Doctor Who Annual 1986

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Overview

Release Number 20
Publisher World Distributors
Released in September 1985
Priced £3.25
Format Hardback 64 pages
Featured Doctor: The Sixth Doctor
Featured Companions:
Featured Enemies:

Contents

Text Stories

Comic Strip Story

  • None

Features

Puzzles

  • None

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 multicoloured umbrella).
  • The author of five of the prose stories (Interface, Davarrks` Experiment, The Fellowship Of Quan, Time Wake and Retribution was John D White who loved the Annuals as a kid and when he was older, knew he wanted to write for them.
  • This was to be the last of the regular World Distributor published Annuals.
  • Both John Nathan-Turner and the publishers World Distributors for various reasons had becoming increasingly frustrated with each other, along with the shows 18 month hiatus (resulting in no new 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 was not renewed.
  • World Distributors did however 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 Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space volume.
  • It was to be many years before the Annual returned (in time for Christmas 2005 in fact).
  • 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 similar format to the Annuals offering a mix of text stories, comic strip stories and features.

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