The Visual Dictionary (reference book)

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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

  • New Beginnings - Explains the Last Great Time War.
  • The Time Lord - this is all about the Doctor.
  • Anatomy of The Doctor
  • The TARDIS
  • Inside the TARDIS
  • Sonic screwdrivers

(Featuring artwork by Peter McKinstry)

  • Tools of the Trade
  • Rose Tyler
    • Mickey Smith
    • Ricky Smith
    • Jackie Tyler
  • Dr. Martha Jones
    • The Jones Family
      • Francine Jones
      • Clive Jones
      • Letitia Jones
      • Leo Jones
  • Donna Noble
    • Donna's Family
      • Sylvia Noble
      • Wilfred Mott
  • Captain Jack Harkness
    • The Face of Boe
  • John Smith
    • John Smith's Decision
  • Sarah Jane Smith
  • K-9
  • Torchwood
  • UNIT
  • Platform One
  • Guests of Platform One
  • Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen
  • The Slitheen
    • The Abzorbaloff
  • The Vault - American billionaire Henry Van Statten's private museum
    • Museum highlights
  • Daleks
  • Dalek Flagship

(Featuring artwork by John Maloney)

  • Satellite 5
    • The Freedom Foundation
  • The Sycorax
  • New Earth
    • Human Farm
  • The Werewolf
    • Royal Secrets
  • Gelth
  • Krillitanes
  • SS Madame De Pompadour
  • Cybermen
  • Cybus Industries
    • John Lumic
  • The Ood
  • The Beast
(Featuring artwork by Richard Bonson)
  • The Genesis Ark
  • Doomsday Ghosts
    • Parallel Worlds
  • The Cult of Skaro
  • Racnoss
  • Plasmavores
    • Drone Bodyguards
  • The Judoon
  • The Carrionites
  • The Family of Blood
  • Weeping Angels
  • The Master
  • The Toclaphane
  • The Heavenly Host
  • Adipose Industries
  • Vespiform
  • Pyroviles
  • Sontaran
    • ATMOS
  • The Hath
  • The Library
  • Dalek Sec
  • Davros
  • Davros's Empire
    • The Shadow Proclamation
  • Creation of the CyberKing
    • The Other Doctor

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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