The Dr Who Annual 1969

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The Dr Who Annual 1969 was the fourth Doctor Who annual published by World Distributors. It was released in September 1968.

Contents

Text stories

Comic strip stories

Features

  • Star Facts
  • About the Moon
  • The Unknown World Under the Sea
  • Space Dictionary
  • Our Solar System
  • Space Panorama
  • Men in Space
  • Looking Back
  • Pioneers of Flight

Puzzles

  • Space Quiz
  • Return from Hades
  • Space Special
  • Dr. Who's Planet Quiz
  • The Mysteries of Space

Additional notes

Natarls

Shades of Ben and Polly?

It seems likely that the first four stories in the annual would have originally featured Polly Wright and Ben Jackson instead of Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield, with a plethora of evidence that their characters were edited out of these stories. As well as Jamie and Victorias' general behaviour and appearance more closely reflecting that of their predecessors, several anachronisms point to Polly and Ben being the companions in the annual as originally conceived.

From The Celestial Toyshop onwards, the illustrations more closely resemble Victoria and Jamie, and the distinctive mannerisms of the two characters are apparent.

Footnotes