Doctor Who Annual 1986

Doctor Who Annual 1986 was the twentieth Doctor Who annual. It was the final annual published by World Distributors and it was released in August 1985.

	Sixth Doctor
	Peri
	The Master
	World Distributors
	£3.25
	August 1985
	Hardback; 64 pages
	ISBN 07-235-6747-6
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Contents

Text stories

• The Fellowship of Quan
• Time Wake
• Interface
• Beauty and the Beast
• Retribution
• Davarrk's Experiment
• The Radio Waves

Features

• `Behind the Scenes at Doctor Who: Make-Up` interview with Dorka Nieradzik by Brenda Aspley

Additional notes

• Unusually, at the expense of new content, this annual featured three full-page colour publicity shots of the Sixth Doctor taken at his costume launch, showing him with the TARDIS, fishing, and with a multi-coloured umbrella (hastily provided to protect the costume from rain during the photocall).
• This was to be the last of the regular annuals published by World Distributors.
• Both John Nathan-Turner and the publishers, World Distributors, had become increasingly frustrated with each other, along with the show's 18-month hiatus (resulting in no new Doctor Who on television) and a reported decline in sales the previous year. The decision was reached that the license to publish the Doctor Who Annual would not be renewed.
• World Distributors did publish a further bumper sized volume (entitled Doctor Who Special: Journey Through Time), which featured reprinted pages from previous annuals and The Amazing World of Doctor Who book. This was similar to their earlier Adventures in Time and Space volume.
• It was to be many years before there was another Doctor Who annual. It was not published by World Distributors.
• For five of the in-between years (1991-1995) Marvel UK (publishers of Doctor Who Magazine) published a regular Doctor Who Yearbook which followed a format similar to the annuals, offering a mix of text stories, comic strip stories and features. These were significantly different from annuals in one respect. They did not review the year in question. Instead, they offered a mix of stories from every Doctor's era.