Review Doctor Who in Print!

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Fans were in for a great treat, thanks to David Saunders.

He provided them with the definitive encyclopedia covering the worlds of Doctor Who, starting with

A - D




then E - K





then L - R....






And, erm, then he stopped!

David Banks gave us his Cybermen book....

Looking through this thread is like unpacking all of those cardboard boxes in the cupboard in my front bedroom.

After Colin Baker - and, indeed, after the demise of the original show, out went the annuals - and in came the yearbooks......

These were much more factually based than the old World Distributors annuals had been....

Then there were The Sixties, The Seventies and The Eighties......

And Boxtree books got in on the act.... for a while....

Then there was Timeframe, which featured lots of lovely reproductions of the Target Book covers.....

Then there was this book, reproducing the Radio Times art of Frank Bellamy.....

Once the show had been cancelled, the episode guide books started popping up.....

Doctor Omega said:

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I wish my copy still looked that good.

Mine's definitely dog-eared.

I only recently picked up a copy on Amazon.

I have a lot of time for episode guide books, seeing what other people think of each story; allowing me to see old stories in new ways.

Doctor Omega said:

I only recently picked up a copy on Amazon.

I have a lot of time for episode guide books, seeing what other people think of each story; allowing me to see old stories in new ways.

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The reviews sections in those books are often my favourite parts, although I confess to occasionally throwing the book across the room in disgust when someone writes nasty things about a story that's one of my favourites - or gushes with praise over something I think of as a pretty ordinary episode. But every now and then a contrary opinion can help me reassess my own views (not often though - my own opinions are, naturally, the "correct" ones and those who disagree are obviously completely ignorant ).

Let us not forget the short lived Radio Times comic strip of 1996......






I get the impression that the run of these strips was not long enough to warrant a compilation volume of any kind?

I love reading the episode guidebooks, offering different opinions on different stories.

The Discontinuity guide was one of my early favourites.

The latest issue of Doctor Who magazine.....


Issue 517 of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates 30 years of the Seventh Doctor with Sylvester McCoy!

Thirty years after he first appeared as the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy reflects on the role that changed his life…

“We didn’t know that we were breaking rules. And I think we were also blessed by the fact that we didn’t have all that baggage of the past to get in the way…”

“We didn’t know that we were breaking rules. And I think we were also blessed by the fact that we didn’t have all that baggage of the past to get in the way…”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• DEBORAH WATLING TRIBUTE
  DWM remembers the late Deborah Watling, who played the Second Doctor’s companion Victoria from 1967 to 1978, with contributions from Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant and Frazer Hines.
• VICTORIA’S SECRETS
  A previously unpublished interview with Deborah Watling from 1990.
• VICTOR PEMBERTON TRIBUTE
  Remembering the late Doctor Who writer and story editor Victor Pemberton.
• GAIL BENNETT
  An interview with original American Doctor Who superfan Gail Bennett.
• FURY FROM THE DEEP
  This month’sFact of Fiction explores 1968’s Fury from the Deep, the last story to feature Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield.
• THE PARLIAMENT OF FEAR
  Part Three of our brand-new comic strip adventure, The Parliament of Fear, featuring the Doctor and Bill; written by Scott Gray and illustrated by Mike Collins.
• DOMINIC GLYNN
  The composer recalls writing and recording the score for 1989’s
• THE TIME TEAM
  The Time Team continues its mission to watch every episode of Doctor Who with 2012’s The Doctor’s Wife.
• PLUS! Previews, book and audio reviews, news, the Watcher’s column, prize-winning competitions and much, much more.

The latest annual.....