Doctor Who Annual 1975

Overview

 * Release Number 9
 * Publisher World Distributors
 * Released in September 1974
 * Priced 90p
 * Format Hardback 80 pages
 * Featured Doctor: Third Doctor
 * Featured Companions: Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Featured Enemies:

Text stories

 * The House That Jack Built by Keith Miller
 * Revenge of the Phantoms
 * The Time Thief
 * Fugitives from Chance
 * The Battle Within
 * Before the Legend
 * Scorched Earth

Comic strip stories

 * Dead on Arrival
 * After the Revolution

Features

 * Our Spectacular Sun
 * Not Just an Empty Space
 * Earth of the Future
 * In the Future
 * In the Future
 * Secrets of the Moon Rocks
 * Decisions, decisions
 * Essential Life-Support Systems
 * Futurescope!
 * Toro the Tiny Moonlet

Puzzles

 * Up In Space
 * Dr Who’s Space Age Crossword
 * Test Your Knowledge
 * The Secret Steps - Game

Additional notes

 * This annual shows more attention to the details of the TV series than previous editions. The Doctor is still referred to as Dr Who, but less frequently and not in all stories. He is also identified as a Time Lord from Gallifrey and uses his sonic screwdriver.
 * Some illustrations are provided by Edgar Hodges.
 * The photographic cover uses two publicity shots of the Third Doctor, the larger one evidently taken during location filming for Planet of the Daleks.
 * Oddly, two different story with the same title, The Time Thief, appear in two consecutive annuals, the previous year's in comics form, this year's in prose form.