August 20th, 2026
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Radio Times Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special Deluxe Hardback
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
You can search for the original magazine release at www.ebay.co.uk
Radio Times Doctor Who anniversary editions re-issued
Big Finish Productions are set to release deluxe hardback reissues of the Radio Times specials which celebrated Doctor Who’s tenth and twentieth anniversaries.
Doctor Who has been entertaining fans for over sixty years now, and every anniversary has been marked with a celebration. For the show’s tenth and twentieth anniversaries, in 1973 and 1983, the iconic listings magazine Radio Times put out special celebratory editions.
Those two classic magazines have now been restored and are due to be republished as collector’s edition hardback books, released this November by Big Finish Productions.
The magazines are packed with features, including interviews with Doctor Who actors and creatives, as well as original fiction by Daleks creator Terry Nation and series script editor Eric Saward.
Big Finish senior producer John Ainsworth said: “The 10th anniversary and 20th anniversary Radio Times specials were unique publications, marking Doctor Who’s first two significant anniversaries. Both offered insights into the series and its history, and became treasured, well-thumbed reference works by all who bought them.
“The original publications are now rare to find, and – due to their magazine format – even rarer to find in good condition. So, it’s particularly exciting that Big Finish now has the opportunity to publish, for the first time, exact replicas of both these specials, in hardback volumes.
“Painstaking work has been carried out to restore photographs, and to make these specials accurate in every detail, replicating the original publications. These two books will become essential works in any Doctor Who library.”
The Radio Times Doctor Who 10th and 20th Anniversary Specials are now available to pre-order for £25 each, or £45 for a multi-buy bundle of the two books.
RADIO TIMES DOCTOR WHO 10TH AND 20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS
Released: November 2026, exclusively from the Big Finish website.
Senior Producer: John Ainsworth
Executive Producers: Nicholas Briggs, Jason Haigh-Ellery
PRICING (EACH)
Pre-order: £25 from www.bigfinish.com
General release: £30
PRICING (BUNDLE)
Pre-order: £45 from www.bigfinish.com
General release: £50
All the above prices (including pre-order and multibuy bundle discounts) are fixed for a limited time only and guaranteed no later than 31 January 2027.
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Richard
August 23rd, 2026 - 9:51amI wish they’d consider redoing the cover of the 20th as the original when compared to the 10th one is just awful and looks like it was thrown together at the last minute. IMO.
Amypondfan
August 23rd, 2026 - 9:05pmThe whole point of this is to recreate it exactly as it was.
bryan
August 24th, 2026 - 10:00pmwith Hardback….
I agree with Richard, it should have been either, a new cover or a slightly altered cover,if only to not chop the 6th Doctor off. A shimmy to the left and a shimmy upward.
enough to tidy it up.Im sure some would have noticed, but it’s such a poor cover,I’m not sure many would.
even the 30th has a fantastic cover(Panini I think) then the 40th with another dull cover ,but does the job(Radio times again)
Bobby Davros
August 27th, 2026 - 7:09pmThe chopped off 6th Doctor was clearly a design choice because his era was in the future so not fully materialised. It’s the 1984 version of a loading screen.
Auton
August 27th, 2026 - 7:24pmAnd the first Doctor is half cut off due to half his stories being missing
Bookcollector
August 27th, 2026 - 9:18pmThis was originally published November 3rd 1983 less than three months after colin was announced (19th August 1983) so having colin on the cover fully would not really make sense as it would be the 16th March before colin made his debut and the 22nd March before colin appeared as the doctor in costume. There was only one or two pages dedicated to colin, a brief interview if I remember correctly. It acted as a teaser to season 21. Remember as well this was published before the broadcast of the five doctors.
John Grundy
August 22nd, 2026 - 4:44pmCan you still win a day out with Doctor Who?
Missyrules
August 22nd, 2026 - 6:49pmYeah, as long as you travel back 43 odd years
COMICshopsDontStand
August 21st, 2026 - 12:04pmHow many pages does each have?
Andy R
August 21st, 2026 - 11:34amI seem to have had so many copies of this one over the years, never thought of it as particularly rare.
Assume it won’t include a reprint of the poster?
Missyrules
August 21st, 2026 - 12:46pmIts not rare but ones in perfect condition are extremely rare
Shaun
August 23rd, 2026 - 8:00pmI bought an extra edition and it is still wrapped in an envelope since the day I bought it – mainly because I thought it would be a collector’s item one day. I have another very battered copy too that I read endlessly. (Mind you, I also bought an extra copy of DWM 100, thinking that would be worth something one day, which goes to show you can’t always be right!)
Fred
August 21st, 2026 - 11:06amWhat’s the picture of Colin Baker doing there on the cover? He wasn’t close to being cast, let alone announced, in 1983, was he?
bookcollector
August 21st, 2026 - 11:23amYes it was in the magazine. There was a page about the forthcoming 21st season and Colin was confirmed as the doctor.
Fred
August 21st, 2026 - 8:01pmWell I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Bookcollector
August 21st, 2026 - 8:16pmI remember being excited by the silurians and sea devils being confirmed as returning. Be interesting to read it again after all these years. Can’t remember if it mentioned davros and the daleks but it might have.
Jeff Sorenson
August 21st, 2026 - 3:15amAbsolutely must have this
bryan
August 20th, 2026 - 11:46pmI bought the recent reissie of the 10th Anniversary. But that had different images to the original as they could not be located . Now all these years Later they have painstakingly scanned and replaced back to original, edition.
Im not sure if there has been ever a reissue of the 20th, if so, its passed me by as my copy is in shreds, more akin to confetti in places.
Both perfect ,ordered as my christmas gift to myself. ,
what a day for info and stuff coming up.
bookcollector
August 21st, 2026 - 12:59amNo reissue of the 20th that I remember
Demdike@CultLabs
August 20th, 2026 - 6:34pmI still have the original of this. It’s been read so many times over the years.
Demdike@CultLabs
August 20th, 2026 - 6:35pmSorry, i meant the 20th anniversary special. I don’t have the tenth.
Duncan
August 20th, 2026 - 8:00pmMine fell to pieces so this is an immediate buy. Only feels like a few years since it came out …
bookcollector
August 20th, 2026 - 9:04pmDuncan mine fell apart as well. My tenth anniversary issue is perfect but this one fell apart within just a few years so I’ve immediately ordered this. Be lovely to have this again.