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The Essential Doctor Who
Robots
Essential doctor who issue 10 robots
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.

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  • Panini Bookazine #13


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