Christopher Eccleston's tenure as the time-traveling title hero in the venerable UK sci-fi series Doctor Who lasted just 13 episodes, but he left enough of a impression on fans to make some wonder how his replacement, veteran television performer David Tennant, might fare in the role. As this second-series boxed set proves, the answer is: he's a near-perfect Doctor who combines the eccentricities of earlier incarnations (most notably Tom Baker) with a fresh and youthful interpretation of his own, and even brings a healthy dash of romantic chemistry with his sidekick, Rose Tyler (the equally charming Billie Piper). And their adventures retain the solid blend of thoughtful speculative fiction, pulp action, and quirky humor that typified the series at its best. Among the 15 terrific stories contained in the six-disc set are the "Children in Need" (a.k.a. "Pudsey Cutaway") mini-episode from the 2005 Children in Need telethon that showed Eccleston's transformation into Tennant; "School Reunion," in which Elisabeth Sladen returns as Sarah Jane Smith; "The Girl in the Fireplace," which draws together robots in 18th century France with a derelict space station in the distant future; and the season finale, "Army of Ghosts/Doomsday," which not only revives the series' most popular villains, the robotic Daleks, in a head-to-head struggle against the Cybermen, but also marks the final appearance of another series regular. For fans and first-time visitors to the TARDIS alike, the Second Series is simply thrilling sci-fi TV.

As good as the first season, if not better!

Picking up where the first season left off, the second season of Who is true to the original BBC series. Continuity isn't a real problem for true Whovians. And as with series one, those who don't know much about the old series are still taken in. Quality production work all around. Lots of location shots (thanks to having production in Cardiff) which makes the show even better.

Back story with Rose's family and boyfriend are continued, helping give the show an anchor. David Tennant does a wonderful job as Doctor #10. As one friend said, he makes you say, "Christopher who?"

All in all, great all-around series. If you loved the old Doctor Who, buy it. If you hated the old Doctor Who, try it out. If you haven't heard of it all, buy it - you'll love it!

Dr. Who The second season DVD's

Dr. Who is one of the all time bestScience-fiction shows and this Dr. is right on top of the classic character. Any Dr Who fan will enjoy season one, two or three of the Current Dr. Who series. It's suspenseful, witty in the British humor style and decent special effects make a winning show.

Doctor Who continues its golden age

Where do you begin on such an awesome mind-blowing season? Even the pedestrian episodes, like "Christmas Invasion", "New Earth", "Fear Her" and "Idiot's Lantern" were still excellent just by sheer triumph of style alone: for example, watching people`s faces and identities get sucked into a TV set. The second season still manages to nicely captures its own newness and the joy an old character rediscovering itself, and of a writing staff blazing into new territories of storytelling. Yes, David Tennant may take some getting used to, but he will grow on you quickly. Besides, when you have a Queen Victoria and a werewolf "Tooth and Claw" episode, there's no time to hold grudges. Everything works marvelously this season--there's a Sarah Jane Smith reunion with the Doctor in "School Reunion", as well as a gorgeous period piece (one of the all-time best written episodes in my opinion) with "The Girl in the Fireplace" It has a fairytale-like quality with the way the Doctor appears in Madame de Pompadour's fireplace at critical moments in her life. The Cybermen get to make their reappearance in a two-part "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel" story-their method of creating new Cybermen is one of the all-time great horrific moments of the series. "The Impossible Planet" is a great high-concept story that is nicely book ended by "The Satan Pit" which brings you down from the concept (a lonely planet in a stationary orbit around a black hole) and into the pit (as it were) of a horror. There is also one very offbeat episode, "Love and Monsters" that gives the Doctor and Rose the Rosencranz and Guildenstern treatment by moving them to the periphery of the story and focusing on the small-time character of Elton instead. The monster is a hoot, especially when he and the Doctor finally meet. It all comes crashing down magnificently with the Dalek-Cybermen throwdown season ending of "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday". This is the episode the Freddy vs. Jason and Alien vs. Predator fans had been waiting for and every potential is lived up to here with some eye-popping CGI effects and a heart-wrenching farewell between the Doctor and Rose. As a product, the overly priced (my one HUGE complaint) DVD set adequately satisfies also. There are enough special features to almost equal out the episodes themselves. The commentaries I heard (it's pretty hard to listen to watch an episode again all over) were pretty relaxed. I dug the in-vision commentary . . . but don't explore this until you've actually seen and enjoyed the episode, because it's really distracting otherwise. In all, this was probably the best 13 or so hours of sci-fi and storytelling that have been on television and DVD in a long while. As for Season 3 . . .