Doctor Who banner on the cover.
After this, however, things fell apart somewhat. With news of a big budget TV Movie coming, and a desire to focus attention on that, two further releases were trickled out in December 1995 and February 1996, before a mass culling of the back catalogue in the spring (including February’s Hand of Fear which quickly became a collector’s item) ready for the May release of the movie. It was determined there would be no further releases through 1996, although a previously planned release of The Green Death was placed back onto the schedule to commemorate the passing of star Jon Pertwee.
| Date | BBCV | Title | Length* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 081 | 13/02/1995 | 5509 | Spearhead from Space [Complete & Unedited] | 01:38:26 |
| 082 | 13/02/1995 | 5520 | Death to the Daleks [Complete & Unedited] | 01:38:59 |
| 083 | 13/02/1995 | 5521 | The Robots of Death [Complete & Unedited] | 01:37:04 |
| 084 | 06/03/1995 | 5526 | The Android Invasion | 01:38:32 |
| 085 | 06/03/1995 | 5556 | Carnival of Monsters | 01:43:28 |
| 086 | 03/04/1995 | 5607 | The Ribos Operation | 01:40:54 |
| 087 | 03/04/1995 | 5608 | The Pirate Planet | 01:43:04 |
| 088 | 22/05/1995 | 5610 | The Stones of Blood | 01:37:35 |
| 089 | 22/05/1995 | 5611 | The Androids of Tara | 01:39:02 |
| 090 | 05/06/1995 | 5612 | The Power of Kroll | 01:32:18 |
| 091 | 05/06/1995 | 5613 | The Armageddon Factor | 02:29:27 |
| 092 | 03/07/1995 | 5603 | The Mark of the Rani | 01:30:50 |
| 093 | 03/07/1995 | 5617 | Time and the Rani | 01:39:25 |
| 094 | 07/08/1995 | 5635 | K9 and Company | 00:51:12 |
| 095 | 07/08/1995 | 5640 | Frontier in Space | 01:12:58 01:14:29 |
| 096 | 04/09/1995 | 5667 | The Sea Devils | 01:14:31 01:15:38 |
| 097 | 04/09/1995 | 5668 | Warriors of the Deep | 01:38:21 |
| 098 | 02/10/1995 | 5686 | Paradise Towers | 01:39:18 |
| 099 | 02/10/1995 | 5687 | Survival | 01:14:17 |
| 100 | 06/11/1995 | 5733 | The King’s Demons The Five Doctors: Special Edition | 00:50:17 01:42:04 |
| 101 | 27/12/1995 | 5781 | The Monster of Peladon | 01:14:53 01:13:54 |
| 102 | 05/02/1996 | 5789 | The Hand of Fear | 01:40:18 |
| 103 | 14/05/1996 | 5882 | Doctor Who [The TV Movie] | 01:28:46 |
| 104 | 07/10/1996 | 5816 | The Green Death | 01:18:35 01:18:42 |
All cover artwork during this range was by Colin Howard, although the February 1995 reissues reused the Sid Sutton photo montages from the 80s, and the TV Movie also used a single photograph on its sleeve. The Movie also featured an illustrated TARDIS on the spine with the wrong number of door panels – The Green Death had a similar, corrected, TARDIS. The Movie also received a special limited release in Woolworths with glow in the dark features (which necessitated some of the white parts to be moved around a little), promoted by a bold sticker on the front.
The TV Movie and The Green Death both made use of foil-pressed silver logos, however one print run of the latter accidentally omitted the foil.
While Frontier in Space, The Sea Devils, The Monster of Peladon and The Green Death were all split across two tapes in a single clamshell box, The Armageddon Factor was squeezed onto a single tape, presumably to align with the rest of that season. The King’s Demons and The Five Doctors: Special Edition were in separate cases, housed in an outer cardboard sleeve.
Glowin the dark version 
Glow in the dark version 
The Green Death sans foil
Episodes were generally as broadcast (including Spearhead from Space, which should have had the Fleetwood Mac track removed as it was during the 80s releases, but was accidentally left uncut), with the following exceptions:
- The line ‘myself, chiefly’ missing from the second part of Death to the Daleks (the original omnibus contained the line).
