September 16th, 2014 3 comments

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Will Brooks’ 50 Year Diary: Volume Two 1970-1981.

In celebration of Doctor Who’s first fifty years on screen, 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: Volume Two 1970 – 1981 collects together more than 300 entries of the popular blog, covering the complete eras of the Third and Fourth Doctors (Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker), as well as a revisit to the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) stories The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear, episodes of which were returned to the BBC’s archive in 2013, having been missing for many decades. Speaking about the publication of the book, Will said: “The 1970s was the part of The 50 Year Diary that I was dreading the most. I’d always thought of Jon Pertwee as being my least favourite of all the Doctors, and while I knew Tom Baker was very good, I’d never quite understood the sheer love for that era of the programme.

Having now had the chance to watch through, I’ve realised that there’s a lot to Pertwee’s Doctor that I can enjoy, and the reason that the Baker era is considered to be such a Golden Age is because, in many ways, it is! I’ve found things to enjoy at almost every turn, although not everything was to my tastes…”

The book is released on September 25th 2014.

You can pre-order the paperback version of Will Brooks’ 50 Year Diary 1970 – 1981 now from www.pageturnerpublishing.co.uk for £14.99.

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