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|book name=Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide
|image= DW Ultimate Monster Guide HB.jpg
|image=[[Image: DW Ultimate Monster Guide HB.jpg|250px]]
|writer= [[Justin Richards]]  
|writer= [[Justin Richards]]  
|publisher= [[BBC Books]]
|publisher= BBC Books  
|release date= hardback September [[2009]]
|release date= [[8 October (releases)|8 October]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
|format= Large format hardback 352 pages  
|format= Large format hardback 352 pages  
|isbn=hardback ISBN 978-1-846-07745-6
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84607-745-6
|previous release=
|prev=Companions and Allies (reference book)
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}}'''''Doctor Who: {{StoryTitle}}''''' was a compilation of illustrated guides, written by [[Justin Richards]] and was published in October 2009. It collected together material previously published in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Monsters and Villains (reference book)|Monsters and Villains]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Aliens and Enemies (reference book)|Aliens and Enemies]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Creatures and Demons (reference book)|Creatures and Demons]]'', and to a lesser extent [[PROSE]]: ''[[Starships and Spacestations (reference book)|Starships and Spacestations]]''; along with additional new material.


==Main Focus==
It covers the period up to the Easter Special, ''[[TV]]: [[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''.
An A – Z of the Doctor’s Deadliest Foes


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
With THE ULTIMATE MONSTER GUIDE, DOCTOR WHO historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor’s enemies ever published. With fully illustrated entries that cover everything from [[Adipose]] to [[Zarbi]] and [[Zygon]]s, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.  
With ''The Ultimate Monster Guide'', ''Doctor Who'' historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor's enemies ever published. With fully illustrated entries that cover everything from [[Adipose]] and [[Auton]]s to [[Zarbi]] and [[Zygon]]s, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.
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Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the [[Cybermen]] were redesigned over the years, and how [[Davros]] was resurrected to lead his [[Dalek]]s once again. Discover the computer magic that made the [[Beast]] possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the [[Weeping Angel]]s. Learn how many incarnations of the [[Master]] the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided [[Time Lord]]s he has defeated …
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Lavishly designed with photos and artwork throughout, THE ULTIMATE MONSTER GUIDE is essential reading for all travellers in time and space!


==Contents==
Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the [[Cybermen]] were redesigned over the years, and how [[Davros]] was resurrected to lead his [[Dalek]]s once again. Discover the computer magic that made [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]] possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the [[Weeping Angel]]s. Learn how many incarnations of [[the Master]] the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided [[Time Lord]]s he has defeated...
There is no contents page or index as this whole volume is arranged alphabetically by subject. Entries include background information, story synopsis, information boxes and behind-the-scenes secrets, covering the period up to and including [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead]]''.


==Notable Features==
Lavishly designed with photos and artwork throughout, ''The Ultimate Monster Guide'' is essential reading for all travellers in time and space!
* Additional references include the [[Quark]]s in the 1960s comic strip adventures and [[the Family of Blood]] from [[Virgin]]s [[New Adventures]] novels.
 
== Contents ==
Alphabetically arranged topics, with featured episode details, glossaries and for the newer stories behind the scenes insights.
 