- The second episode of Carnival of Monsters was an early edit featuring the ‘Delaware theme’, and the fourth was the 1981 repeat version with an edit to the ending.
- The second episode of The Stones of Blood included an extension to one scene.
- The fifth episode of Frontier in Space featured the ‘Delaware theme’ and an extra-long recap from the end of the fourth part, but no real new material.
- The Five Doctors: Special Edition was a ground-up re-edit from the original materials, with brand new special effects and a 5.1 soundtrack, overseen by producer Paul Vanezis.
- The TV Movie was a PAL conversion, and had a number of changes from broadcast. For details, including a montage of clips, see here.
1995 and 1996 were a postcard collectors dream. Carnival of Monsters was promoted via a series of six cards which, when put together, created Colin Howard’s artwork on one side and character bios on the other (three were given away with Doctor Who Magazine and three with the tape itself). Clean artwork cards were also given away with every tape from K9 and Company to The Hand of Fear, with a book for containing them contained in the The Five Doctors box set. Finally, some shops packaged publicity photocards of the TV Movie with the McGann VHS. With the exception of the TVM and the The Five Doctors set, stickers adorned the outside of these releases promoting the included cards.
The release of the complete Key to Time season across three months gave the opportunity for something special: linking artwork across the spines was produced by Andrew Skilleter, and each box had a sticker noting its position in the cycle.
Almost all tapes continued the format established in 1992, opening with a tracking/quality notice, followed by a copyright warning, the rhombus-shaped logo, then a card advertising other videos available before the episodes started. From The Stones of Blood onwards, BBC Enterprises was renamed BBC Worldwide. This necessitated new copyright notices at both ends of the tapes. The kerning (the space between the letters) changed – especially obvious by looking closely at the gap between the A and M of VIDEOGRAM, where previously they had touched.
| Spearhead from Space: MTTYITT (different card from 080) | The Pirate Planet: None | Time and the Rani: As above | Survival: Kroll & Factor |
| Death to the Daleks: None | The Stones of Blood: Robot, Spearhead, Death C&U | K9 and Company: Blood & Tara | The King’s Demons: K9 & Co plus postcard selection |
| The Robots of Death: None | The Androids of Tara: As above | Frontier in Space (Tape 1): As above | The Monster of Peladon (Tape 1): Survival plus postcard book (with Survival and Paradise postcards) |
| The Android Invasion Red Dwarf Smeg-Ups Red Dwarf I-V | The Power of Kroll: Carnival (inside sleeve) | The Sea Devils (Tape 1): Kroll (inside sleeve) | The Hand of Fear: Peladon & Five Doctors |
| Carnival of Monsters: Day & Death C&U | The Armageddon Factor: As above | Warriors of the Deep: Kroll & Armageddon | TV Movie: None |
| The Ribos Operation: Snakedance & Android | The Mark of the Rani: Pirate & Ribos | Paradise Towers: Time & Mark of the Rani | The Green Death: None |
The Monster of Peladon, despite being released in 1995, was copyrighted 1996. The TV Movie had, after the rhombus logo, a range trailer telling the story of the show and neatly leading into the cold open of the movie. The Five Doctors had a unique presentation, as the rhombus logo was stolen by a time scoop, a caption introduced the production, and a post-credit sequence gave the 1995 credits. Both tapes of The Green Death advertised the closed captioning feature on before the tracking message.
The interiors changed during this period. The reissues were blank, The Android Invasion included an advert as usual (see details here), but then until The Hand of Fear specially produced background material was provided by Gary Russell of DWM. The TV Movie then featured a unique advert for the Doctor Who range, with photos of the second through seventh Doctors (and Richard Hurndell), and The Green Death a one-off advert for previous Pertwee- era releases.
Once again, the labels were fairly consistently black, with the BBC Video rhombus logo. The TV Movie contained the actual Doctor Who logo instead of a plain-text episode title.
