The Essential Doctor Who Time Travel | |
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Series | Doctor Who |
Country | United Kingdom |
Release date | November 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: Time Travel was published by Panini UK Ltd.
Cover Blurb[]
JOURNEYS INTO THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Contents[]
- Breaking History - The Doctor's travels through time were once governed by strict rules. But rules are made to be broken...
- Readers of Time - Examining some of the pulp science-fiction stories that helped to lay the foundation for Doctor Who.
- The Chase - A squad of vengeful Daleks pursues the Doctor's TARDIS through space and time.
- Frankenstein vs the Daleks - Archive documents reveal Terry Nation's original intentions for his 1965 epic The Chase.
- The Ark - Jumping forwards in time, the Doctor and his friends find mankind threatened by an unlikely foe.
- Turn Left? - The TARDIS was originally supposed to travel backwards, forwards and sideways in time...
- The Evil of the Daleks - The Daleks devise an elaborate scheme that triggers an apocalyptic war on their home planet.
- Original Evil - David Whitaker's initial storyline for The Evil of the Daleks was even more ambitious.
- The Time Warrior - In medieval England, the Doctor encounters a warlike alien stealing technology from the future.
- Time Beings - In the Doctor Who universe, the Time Lords aren't the only characters who can time travel.
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Prehistoric creatures appear on the streets of modern-day London, but what is the real menace?
- The Blinovitch Effect - In the early 1970s, the production team found a quick solution to the implausibility of time travel...
- City of Death - An investigation into art forgery leads the Doctor to uncover a complex plot, fractured across time...
- The Gamble With Time - The classic time-travel story City of Death had its roots in a different story by David Fisher.
- Warriors' Gate - The Doctor encounters time-travelling slave traders, trapped between positive and negative space.
- The Agony of Perpetuity - Actor David Collings recalls how make-up transformed him to play the tormented Mawdryn.
- Mawdryn Undead - Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has gained a new career but lost all his memories of the Doctor...
- Time Strips - A look at some of the comic-strip stories depicting the Doctor's adventures in time.
- Resurrection of the Daleks - Time-corridor technology draws the Doctor into a desperate bid by the Daleks to liberate Davros.
- Typography And Random Disasters In Switzerland - We all know the Doctor's time machine as the TARDIS, but things weren't always so clear...
- The Two Doctors - The Sixth Doctor must save one of his earlier incarnations from the latest Sontaran Experiment.
- Holmes on Holmes - Quotes from screenwriter Robert Holmes provide a unique insight into The Two Doctors.
- The Curse of Fenric - At a Second World War naval base, the Doctor confronts a gameplaying enemy from the past.
- Attack of the Giant Squirrel! - The eventful story of a TARDIS model originally constructed for 1999's Doctor Who Night.
- Father's Day - The Doctor's companion Rose underestimates the consequences of rewriting history.
- Radio Times - Highlights of the time-travelling Doctor Who audio adventures produced by Big Finish.
- Blink - Eerie stone statues plunge Sally Sparrow into a mystery that spans decades.
- Creating Angels - We visit the churchyard near Bury St Edmunds that helped to inspire the Weeping Angels.
- A Christmas Carol - The Doctor travels in time to change the future of an old man haunted by the past.
- River's Run - Unravelling the complex chronology of Professor River Song's relationship with the Doctor.
- Listen - The Doctor's hunch about an unseen, omnipresent menace takes him to the end of the universe.
- Changing Times - Novels and novelisations based on the series have expanded on its time-travel themes.
- Under the Lake / Before the Flood - The crew of an underwater base are besieged by ghost-like apparitions with chilling messages...
- We Ought To Be Doing Things - When, and why, was it decided that the Doctor should take a more interventionist role?
- Inside the Time Ship - David Whitaker, Doctor Who's original story editor, had a unique affinity for the TARDIS.
Notes and other images[]
- Panini Bookazine #15
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