The Official 50th Anniversary Annual

 was the British Doctor Who annual published by BBC Children's Books.

Overview

 * Release Number 8
 * Publisher BBC Children's Books,UK
 * Released in August 2013
 * ISBN: 978-1-405901-179-5
 * Priced £7.99 (UK)
 * Format Hardback 62 pages
 * Featured Doctor: Eleventh Doctor
 * Featured Companions: Clara Oswald

Comic strip story

 * The Door to a Winter Long Ago by Moray Laing, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi
 * Night Light by Moray Laing, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

Text Stories/Fiction

 * The Fifty-Year Delay by Moray Laing, illustrated by Lee Sullivan

Features

 * 50 Years of Doctor Who
 * The Doctor’s Diary (Series 7)
 * Smaller on the Outside (the TARDIS)
 * Bigger on the Inside (the TARDIS)
 * 50 Amazing Facts About the Doctor
 * 50 Years of Monsters!
 * Who’s Who? (the Doctor’s and Companions)
 * That Impossible Girl (Clara Oswin Oswald)
 * The Great Intelligence
 * The Ice Warriors
 * The Cybermen

Additional features

 * Puzzle: Monster Hunt (see note below)
 * Puzzle Alien Attack!
 * Puzzle: Nano-cloud Danger!
 * Puzzle: Spot the Difference
 * Big 50 Quiz
 * Game: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Additional Notes

 * Priced at £7.99, (UK) this Annual had a page count reduced from the previous year’s bumper release.
 * Frontispiece shows the Vortex
 * Also included is a page advertising Doctor Who Adventures and its app.
 * Hidden throughout the annual are 50 tiny (less than 1cm high) .aliens These are all shown on the ‘Monster Hunt’ page and can be ticked off when discovered