Pocket Essentials: Doctor Who

Publisher's summary
"Almost everything you need to know in one essential guide.

"Who is Who? A Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey with two hearts and thirteen lives?  A folk hero who enthralled us in the warm glow of our TV sets on dark winter evenings?  A rebellious iconoclast who toppled corrupt dictatorships and freed the oppressed?  Or a bumbling British eccentric eho fought rubber monsters in a cheap and cheerful BBC kids' show?

"The story of Doctor Who is the story of the hopes and fears of generations of children - and grown-ups too - from the counter culture 60s to the 90s. Along the way there are shock revelations, melodramatic cliff-hangers and liberal doses of humour (intentional or otherwise); but be warned - there is also heart-ache, disappointment and death.  Cancelled in 1989, the rumour mill is now in overdrive eith stories of the Time Lord's possible return." -- From the back cover of the first edition

Main Focus
This is a dense book covering each television story from An Unearthly Child through the Doctor Who TV Movie and brief notes on the early Big Finish Audios and other spin-off media.

Notable features

 * Has solid quick synopsis of each story.