The Doctor Who Appreciation Society has released Doctor Who 70-79, a full-colour hardback publication that looks at the decade of the Third and Fourth Doctors, played by Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, through a series of detailed essays on topics from how a line of dialogue in 1969 changed the programme irreversibly, to the circumstances that made the series a national talking point as the 1980s dawned. It includes an item on the first Marvel UK Doctor Who comic strip, “The Iron Legion“, by Paul Scoones, and “recollections” with Doctor Who Weekly‘s creator, Dez Skinn.
Contributors include Doctor Who Magazine writer Simon Guerrier, Reeltime PIctures producer Keith Barnfather, former DWAS coordinator Tony Jordan, archivists John Preddle and Paul Scoones, writer, occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington, and many more, some items taken from the organisation’s extensive archives.
Along the way it discusses Liz Shaw, the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, Weetabix, Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, teatime brutality and the first Marvel UK Doctor Who comic strip, “The Iron Legion”, which first featured in Doctor Who Weekly. Plus from the DWAS archives, interviews with the late Caroline John, Terrance Dicks and Mary Tamm.
• Doctor Who 70-79 is available from Lulu.com here
• The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is online at dwasonline.co.uk
Doctor Who 70-79: Contents
• The words that changed the universe
Dale Smith
• Why Liz Shaw deserves to be remembered
Phillip Hunter Gilfus
• Interview with Caroline John
Karen Davies
• Bristol Boys bring vision from the West
Nick Smith
• The shifting mechanics of changing time
Jez Strickley
• Demand for action stifles eco warning
Matt Hills
• The Impossible Prankster
Lucy McCaul
• Highlighting the impact of past decisions
Don Klees
• VOOSDREX WDPHQ DPO D QSDKH-TM CES
Rod Brown
• Reanimating a past terror in a new guise
Simon Guerrier
• Pyramids of Mars
Anthony Rodgers
• Beyond the aesthetic of gothic fiction
Bruce Nicholson
• Fans rack up fifty years of Appreciation
Tony Jordan
• A Meeting with Terrance Dicks
Jeremy Bentham
• When teatime got brutal for a nation’s kids
Kara Dennison
• Deep dive to uncover truth of Fang Rock
Paul Scoones
• Climbing the Time Lords’ social ladder
Jon Preddle
• Williams and the epicness of New Wave
Matt Hills
• Interview with Mary Tamm
Keith Barnfather
• An infinitely improbable man of ideas
Jamie Hailstone
• The enduring legacy of the Iron Legion
Nick Smith
• Recollections with Dez Skinn
John Smith
• How Who got lucky with the ITV switch-off
Tim Worthington
• Doctor Who 70-79 is available from Lulu.com here
• The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is online at dwasonline.co.uk
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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