Doctor Who The Official Annual 2012


 * Not to be confused with IDW's 2012 Doctor Who Annual''.

 was the British Doctor Who Annual published by BBC Children's Books. As with all British annuals, it was actually published in the year prior the cover date and therefore commemorated series 6, rather than the series broadcast in 2012.

Cover blurb
There was no cover beyond the title

Overview

 * Release Number 6
 * Publisher BBC Children's Books,UK
 * Released in August 2011
 * ISBN: 978-1-40590-798-9
 * Priced £7.99 (UK)
 * Format Hardback 62 pages
 * Featured Doctor: Eleventh Doctor
 * Featured Companions: Amy Pond and Rory Williams
 * Featured Enemies: Various

Comic strip story

 * The House of Lights by Kieran Grant, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi
 * Attack of the 50ft Rory by Colin Brake, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

Text Stories/Fiction

 * Amy's Escapade by Justin Richards, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi
 * Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday by Justin Richards and illustrated by DuncanSmithStudios.com
 * Rory's Adventure by Justin Richards, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi

Features

 * 'The Legend Continues…' Written by Moray Laing
 * ‘Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About the Eleventh Doctor’
 * Did You Know …?
 * The Real Apollo Missions
 * The Impossible Astronaut
 * Recurring Nightmares: Weeping Angels, Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Silurians, Autons, Slitheen and Ood.
 * The TARDIS Archives
 * The Intergalactic Book of Records
 * The Silence
 * The Doctionary
 * Double Trouble

Page posters

 * The Silence

Additional features

 * Puzzle: Letter Home (find the monsters) written by Natasha Klus
 * Puzle Word Swirl
 * Puzzle: The Siren’s Call (boardgame)
 * Puzzle: Find the Flesh (Odd One Outs)
 * Puzzle: Double the Fun (Wordsearch)

Credits

 * Editor: to be added
 * Designer: to be added

Additional Notes

 * Once more priced at £7.99 (UK) This Annual had a reduced page count to the previous year’s bumper release.
 * Attached to the inside back cover is a large double-sided poster featuring the Eleventh Doctor on one side and a montage of monsters on the reverse (mostly Eleventh Doctor encounters but also including Slitheen, Davros and shop dummy Autons).
 * Frontispiece shows landscape at sea.
 * Also included is a page advertising audiogo audio release The Gemini Contagion, Ring of Steel,The Runaway Train, The Jade Pyramid and new audio release Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation
 * The text story Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday was referenced in the television story [[Night Terrors at the time of release still to be screened.