The Calendar 1987
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The Calendar 1987 was a Doctor Who calendar released in 1986 for the year 1987.
Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Paintings: Andrew Skilleter
- Concept and Design: Andrew Skilleter
Months[[edit] | [edit source]]
| Artwork | Month | Title | Description |
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January | The Fourth Doctor: ?Questiontime? |
The Doctor, portrayed by Tom Baker, wonders quite where he has materialised and what the significance is of the great stone questionmarks. |
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February | The Yeti | Originally painted for 'The Abominable Snowmen' Target book cover, it remains a favourite of mine since I completed it in 1982. This particular Yeti is in reality a monstrous robot under the control of the Great Intelligence. |
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March | The Second Doctor | Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. I painted this as one of the portraits of the Doctor in his six differing regenerations for 'The TARDIS Inside Out', a book published in 1985 written by John Nathan-Turner, the long-running and current producer of Doctor Who. |
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April | Attack of the Cybermen | Based around the 1985 story, Cybercontrol and the timeship meet with total destruction on the Cybermen's planet of Telos. In the forefront are two armed Cybermen. |
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May | Enlightenment | A haunting and memorable story, not least for the wonderfully bizarre spectacle of a space race of sailing ships competing for an unusual prize — 'Enlightenment'. Originally commissioned for the bookcover of the same name. |
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June | The Sixth Doctor | Originally commissioned as the cover for Target's 'The Twin Dilemma' to introduce Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor but for contractual reasons never appeared. I subsequently completed a second painting without the Doctor which can be seen as the current cover. |
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July | The Third Doctor | Jon Pertwee as the Doctor was closely associated with the Earth based UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) which was set up to combat extra-terrestrial threats following the Yeti invasion of London. |
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August | Sil | Originally seen in 'Vengeance on Varos' as the agent of the Galatron Mining Corporation, he comes from the planet Thoros Beta and is First Assistant to Lord Kiv. Sil is a repulsive creature who revels in the suffering and exploitation of others. |
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September | The Malus! | From 'The Awakening' featuring the Fifth Doctor. Portrayed here with dramatic licence, it was an alien creation — a living being — engineered as an instrument of war that had lain dormant in an apparently peaceful English village. |
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October | Davros and the Daleks | The evil scientist Davros, creator of the Dalek race, hovers while his Dalek bodyguard and the Dalek intruders engage in a fierce but short battle in the 1985 story, 'Revelation of the Daleks'. |
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November | The Sixth Doctor | Originally painted for the book 'The Tardis Inside Out' showing Colin Baker as the Doctor. |
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December | Azaxyr, Ice Warrior Leader | He was the renegade leader of the Ice Warriors on Peladon. Their home planet was Mars and the leaders, cloaked and helmeted, were considerably more streamlined than the bulky mainstream warriors. |
