Season 14 comes to Blu-ray

On April 20th Season 14 will be released in the UK as the latest Blu-ray box set.
Another Tom Baker set had been expected  soon,  just to even up the releases.
This was the final season for producer Philip Hinchcliffe, and also saw the departure of Lis Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, and the arrival of Louise Jameson as Leela. Jameson will feature in the "Behind the Sofa" segments with Baker and Hinchcliffe.
It is a varied mix of stories. The Masque of Mandragora is one of the better pseudo-historicals, with great production values and an excellent cast. It is the last 10 minutes or so of The Hand of Fear which raise it above the average, with Sarah's heartbreaking departure. Then we have the game-changing The Deadly Assassin which dared to rewrite Gallifreyan history (something no one would be foolish enough to attempt these days surely...). Then we get the introduction of Leela in The Face of Evil, the superb Robots of Death and finally the much admired, though somewhat controversial, Talons of Weng-Chiang. The controversy lies in its use of caucasian actors portraying Chinese people, as well as its depiction of the Chinese characters in general, having as one of its inspirations the Fu Manchu stories.
Extras include a major piece on the life and career of Lis Sladen, and Matthew Sweet interviews Hinchcliffe. Sweet and Baker also add some new commentaries on some of the episodes from the fourth and sixth stories. Toby Hadoke's contribution is to catch up with some of the participants from the Whose Doctor Who documentary, which was broadcast just as the season ended.
Naturally, my copy is already pre-ordered.
No word when the US release may be, though I did hear that you will be getting the Season 26 box set on 24th March. The way this release keeps getting delayed in the UK, we might finally get it about then as well...
Strangely, still no word when the two Troughton animated stories are going to be released. I'm hoping the first - The Faceless Ones - will be out in March, as that was when The Macra Terror came out last year.