Pop Artifact! "The Making of Doctor Who" book



Blogging in a Booksteve mode today, I decided to pull this from the shelf and share. It's a paperback I found many years ago in a secondhand bookshop during a family trip to England.

I knew just a little bit about Doctor Who at the time. American paperbacks reprinting some of the character's adventures started appearing in stores sometime in the early 1980s and I'd picked up a few based on the groovy cover paintings, which depicted the Tom Baker incarnation of the Doctor along with assorted Daleks, Cybermen and the Loch Ness Monster, etc.

It was by reading the back jacket copy on these novels that I realized Doctor Who was a British TV series with a long, long history. But since our local public TV station didn't air the program (as some stations around the U.S. did), it'd be a long, long time before I ever got a chance to see an episode.

This book gave me my first photographic glimpse of the series and outlined the general history of the character (up to 1972 anyway) along with lots of behind-the-scenes trivia about the show's production.

Penned by "Who" scripters Malcolm Hulk and Terrance Dicks (the latter wrote the "Doctor Who" novels I enjoyed most), it's a fun read. And the pictures are great. Click 'em to see 'em big.





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