April 24th, 2021
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Cover Reveal – The Unofficial Dr Who Annual 1988
Image released via their Facebook page
A CALL FOR ARTISTS
The unofficial Dr Who 1988 annual is due to materialise later this year, and if you would like to contribute, here is your chance.
Terraqueous Distributors are looking for artists, and they want you!
If your interested, please send a sample of your work to [email protected].
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Dalek Bumper Car
April 24th, 2021 - 2:49pmNice to see these are continuing. I think this one completes the 80’s annuals.
Every Terraqueous release so far, has been top quality.
Dalekz
April 24th, 2021 - 12:03pmI already feel like I’ve slipped into a annoying parallel world, this is not helping.
Anonymous
April 24th, 2021 - 11:49amHa! They are not… I repeat… not cybermen! They are cyberons. A completely different creation… honestly…
In case you are wondering the facebook page is making a point about them not being cybermen and considering the thank you to bbv…
Anonymous
April 24th, 2021 - 9:56amWonder where the dalek plunger’s from a continuity point and Mel’s… 😀
Anonymous
April 25th, 2021 - 11:35amOther than the dalek plunger (maybe I’m just silly about type of thing) I think it looks really cool!
Anonymous
April 24th, 2021 - 9:52amWhat an awesome cover paralleling that other annual! The dalek plunger Mel’s holding took me some time to see though! 😀
Anon
March 3rd, 2021 - 10:48amThe reason ‘Dr Who’ is used rather than ‘Doctor Who’ was explained a year or so ago by Terraqueous.
And that is the early annuals (1966- 1979), used ‘Dr’, and because their first annual to fill the gap, was the 1972 annual.
So like an old broken chamelion circuit, it stuck and became a regular thing.
Anonymous
March 3rd, 2021 - 8:42amWish the original annuals from 1966-86 could be reprinted somehow, as well as The Invasion from Space, The Dalek Books 1964-66, The Dalek Annuals 1976-79 and the K9 Annual 1983. A reprint of the Dalek Pocketbook would also be great!
In regards to these unofficial annuals, I guess that they could get away with a 1990 annual?
Anonymous
March 6th, 2021 - 8:46pmYes, 1990 would have been published in 1989. In fact they could probably get away with a 1991 annual as well. You could argue it might have been published before the cancellation announcement. I’d like a 1997 annual featuring the Eighth doctor. It would have been published after the tv movie broadcast in 96. Oh, and yes I’d love reprints of the old annuals.
Doug Who
January 21st, 2021 - 11:39pmI know that they are nostalgically following the old World Distributors ‘house style’, but one thing about the late 80’s annuals is that JNT would have insisted on the full ‘Doctor’ was used as opposed to the contraction – he did for the 1980 annual onwards. He was very particular about that!
These are great though and the more recent ones have consistently better illustrations I think.
Anonymous
January 22nd, 2021 - 12:45amThere may be an issue with copyright that using dr rather than doctor gets round
Dalekz
January 21st, 2021 - 6:19pmHope they use the correct logo for 1988, anyway why didn’t we get annuals at the end of the 80’s I would have loved a 7th Doctor annual as a kid. It’s not like there were no Doctor Who merch Dapol was doing quite well.
Michael Pearson
January 21st, 2021 - 6:56pmThey may be using the old one on the credible basis that the production team wouldn’t have let the annual makers know about the change of logo before the annual was designed and completed in the summer of 1987. Publicity departments and licencees weren’t often on the same page until recent decades.
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 7:52pmMichael is right, the annual released in 1987 (the 1988 annual) would have predated the series and the new logo so i don’t mind. One thing is will this actually be a colin Baker mel annual?
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 8:09pmThe more I think about it the more I think this may be a colin Baker annual. If it had come out when it was supposed to there would have been no McCoy material to include as it would have been published months before the series aired. I hope it’s a McCoy book but I’ll happily buy it. We should get a 1990 annual for McCoy and I’d love a 1996/7 mcgann one.
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 10:32pmThis organisation has done a 1989 annual with Ace and the seventh Doctor. This one will be sixth Doctor and Mel
Dalekz
January 22nd, 2021 - 1:04amYes I didn’t think of that that’s probably all true!
I think I’m used to everything being in sync and on brand straight away before a new series airs now but years ago one hand didn’t know what the other was doing at times.
Anonymous
January 23rd, 2021 - 5:28pmFrom Richards comments in the facebook post, it will be Six and Mel.
“‘time and the rani’ was broadcast on the 7th September 1987. That same month a 1988 annual would have been released, but work on that would have been completed between June and July 1987. At that point we would have been aware of McCoys casting, but not his portrayel or costume. Making the annual a Sixth Doctor & Mel annual.”
Michael Pearson
January 28th, 2021 - 4:45pmInteresting, but McCoy’s costume was actually revealed in April 1987 in a press call during the location filming of Time and the Rani. Also the 1982 annual featured Davison but craftily only showed his head in the artwork as the costume wasnt revealed before the annual was completed in summer of 81.
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 4:06pmFacebook link not working
booboo
January 21st, 2021 - 4:09pmsorted trying to do to many things at once
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 7:50pmGreat boo boo and don’t worry about you can’t do everything at once
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 4:05pmBrilliant! Expensive… but brilliant…
Anonymous
January 21st, 2021 - 3:58pmThat Facebook link sends you to the Season 24 page…