The Essential Doctor Who Robots | |
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Series | Doctor Who |
Country | United Kingdom |
Release date | March 2017 |
Format | Paperback |
No. of pages | 116 |
Original RRP | £9.99 |
Other info | |
Editor | Marcus Hearn |
Published by | Panini Magazines |
In 2017 The Essential Doctor Who: Robots was published by Panini UK Ltd.
Cover Blurb[]
DOCTOR WHO'S MECHANICAL FRIENDS AND FOES
Contents[]
- Diabolical Inventions - The Doctor is deeply cynical about many of the robots he has met on his travels.
- Mechon-mania - The strange tale of the spherical robots that challenged the supremacy of the Daleks.
- Galaxy 4 - The Doctor, Steven and Vicki land on a doomed planet where they encounter the Chumblies.
- Trap of Steel - William Emms remembers the cliffhanger he added to his novelisation of Galaxy 4.
- The War Machines - Unstoppable robots take to the streets as the hypnotic WOTAN threatens humanity.
- Street-fighting Man - Ian Stuart Black on his script for The War Machines and philosophy in Doctor Who.
- The Web of Fear - The Great Intelligence unleashes its robotic Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground.
- Comic-strip Robots - The Doctor's comic-strip adventures with robots, from the 1960s to the present day.
- The Dominators - The tranquillity of Dulkis is shattered by the Dominators and their squad of robotic Quarks.
- Recycled Robots - The distinctive robots from The Mind Robber were not unique to Doctor Who.
- Colony in Space - The Doctor discovers that a mining robot is being used for more than just prospecting.
- The Vampire Planet - An unproduced storyline from 1969, in which the Earth is invaded by parasitical Harvesters.
- Robot - The K-1 robot is a scientific marvel, but in the wrong hands it could be a deadly weapon...
- I, Robot - Actor Michael Kilgarriff recalls the challenges of embodying and voicing the K-1 robot.
- The Android Invasion - Nothing is what it seems in the picturesque village of Devesham - even the inhabitants...
- Murder on the Robot Express - Writer Chris Boucher discusses The Robots of Death and his other Doctor Who stories.
- The Robots of Death - A murderer is lurking somewhere in the shadows - or could the killers be hiding in plain sight?
- A Dog's Best Friend - Dave Martin explains how he and co-writer Bob Baker created the Doctor's robot dog, K9.
- The Androids of Tara - The Doctor, Romana and K9 visit a planet where building robots has been elevated to a fine art.
- Parrot Sketch - Tracing Douglas Adams' development of the Polyphase Avatron in his 1978 story The Pirate Planet.
- Four To Doomsday - The Doctor discovers that the immortality enjoyed by the Urbankans has come at a terrible price.
- Imitation of Life - The rise and fall of Kamelion, the humanoid robot that briefly travelled with the Fifth Doctor.
- The Trial of a Time Lord - What is the secret of the Immortal, and what is the truth behind its mysterious planet?
- Short Circuits - Designing and constructing robots for Doctor Who in the second half of the 1980s.
- The Happiness Patrol - On the planet Terra Alpha the robotic Kandy Man serves up more than just sweets.
- One Man And His Dog - John Leeson describes the highlights of his long and career-defining association with K9.
- The Girl in the Fireplace - Clockwork droids descend on eighteenth-century France with only one, gruesome purpose...
- Like Clockwork - Uncovering the illusion that inspired the clockwork droids and a chess-playing Cyberman.
- The Waters of Mars - The Doctor loves a funny robot, especially the kind that can help him rescue an off-world colony.
- Affirmative Action - Paul Tams teamed up with K9's co-creator Bob Baker to bring the robot dog back to television.
- Let's Kill Hitler - A sophisticated, time-travelling android known as a Teselecta arrives in Nazi Germany.
- You Need Hands - Writer Tom MacRae devised the memorable robots that appeared in The Girl Who Waited.
- The Girl Who Waited - A simple error condemns Amy Pond to spend decades at the mercy of the tenacious Handbots.
- By-Millennium Men - Visual effects producer Kate Walshe reveals the secrets behind some of the series' recent robots.
- The Caretaker - The Doctor goes undercover at Coal Hill School while he stalks the Skovox Blitzer.
- Murphy's Law - Paul Murphy directed Robot of Sherwood and The Caretaker for the 2014 series of Doctor Who.
- The Husbands of River Song - The cybernetic King Hydroflax has a headache which his wife, River Song, intends to fix...
- Silver Machine - In September 1974, Hound Tor on Dartmoor played host to a strange, metallic visitor.
Notes and other images[]
- Panini Bookazine #13
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