In-vision commentary

An in-vision commentary is commentary in which the participants are filmed and the resulting video dropped into the video of the episode on which they were commenting. This lets the viewer divine extra meaning by reading the facial expressions of the participants as they speak. It also overcomes the occasional problem encountered on audio commentaries of participants making visual references. Such commentaries were a major feature of the series 2 box set, but they were not extensively used thereafter until the series 5 box set.
A form of "video commentary" was also later used on the official Doctor Who website, as a part of the Adventure Calendar series. These commentaries differed from those on the DVD boxset, in that they were simply recordings of the commentary participants; no footage from the actual episodes was included. Indeed, most of these "in-vision commentaries" were later repurposed as simple audio commentaries in the podcast series of commentaries used in the first Russell T Davies era or on the DVD box sets. Nevertheless, they were labelled "in vision commentary" on their respective title cards.
Beginning with , in-vision commentaries were released to BBC iPlayer's Whoniverse catalog of Doctor Who content under the title Doctor Who: Video Commentaries.
Series 	Episode 	Participants 	Where located 	Image
2 	The Christmas Invasion 	Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson	DVD boxset 	
2 	New Earth 	Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Phil Collinson	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 6) 	
2 	Tooth and Claw 	David Tennant, Derek Riddell, Simon Winstone 	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 23)	
2 	The Girl in the Fireplace	David Tennant, Sophia Myles, Phil Collinson 	DVD boxset 	
2 	The Age of Steel 	Graeme Harper, Nick Briggs, Paul Kasey 	DVD boxset 	
2 	The Impossible Planet 	David Tennant, Will Cohen, Shaun Parkes 	DVD boxset 	
2 	Doomsday 	David Tennant, Billie Piper 	DVD boxset 	
2 	Doomsday 	Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 18)	
3 	Gridlock 	Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Dave Houghton 	2007 Adventure Calendar (day 11)	
3 	The Sound of Drums 	Freema Agyeman, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Trevor Laird 	2007 Adventure Calendar (day 22)	
5 	The Eleventh Hour 	Steven Moffat, Beth Willis, Piers Wenger 	DVD boxset 	
5 	Victory of the Daleks 	Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards 	DVD boxset 	
5 	The Time of Angels 	Karen Gillan, Steven Moffat 	DVD boxset 	
5 	The Vampires of Venice 	Jonny Campbell, Toby Whithouse, Alex Price 	DVD boxset 	
5 	Cold Blood 	Ashley Way, Alun Raglan, James DeHaviland 	DVD boxset 	
5 	The Big Bang 	Toby Haynes, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill 	DVD boxset 	
2023 specials	The Star Beast 	David Tennant, Phil Collinson, Vicki Delow 	BBC iPlayer/Dvd/Blu Ray 	
2023 specials	The Giggle 	David Tennant, Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies	BBC iPlayer/Dvd/Blu Ray 	
1 	The Church on Ruby Road 	Millie Gibson, Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies	BBC iPlayer/Dvd/Blu Ray 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
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