The Making of Doctor Who
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Publisher's Summary
Here it is... the story behind one of television's most successful, longest-running shows. Come with Doctor Who on a trip through time... to the early days of the programme when it all began... meet actors, authors and television staff... see inside a TV studio and watch a production take shape... learn the secrets of the monsters... relive every Doctor Who story since the beginning... follow the Doctor through four incarnations and — perhaps — begin to discover just who is Doctor Who?
Main Focus
A behind-the-scenes guide to the production of Doctor Who.
Notable Features
- Script-to-screen account of the Fourth Doctor's debut adventure Robot, incidentally written by novelised by author Terrance Dicks as Doctor Who and the Giant Robot.
Notes
- This Target Books title is a complete rewrite of a previous title The Making of Doctor Who published by Piccolo Books, on which Terrance Dicks was a co-writer along with Malcolm Hulke.
- Terrance Dicks writing aimed this book at a younger audience than the previous edition of this title.
- Chris Achilleos provided the cover artwork.
- It had a print run of 50,000 copies and was priced 60p (UK).
- This title saw a reprint by Target Books, W. H. Allen in March 1980 of 15,000 copies. Despite the, by then, out-of-date information in the first printing, the only difference was a price increase to £1.80 (UK).
See Also
- The Making of Doctor Who (Piccolo Title)
- A Day with a TV Producer
- Doctor Who: The Making of a Television Series
- Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text
External Links
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