Doctor Who: The Terrestrial Index

Doctor Who Reference Guides #3

by Jean-Marc Lofficier

This companion volume to The Programme Guide contains everything there is to know about Doctor Who and the planet Earth.

The information is divided into three main sections. The first contains a Who's Who of the actors, technicians and writers connected with the Doctor Who television stories. The second contains brief details of all the Doctor Who adventures other than those shown on television - the stories from the stage plays, the radio programmes, and the comic strips. The third is a chronology of Earth History as revealed in the Doctor Who television stories.

The Terrestrial Index is packed with information for Doctor Who fans, and is an indispensable companion to The Programme Guide.

The third volume of Jean-Marc Lofficier's Doctor Who reference trilogy will be entitled The Universal Databank.

Genres: Doctor Who, Reference, Science Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Jean-Marc Lofficier is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife, Randy Lofficier

Reviews

[Daniel Kukwa]

This was the revised version of the original Programme Guide Volume 2...and boy does it take revision to a new level. Not only is it a first rate behind-the-scenes list of actors/directors/writers and such, but it is also the first full attempt to create a single historical continuity for the series, from the dawn of time to the end of the universe. This is what all future history guides to the series have built upon, and I devoured the pages of this book as if it were biblical revelation.

[Otis Campbell]

Now, seeing how they compiled this whole massive pile of facts and figures way back before anyone ever heard of the internet or computer databases, the book’s got a fair share of goofs and flat-out blunders in it. That whole section mapping out the history of the Earth wasn't stitched together near as tight as it should've been—it's looser than a rusted tailgate! And since they dropped this paperback right after the TV network went and canceled the original show, the whole thing stops stone-cold at the tail end of the Classic Era. It ain't gonna have a single solitary lick of info on any of them fancy new Doctors running around from the 2005 revival onward!

[Travis]

A thoroughly impressive reference book, as the Author takes the entire run of the original Doctor Who show and use it to write a history of the earth, from the dawn of time to the far future.

Very dense, but fun and some clever bits where Lofficer tries valiantly to make some of the shows contridictary parts fit.

Lots of interesting and occasionally useful bits of information and the Doctor's many visits to Earth and the influence he's had on our history.