Doctor Who Annual 1982 was the sixteenth Doctor Who annual published by World Distributors. It was released in August 1981.
Overview[]
- Release Number 16
- Publisher World Distributors
- Released in September 1981
- Priced £2.25
- Format Hardback 64 pages
- Featured Doctor: The Fourth Doctor and the Fifth Doctor
- Featured Companions: Adric and K9
- Featured Enemies:
Contents[]
Text stories[]
Comic strip story[]
Features[]
- The Planets
- Secrets of the TARDIS
- This 'n' That
- The Big Bang Theory
- Space Shorthand
- Star Gazing at the London Planetarium
- The Mysteries of Meteorites
- Keeping a Watch on Space
- The Deadly Grapefruit
Puzzles[]
- Cosmic Quiz
Additional notes[]
This image, of Peter Davison in-character as Tristan Farnon in the series All Creatures Great and Small, was used to represent the Fifth Doctor throughout this annual due to a lack of images of the new incarnation.
- The main front cover image is of Tom Baker on location in Black Park, Fulmer in Buckinghamshire, during the filming of TV: Full Circle; the inset picture of Peter Davison is actually from 1930s-set BBC veterinary drama series All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1990), in which he played the role of Tristan Farnon.
- This was the first and only World Distibutors’ annual to feature two incarnations of the Doctor, in recognition of the Fourth Doctor’s regeneration at the end of Season 18, in March 1981.
- While past annuals had featured often anachronistic or out-of-date regular casts, this annual is also unique in featuring two combinations of characters in its stories never featured on television: firstly, the Fourth Doctor, Adric, and K9 travelling in E-Space without Romana II; secondly, the Fifth Doctor and Adric travelling alone. These inauthentic regular casts imply that the writers had limited understanding of the overall story arc of Season 18 and had been given no information about the forthcoming Season 19.
- Given that this annual was compiled well before Peter Davison’s costume was revealed to the public, the Fifth Doctor's likeness is used sparingly throughout this annual—and only features his face and head.
- A PDF version of the annual was included as a bonus feature on the 2007 DVD box set New Beginnings; it was repeated on each of the three discs for the stories The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva, as these discs were also released separately in Region 1. The PDF was carried over to the special features on the Season 18 Blu-ray release in The Collection range.
