Doctor Who Annual 1983

 was the seventeenth Doctor Who annual published by World Distributors. It was released in August 1982.

Overview

 * Release Number 17
 * Publisher World Distributors
 * Released in September 1982
 * Priced £2.50
 * Format Hardback 64 pages
 * Featured Doctor: The Fifth Doctor
 * Featured Companions: Adric, Nyssa and Tegan
 * Featured Enemies: The Master

Text stories

 * Danger Down Below
 * The God Machine
 * The Armageddon Chrysalis
 * The Haven
 * The Penalty
 * Night Flight to Nowhere

Comic strip story

 * On the Planet Isopterus

Features

 * Our Neighbours in Space
 * Behind the Scenes: Visual Effects
 * Enter Peter Davison as Dr Who
 * Coming in to Land
 * What is a Light Year?
 * Behind the Scenes: The Producer
 * Behind the Scenes: The Set Designer
 * Thaw for 25,000 Years
 * Will Our Sun Always Shine?
 * To the Far Planets
 * Black Holes

Puzzles

 * A Problem for You

Additional notes

 * This annual featured a number of behind the scenes features for the first time that included several previously unseen photographs taken from Castrovalva and the Fifth Doctor's costume design.
 * The inclusion of not one but all three of the Doctor's current companions further indicated John Nathan-Turner's influence and attempt to make the annuals more tied-in to the television series than they had previously been.