The Doctor Who Technical Manual (reference book)

The Doctor Who Technical Manual was a Doctor Who reference book published by Severn House.

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 K9, 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
 * K9
 * 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. Some of these photos include K9, Daleks, the TARDIS, Cybermen, the Whomobile and the Titan/Earth shuttle.
 * The introduction was written by John Nathan-Turner
 * This was one of a series of titles released during the 20th anniversary year, as a part of JN-T's desire to capitalise on the programme's success and merchandising opportunities.
 * The Tool Kit section details the content of the TARDIS tool box even if not identified onscreen: master drone clamp, laser, pen torch, universal detector, neutron ram, influx booster stabiliser, stalos gyro, moog drone clamp, magnetic clamp and the destroyed sonic screwdriver.