* All the Strange, Strange Creatures...
* The [[Abzorbaloff]]
** Making Monsters
* The [[Adipose]]
** Creating the Adipose
* The [[Alien Ambassador's species|Alien Ambassadors]]
* The [[Auton]]s
** Colonisation
** Living Plastic
** Resurrecting the Autons
** Resurrecting the Autons
* The [[Axos|Axons]]
* [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]]
** The Satan Code
* The [[Carrionite]]s
** A Muse of Fire
** All the World's a Stage
* [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]]
** Making Up Cassandra
* The [[Celestial Toymaker]]
* The [[Clockwork Droid|Clockwork Robots]]
** Scripting the Clockwork Robots
** Making the Clockwork Robots
* The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]
** Creating the Cybermen
** John Lumic
** Re-Scripting the Cybermen
** Recreating the Cybermen
** Rebuilding the Cybermen
** The [[John Lumic|Cyber Controller]]
** Scripting Army of Ghosts
** Cyber Invasion
** Behind the Scenes
* The [[Dæmon]]s
* The [[Dalek]]s
** Creating the Daleks
** Reinventing the Daleks
** Building Daleks
** Scary Stories
** Emperors of the Daleks
** Devising the Emperor
** Epic Elements
** The Final End
** Dalek Military Computer
** Epic Elements
** Bringing Daleks to Life
** Humanising a Dalek
** Two Doctors
** Supreme Design
** Creating Davros
** Davros Lives!
* [[The Destroyer]]
* The [[Empty Child plague|Empty Child]]
** Recreating the Blitz
* The [[Face of Boe]]
* The [[Family of Blood]]
** Bringing the Family to Life
* The [[Gelth]]
** Bringing Back the Dead
* [[Giant Maggot]]s
* The [[K1|Giant Robot]]
* [[Eight Legs|Giant Spiders]]
* [[Magnus Greel]]
* The [[Haemovore]]s
* The [[Hath]]
** Scripting the Hath
* The [[Heavenly Host]]
** Max Capricorn
* The [[Ice Warrior]]s
** Creating the Ice Warriors
* The [[Isolus]]
** Word Pictures
** Creating the Isolus Child
* [[Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe|The Jagrafess]]
* The [[Judoon|The Judoon]]
** Making Monsters
** The Shadow Proclamation
* The [[Krillitane]]s
** Scripting the Krillitanes
* The [[Krynoid]]
* The [[Land of Fiction]]
* The [[Richard Lazarus|Lazarus Creature]]
** An Old Enemy
* The [[Macra]]
** Building New New York
* [[The Master]]
** Please Attend Carefully
* [[Midnight Entity]]
* [[Morbius]]
* [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]]
** Visiting New Earth
** Infecting the Patients
** The Hospital
** Making the Sisters
* [[Ogri]]
** Going in Circles
* The [[Ogron]]s and [[Draconian]]s
* [[Omega]]
* The [[Ood]]
** Bringing the Ood to Life
** The Ood-Sphere
** Becoming an Ood
* [[Platform One]]: The Visitors
** Platform One
** Creating the Moxx
** An Invite to the End
* The [[Pyrovile]]s
** Volcano Day
* [[Quark]]s
* The [[Racnoss]]
** Creating the Empress
** Follow that Cab!
* [[The Rani]]
* The [[Sandminer robot|Sandminer Robots]]
* [[Roboform|Santa Robots]]
* [[Scaroth]]
* [[Sharaz Jek]]
* [[Sil]] and the [[Mentor]]s
* [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s
* The [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]]
** Infiltration!
** Pigs in Space
** Aliens are Here!
** The Slitheen Take Shape
** Computing Aliens
* The [[Sontaran]]s
** Making Up Sontarans
** War in the Sky
* [[The Swarm (Planet of the Dead)|Stingrays]] and [[Tritivore]]s
** Crime Lady
** Another World in Another Sky
* [[Sutekh]] and the [[Osiran service robot|Mummies]]
* The [[Sycorax]]
** Invasion!
** Rock Painting
** Creating the Sycorax
* The [[Terileptil]]s
* [[The Trickster's Brigade]]
** Beetling About
* The [[Vashta Nerada]]
** Deepening Shadows
** Walking the Dead
* The [[Vervoid]]s
* The [[Vespiform]]
** Whodunit?
* The [[War Machine]]s
* The [[Weed creature|Weed Creature]]
** Creating the Creature
* The [[Weeping Angel]]s
** Making Angels
* The [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform|Werewolf]]
** Storyboards
** The Host
** Making 'Tooth and Claw'
* [[The Wire]]
** The Big Fight
* The [[Wirrn]]
* The [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]]
** Making Yeti
** Setting the Scene
* The [[Zarbi]]
** Creating Zarbi
* The [[Zygon]]s
** Monster Making
 
