September 21st, 2013 3 comments

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Will Brooks’ 50 Year Diary Volume One: 1963 – 1969

Will Brooks’ 50 Year Diary Volume One: 1963 – 1969

This book is available to order from www.pageturnerpublishing.co.uk

In celebration of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, Will Brooks sits down to watch every episode of the programme made between 1963 – 2013 at the strict pace of one per day.

Having watched each episode, Will records his thoughts in a daily blog for Doctor Who Online, and scores the episode out of ten, on a scale ranging from ‘Perfect, the absolute pinnacle’ to ‘Why am I doing this again?’

Will Brooks’ 50 Year Diary: 1963 – 1969 collects together more than 260 entries of the popular blog, covering the complete eras of the First and Second Doctors (William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton), and also includes exclusive entries for the two 1960s Dalek feature films starring Peter Cushing, and a foreword by Doctor Who writer Gareth Roberts.

Quote from Gareth Robert’s Foreword:

“[Will’s] observations are fresh and often startling – his is a unique perspective on Doctor Who. I thought I knew all this stuff back-to-front but Will’s jumping-bean prose snaps me out of my jadedness and I see it with new eyes.”

About the Author:

Will Brooks grew up in and around Norwich, where he studied a degree in Film and Moving Image, before relocating to Cardiff, where he spends his time planning people’s kitchens, and undertaking freelance design projects. And watching Doctor Who, very slowly.

His previous work has included several supplements for the official Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space Role Playing Game (during which time he became the first man to have the phrase ‘The Great Sontaran Renaissance’ vetoed by the people in charge of Sontaran history), and Memoirs of an Edwardian Adventurer, reviewing each of the Eighth Doctor’s audio stories in order.

He updates The 50 Year Diary daily for Doctor Who Online, and estimates that – at his current pace – he’ll continue to do it until early 2015 (by which point, it will either be time to cycle round and start again, or bin all his DVDs…)

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