I was very exited when it was announced that this book was going to be published and it do not disappoint. Lavishly illustrated and full of surprises. Doctor Who is, possibly along with Star Trek, one of the few TV series who's production history is extensively documented. But just when I think I know everything, I find out something that surprises me. Early in the narrative Marcus Hearn casually mentioned that David Whittaker (Doctor Who's first script editor) and Terry Nation (the writer who created the Daleks) once had an argument so heated it ended in a fistfight! I never knew that! Sadly he doesn't document what the fight was over though but maybe one day we'll find out (and it's such an un-BBC way of resolving artistic differences!).
Equal with Richard Marson's biography of John Nathan-Turner of being the best book published in the anniversary year.
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