About Time 4 – Expanded 2nd Edition: 1975-1977
Note: The original book has been greatly revised and expanded, necessitating its separation into two volumes. This first volume covers seasons 12, 13 and 14. More details at the publisher’s web site. Lawrence Miles’s name has also been removed as co-author.
Cover blurb:
…the unauthorized & ambitiously definitive guide to Who…
The alien shape-shifters lurking beneath Loch Ness. The insects preying on the sleeping survivors of humanity’s greatest challenge. The war-criminal from the future hiding in Victorian London’s underworld.
These aren’t just the greatest, strangest, or most Doctor-Who-like moments in Doctor Who. These are the moments that make up an era, part of a universe of things we’d never seen before and never expected. And this is the all-purpose handbook to that universe, both on- and off-screen. Contained within these volumes is everything you could reasonably want to know about the original series of Doctor Who, from the nuances of Cyberman culture to the science of the Eye of Harmony, from the programme’s most triumphant successes to its most bizarre logical flaws, from its roots in the 1960s to its legacy in the here and now.
But above all else, this is a history. A history of the Doctor Who continuum; a history of the way the series changed across the span of a generation; and a history of those who grew up with it, of what it meant to the children of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.
This is, in a very real sense, About Time.
Written by Tat Wood (TV Zone, Doctor Who Magazine), the first of the two volumes that compose About Time 4 Second Edition dissects Doctor Who Seasons 12 to 14 (the whole of the Tom Baker era under producer Philip Hinchcliffe). Among other things, this book strives to answer such vitally important questions as “Who are All These Strange Men in Wigs?”, “Could Scratchman have Happened?”, and “Mary Whitehouse: What was Her Problem?”.
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