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.

Behind the Sofa title card,

You may wish to consult Behind the Sofa (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

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 as of March 2024.

Cast

Season Boxset	Sofa 1	Sofa 2	Sofa 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
Season 14	Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Philip Hinchcliffe	Peter Purves, Sophie Aldred
Season 15	Louise Jameson, Betsan Roberts, Toby Hadoke	Colin Baker, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding	Matthew Waterhouse, Katy Manning
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 (K9 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.