The Calendar 1987

The Calendar 1987
Designer:	Andrew Skilleter
Publisher:	Who Dares Publishing
Type:	Calendar
Price:	£5.50
Release date:	September 1986

The Calendar 1987 was a Doctor Who calendar released in 1986 for the year 1987.

Credits

• Paintings: Andrew Skilleter
• Concept and Design: Andrew Skilleter

Months

Artwork	Month	Title	Description
	January	The Fourth Doctor, or ?Questiontime?	The Doctor, portrayed by Tom Baker, wonders quite where he has materialised and what the significance is of the great stone questionmarks.
	February	The Yeti	Originally painted for 'The Abominable Snowmen' Target book cover, it remains a favourite of mine since I completed it in 1982. This particular Yeti is in reality a monstrous robot under the control of the Great Intelligence.
	March	The Second Doctor	Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. I painted this as one of the portraits of the Doctor in his six differing regenerations for 'The TARDIS Inside Out', a book published in 1985 written by John Nathan-Turner, the long-running and current producer of Doctor Who.
	April	Attack of the Cybermen	Based around the 1985 story, Cybercontrol and the timeship meet with total destruction on the Cybermen's planet of Telos. In the forefront are two armed Cybermen.
	May	Enlightenment	A haunting and memorable story, not least for the wonderfully bizarre spectacle of a space race of sailing ships competing for an unusual prize — 'Enlightenment'. Originally commissioned for the bookcover of the same name.
	June	The Sixth Doctor	Originally commissioned as the cover for Target's 'The Twin Dilemma' to introduce Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor but for contractual reasons never appeared. I subsequently completed a second painting without the Doctor which can be seen as the current cover.
	July	The Third Doctor	Jon Pertwee as the Doctor was closely associated with the Earth based UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) which was set up to combat extra-terrestrial threats following the Yeti invasion of London.
	August	Sil	Originally seen in 'Vengeance on Varos' as the agent of the Galatron Mining Corporation, he comes from the planet Thoros Beta and is First Assistant to Lord Kiv. Sil is a repulsive creature who revels in the suffering and exploitation of others.
	September	The Malus!	From 'The Awakening' featuring the Fifth Doctor. Portrayed here with dramatic licence, it was an alien creation — a living being — engineered as an instrument of war that had lain dormant in an apparently peaceful English village.
	October	Davros and the Daleks	The evil scientist Davros, creator of the Dalek race, hovers while his Dalek bodyguard and the Dalek intruders engage in a fierce but short battle in the 1985 story, 'Revelation of the Daleks'.
	November	The Sixth Doctor	Originally painted for the book 'The Tardis Inside Out' showing Colin Baker as the Doctor.
	December	Azaxyr, Ice Warrior Leader	He was the renegade leader of the Ice Warriors on Peladon. Their home planet was Mars and the leaders, cloaked and helmeted, were considerably more streamlined than the bulky mainstream warriors.