Banto's DVD store was a shop located on Queen Street in London, owned by Banto the 2000s.[nb 1] It sold new and second-hand DVDs. Larry Nightingale worked there. Sally Sparrow came there to tell him about his sister's disappearance. Amongst the DVDs on display were Breakfast in the Rain, Dance of Days, Civilization Zero, Angel Smile, Falling Star, One Oak Country, My Best Friend's Boyfriend, Mean Teens, and Shooting the Sun. While there, Sally also saw more of the recorded message from the Tenth Doctor. Larry told her it was on "Easter eggs" on seventeen unrelated DVDs. After they defeated the Weeping Angels, Sally and Larry bought Banto out and took on the shop for themselves, turning it into Sparrow & Nightingale. (TV: Blink)
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In 2007, the Blink page on the Doctor Who website included a section on Banto's DVD store that showed DVD covers for the nine fictional movies. Three of these covers have been archived:[1][2]
The image that was primarily used to create the cover of Breakfast in the Rain is still available to purchase from iStock, as well as a second image in the set.[3]
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- ↑ While Blink itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to Red Hatching" a year later in 2008—as Kathy Nightingale's letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920", and the Tenth Doctor's side of his conversation with Sally Sparrow in 1969 happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the Redacted audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In Angels, Abby McPhail identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests 2009 as the year of the Red Hatching. In Salvation, the Thirteenth Doctor recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of Andy Proctor, who was last seen by his daughter Cleo "nearly 20 years" before 2022 according to Recruits.
