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 The Star Beast ^[+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"], 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
	New Earth	Russell T Davies, David Tennant, Phil Collinson	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 6)
	Tooth and Claw	David Tennant, Derek Riddell, Simon Winstone	2006 Adventure Calendar (day 23)
	The Girl in the Fireplace	David Tennant, Sophia Myles, Phil Collinson	DVD boxset
	The Age of Steel	Graeme Harper, Nick Briggs, Paul Kasey	DVD boxset
	The Impossible Planet	David Tennant, Will Cohen, Shaun Parkes	DVD boxset
	Doomsday	David Tennant, Billie Piper	DVD boxset
	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)
	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
	Victory of the Daleks	Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Briggs, Barnaby Edwards	DVD boxset
	The Time of Angels	Karen Gillan, Steven Moffat	DVD boxset
	The Vampires of Venice	Jonny Campbell, Toby Whithouse, Alex Price	DVD boxset
	Cold Blood	Ashley Way, Alun Raglan, James DeHaviland	DVD boxset
	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	File:In-vision commentary 60th Ep1.jpg
	The Giggle	David Tennant, Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies	BBC iPlayer/Dvd/Blu Ray	File:In-vision commentary 60th Ep3.jpg
1	The Church on Ruby Road	Millie Gibson, Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies	BBC iPlayer/Dvd/Blu Ray	File:In-vision commentary SS1 Ep0.jpg