Radio Times: The 1970s

Radio Times is a weekly BBC magazine that publishes television and radio program listings.

1970
Radio Times  (3-9 January 1970) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Spearhead from Space: Episode 1
 * COVER TAG: Who? Jon Pertwee, That’s Dr. Who cover
 * Jon Pertwee is interviewed, revealing the family holidays in Ibizza, where his children "run around like a lot of wild little nuddists, babbling in three languages."(half page)

Radio Times  (31-January – 6 February 1970) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 1
 * Two Edwardian Chasis Roger Baker feature about Bessie (two thirds page)

Radio Times  (9-15 May 1970) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Inferno: Episode 1
 * Dr. Who's Who Who Deidre Macdonald looks at the series production in colour (four page)

Radio Times  (13-19 June 1970) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Inferno: Episode 6
 * Radio Times Favourite No. 4 : Jon Pertwee – Dr. Who colour promotion (one page)

1971
Radio Times  (2nd-9th January 1971)
 * BROADCAST OF: Terror of the Autons: Episode 1
 * Dr. Who v. The Master Giles Poole introduces Roger Delgado as the Master Preview feature (half page)
 * Introducing the Master, actor Roger Delgado rebuffs the suggestion that his charcter might become too-light hearted: "I don't think that'll happen. I remember starting 16 years ago in midday matinees. Once I was faced with the unbelievable line, 'Come in and put your feet up on the Algerian poof.' If you can handle that you can handle anything."

Radio Times  (13-19 March 1971) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Claws of Axos : Episode One
 * That Golden Feeling''' Bernard Holley feature and preview (quarter page)

Radio Times  (10-16 April 1971) 
 * BROADCAST OF: feature Colony in Space: Episode One
 * Doctor Who in Colony in Space Two and a half page comic strip (two full pages in colour) by Frank Bellamy and preview by Russell Miller (half page)
 * This was Frank Bellamy's first commission for Radio Times by the then Art Editor David Driver.

Radio Times  (29 May - 4 June 1971) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Daemons: Episode Two
 * Doctor, doctor … Katy Manning feature and preview (third page)

1972
Radio Times  (30 December 1972 – 5 January 1973) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Three Doctors: Episode 1
 * COVER TAG: Which Doctor is Who? INSIDE: All is explained as Doctor Who returns
 * Believing in the magic of space Three Doctors and companions Susan Foreman, Jamie McCrimmon and Jo Grant colour feature by Michael Wynn-Jones (two pages)
 * Three small portrait illustrations for this story were provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (15-21 December 1973) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Time Warrior: Part One
 * COVER TAG: Who's Your Friend?
 * Who’s Who Among Who's Friends colour feature where guests give their views on the series, promotional feature for (two page)

1973
Radio Times  (from 27 January – 1 February 1973) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Carnival of Monsters
 * Three small portrait illustrations for this story were provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (from 24 February 1973) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Frontier in Space
 * Six small portrait illustrations for this story were provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (from 7 April 1973) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Planet of the Daleks
 * Six small portrait illustrations for this story were provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (from 19 May 1973 ) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Green Death
 * Six small portrait illustrations for this story were provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (15th - 21st December 1973)
 * With actor Jon Pertwee appearing on Michael Parkinson's Saturday night chat show, a Radio Times feature looks at the Doctor's popular appeal.
 * Barry Letts replies to a reader (Brenda Hoyle), who says that her son is pettrified by the Doctor Who theme tune by saying, "To produce programmes which upset or offend nobody at all is the surest way of killing all the excitement of television."

1975
Radio Times  (from 25 January 1975) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Ark in Space
 * A large landscape painting for this story was provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (8-14 March 1975) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Genesis of the Daleks: Part One
 *  Master of the Mean Machine  Feature by Anthony Haden-Guest about Terry Nation and Tom Baker (one page)

Radio Times  (30 August – 5 September 1975) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Terror of the Zygons: Part One
 *  Still Waters  With art by Frank Bellamy this colour promotional feature article by Anthony Haden-Guest featured a large landscape painting for this story provided by Frank Bellamy (two page)

1976
Radio Times  (31 January 1976) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Seeds of Doom
 * One medium sized line illustration for this story was provided by Frank Bellamy.

Radio Times  (4 -10 September 1976) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Masque of Mandragora: Part One
 *  DR. WHO’S RENAISSANCE  Preview feature (three quarter page)

1978
Radio Times  (2 – 8 September 1978) 
 * BROADCAST OF: The Ribos Operation: Part One
 *  Who's Girls Liz Hodgkinson feature on the Doctors companions and introducing Mary Tamm as Romana (two and a half pages)

1979
Radio Times  (1-7 September 1979) 
 * BROADCAST OF: Destiny of the Daleks: Part One
 *  Spaced Out  Anwar Bati writes a promotional feature about costume design (one page)

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