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* New Beginnings - Explains the [[Last Great Time War]].
* New Beginnings - Explains the [[Last Great Time War]].
* The [[Time Lord]] - this is all about the Doctor.
* The [[Time Lord]] - this is all about the Doctor.
* Anatomy of The Doctor
* Anatomy of [[The Doctor]]
* The [[TARDIS]]
* The [[TARDIS]]
* Inside the [[TARDIS]]
* Inside the [[TARDIS]]
* Sonic screwdrivers
* [[Sonic screwdriver]]<nowiki/>s
(Featuring artwork by [[Peter McKinstry]])
(Featuring artwork by [[Peter McKinstry]])
* Tools of the Trade
* Tools of the Trade
* [[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
** Mickey Smith
** [[Mickey Smith]]
** Ricky Smith
** [[Ricky Smith]]
** Jackie Tyler
** [[Jackie Tyler]]
* Dr. Martha Jones
* Dr. [[Martha Jones]]
** The Jones Family
** The Jones Family
*** Francine Jones
*** [[Francine Jones]]
*** Clive Jones
*** [[Clive Jones]]
*** Letitia Jones
*** Letitia Jones
*** Leo Jones
*** [[Leo Jones]]
* Donna Noble
* [[Donna Noble]]
** Donna's Family
** Donna's Family
*** Sylvia Noble
*** [[Sylvia Noble]]
*** Wilfred Mott
*** [[Wilfred Mott]]
* Captain [[Jack Harkness]]
* Captain [[Jack Harkness]]
** The Face of Boe
** The [[Face of Boe]]
* John Smith
* [[John Smith]]
** John Smith's Decision
** [[John Smith]]'s Decision
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[K9|K-9]]
* [[K9|K-9]]
* Torchwood
* [[Torchwood]]
* UNIT
* [[UNIT]]


* [[Platform One]]
* [[Platform One]]
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* The [[Slitheen]]
* The [[Slitheen]]
** The [[Abzorbaloff]]
** The [[Abzorbaloff]]
* The Vault - American billionaire [[Henry van Statten]]'s private museum
* [[The Vault (Dalek)]] - American billionaire [[Henry van Statten]]'s private museum
** Museum highlights
** Museum highlights
* [[Dalek]]s
* [[Dalek]]s
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(Featuring artwork by [[John Maloney]])
(Featuring artwork by [[John Maloney]])
* [[Satellite 5]]
* [[Satellite 5]]
** The Freedom Foundation
** The [[Freedom Foundation]]
* The [[Sycorax]]
* The [[Sycorax]]
* [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]]
* [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]]
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* The [[Werewolf]]
* The [[Werewolf]]
** Royal Secrets
** Royal Secrets
* Gelth
* [[Gelth]]
* [[Krillitane]]s
* [[Krillitane]]s
* [[SS Madame De Pompadour|SS ''Madame De Pompadour'']]
* [[SS Madame De Pompadour|SS ''Madame De Pompadour'']]
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* [[Cybus Industries]]
* [[Cybus Industries]]
** [[John Lumic]]
** [[John Lumic]]
* The Ood
* The [[Ood]]
* The Beast
* The [[Beast]]


:: (Featuring artwork by Richard Bonson)
:: (Featuring artwork by Richard Bonson)
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* The [[Judoon]]
* The [[Judoon]]
* The Carrionites
* The Carrionites
* The Family of Blood
* The [[Family of Blood]]
* Weeping Angels
* [[Weeping Angels]]
* The Master
* [[The Master]]
* The Toclaphane
* The Toclaphane
* The Heavenly Host
* The [[Heavenly Host]]
* Adipose Industries
* [[Adipose Industries]]
* Vespiform
* [[Vespiform]]
* Pyroviles
* Pyroviles
* Sontaran
* [[Sontaran Empire|Sontaran]]
** ATMOS
** [[ATMOS]]
* The Hath
* The [[Hath]]
* The Library
* The [[Library]]
* Dalek Sec
* [[Dalek Sec]]
* Davros
* [[Davros]]
* Davros's Empire
* [[Davros]]'s Empire
** The Shadow Proclamation
** The [[Shadow Proclamation]]
* Creation of the CyberKing
* Creation of the [[CyberKing]]
** The Other Doctor
** The Other Doctor ([[Jackson Lake]])


=== Notable features Edit ===
=== Notable features Edit ===
* This updated and expanded hardback volume conforms to the publisher (Dorling Kindersley)'s usual high standard of visual guides, offering  
* 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.  
annotated and cut-away photographs/illustrations throughout.  


* The attention to detail is impressive, even including the exhibits in [[Henry van Statten]]'s collection.
* The attention to detail is impressive, even including the exhibits in [[Henry van Statten]]'s collection.

Revision as of 23:20, 20 April 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


The first US edition of The Visual Dictionary focused mainly on the first four years of BBC Wales Doctor Who, examining the Ninth and Tenth Doctors.

Chapters Edit

(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.

2015 edition

A new volume billed The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded was released in 2015, this time covering Doctor Who up to and including the eighth series and the Twelfth Doctor.

Chapters

to be added

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