Behind the Sofa (documentary series)

Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
The series observes various members of the Doctor Who cast and crew - not always those limited to that specific season, and often cutting between different groups - watching a Doctor Who serial in cutdown form and reacting to it, similar to a DVD commentary track. Unlike a commentary track, however, the video is edited to feature specific moments and reactions, or cast/crew sharing specific anecdotes.
Behind the Sofa featurettes were produced for each individual serial, and have been included on each release of The Collection .
== Cast ==
Season Boxset	Couch 1 	Couch 2 	Couch 3
Season 2 	Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves 	Wendy Padbury, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding 	Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred
Season 8 	Katy Manning, Stewart Bevan 	Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	Sacha Dhawan, Anjli Mohindra
Season 9 	Katy Manning, Michael E. Briant 	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	Wendy Padbury, Sophie Aldred
Season 10 	Katy Manning, Richard Franklin, John Levene 	Phil Collinson, Pete McTighe, Joy Wilkinson 	None
Season 12 	Tom Baker, Sadie Miller, Philip Hinchcliffe 	Louise Jameson, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	None
Season 14 	Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Philip Hinchcliffe 	Peter Purves, Sophie Aldred 	None
Season 15 	Louise Jameson, Betsan Roberts, Toby Hadoke 	Matthew Waterhouse, Katy Manning 	Colin Baker, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding
Season 17 	June Hudson, Graeme Harper, Mat Irvine 	Colin Baker, Matthew Waterhouse 	Nicola Bryant, Katy Manning
Season 18 	Tom Baker, June Hudson, John Leeson 	Wendy Padbury, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	John Leeson, Sean Chapman, Gillian Martell (K-9 and Company only)
Season 19 	Sarah Sutton, Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Matthew Waterhouse	Mark Strickson, Sophie Aldred 	None
Season 20 	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton 	Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy 	Katy Manning, Sophie Aldred
Season 22 	Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Terry Molloy 	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	Sylvester McCoy, Wendy Padbury
Season 23 	Nicola Bryant, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford 	Frazer Hines, Matthew Waterhouse, Mark Strickson	None
Season 24 	Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford, Sophie Aldred 	Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	Colin Baker, Michael Jayston
Season 26 	Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred 	Anneke Wills, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton 	Pete McTighe, Joy Wilkinson
== Series notes ==
*In the editions included with seasons 12, 18 and 19 the opening theme for the show segued into the Doctor Who theme, however the Doctor Who theme had been digitally slowed without reducing its pitch. This is corrected as of the season 10 release, with the theme playing at the correct speed.
*The Behind the Sofa segments included in the season 12 did not properly format the credit for Mark Ayres as Dubbing Mixer - while the credits otherwise presented the position in italics, "Dubbing Mixer" was presented in the same typeface formatting as the credited names. This error did not occur in later sets.
*Season 12 was the only set where the BBC Worldwide logo appears in the end credits. From season 19 onward, the credits ended with the BBC Studios logo.
*For the Season 2, 8, 17, 22 and 24 instalments, which were produced during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-22, guests were seated in their own individual chairs instead of on a sofa. There was also a plastic divider separating them, except for married couple Dhawan and Mohindra.
Category:Documentary series