Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special

Following the success of the Radio Times 10th Anniversary Doctor Who special, a feature heavy 20th Anniversary special was published with new fiction Birth of a Renegade.

Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special
Cover date:	November, 1983
Format:	Large format 64 pages stapled
Editor:	Brian Gearing
Publisher:	BBC Magazines
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Contents

• In the beginning:

How it all began…

• The Five Doctors:

William Hartnell

Patrick Troughton

Jon Pertwee

Tom Baker

Peter Davison

• The Companions:

Complete A-to-Z guide

• The Master:

Time Lord of Evil

• The fans:

At home and abroad

• The aliens:

Meet the Monsters

• Behind the scenes:

Who’s who behind Doctor Who

• Merchandising:

The goodies you can buy

• New adventure:

Birth of a Renegade by Eric Saward Illustrated by Mark Thomas

• Competition:

Win a day out with Doctor Who / The missing episodes

• A 20-year voyage:

The complete history of Doctor Who by Ian Levine

• Woddis On:

Five against the fiends (by Radio Times poet Roger Woddis)

Also Featuring

• A large double-sided centre-page poster featuring The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough on the main side (publicity shot against black) and Ice Warrior, Zygon, Draconian, Axon, Sontaran and Yeti on the reverse.
• Under the merchandise pages, a guide to the BBC micro computer game Doctor Who: The First Adventure published Autumn 1983.

Credits

• Editor: Brian Gearing
• Art Editor: Brian Thomas
• Picture Research: Pat Carthy
• Special Photography: Don Smith
• Feature articles provided by Gay Search

Further Information

• Released prior to broadcast of The Five Doctors and the Fifth Doctor’s final season (introducing the Sixth Doctor), the upcoming stories are mentioned, The Sixth Doctor played by Colin Baker is pictured in publicity shots following his appointment (i.e. not yet in costume).
• The list of missing episodes is omitted from the contents filling a page with the Doctor Who competition.
• The Doctor Who competition (shown on the cover of the UK version), to win a all-expenses paid day at the BBC to meet the Doctor Who stars, and be shown around- including studio filming, joining the Doctor for lunch. There were 10 questions and a tie-breaker “I would like to spend a day with Doctor Who because…”. The competition was only open to UK residents.
• There were cover variations for Australia and the USA editions.

Associated Images

• RT 20th Anniversary Special cover

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External Links

The BBC's official Radio Times website with an increasing amount of Doctor Who content including archive material