Doctor Who Yearbook 1996

The  was the fifth of Marvel UK's Doctor Who annuals.

Features

 * "A Brief History of Space and Time" (A Season by Season Guide) by Andrew Pixley and Stephen James Walker (Each series 1-26 has two pages of text and full production details. Also includes K9 and Company, The Five Doctors)
 * "The Nineties" by Andrew Pixley, Gary Gillatt and Gary Russell
 * "Valley of the Lost" by Philip Hinchcliffe (a summary of an unmade story of the same name)

Comic strip stories

 * Star Beast II
 * Junkyard Demon II

Prose stories
(none this issue)

Additional features

 * Crossword by Nigel Robinson
 * Interview with Mary Ridge (Director)

Credits

 * Editor: Gary Russell
 * Associate Editor: Gary Gillatt
 * Designer: Paul Vyse
 * Editorial Team: Marcus Hearn, Scott Gray, Philip MacDonald
 * Production: Mark Irvine, Irfan Yunis
 * Marketing & Promotions: Yvonne Taylor, Chris McCormack
 * Art Director: Helen Nally
 * Financial Controller: Caroline Aubrey
 * Managing Director: Mike Hobson
 * Chairman: Jim Galton
 * Thanks to: Adrian Rigelsford and Steve Merritt

Additional notes

 * This was the last of five Yearbooks published by Marvel Comics, UK publishers of Doctor Who Magazine which continued the Doctor Who Annual tradition first established by World Distributors and revived in 2005.
 * Aimed at the Christmas market. The year stated on the cover (or else used to identify an Annual or Yearbook) is the following year (e.g. the 1993 Annual was published in 1992).
 * The publication of the Yearbook also offered a "holiday special" to readers of the monthly magazine title, who were also rewarded by the comic strip stories in this yearbook. Both were sequels to early popular strips in the magazine.
 * This yearbook broke with the usual mix and included a two-page per season guide to the Doctor Who television series 1-26 along with spin-offs including K9 and Company.
 * The price increase this year to £5.50 was matched by the page count increase to 96.
 * Valley of the Lost was an unmade Doctor Who story written by former producer Philip Hinchcliffe, retold here by Austen Atkinson-Broadbelt.