Eddie Robson takes an irreverent look at the show’s history and considers its amusing inconsistences. With the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who almost upon us, there’s a TARDIS-load of new merchandise available; from Big Finish audio dramas to animated Troughton reconstructions, Blu-rays to comic strip collections. One of the more off-beat recent releases comes from … >
All three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle, will be available as audio books of their novelisations in February. The Star Beast novelisation, written by Gary Russell, will be read by Jacqueline King, the actress who plays Sylvia Noble in the television special. The readers of the … >
A new Doctor Who anthology, Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader, brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of … >
Official Doctor Who media accounts released a video revealing the cover image and a glimpse of the content of the Doctor Who Annual 2024. The cover contains images of the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) with his sonic screwdriver and the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) in a new pose in his Doctor Who Christmas special costume. … >
42, the crowdfunded The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, is now ready for release — we bring you all the details you need More than two years ago we brought details of Kevin Jon Davies project to explore some of the many (many) documents Douglas Adams left to his alma mater (St Johns, Cambridge). … >
The story that brought Doctor Who back for the 21st century is available in a new illustrated novelisation written by Russell T Davies based on his script for Rose, a Ninth Doctor story which enjoyed its television premiere on 26 March 2005. Now with illustrations by acclaimed artist Robert Hack, this is Rose as you’ve … >
Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks, the comic-strip adventure first published in Doctor Who Magazine, will be available as a collated paperback comic release this November. Picking up from where the previous Doctor Who TV series left off with The Power of the Doctor, Liberation of the Daleks is the Fourteenth Doctor’s first official adventure. … >
BBC Books has announced that it will expand the Doctor Who Target range with three new 60th anniversary titles in January 2024. The collection are novelisations of three 2023 Doctor Who specials, which will feature David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble. Each book, The Star Beast by Gary Russell, … >
A new collection of ten festive adventures, Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas, featuring the Tenth Doctor and friends old and new, will publish October 2023. “I have to live on. Alone. That’s the curse of the Time Lords.” The Doctor’s tenth incarnation was: hilarious, furious, fun and vengeful. (He also had great hair.) He … >
A lavish 116-page publication from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: Chronicles – 1963-1964, looks at the stories, people, events and news of this formative period – a time when William Hartnell played the Doctor, and the world was introduced to the Daleks, the TARDIS and an incredible adventure in space and time. The bookazine … >