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The Essential Doctor Who
Adventures in the Future
Essential doctor who issue 14 adventures in the future
Series Doctor Who
Country United Kingdom
Release date June 2018
Format Paperback
No. of pages 116
Original RRP £9.99
Other info
Editor Marcus Hearn
Published by Panini Magazines

In 2018 The Essential Doctor Who: Adventures in the Future was published by Panini UK Ltd.

Cover Blurb[]

DOCTOR WHO'S JOURNEYS FROM THE 21st CENTURY TO THE END OF TIME

Contents[]

  • Spoilers! - Analysing the major categories within Doctor Who's futuristic adventures - and what they have to say about the fate of humanity.
  • Future Imperfect - Anthony Coburn's unproduced story The Masters of Luxor would have set the first series of Doctor Who on a very different path.
  • The Savages - In the far future, the First Doctor is welcomed to a society characterised by peace and luxury. But this prosperity comes at a price...
  • Imposter - In 1962 Dalek creator Terry Nation wrote a television play that anticipated some of his best-known work on Doctor Who.
  • The Ice Warriors - Earth is in the grip of a new ice age, but the staff of Britannicus Base are diverted by a strange discovery in a nearby glacier...
  • Rage Against the Machine - The writers of Doctor Who once predicted that our relationship with computers would pose a threat to us all.
  • The Enemy of the World - In 2018 the Second Doctor becomes crucial in a plot to discredit Salamander - a man who holds the Earth at his mercy...
  • Federation and Empire - A number of stories produced in the early 1970s were set against an epic backdrop of interplanetary imperialism.
  • The Mutants - Arriving at a space station in the 30th century, the Third Doctor and Jo Grant investigate cruelty at an outpost of the Earth Empire.
  • Who Licensed You to Slaughter People? - Subhadra Das, curator at UCL Science Collections, explains the theories of eugenics that inform the 1977 serial The Face of Evil.
  • The Sun Makers - Aliens from the planet Usurius have offered mankind sanctuary on the terraformed Pluto. Now mankind must repay its debt...
  • Tomorrow's World - Former Doctor Who script editor Christopher H Bidmead discusses some of the scientific principles he added to the 1980-81 series.
  • The Leisure Hive - The survivors of a devastating war pin their hopes on tachyonics. But is the new science a blessing to the people of Argolis, or a curse?
  • Gangsters' Paradise - Writer David Fisher describes the sometimes difficult process of producing his groundbreaking 1980 story The Leisure Hive.
  • Terminus - The space station Terminus treats the victims of Lazar's Disease - and hides a deadly secret with implications for the entire universe...
  • Doorway to the Fantastic - Stephen Gallagher, writer of Warriors' Gate and Terminus, remembers the challenges faced by Doctor Who in the early 1980s.
  • Frontios - The Fifth Doctor and his companions travel to the far future, where a colony of beleaguered humans fights for survival.
  • Fashioning the Future - Doctor Who's costume designers have often reflected contemporary or historical trends when creating futuristic outfits.
  • Vengeance On Varos - On the planet Varos reality television comprises live broadcasts of torture and execution - with the Doctor as the latest star...
  • Predictive Text - Some of Doctor Who's most ambitious depictions of futuristic societies have appeared in the series' spin-off novels and other books.
  • Paradise Towers - The planner's dream has turned into a nightmare for besieged and warring residents trapped in high-rise hell...
  • Brave New Worlds - Free from the constraints of television Doctor Who, Big Finish's audio productions have explored a wide variety of future environments.
  • The Long Game - In the year 200,000 the Ninth Doctor discovers something sinister at the heart of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
  • Future Feline - Best known as one of the leading Sisters of Plenitude, actress and novelist Anna Hope describes her ongoing association with the planet New Earth.
  • Gridlock - Five billion years in the future, an exodus from the squalid undercity of New Earth has led to mid-air motorways choked with traffic.
  • Building the Future - Stephen Nicholas, Doctor Who's supervising art director, comments on highlights of the series' futuristic concept illustrations.
  • Planet of the Ood - In the year 4126 the previously benign Ood embark on a violent revolution against their oppressive human masters.
  • Brain Drain - Keith Temple drew upon childhood memories of Doctor Who when writing the script for his 2008 story Planet of the Ood.
  • The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People - Acid mining was a dangerous occupation with a high mortality rate - until 22nd-century technology created synthetic, disposable workers...
  • Chronicles of the Future - For nearly 40 years the comic strips published by Doctor Who Magazine have presented epic visions of the Time Lord's future travels.
  • Sleep No More - Professor Rassmussen's device to concentrate the sleeping experience seems like a miracle, until the horrifying consequences become clear...
  • Twisted Engineering - Production designer Michael Pickwoad created stunning future environments for the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors.
  • Smile - Fleeing the dying Earth, a colony ship of humans travels 20 light years to the sanctuary of a purpose-built city maintained by robots.
  • Lost in Space - Did future threats seem more imminent to the show's original writers? And why is the future getting further and further away?

Notes and other images[]

  • Panini Bookazine #17


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