== Fictional material ==
The book also included the several short stories written by [[Russell T Davies]], [[Gareth Roberts]] & [[Mark Gatiss]], which fleshed out the series' world, from [[PROSE]]: ''[[Monsters and Villains (reference book)|Monsters and Villains]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Creatures and Demons (reference book)|Creatures and Demons]]''.
* ''[[Lives of the Rich and Thin (short story)|Lives of the Rich and Thin]]''
* ''[[A Muse of Fire (short story)|A Muse of Fire]]''
* ''[[A Previously Undiscovered Shakespeare Manuscript (short story)|A Previously Undiscovered Shakespeare Manuscript]]''
* ''[[Legends of the Universe (short story)|Legends of the Universe]]''
* ''[[From the Platform One Guest List (short story)|From the Platform One Guest List]]''
* ''[[Safety Procedures involving any Cith, Moxx, or Grame of Balhoon (short story)|Security Procedures]]''<ref name=Title>Short story retitled from previous release.</ref>
* ''[[Raxacoricofallapatorius (short story)|The Family Slitheen]]''<ref name=Title></ref>
* ''[[Are You Sitting Comfortably? (short story)|Are You Sitting Comfortably?]]''
 
== Notable features ==
* Additional references include the [[Quark]]s in the 1960s comic strip adventures and the [[Family of Blood]] from [[Virgin Books]] [[New Adventures]] novels.
* A number of colour photographs from black and white stories is a bonus attraction in this comprehensive guide.
* A number of colour photographs from black and white stories is a bonus attraction in this comprehensive guide.
* There is reference to [[Yarvelling]] in the ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'' article.
* ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' is mentioned in the [[Slitheen]] and [[Trickster's Brigade|Trickster]] articles.
* ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' is mentioned in the [[Cyberman]] and [[Slitheen]] articles.
* In [[Family of Blood|the Family of Blood's]] article, there is a full-page spread about the [[Human Nature (novel)|novel]] which inspired it.
* ''[[Attack of the Graske (video game)|Attack of the Graske]]'' is mentioned in the [[Sycorax]] article.
* There are Making-of segments in the following articles: [[Abzorbaloff]], [[Adipose]], [[Auton]]s (specifically the [[Nestene Consciousness]]), [[Axos|Axons]], [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]], [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]], [[Clockwork Droid]]s, [[Cybermen]], [[Dalek]]s, [[Empty Child]], [[Gelth]], [[Heavenly Host]] (specifically the ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]''), [[Ice Warrior]]s, [[Isolus]], [[Jagrafess]] (specifically [[Satellite Five]]), [[Judoon]], [[Krillitanes]], [[Lazarus]], [[Macra]], [[The Master]] (specifically [[Toclafane]] and the wizened [[The Doctor|Doctor]]), [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] (specifically the [[New human (New Earth)|Patients]] and the [[Sisters of Plenitude]]), [[Ogri]], [[Ood]], [[Platform One]], [[Pyrovile]]s, [[Quark]]s, [[Racnoss]], [[Slitheen]], [[Sontaran]]s, [[Stingray]]s and [[Tritovore]]s, [[Sutekh]] (specifically the [[Osiran service robot|Mummies]]), [[Sycorax]], [[Terileptil]]s, [[Trickster's Brigade|Trickster]] (specifically the [[Time Beetle]]), [[Vashta Nerada]], [[weed creature]], [[Weeping Angel]]s, [[Werewolf]], [[The Wire]], [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]], [[Zarbi]], [[Zygon]]s.
* There are special backstories in the following articles: [[Carrionite]]s (entitled "A Muse of Fire"), [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]] (entitled "Lives of the Rich and Thin"), [[Clockwork Droid]]s ([[Madame de Pompadour]] specifically, entitled "Scripting the Clockwork Robots"), [[the Face of Boe]] (entitled "Legends of the Universe"), [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] (entitled "The Hospital"), [[Platform One]] ("From the Platform One Guest List" for the [[Forest of Cheem]], "Security Procedures" for the [[Moxx of Balhoon]]), [[Slitheen]] (entitled "The Family Slitheen").
* There is concept art in the following articles: [[Auton]]s, [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]], [[Carrionite]]s, [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]], [[Clockwork Droid]]s, [[Cybermen]], [[Dalek]]s, [[Empty Child]], [[The Face of Boe]], [[Heavenly Host]] (specifically [[Max Capricorn]]), [[Isolus]], [[Judoon]], [[Lazarus]], [[Macra]] (specifically [[New New York]]), [[The Master]] (specifically the aged Doctor and ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''), [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] (specifically the [[Sisters of Plenitude]]), [[Ood]], [[Platform One]], [[Pyrovile]]s (specifically [[Pompeii]]), [[Quark]]s, [[Racnoss]], [[Roboform|Santa Robots]], [[Slitheen]], [[Sontaran]]s, [[Sycorax]], [[Vespiform]].
* There are script extracts in the following articles: [[Auton]]s (''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''), [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]] (''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]''), [[Cybermen]] (''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]''), [[Dalek]]s (two from ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', one from ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''), [[Hath]] (''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]''), [[Krillitanes]] (''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]''), [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] (''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''), [[Sontaran]]s (''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''), [[Stingray]]s (''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''), Vespiform (''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''), [[Weeping Angel]]s (''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'').
* There are storyboards in the following articles: [[Dalek]]s (''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]''), [[Werewolf]] (''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'').
== Additional notes ==
* Curiously, it is missing an entry for the [[Reaper]]s which was in ''[[Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies]]''. This is the only entry not carried over from the three books it collects.


