The Making of Doctor Who

[purplecat]

It is difficult to explain how incredibly amazing this book was when I first randomly purchased it from The Children's Book Shop on Oxford's Broad Street circa 1980. The truly incredible part about it was that it contained summaries of every Doctor Who story up to Sarah's departure in The Hand of Fear. I spent hours pouring over those summaries which were the only real access one had to information about those episodes though the book recommends to the reader, at the end, the range of Target novelisations of which there were "27 in print and more in preparation".

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[nostalgia]

i had that book as a child!

[purplecat]

It seems like quite a lot of us did!!

[sally_maria]

I have very fond memories of this book. :-) My class library in the 3rd year of junior school had the earlier edition, and like you I spent hours reading it - then bought this one when I saw it in a shop. There's no doubt it was a significant fuel for my love of the show, the history and the behind the scenes stories.

[purplecat]

I also seem to now have copies of both editions, though I definitely didn't have the earlier one as a child. I can't quite remember whether I got it in a secondhand bookshop at some point or whether I acquired it via the "and with all my wordly goods I thee endow" clause of the wedding ceremony

[skordh.livejournal.com]

I had one too - was also fascinated by it. The account of planning, scripting and shooting an episode was very interesting to a kid who knew absolutely nothing about how TV is made. It's still more or less my only information on the subject!

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Or should say I *have* one too.

[purplecat]

I think I was less interesting in the "making of a TV show bit", but I seem to vaguely recall enjoying all the summaries of the companions, UNIT personnel, monsters etc.