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The Essential Doctor Who
Adventures in History
Essential doctor who issue 8 adventures in history
Series Doctor Who
Country United Kingdom
Release date June 2016
Format Paperback
No. of pages 116
Original RRP £9.99
Other info
Editor Marcus Hearn
Published by Panini Magazines

In 2016 The Essential Doctor Who: Adventures in History was published by Panini UK Ltd.

Cover Blurb[]

DANGER FROM THE DAWN OF TIME TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Contents[]

  • PRE-HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY - The Doctor's long involvement with our history began with the formation of the Earth...
  • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship - Intercepting a rapidly approaching spaceship, the Doctor is surprised to discover 49 species of dinosaurs on board...
  • 'Saur Bones - Director Saul Metzstein brought a prehistoric menagerie to life in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.
  • Troy Story - A spot of Doctor Who archaeology reveals Donald Cotton's meticulous research for his 1965 story The Myth Makers.
  • The Fires of Pompeii - As a tragedy unfolds in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, the Doctor is forced to make a terrible decision...
  • THE MIDDLE AGES - Separating fact from fiction in the Doctor's encounters with Vikings, Richard the Lionheart... and Robin Hood?
  • The Girl Who Died - The Doctor comes to the rescue of Viking villagers apparently threatened by one of their own gods...
  • Locking Horns - Jamie Mathieson struck a balance between historical accuracy and audience expectations when he co-wrote The Girl Who Died.
  • The Crusade - The Doctor and his companions embark on a perilous adventure in twelfth-century Palestine.
  • Character Studies - Actor Bernard Kay recalls his numerous Doctor Who roles, including his portrayal of Saladin in The Crusade.
  • Marco Polo - In order to recover the TARDIS, the Doctor must endure a journey to Cathay - and a battle of wits with Kublai Khan.
  • Making History - John Lucarotti reflects on the highs and lows of writing historical stories for Doctor Who in the 1960s.
  • THE RENAISSANCE - The Doctor has experienced the best, and some of the worst, the Renaissance had to offer.
  • The Masque of Mandragora - In fifteenth-century Italy the Doctor uncovers the alien plot behind the Cult of Demnos...
  • Reality Check - Writer and story editor Donald Tosh set Doctor Who's historical stories on a new course in the mid-1960s.
  • The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve - The Doctor vanishes in sixteenth-century Paris, only to seemingly reappear in a sinister new guise...
  • THE STUART AND GEORGIAN ERAS - What is it about these centuries that make them the Doctor's favourite period of Earth history?
  • The Visitation - As the Black Death devastates seventeenth-century England, the Doctor discovers another malign influence at work...
  • The Peasants and the Jewelled Prince - Odile Dicks-Mireaux discusses the historical influences on her costume designs for Castrovalva and The Visitation.
  • The Curse of the Black Spot - Captain Henry Avery is one of the most notorious pirates of his age. So what are he and his crew so frightened of?
  • Past Lives - Anneke Wills shares fond memories of playing the Doctor's companion Polly in The Smugglers and The Highlanders.
  • The Highlanders - The Doctor and his friends are caught between both sides in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden.
  • Highland Fling - Gerry Davis was the story editor of The Smugglers and The Highlanders, the final purely historical stories of the 1960s.
  • THE VICTORIAN ERA - From the Wild West to the sewers of London, the nineteenth century held numerous dangers for the Doctor.
  • Ghost Light - Why are the occupants of Gabriel Chase behaving so strangely? And what is the terrible secret lurking beneath the house?
  • Illuminating the Past - Marc Platt, the writer of Ghost Light, on creating one of the series' most literate and challenging stories.
  • The Talons of Weng-Chiang - In Victorian London, a trail of dead bodies leads the Doctor to a psychopathic foe from the future...
  • Doctor Who Discovers... - Jeff Cummins and George Underwood are two of the artists who helped the Doctor bring history to a young audience in the 1970s.
  • THE EDWARDIAN ERA AND INTER-WAR YEARS - In the age of the First World War and the Great Depression, the Doctor defended the Earth from numerous extraterrestrial threats.
  • The Unicorn and the Wasp - The Doctor and Agatha Christie become embroiled in a murder with some very unusual suspects...
  • THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND POST-WAR BRITAIN - Another devastating conflict gave way to the promise of a better world - but with a new age came new threats...
  • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances - Amid the bombsites of a shattered London, the Doctor learns that the horrors of the Blitz can take many forms...
  • Best of British - An interview with Ian McNeice, the actor who cherishes the role of the Doctor's friend, Winston Churchill...
  • The Idiot's Lantern - In the weeks before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the miracle of television becomes a deadly weapon...
  • Not One Line - What are the rules governing the Doctor's adventures in history? And what happens when they're broken?
  • When in Rome - The Doctor meets Julius Caesar in a tale by the series' original story editor, David Whitaker.

Notes and other images[]

  • Panini Bookazine #11


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