All 24 Jon Pertwee serials have been released on BBC video, in varying degrees of colour and black-and-white. Although the BBC made all Dr. Who episodes broadcast from January 1970 onwards in colour, the tapes for many episodes were destroyed just like the sixties shows and in some cases, only black-and-white film prints made for overseas sales survive.

These 19 tapes represent most of my Jon Pertwee collection. Two more came in a box set which you will see later on. Only three stories are missing from my collection in their BBC release form. These are "The Daemons", which I didn't buy when it was released in 1993 as it was shown on BBC-2 after it was restored to colour, "Planet of the Daleks" which was given a BBC-1 outing as the official BBC celebration of the 30th anniversary in 1993, and "The Time Warrior" which only came out in omnibus form, so I won't buy it.

I've tried to buy "The Daemons" and "Planet of the Daleks" off E-Bay several times but I always get outbid. I keep trying every now and again, so if you see me bidding, please don't outbid me!

Three of the above videos are re-releases of stories. These have the story title against a yellow background - "Spearhead from Space", "Day of the Daleks" (not "The Day.." by the way!) and "Death to the Daleks" and are in episode form. By the mid-1990s I think the BBC were finally beginning to cotton on to the idea that omnibuses are orrible and full episodes are fab!

I have owned "Doctor Who and the Silurians" (the only story to be broadcast with "Doctor Who and.." as part of the official on-screen story title), "Terror of the Autons", "The Mutants" and "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" from new. The first two of these were colourised versions the BBC produced in 1993 using American home video recordings and monochrome film prints of the episodes. The BBC also made a colourised version of "The Daemons" at about the same time.

Ten years later I bought "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" which has the very sad distinction of being the final BBC video Dr. Who release, twenty years after the first.