The Doctors : 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond The Doctors ( sometimes known by its subtitle , 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond ) was a 1995 documentary produced by BBV Productions . It was a sixty - five - minute retrospective on the entire history of " Doctor Who " from 1963 to 1995 . Although unofficial , it included interviews with many famous " Doctor Who " personalities still alive in 1995 . It was mostly compiled from previous interviews conducted by Bill Baggs and his associates . It featured home movies of the filming of several " Doctor Who " serial s . It contained the first public showing of some colour footage of the filming of a few missing episode s from the 1960s . It also contained interviews with some people who have not generally appeared on official BBC DVD documentaries or commentaries . Overview . " The Doctors " interviewed people important to the first thirty - two years of the franchise ' s history . It was arranged mostly in chronological order and took its viewers through a brief overview of each Doctor ' s " era " on the programme . In its concluding chapter , it discussed things that had happened to the franchise since its cancellation — such as the continuing life of " Doctor Who Magazine " and the Virgin New Adventures series . It ended by discussing the early 1990s history of the franchise . Amateur video . Though published professionally , " The Doctors " was an amateur production . This was obvious in many interviews , where microphone boom s were clearly in shot . At one point , as well , Peter Davison and Mark Strickson were walking at the location of " Mawdryn Undead " , and they had to alert the cameraman that he was about to back into a park bench . There was no attempt at grading the raw footage , or at fixing technical flaws in the recording . The DVD version , in particular , failed entirely to meet the usual technical specifications of the medium . Home movies . Aside from the interviews themselves , the only moving pictures in the documentary were home movies of location filming of " Doctor Who " . As these were not made by the BBC , it cannot exercise any control over their dissemination . The movies on this volume are some of the few published glimpses of the filming of " Doctor Who " in the 1960s and 1970s . What is believed to be the full , unexpurgated versions of some of the movies were presented as the DVD ' s only special feature . These movies were also remarkable for being entirely in colour — all the more unusual since some of the filming was of the traditionally monochromatic First and Second Doctor s . Serials represented by the home movies included : " The Smugglers " , " The Abominable Snowmen " , " The Demons " , " City of Death " and " Shada " . None of the Fourth Doctor ' s home movies were included in the special features . Since the DVD was published , however , these movies gradually made their way onto official BBC DVD releases — most notably as a part of the " Lost in Time " box set . Interviews . Many of the interviewees were people who would contribute to BBC DVD releases . However , this documentary was one of the few homes to interviews with John Nathan - Turner and Shaun Sutton . The Nathan - Turner portions came from what was likely his longest filmed interview about " Doctor Who " . It offered rare interviews with two members of the production team of " The Dark Dimension " — a 1993 project that came close to reviving " Doctor Who " before the 1996 tele - film . Unofficial status . Because the producers had no relationship to the British Broadcasting Corporation , they were unable to use any footage from " Doctor Who " . Still photography was limited to production and advertising stills . Thus , the original interviews which form the basis of the documentary are interspliced with home movies made of the filming of certain episodes of " Doctor Who " . As a result , the documentary was , at the time of its release , famous for being the first home of some never - before - seen footage , particularly involving the filming of " The Smugglers " and " The Abominable Snowmen " , two serial s with missing episode s . Curiously , though , the cover design featured the BBC ' s trademarked police box design and the DVD menu utilised images of Dalek s , whose design is also reserved by the BBC . Anachronistic release . The length of time between the completion of the documentary and its DVD release set up an interesting phenomenon . Consumers would have bought a " new " DVD , purporting to be a history of " the Doctor s " , lacking coverage of the Eighth Doctor . They might well have been even more confused by the DVD menu . While the cover had images of only the first seven Doctors , the menu contained a picture of Paul McGann . His name was never even mentioned in the documentary , as all interviews were completed before he had been cast . Nevertheless , the interview with " Doctor Who Magazine " staff touched briefly on the " possibility " of a project for Fox Broadcasting in the United States . Crew . Some members of the crew had significance to the " Doctor Who " franchise beyond this single production . As with most BBV projects , the principal creative force behind " The Doctors " was Bill Baggs himself . Adrian Rigelsford was involved as well , though it is unclear exactly what he did . The DVD cover claims he was the writer , but the on - screen credits list him as " consultant " . This would seem closer the mark ; the piece consisted entirely of interviews . As such it had no narrator , and no obvious opportunity for the employment of a writer in the conventional sense . Nevertheless his influence was fairly obvious . The documentary ' s coverage of " The Dark Dimension " was almost certainly because Rigelsford had written " Dimension " . Nicholas Briggs , more famous for voicing Dalek s and being the showrunner at Big Finish Productions , provided the electronic score .