DWMSE 18

Publisher's summary
The cast and crew of Doctor Who tell the real story of its creation …

For almost 30 years, Doctor Who Magazine has documented the making of this unique television series, interviewing every major player, be they actors, directors, producers, designers, writers … even monsters!

This Special Edition gathers together the best of these interviews as the cast and crew themselves recall their part in the legend of Doctor Who, making for a frank, forthright, and insightful memoir – in turns funny, poignant, provocative, and surprising. To illustrate their story we have selected hundreds of amazing pictures – iconic images from the BBC archives, alongside less familiar shots from private collections.

This volume – covering the colourful exploits of the caring, sharing, cricket-obsessed Fifth incarnation of the Doctor, and his tasteless, curly-haired, larger-than-life successor – provides a complete primer for newcomers, and a valuable refresher for hardened aficionados. It plots an assortment of shoot-first-ask-questions later action adventures, chronicles a succession of love-‘em-or-loathe-‘em TARDIS travellers (in-your-face air hostess Tegan Jovanka, pyjam-clad maths whiz Adric, bosomy botanist Peri, and high-pitched health-freak Mel, amongst others), and unmasks a line-up of weird and wonderful adversaries – Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, the Master, the Rani, the Valeyard, and an unwieldly green-painted panto horse! Plus, find out how Davros got high, how low fandom sunk, and what happened when the BBC axed Doctor Who …

Featuring contributions from Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, John Nathan-Turner, Eric Saward, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford and many more – plus an Afterword by Dalek writer Robert Shearman!

Introduction

 * 1982 Live and Let Die
 * 1983 Friends Reunited
 * 1984 Sink or Swim
 * 1985 Favourite Worst Nightmare
 * 1986 The Day the Violence Died

Afterword

 * By Robert Shearman

Credits

 * Compiled by Benjamin Cook
 * Editor: Clayton Hickman
 * Assistant Editor: Peter Ware
 * Designer: Peri Godbold
 * Head of Production: Mark Irvine
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell

Additional details

 * This was the eighteenth in a series of quarterly specials given over to a specific Who-related theme.
 * This standard sized, bound magazine was printed in February 2008 and had a cover price of £5.99 (UK).
 * Cover background design by Stuart Manning.
 * This issue had the indicia title of Doctor Who Special Edition #18 In Their Own Words: Volume Four: 1982-86.