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Doctor Who Annuals #21
Doctor Who Annual 1986
Text Stories: The Fellowship of Quan, Time Wake, Interface, Beauty and the Beast, Retribution, Darvarrk's Experiment, The Radio Waves
Behind the Scenes: Make up by Brenda Apsley (interview with Dorka Nieradzik)
Notes: The Doctor's companion was again Peri, and the Master appeared in two stories, The Fellowship of Quan and The Radio Waves.
The Doctor Who annuals were discontinued following this volume. World had encountered problems in dealing with the BBC and the Doctor Who production office, and due to unsuccessful sales of the 1985 annual and the postponement of Season 23, they decided to end the range. Ron Smethurst left World shortly after completing work on this book.
Behind the Scenes: Make up by Brenda Apsley (interview with Dorka Nieradzik)
Notes: The Doctor's companion was again Peri, and the Master appeared in two stories, The Fellowship of Quan and The Radio Waves.
The Doctor Who annuals were discontinued following this volume. World had encountered problems in dealing with the BBC and the Doctor Who production office, and due to unsuccessful sales of the 1985 annual and the postponement of Season 23, they decided to end the range. Ron Smethurst left World shortly after completing work on this book.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1985
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August 6, 2011
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This was the last of the old Doctor Who annuals, a series which started in 1966 and ended in 1986. It is one of the more interesting ones - not a huge variety of material, with just seven stories and a feature piece about the work of a make-up artist on the show, but the stories are fairly better than those in the 1985 season which preceded this annual; the Doctor / Peri relationship seems rather more on track, and both are drawn in loving detail; there are two stories featuring the Master, obviously the Jonathan Pryce incarnation from The Curse of Fatal Death judging by the art. Going back to 1966, I was struck that one story, "Beauty and the Beast", reads like an obvious rewrite of The Savages, and another, "The Radio Waves", has significant borrowings from The War Machines; I wonder if Ian Stuart Black was consulted? While I can't claim high literary quality for this collection, it does feel in the tradition of Who, and so one can conclude the series of annuals on a relatively positive note.
This was the last of the old Doctor Who annuals, a series which started in 1966 and ended in 1986. It is one of the more interesting ones - not a huge variety of material, with just seven stories and a feature piece about the work of a make-up artist on the show, but the stories are fairly better than those in the 1985 season which preceded this annual; the Doctor / Peri relationship seems rather more on track, and both are drawn in loving detail; there are two stories featuring the Master, obviously the Jonathan Pryce incarnation from The Curse of Fatal Death judging by the art. Going back to 1966, I was struck that one story, "Beauty and the Beast", reads like an obvious rewrite of The Savages, and another, "The Radio Waves", has significant borrowings from The War Machines; I wonder if Ian Stuart Black was consulted? While I can't claim high literary quality for this collection, it does feel in the tradition of Who, and so one can conclude the series of annuals on a relatively positive note.
July 2, 2022
The last of the original DW annuals, this feels like an unenthusiastic after thought. The stories are decent enough, but the behind-the-scenes features have all but vanished and the design is tired. The publishers of the annual giving up on the line seems reflected in this final volume.
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