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|previous release= ''[[Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor|The Third Doctor Handbook]] | |previous release= ''[[Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor|The Third Doctor Handbook]] | ||
|next release='' [[Doctor Who The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor|The Seventh Doctor Handbook]] | |next release='' [[Doctor Who The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor|The Seventh Doctor Handbook]] | ||
}}{{prose stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', often referred to as simply '''''The Second Doctor Handbook''''',<ref>Bibliography at [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv38/dilemma.html "The Doctor's Dilemma"], published by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club</ref><ref>[http://www.pagefillers.com/dwrg/reference.htm Reference book page at the Doctor Who Ratings Guide website]</ref> is the sixth<ref>The ''Handbook'' series was not published in numerical order of the Doctor's incarnations.</ref> in the ''Handbook'' series by [[David J Howe]], [[Mark Stammers]] | }}{{prose stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', often referred to as simply '''''The Second Doctor Handbook''''',<ref>Bibliography at [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv38/dilemma.html "The Doctor's Dilemma"], published by the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club</ref><ref>[http://www.pagefillers.com/dwrg/reference.htm Reference book page at the Doctor Who Ratings Guide website]</ref> is the sixth<ref>The ''Handbook'' series was not published in numerical order of the Doctor's incarnations.</ref> in the ''Handbook'' series by [[David J Howe]], [[Mark Stammers]] and [[Stephen James Walker]] — the major contribution by [[Doctor Who Books]] to the world of professionally published ''[[Doctor Who]]'' reference works. | ||
The book is highly regarded as a significant work of ''Doctor Who'' scholarship and is used as one of the main reference works for several later reference projects, perhaps most ubiquitously Shannon Sullivan's ''A Brief History of (Time) Travel'' website and several issues of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition]]'', which in turn are two of the major [[Tardis:Resources|resources used by this wiki]]. | |||
== Subject matter == | == Subject matter == | ||
Like all in the ''Handbook'' series, it is divided into three major sections. The first presents a series of snippets from interviews with principles involved in the creation of the persona of the [[Second Doctor]]; the second gives detailed notes about every televised adventure of this Doctor; and the last concerns itself with behind-the-scenes developments during this Doctor's era. | Like all in the ''Handbook'' series, it is divided into three major sections. The first presents a series of snippets from interviews with principles involved in the creation of the persona of the [[Second Doctor]]; the second gives detailed notes about every televised adventure of this Doctor; and the last concerns itself with behind-the-scenes developments during this Doctor's era. | ||
