Doctor Who: The Complete History Partwork Launch Date Announced?

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It appears the long-awaited Doctor Who: The Complete History partwork will be arriving nationwide… from next month!

Though it’s not been confirmed, the first four issues are listed on Forbidden Planet, with Issues #1 going on sale on 9th September. This volume is fronted by David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor and features analyses of Gridlock, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment, and 42.

It starts off at £1.99 as an introductory issue, while the second one increases to £6.99, before settling at it’s regular £9.99 RRP from the third volume onwards.

The partwork, a detailed look at each serial, from An Unearthly Child to at least Last Christmas, was in testing back in April, and sample volumes were issues throughout a test area across two months in order to gauge interest, and news broke via Doctor Who Magazine at the start of this month that it’d be going nationwide.

Each book includes: an Introduction (specially written  for each story, highlighting the contributions that each one has made to the mythology of the series); The Story (a full, episode-by-episode synopsis of every story, including quotes from the characters and illustrated with images from the TV broadcast); Production (detailed accounts of the production process, from scripts, through casting, rehearsals, location filming, studio recordings and editing and music); Publicity (how each serial was promoted in the papers, on TV, in magazines such as Radio Times, and by personal appearances from the cast and production team); Broadcast (when and where each story was originally shown, along with viewer ratings and repeat showings, plus the reaction from the newspaper critics); Cast and Crew (a complete listing of each story’s cast members and the characters they played, including individuals uncredited on-screen, along with the production personnel); Profiles (a biography of a key crew member, actor or author for each story); and Merchandise (the extended life of each story and its characters, featuring in reference books, full-length novels, video games, DVDs, gadgets, action figures, and toys).

They’re all beautifully designed with stunning artwork too!

The books are released fortnightly, so Issues #2 (Colony in Space, The Daemons, and Day of the Daleks) comes out on 23rd September; #3 (Deep Breath and Into the Dalek) on 7th October; and #4 (100,000BC aka An Unearthly Child, and The Mutants better known as The Daleks) on 21st October. We don’t know what volumes are coming after these initial four, but we expect them to span all the Doctors, and should be available from any good newsagent – or obviously through subscription.

Keep your eyes peeled for more news about this fascinating series as we get it – and yes, that does include reviews!

And you can pre-order the issues now!

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