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Details and draft artwork for the UK DVD/Blu-ray release of Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series have been announced.

The six-disc collection will include all 13 episodes from Series 5 and extras including:

• Additional scenes: Meanwhile in the TARDIS – additional scenes, written by Steven Moffat and featuring Matt Smith & Karen Gillan, telling the story of what happens between episodes. Why was Amy floating in Space above Starship UK, and what happened after ‘that’ kiss between the Doctor and Amy? – Exclusive to DVD.
• Monster Files – The Monster Files will get under the skin and inside the minds of the latest Doctor’s most challenging opponents. With previously unseen footage and exclusive comments from cast and crew, the Monster Files take fans old and new even further behind enemy lines.
• Outtakes
• In-vision commentaries
• Video Diary
• Doctor Who Confidential (Cut Down)
• BBC Trails and Promos to Series 5

The boxset will come in two flavours. The Limited Edition features special ‘cracked’ artwork seen below to the left.

Both are released 8th November 2010, RRP £69.99 (DVD) and £79.99 (Blu-Ray). Amazon are currently taking pre-orders cheaper though at £52.49 (DVD) and £59.99 (Blu-ray). Time to start saving!

Out today, continue your Doctor Who collection with the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Series 5, Volume 2.

Volume 2 contains episodes 4-6 of Series 5 comprising; The Time of Angels; Flesh and Stone; and The Vampires of Venice.

Extras include the exclusive Monster Files – “A behind the scenes look at the monsters from the collection including an up close look at the terrifying Weeping Angels – whatever you do don’t blink.”

The DVD and Blu-ray are out now.

Volume 3 will follow in August and Volume 4 in September. A complete box set is expected later in the year.

The fifth series brought some major changes to Doctor Who as we waved goodbye to Russell T Davies and David Tennant’s era. We had two new main stars in Matt Smith and Karen Gillan; a new production team headed up by Steven Moffat; a new intro and remixed theme; a new look TARDIS both inside and out; redesigned Silurians; and the Daleks also received a colourful new makeover. Expectations were high, so the question is, did it live up to them and if not, what were your biggest disappointments?

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You’ve been voting all week in our poll to find out what your favourite story from Series 5 was. The poll is now closed and the clear winner is The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang with 45% of the overall vote. The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone followed in second place with 16% of the vote, while Moffat was denied a hat-trick as Vincent and the Doctor took third with 10%. The Vampires of Venice received little love and placed last with only 1% of the vote. The full results are below.

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We’ve compiled a video of our ten favourite moments from Series Five. It’s was a tough job as there were so many great ones to choose from, but we got there in the end! Enjoy the video and feel free to list your own favourite moments in the comments.

Click show to see the list show

With the fifth Series now over, it’s the perfect time for some reflection. So what was your favourite overall story this year? We already have a pretty good idea based on the weekly polls, but we have picked up more users since we first started running them. So here’s another opportunity for those of you that didn’t get a chance last time. Note: we’re counting two-parters as one story.

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The poll will close next Sunday 4th July, so cast your vote asap. As always, feel free to air any further opinions on the series as a whole in the comments.

So that’s it. After 13 weeks, we’ve not only reached the conclusion of this story but also the fifth series. Doctor Who will return at Christmas and a 13-part sixth series will follow in 2011, but in the meantime what did you think of the final episode? Was it a satisfying conclusion to The Pandorica Opens? We’ve been speculating all series about how the ‘Silence Will Fall‘ story would play out. Did the actual revelations deliver or were you disappointed? Rate in our poll and feel free to discuss further in the comments.

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This is it, the day we’ve all been waiting for. After an agonising week long wait, the final episode of the series is almost upon us!

The Pandorica Opens left us one of the most exciting (and shocking) cliffhangers in Doctor Who history. The Doctor had been imprisoned within the Pandorica, Amy was shot and supposedly killed by Auton Rory and River was trapped in an exploding TARDIS. Oh, and the universe also started to explode just to top it all off!

How on earth will they resolve all this? We’ve been speculating all week, but only tonight will we find out for sure. Be there at 6.05pm on BBC1!

Meanwhile the results of last week’s poll to find out what you thought about the first part are now in. This weeks poll had our biggest response ever and a whopping 85% of you thought The Pandorica Opens was worthy of the full 5/5, easily making it the number one rated episode of the series so far.

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Can the The Big Bang beat it? Join us again straight after the episode at 7.00pm to rate for the final time and share your thoughts!

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine (out now) has revealed that a lot more monsters were originally meant to be seen, rather than just name checked, in the Series Five finale.

Steven Moffat’s original script for The Pandorica Opens called for the Doctor to be surrounded by “every monster he has ever faced”, but the production team simply couldn’t afford to show them all.

The article states that the CGI monsters, like the Pyroviles and Vespiform, were the first to go as they cost the most money. That money instead went on the spaceships.

Using old costumes from the classic series was considered but Doctor Who’s Prosthetics Designer, Neill Gorton, said, “There was a bit of talk about seeing if old costumes might be suitable. Sadly once you shake off that lovely nostalgia and look at them, they don’t really hold up when you put them alongside what’s possible today.”

The Draconians

In particular, Gorton said would have loved to bring Draconians back, “We obviously couldn’t afford to do so, but I would have loved to have handled the Draconians. They had a really great look about them and we could make them look almost exactly as they did.”

“There’s a problem with that though – what if next series the team want’s to bring back the Draconians, for example? They might then want them updated in some way – in the same way we did the Silurians. But then they wouldn’t match the Draconians in the Pandorica chamber, so once again you realise that this stuff needs more thought than expected.”

Spoilers for The Big Bang!

If you checked out our spoiler post for The Big Bang, you’ve probably seen an image with young Ameilia Pond standing in front of the Pandorica in what looks like a modern day museum. Wondering how the Pandorica got from there all the way back? Then take a look at the pics below for a possible explanation (obviously, there’s a few blanks to fill in!) We can’t verify if these are real, but they are apparently leaked production images from the BBC site. Thanks to Aaron (aka FunkyFreddo) for sending us the info!