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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[]

All Things Peter Davison

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 photographic material of the Fourth Doctor used on the cover was from Full Circle, with that of the Fifth Doctor being taken from the period veterinary drama series All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1990), in which Peter Davison appeared as Tristan Farnon.
  • Uniquely, this annual features two regular casts never seen on television: firstly, the Fourth Doctor, Adric, and K9 travelling together, without Romana, while still being stuck in E-Space; secondly, the Fifth Doctor and Adric travelling alone. These inauthentic regular casts imply that the writers were given limited information regarding the story arc of Season 18.
  • The Fifth Doctor's likeness, used sparingly throughout this annual (which would likely have been largely compiled before Peter Davison went into studio for the first time as the Doctor) only show his face and head.
  • At the time of this release, the Fifth Doctor's costume had not yet been made public, and images used were mainly taken from Peter Davison's work on All Creatures Great and Small, on which he had sported a 1930s/1950s short-back-and-sides haircut.
  • This was the first annual to include two Doctors following the on-screen regeneration of the Fourth Doctor at the end of Season 18.
  • 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.
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