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** [[Adam Mitchell]]
** [[Adam Mitchell]]
** [[Adelaide Brooke]]
** [[Adelaide Brooke]]
** [[AdiposeAdric|Adipose]]
** [[Adipose]]
** [[AdiposeAdric|Adric]]
** [[Adric]]
** [[Aggedor]]
** [[Aggedor]]
** [[The Alliance]]
** [[The Alliance]]
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** [[Astrid Peth]]
** [[Astrid Peth]]
** [[Atraxi]]
** [[Atraxi]]
** [[Axons]]
** [[Axos|Axons]]
** [[Azal]]
** [[Azal]]
** [[Bannakaffalatta]]
** [[Bannakaffalatta]]
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** [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]
** [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]
** [[Canton Everett Delaware III]]
** [[Canton Everett Delaware III]]
** [[Carrionites]]
** [[Carrionite]]<nowiki/>s
** [[The Captain]]
** [[The Captain]]
** [[Captain Jack Harkness]]
** [[Captain Jack Harkness]]
** [[Captain Mike Yates]]
** [[Mike Yates|Captain Mike Yates]]
** [[Carrionites]]
** [[Celestial Toymaker]]
** [[Celestial Toymaker]]
** [[Clara Oswald]]
** [[Clara Oswald]]
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** The [[Eleventh Doctor]]
** The [[Eleventh Doctor]]
** The [[Twelfth Doctor]]
** The [[Twelfth Doctor]]
** [[Doctor Simeon]]
** [[Walter Simeon|Doctor Simeon]]
** [[Donna Noble]]
** [[Donna Noble]]
** [[Dorium Maldovar]]
** [[Dorium Maldovar]]
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** [[Draconians]]
** [[Draconians]]
** The [[Dream Lord]]
** The [[Dream Lord]]
** [[Eknodines]]
** [[Eknodine]]<nowiki/>s
** [[The Face of Boe]]
** [[The Face of Boe]]
** [[The Family of Blood]]
** [[The Family of Blood]]
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** [[The Flood]]
** [[The Flood]]
** [[Futurekind]]
** [[Futurekind]]
** [[Gangers]]
** [[Ganger]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Gelth]]
** [[Gelth]]
** [[Giant Maggots]]
** [[Giant maggot|Giant maggots]]
** [[Gods of Ragnarok]]
** [[Gods of Ragnarok]]
** [[Grace Holloway]]
** [[Grace Holloway]]
** [[Grayle]]
** [[Grayle]]
** [[Haemovores]]
** [[Haemovore]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Handbots]]
** [[Handbot]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Harriet Jones]]
** [[Harriet Jones]]
** [[Harry Sullivan]]
** [[Harry Sullivan]]
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** [[Jenny Flint]]
** [[Jenny Flint]]
** [[Jo Grant]]
** [[Jo Grant]]
** [[Joan Redfern]]
** [[Joan Redfern (TV character)|Joan Redfern]]
** [[John Lumic]]
** [[John Lumic]]
** [[John Riddell]]
** [[John Riddell]]
** [[Judoon]]
** [[Judoon]]
** [[-9|K-9]]
** [[K9]]
** [[Kahler-Jex]]
** [[Kahler-Jex]]
** [[Kahler-Tex]]
** [[Kahler-Tek]]
** [[Kamelion]]
** [[Kamelion]]
** [[Katarina]]
** [[Katarina]]
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** [[Kazran Sardick]]
** [[Kazran Sardick]]
** [[Krillitanes]]
** [[Krillitanes]]
** [[Krotons]]
** [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]]
** [[Krynoids]]
** [[Krynoid]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Lady Cassandra O'Brien]]
** Lady [[Cassandra O'Brien]]
** [[Lady Christina de Souza]]
** [[Lady Christina de Souza]]
** [[Leela]]
** [[Leela]]
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** [[Ood]]