==Publication History==
== Publication history ==
* This hardback only title with a printed cover (designed by [[Lee Binding]] @ tea-lady.co.uk) and no dust jacket was priced £15.99 (UK).
* This hardback only title with a printed cover (designed by [[Lee Binding]] @ tea-lady.co.uk) and no dust jacket was priced £15.99 (UK).


==See Also==
== Footnotes ==
* [[Doctor Who Illustrated Guides]]
{{Reflist}}
{{TitleSort}}


==External Links==
[[Category:Doctor Who reference books]]
''to be added''
[[Category:BBC Books reference books]]
[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:2009 reference books]]
[[Category:Book covers]]
[[Category:Illustrated guides]]

Latest revision as of 18:53, 9 March 2023

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide was a compilation of illustrated guides, written by Justin Richards and was published in October 2009. It collected together material previously published in PROSE: Monsters and Villains, PROSE: Aliens and Enemies, PROSE: Creatures and Demons, and to a lesser extent PROSE: Starships and Spacestations; along with additional new material.

It covers the period up to the Easter Special, TV: Planet of the Dead.

Publisher's summary[[edit]]

With The Ultimate Monster Guide, Doctor Who historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor's enemies ever published. With fully illustrated entries that cover everything from Adipose and Autons to Zarbi and Zygons, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.

Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the Cybermen were redesigned over the years, and how Davros was resurrected to lead his Daleks once again. Discover the computer magic that made the Beast possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the Weeping Angels. Learn how many incarnations of the Master the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided Time Lords he has defeated...

Lavishly designed with photos and artwork throughout, The Ultimate Monster Guide is essential reading for all travellers in time and space!

Contents[[edit]]

Alphabetically arranged topics, with featured episode details, glossaries and for the newer stories behind the scenes insights.

Fictional material[[edit]]

The book also included the several short stories written by Russell T Davies, Gareth Roberts & Mark Gatiss, which fleshed out the series' world, from PROSE: Monsters and Villains and PROSE: Creatures and Demons.

Notable features[[edit]]

Additional notes[[edit]]

Publication history[[edit]]

  • This hardback only title with a printed cover (designed by Lee Binding @ tea-lady.co.uk) and no dust jacket was priced £15.99 (UK).

Footnotes[[edit]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Short story retitled from previous release.
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