The good news is that the DVD and BRD sets of Season 7 of Doctor Who will be out in time for the holidays, and will include two of the Doctor Who pre-season BBC America specials and the “Pond Life” webseries. The bad news is that the title is “Part One” because of course the second half of the season won’t even be broadcast until 2013.

Don’t forget, they refer to a “season” as a “series” in the UK. Here’s the press release:

DOCTOR WHO: SERIES SEVEN, PART ONE

Street Date: November 13, 2012

Suggested Retail Price: DVD$24.98 ($30.98 in Canada)

Blu-ray $29.98 ($37.48 in Canada)

Length: Approx.225 mins + bonus material / 2-disc set

Doctor Who returns, after a record-breaking season on BBC AMERICA, with five new blockbuster episodes in the first half of Series Seven. Join the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy and Rory (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, aka “the Ponds”) on their latest escapades through space and time.  Featuring an asylum full of Daleks, a spaceship full of dinosaurs and a town called Mercy in the Wild West, this explosive series concludes with Amy and Rory’s heart-breaking farewell – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan. Will the Doctor really lose the Ponds forever? There’s only one way to find out.Bonus features include the BBC AMERICA specials The Science of Doctor Who and Doctor Who at Comic-Con, as well as the Pond Life featurettes, the prequel to Asylum of the Daleks, and The Making of The Gunslinger.

You can preorder Doctor Who, Series 7 Part One by clicking on the link below (ignoring Amazon’s silliness in thinking that Christopher Eccleston is still the current Doctor):

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