CONTENTS
COVER
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
TITLE PAGE
INTRODUCTION
ONE
THE 50-YEAR DIARY: A DOCTOR WHO TIMELINE
TWO
EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE TIME LORD: THE MANY LIVES AND CHANGING FACES OF THE DOCTOR
First and Last Words
The Doctor by Numbers
Who’s Who – The Twelve Doctors
What’s in a Name?
John Who?
The Doctor’s Height
Who Goes There
Doctor Doubles
Doctor… Who?
A Doctor of What?
The Doctor Is In
Unseen Adventures
The Last Great Time War
Mid-Life Crisis: The Changing Age of the Doctor
A Mere Slip of a Girl?
A Young, Old Face
Fish Fingers and Custard
The Doctor’s Abilities
Other Time Lord Abilities
The Doctor’s Family Tree
The Many Wives of Doctor Who
The Doctor’s Twin – The Other Doctor
The Doctor’s Companion – The TARDIS
The Doctor’s Daughter – Jenny
Extended Family
The Doctor’s Physiology
Capacious Pockets
The Finest Swordsman in All of Gallifrey
Reasons for Regeneration
Equipment to Aid Regenerative Crisis
THREE
THE DOCTOR’S BEST FRIENDS: COMPANIONS AND OTHER ALLIES
Companions by Numbers
Companion Roll Call: The 1960s
Hello, Goodbye
Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before?
Return Performances
Happy Birthday to Who
Companion Roll Call: The 1970s
Mustering the Troops – The Creation of UNIT
UNIT Personnel
The Unknown Soldiers
UNIT Call Signs
The Life and Times of Nicholas Courtney
The Men From UNIT
Companion Roll Call: The 1980s
The Sorry Ballad of Kamelion
Off-Screen Companions
Companion Roll Call: The 1990s
Kissing Companions
Companion Roll Call: The 2000s
Hello Sweetie
Companion Roll Call: The 2010s
They Keep Killing Rory
Occasional Companions
Family Ties
Extended (Unseen) Families
Reasons for Leaving the Doctor
FOUR
A CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
Monstrous First Lines
Returning Monsters
The Silurians
Dinosaurs in
Designing Dinos
Monster Maker –The Bluffer’s Guide To…
The Lives and Deaths of Davros
Bringing Davros to Life
Monster Maker – The Bluffer’s Guide To…
A Dalek A-Z
Armed and Dangerous
Dalek Servants
The Only Daleks With Names
Dalek Operators
Voices of the Daleks
Familiar Voices
Dalek Variants
Colour-Coded Daleks
40 Ways to Defeat a Dalek
Universal Monsters
Warlords of Mars
Bred for War – Sontaran Factoids
Sontaran Roll Call
Sontaran Forces
Worlds of the Cybermen
Cyber-Spotter
Cyber Converts
Mapping the Web of Fear
Monster Make-Up
FIVE
LOTS OF PLANETS HAVE A NORTH: A ROUGH GUIDE TO EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS
The Doctor’s World Map
The Changing Face of the Oval Office
Namedropper
Historical Celebrities
The Nemesis Comet
Celebrity Culture
Not Quite Themselves
Medical Establishments on Earth
The Mysterious World of
The Moving Earth
TARDIS Log
Solar System Stories
Welcome to Gallifrey
Notable Time Lords
The Master Mad-o-meter
The Things of Rassilon and Other Gallifreyan Stuff
Planets Attacked by the Daleks
Shockeye’s Kitchen
SIX
A KETTLE AND A PIECE OF STRING: TECHNOLOGY IN DOCTOR WHO
TARDIS Components and Equipment
The Time Rotor
Console Room Designers
Some TARDIS Disguises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sonic Screwdrivers Galore
Using the Sonic Screwdriver
Known Limitations
Psychic Paper
The Doctor’s Toolkit
Who’s Driving This Thing?
Good Old Bessie