April 3rd, 2015 8 comments

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The New Who Programme Guide

THE NEW WHO PROGRAMME GUIDE by Paul Smith, with a foreword by Jean-Marc Lofficier, will be published by Wonderful Books on 3 April 2015.

Available to order in the UK from www.amazon.co.uk

Available to order in the UK from www.amazon.com

In 1981, the publication of Jean-Marc Lofficier’s original ‘Doctor Who Programme Guide’ was a seminal moment in the history of Doctor Who reference books (and in many young fans’ enthralment by the series). This and the updated edition in 1989 — which covered up to what turned out to be the end of the Classic era — became the series bible for fans throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Now the legacy of that original guide continues. Picking up where the 1989 edition left off, ‘The New Who Programme Guide’ covers the revived series from the debut of the Eighth Doctor to the passing of the Eleventh. Every television adventure, plus the many mini-episodes and prequels produced for broadcast and DVD, is detailed in the same clear and concise format.

Each has a full cast list featuring both credited and notable non-speaking roles; the names of the writer, director and producers; and a brand new synopsis of the storyline. There is also a rundown of in-character appearances by the regular cast outside the main programme, and indexes of every actor, writer, director and producer to have worked on the show.

Presented in the same compact and easy-to-use form as the original ‘Doctor Who Programme Guide’, the book is the perfect companion to Lofficier’s original and a handy quick-reference guide to the New Series.

THE NEW WHO PROGRAMME GUIDE will be available from 3 April for £7.99 from Amazon.co.uk or $11.99 from Amazon.com.

Paul Smith is the author of last year’s ‘Classic Doctor Who DVD Compendium’, designer of ‘Time & Space Visualiser: The Story and History of Doctor Who as Data Visualisations’, and he produced the tongue-in-cheek ‘Wonderful Book of Dr Who 1965’.

Also Available…

Classic Doctor Who DVD Compendium

The complete guide to every DVD release of the original ‘classic’ series of Doctor Who

Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk

Available to order in the USA from www.amazon.com

August 2014 sees the publication in print and ebook of THE CLASSIC DOCTOR WHO DVD COMPENDIUM, a guide to the entire range on DVD of the show’s original run from 1963 to 1996.

When the range began in 2000 many Doctor Who adventures were still being issued on fuzzy old VHS. But the DVDs were on a whole new level unmatched in archive television releases before or since.

Not only did they offer the superior picture quality and playback flexibility of the then-burgeoning medium; not only were the episodes digitally restored from the best surviving source materials to bring them back to (or even exceed) their original broadcast quality; but they also included an increasingly sophisticated range of additional features that examined the programme’s production and legacy.

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