Once Upon a Time you could write to the BBC for Doctor Who Factsheets

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Comments

[acciochocolate]

Fascinating! Is this a mimeographed, and typed on a manual typewriter? Look at that Courier font! Where in the world did you find this?

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Believe it or not, I wrote off for them in about 1983-1984. I think there were about half a dozen in total, of which I still have some in a file.

[acciochocolate]

I think that's cool!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, that's great!

[purplecat]

I'm kind of amazed that, even in the 1980s, the BBC was prepared to let stuff like that get sent out.

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

This somehow seems a reminder of a more innocent age, although that insistence that Doctor Who is not a children's programme is very early eighties; one can almost hear Ian Levine dictating it to some BBC secretary...

[purplecat]

One does wonder who wrote them. I recall there were half a dozen or so - I should try and dig out the rest!

[elisi]

Fascinating!

I knew the Doctor had a lower body temperature, but I don't recall ever seeing it specified. Thank you, this is very useful.

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Ha! Well, I've no idea how canonical these things should be considered!

[fififolle]

Wow! That belongs in a museum :D

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I have several - though teenage me has been at some of them with the scissors...