Special Effects (reference book): Difference between revisions

|image = DW Special Effects.jpg

|writer = [[Mat Irvine]]

|publisher = Arrow Books Limited

|release date= [[22 August (releases)|22 August]] [[1986 (releases)|1986]]

|format = Paperback, 96 pages

|isbn = ISBN 0-09-942630-7

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'''''Doctor Who Special Effects''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' reference book published by [[Arrow Books Limited]].

When is an [[alien]] [[monster]] not an alien monster? Or a [[spaceship]] not a spaceship? Or a bleak [[planet]] in the outer galaxy not a bleak planet in the outer galaxy at all? Answer: When it's a [[special effect]].

In this book, [[Mat Irvine]], who has worked on ''Doctor Who'' for many years, takes you behind the scenes of this most famous of all science fiction series. There you can discover how the flying TARDIS and fighting [[Dalek]]s came into being. You can find out how spectacular battles and exploding planets are filmed — and how a scriptwriter's idea for a "mobile computer, shaped something like a dog" became [[K9]]. In short, you can enter the extraordinary world of ''Doctor Who Special Effects''.

* Behind the Scenes on 'Doctor Who

* 'Doctor Who and the TV studio

* The Daleks

* K9 - The Dog

:* ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'' (credited in the book as ''The Mask of Mandragora'')

Author [[Mat Irvine]] was involved in creating special effects for a number of [[Tom Baker]] and [[Peter Davison]]-era serials. He also contributed a chapter to ''[[The Doctor Who File]]''.