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Doctor Who Special (1973)

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The tenth anniversary of the Doctor Who television series, was celebrated by a Radio Times special, published with new fiction, We are the Daleks! by Terry Nation.

Cover Tag

THE 10th YEAR OF BBC1’S GREAT ADVENTURE SERIES. INSIDE: THE STARS, FULL BACKGROUND, HOW TO BUILD YOUR VERY OWN DALEK AND A CHILLING NEW DALEK STORY BY TERRY NATION

Contents

The magazine is broadly in two halves; the first has a double-page spread on each season (offering a breakdown by story, giving titles, number of episodes, writer and story synopsis) with articles and interviews between each season. The second half is up mostly of new Dalek fiction by Terry Nation and detailed plans to construct a life-size Dalek as seen on TV, followed by some behind-the-scenes profiles.

  • These are the three Dr Whos
William Hartnell
Patrick Troughton
Jon Pertwee
  • Behind-the-scenes people
Including;
Dudley Simpson (musician)
Bernard Lodge (graphics designer)
Roger Liminton (scenic designer)
Terry Walsh (stuntman)
Bernard Wilkie (senior visual effects designer)
John Friedlander (sculptor),
Barbara Lane (costume designer), and
John Scott Martin (monster man)

Original Credits

Additional details

  • Released prior to broadcast of XXX
  • Originally available priced 30p, (UK) this magazine special was reprinted in 2003 and was offered exclusively through Radio Times.
  • An insert with all copies stated that;
“Every effort has been made to source the original photographs but regrettably, not all of the originals survive. In such cases, we have either used similar images or have re-scanned from the original magazine resulting in a slightly grainy image.
Following the pattern of the original magazine, the headings in the story guide are those of the first episode in each story, up to The Gunfighters, after which individual episode names were abandoned.
Please note that the information at the base of page 3 is largely out-of-date, as is the cover price of 30p!”
  • “Producer Barry Letts and Script Editor Terrance Dicks are the only full-time members of the Dr Who team. Says Letts: “Dr Who’s success is that it doesn’t have a formula – it’s flexible. The Doctor’s appeal is that he’s a superman – and yet he’s fallible. Supermen are always interesting, but they’re that that much more interesting if they’re a bit human too. And we try and make everything that happens scientifically plausible – like monsters landing in London – and interpret it as logically and realistically as possible. The Doctor is a good strongly moral man, who always searches for peaceful solutions.”
  • In 2007 it was reprinted in Australia and New Zealand by the ABC. (ISBN 0-7333-1950-5)

External links

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

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