** [[Ood]]
** [[Patchwork people]]
** [[Patchwork people]]
** [[Peg Dolls]]
** [[Peg Doll]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Peri Brown]]
** [[Peri Brown]]
** [[Pete Tyler]]
** [[Pete Tyler]]
** [[Pig Slaves]]
** [[Pig slave|Pig slaves]]
** [[Plasmavores]]
** [[Plasmavore]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Polly Wright]]
** [[Polly Wright]]
** [[Porridge]]
** [[Porridge]]
** [[Prisoner Zero]]
** [[Prisoner Zero]]
** [[Professor Edward Travers]]
** [[Edward Travers|Professor Edward Travers]]
** [[Professor Lazarus]]
** [[Richard Lazarus|Professor Lazarus]]
** [[Pyroviles]]
** [[Pyrovile]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Racnoss]]
** [[Racnoss]]
** The [[Rani]]
** The [[Rani]]
** [[Rassilon]]
** [[Rassilon]]
** [[Raston Warrior Robots]]
** [[Raston Warrior Robot]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Reapers]]
** [[Reaper]]<nowiki/>s
** [[River song]]
** [[River song]]
** [[Roboforms]]
** [[Roboform]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Romana]]
** [[Romana]]
** [[Rory Willams]]
** [[Rory Williams]]
** [[Rose Tyler]]
** [[Rose Tyler]]
** [[Salamander]]
** [[Salamander]]
** [[Sally Sparrow]]
** [[Sally Sparrow]]
** [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
** [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
** The [[Saturnyns]]
** The [[Saturnyn]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Scarecrow Soldiers]]
** [[Animated scarecrow (Human Nature)|Scarecrow soldiers]]
** [[Scaroth]]
** [[Scaroth]]
** [[Sea Devils]]
** [[Sea Devils]]
** [[Sensorites]]
** [[Sensorite]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Sergeant Bentor]]
** [[John Benton|Sergeant Benton]]
** [[Shakri]]
** [[Shakri]]
** [[Sharaz Jek]]
** [[Sharaz Jek]]
** [[Sill the Mentor]]
** [[Sil]] the [[Mentor]]
** [[The Silence]]
** [[The Silence]]
** [[Silurians]]
** [[Silurians]]
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** [[Sisters of Plenitude]]
** [[Sisters of Plenitude]]
** [[Slitheen]]
** [[Slitheen]]
** [[Smilers]]
** [[Smiler]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Solomon]]
** [[Solomon]]
** [[Solomon's Robots]]
** Solomon's robots
** [[Sontarans]]
** [[Sontarans]]
** [[Steven Taylor]]
** [[Steven Taylor]]
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** [[Terileptil]]
** [[Terileptil]]
** [[Teselecta]]
** [[Teselecta]]
** [[Thals]]
** [[Thal]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Tobias Vaughan]]
** [[Tobias Vaughn]]
** [[Toclafane]]
** [[Toclafane]]
** [[Valeyard]]
** [[Valeyard]]
** [[Vashta Nerada]]
** [[Vashta Nerada]]
** [[Vervoids]]
** [[Vervoid]]<nowiki/>s
** [[Vespiform]]
** [[Vespiform]]
** [[Vicki]]
** [[Vicki]]
** [[Victoria Waterfield]]
** [[Victoria Waterfield]]
** [[Vinvocci]]
** [[Vinvocci]]
** [[Vislo Turlough]]
** [[Vislor Turlough]]
** [[Voc Robots]]
** [[Voc |Voc]] Robots
** [[The War Doctor]]
** [[The War Doctor]]
** [[War Machine]]
** [[War Machine]]
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** [[Whisper Men]]
** [[Whisper Men]]
** [[Wilfred Mott]]
** [[Wilfred Mott]]
** [[Winifred Gilly Flower]]
** [[Winifred Gillyflower]]
** [[Wirrn]]
** [[Wirrn]]
** [[Woodland King and Queen]]
** Woodland [[Wooden King|King]] and [[Wooden Queen|Queen]]
** [[Yeti]]
** [[Yeti]]
** [[Zarbi]]
** [[Zarbi]]
** [[Zoe Hariot]]
** [[Zoe Heriot]]
** [[Zygons]]
** [[Zygons]]


