Doctor Who FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe

Dave Thompson

• Publisher: Applause
• Year: 2000
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781480342965
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Illustrations throughout

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Who Is Your Doctor?
• 1. The TARDIS in America: In Which Our Favorite Time and Space Traveler Crosses the Atlantic and Conquers PBS
• 2. How Did It All Begin? In Which We Journey Back to the Beginnings of the BBC and Discover How the Doctor First Came to Earth
• 3. And Where Did It Come From? In Which We Dip Back Into the Vaults of Vintage Sci-Fi and Discover that Nothing is New Under the Sun
• 4. Of TARDISes and Time Lords: In Which the Third Doctor Asks the Eternal Question, "What Do You Think of My New Face, By the Way?"
• 5. Who Is Doctor Who? In Which We Allow the Radio Times to Answer the Question "Doctor Who?"; While an Army of Daleks Ask It
• 6. Smaller on the Outside: In Which We Fill the TARDIS with Unsuspecting Passengers
• 7. Who Is the Master, and What Is a Rani? In Which We Meet Fellow Citizens of the Doctor's Home Planet, and Jolly Awful People They Are Too
• 8. Okay, Time for Some Daleks: Extermination for Fun and Profit. But Mostly, Fun
• 9. And Some Cybermen, Too: In Which We Try and Restore Some Pride to the Cyber Race
• 10. A Reasonably Random Z–A of the Doctor's Best Baddies: In Which We Remember Something Rose Once Said. "Look at What the Cat Dragged in—the Oncoming Storm"
• 11. Was This the Greatest Episode Ever? In Which We Sell Our Souls to the Devil
• 12. Everything I Know About History, I Learned from Doctor Who: Are You My Mommy?
• 13. What (or, More Pertinently, Where) Are the Missing Episodes? In Which We Learn Never to Erase Anything Ever Again
• 14. Worse Things Happen at Sea: In Which We Meet the Sea Devils and More Besides
• 15. Singing Songs About the Doctor: In Which We Learn That It Isn't All Dum-de-dum, Dum-de-dum . . . Woooo-ooooooooo!
• 16. The Not-So-Celestial Toymaker: In Which We Go to the Toyshop and Max out All Our Credit Cards on Silly Plastic Figurines
• 17. What Lies Beneath? In Which a Ride on the London Underground Reminds Us of One of the Second Doctor's Greatest Adventures
• 18. What the Hell Is Shada? In Which We Revisit One of the Doctor's Most Legendary Lost Adventures—and This One Aasn't Even Wiped!
• 19. What Is the Doctor's Favorite Soccer Team? In Which We Prove That You Can Prove Anything with Statistics
• 20. Reading the Doctor: In Which we Visit the TARDIS Bookshelf
• 21. See Him, Hear Him: In Which We Watch the Doctor's Alternate Adventures and Wind Up Removing All Our Clothing
• 22. And Finally . . . It's Not All Good, Is It? Actually, It Is
• Appendix One: Doctor Who BBC-TV Episode Guide 1963–2011
• Appendix Two: Big Finish Audio Episode Guide
• Appendix Three: Original Fiction
• Appendix Four: Selected Comic Book Appearances
• Bibliography