Doctor Who Discovers (real world)


 * This article refers to the real world book series. For the in-universe book series of the same title, see Doctor Who Discovers.

Doctor Who Discovers was a short-lived series of large format stapled paperback titles from Target Books published in 1977-78.

Although not strictly speaking part of the series the title The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book, published in 1976, established the format.

The series was intended to run to 24 titles, but only five titles were released in the series, with The Miners, Inventors and Pirates due next for publication before the range was cancelled due to poor sales.

Each title in the series was priced 75p(UK). The books each had a print run of 40,000 copies, apart from the final installment Doctor Who Discovers: Strange and Mysterious Creatures which had a reduced print run of 10,140 copies.

Each of the books included a pull-out poster stapled to the centre, depicting the cover artwork by Jeff Cummins.

An in-universe reference to Fourth Doctor having written these books appears in BFA: The Kingmaker.