The Doctor Who Technical Manual (reference book)

Publisher's summary
Ever since 1963, the Doctor has been fighting alien tyrants, vicious monsters and emotionless robots bent on cosmic domination. But it’s not only his hair-raising adventures that have made DOCTOR WHO the longest-running science fiction series in world television. It is also its endless array of marvellous machines.


 * Now, in this totally new concept in DOCTOR WHO literature, that gadgetry is made available to the Doctor’s millions of fans.
 * Totally accurate plans and drawings at last reveal the inner workings of the DALEKS, of K-9, of the Doctor’s TOOL KIT, and dozens more.
 * Best of all there are the fullest possible plans for making your own model TARDIS!
 * This is the only book that opens the true world of the Time Lords to its readers. No friend of Doctor Who can afford to be without it!

Subject matter
(Some) annotated line drawings (in blue ink) with (some) textual content.

Contents

 * Introduction
 * Who is the Doctor ?
 * The TARDIS
 * Police box
 * TARDIS Tool Box
 * TARDIS Tool Kit
 * Sonic Screwdriver
 * TARDIS Master Control Console
 * Davros and the Daleks
 * K-9
 * The Cybermen
 * The Cybermat
 * The Robot
 * The Servo Robot
 * Quarks
 * White Robots
 * Movellans
 * Movellan Side-arm
 * Skonnos Blaster
 * Space Freighter
 * Earth/Titan Shuttle
 * Jagaroth Spaceship
 * The Doctor’s Car
 * Build a TARDIS

Notable features

 * This book contains 4 pages of colour photographs (take out Daleks, K9 TARDIS and Cybermen and you are left with a picture of the Titan/Earth Shuttle and the Doctor's car, NOT Bessie but the Whomobile which is unnamed in the article pages!)
 * With an introduction by John Nathan-Turner (the then producer of Doctor Who), this was one of a series of titles released with the Doctor Who production offices’ full support in this its 20th Anniversary year, when JN-T was keen to capitalise on the programmes success and merchandising opportunities.
 *  "A fitting tribute..." John Nathan Turner