About Time 1975-1979 Seasons 12 to 17 (About Time; The Unauthorized Guide to Dr. Who (Mad Norwegian Press)) |
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Lawrence Miles, Tat Wood
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Pages: 327 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0975944630
Pub: Mad Norwegian Press
Pub date: 2004-12-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10266
Reader Reviews:
The Enthusiast's Guide to Uncle Tom (3/3 people found this helpful)
This is a fairly weighty tome from the guys who used to do popular Dr Who magazine The Frame.
The information to the stories from all of Tom Baker's stories barring his last season is pretty detailed and much seems definitive. If You're a fan there will inevitably be stuff that you already know but for each few bits of stuff I knew, there were nuggets like Micheal Wisher being a late choice for Davros & a discussion about which type of the children's play muck "slime" was to be used to make a cheap mutant (this happened during Destiny of the Daleks). There is a short review titled a "critique" at the end of each story's entry and the writers wisely stick to their own opinions and defend their viewpoints, some of which are against so-called established classics. Even when they were dissing my favourite story (The Deadly Assassin), I found what they had to say interesting. Some stories like "Deadly", see the writers fight it out with both a prosecution and a defence.
There are sidebars exploring chronology between stories and continuity issues that are done with humour and no where near as anoraky as the "Star Trek Nitpicker" tomes of Phil Farrand.
Their observation that Davros and Nyder have a touch of Smithers and Burns from the Simpsons gives you an idea of how funny they can be.
A strongly recommended book.
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