- You may be looking for IDW's 2013 Doctor Who Annual.
The Official 50th Anniversary Annual was the British Doctor Who annual published by BBC Children's Books. As with all British annuals, it was actually published in the year prior the cover date prior to the broadcast of the 50th Anniversary television special
Overview
- Release Number 8
- Publisher BBC Children's Books,UK
- Released in August 2013
- ISBN: 978-1-405901-179-5
- Priced £7.99 (UK)
- Format Hardback 62 pages
- Featured Doctor: Eleventh Doctor
- Featured Companions:
Contents
Comic strip story
- The Door to a Winter Long Ago by Moray Laing, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi
- Night Light by Moray Laing, illustrated by John Ross and coloured by James Offredi
Text Stories/Fiction
- The Fifty-Year Delay by Moray Laing, illustrated by Lee Sullivan
Features
- 50 Years of Doctor Who
- The Doctor’s Diary (Series 7)
- Smaller on the Outside (the TARDIS)
- Bigger on the Inside (the TARDIS)
- 50 Amazing Facts About the Doctor
- 50 Years of Monsters!
- Who’s Who? (the Doctor’s and Companions)
- That Impossible Girl (Clara Oswin Oswald)
- The Great Intelligence
- The Ice Warriors
- The Cybermen
Additional features
- Puzzle: Monster Hunt (see note below)
- Puzzle Alien Attack!
- Puzzle: Nano-cloud Danger!
- Puzzle: Spot the Difference
- Big 50 Quiz
- Game: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
Additional Notes
- Priced at £7.99, (UK) this Annual had a page count reduced from the previous year’s bumper release.
- Frontispiece shows the Vortex
- Also included is a page advertising Doctor Who Adventures and its app.
- Hidden throughout the annual are 50 tiny (less than 1cm high) .aliens These are all shown on the ‘Monster Hunt’ page and can be ticked off when discovered