* Index
* Index
* Acknowledgments
* Acknowledgements


=== Notable features ===
=== Notable features ===

Revision as of 11:00, 23 December 2019

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The Visual Dictionary (reference book) was an illustrated guide to BBC Wales Doctor Who. As of January 2015, three editions had been published. The inaugural edition was published coincident with the broadcast of Smith and Jones in 2007. A revised edition was released in Matt Smith's first year as the Eleventh Doctor, and a second revised edition was released following Peter Capaldi's first year as the Twelfth Doctor.

2007 edition

The first edition of The Visual Dictionary focused mainly on the first two years of BBC Wales Doctor Who, examing the Ninth Doctor and the early days of the Tenth Doctor.

Chapters

(Featuring artwork by Peter McKinstry)
(Featuring artwork by Peter McKinstry)
(Featuring artwork by John Maloney)
(Featuring artwork by Richard Bonson)

Notable features

  • This well-illustrated hardback volume, complete with an embedded blue glass Dalek eye on the cover, conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.
  • The attention to detail is impressive, even including the exhibits in Henry van Statten's collection.
  • The fold-out "Inside the TARDIS" pages are themselves stunning and, for the first time ever, reveal the concept drawings of the whole TARDIS in all its sceptre-shaped glory, and include the "Nerve Centre" (aka console) layout.
  • Tardis cross-section by Peter McKinstry

    Tardis cross-section by Peter McKinstry

  • Console room cross-section by Peter McKinstry

    Console room cross-section by Peter McKinstry

2009 edition

This US edition of The Visual Dictionary was updated and expanded to cover the first four years of BBC Wales Doctor Who, examining the Ninth and Tenth Doctors.

Chapters

(Featuring artwork by Peter McKinstry)
(Featuring artwork by John Maloney)
(Featuring artwork by Richard Bonson)

Notable features Edit

  • This updated and expanded hardback volume conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.
  • The attention to detail is impressive, even including the exhibits in Henry van Statten's collection.
  • The fold-out "Inside the TARDIS" pages depict the 10th Doctor's TARDIS interior's console room layout.

2010 edition

The second edition was a greatly expanded illustrated guide to Doctor Who — from its return in 2005, up to and including the Eleventh Doctor's first series.

Chapters

featuring illustration by Lee Binding
featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry
featuring illustration by James Southall
featuring illustration by John Malony
featuring illustration by Richard Bonson
featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry

Notable features

  • Following the format of the previous edition, this well-illustrated hardback volume, conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.

Notes

  • Reproducing some of the content from Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary first published in 2007, this expanded edition is fully updated to include all stories up to the end of Series 5.
  • Topics from the first release whose references are significantly reduced include Jackie Tyler, Pete Tyler, Abzorbaloff, Van Statten's Vault, Nanogenes, John Lumic, Parallel Worlds, Robotic mercenaries, and the Last Great Time War.
  • On the Master's entry it is stated that John Simm portrayed the seventeenth form of the Master. It could be noted that at the time Alex Macqueen and Titan comics' "Asian child" incarnations were not introduced yet.

2014 edition

A new volume billed The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded was released in 2014, this time covering Doctor Who up to and including the eighth series and the Twelfth Doctor. The book comes with a lenticular cover picture consisting of the 12th Doctor in front of the TARDIS with open doors, the 12th Doctor vanishing in a flash of light in front of the TARDIS with open doors, and the TARDIS with closed doors and its top light turned on.

Chapters

featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry
featuring illustration by James Southall
featuring illustration by John Malony
featuring illustration by Richard Bonson
featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry

Notable features

  • Following the format of the previous edition, this well-illustrated hardback volume, conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.

Notes

  • Reproducing some of the content from Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary first published in 2010, this updated and expanded edition includes all stories up to the end of series 8.

2015 edition

This is a US hardcover omnibus edition renamed to The Complete Visual Collection released in 2015. This is essentially the same as the 2014 edition with a different cover, plus it incorporates the complete contents of Doctor Who: Character Encyclopedia Update Edition from 2015 into one volume. It is the same size as the original hardcover 8 3/8" x 10". It spans series 1-8 featuring the then current Twelfth Doctor.

Chapters

featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry
featuring illustration by James Southall
featuring illustration by John Malony
featuring illustration by Richard Bonson
featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry

The Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia continues at this point in the book with its title page followed by its table of contents. Its entries consist of all 13 Doctors (the first 12 plus the War Doctor) and more than 200 companions, friends, and foes throughout the entire history of Doctor Who up to, and including, Series 8. It's packed with fascinating facts and statistics for characters from the Abzorbaloff to the Zygons, and with large cut-out poses and stunning stills from the programme. It is the ultimate compendium of Doctor Who characters.

Contents

This section of the book covers a wealth of characters. Most are given a full page spread with colour-coded pages denoting the subject's categories. Namely;

  • Index
  • Acknowledgements

Notable features

  • There is a sleeve on the inside front cover containing a limited edition print depicting all of the modern era Doctors and their companions.

Notes

  • Reproducing some of the content from Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary first published in 2010, this newer edition includes all stories up to the end of Series 7.


2015 edition

This is a US softcover edition renamed back to The Visual Dictionary released in 2015. This is essentially the same as the 2014 edition with a different cover and slightly smaller measuring only 10 1/8" x 12". It spans series 1-8 featuring the then current Twelfth Doctor.

Chapters

featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry
featuring illustration by James Southall
featuring illustration by John Malony
featuring illustration by Richard Bonson
featuring illustration by Peter McKinstry

Notable features

  • Following the format of the previous edition, this well-illustrated softback volume, conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.

Notes

  • Reproducing some of the content from Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary first published in 2010, this newer edition includes all stories up to the end of Series 8.
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