Doctor Who Annual 1986
Key crew
Publisher:	World Distributors
Release details
Release date:	September 1985
Format:	hardback 64 pages
ISBN 7-235-6747-6
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Overview Edit

Release Number 20

Publisher World Distributors

Released in September 1985

Priced £3.25

Format Hardback 64 pages

Featured Doctor: The Sixth Doctor

Featured Companions: Peri

Featured Enemies: The Master

Contents Edit

Text Stories Edit

• The Fellowship of Quan
• Time Wake
• Interface
• Beauty and the Beast
• Retribution
• Davarrk's Experiment
• The Radio Waves

Comic strip story Edit

• None

Features Edit

• `Behind the Scenes at Doctor Who: Make-Up` interview with Dorka Nieradzik by Brenda Aspley

Puzzles Edit

• None

Additional Notes Edit

• Unusually, at the expense of new content, this annual featured three full-page colour publicity shots of the Sixth Doctor taken at his costume launch (showing him with the TARDIS, fishing and with a multicoloured umbrella).
• The author of five of the prose stories (Interface, Davarrk's Experiment, The Fellowship of Quan, Time Wake and Retribution) was John D White, who loved the annuals as a kid and, when he was older, knew he wanted to write for them.^{[source needed]}
• This was to be the last of the regular Annuals published by World Distributors.
• Both John Nathan-Turner and the publishers, World Distributors, had become increasingly frustrated with each other, along with the show's 18 month hiatus (resulting in no new Who on television) and, a reported decline in sales the previous year. The decision was reached that the license to publish the Doctor Who Annual would not be renewed.
• World Distributors did publish a further bumper sized volume (entitled Doctor Who Special: Journey Through Time), which featured reprinted pages from previous Annuals and The Amazing World of Doctor Who book. This was similar to their earlier Adventures in Time and Space volume.
• It was to be many years before there was another Doctor Who annual. It was not published by World Distributors.
• For five of the in-between years (1991-1995) Marvel UK (publishers of Doctor Who Magazine) published a regular Doctor Who Yearbook which followed a format similar to the annuals, offering a mix of text stories, comic strip stories and features. These were significantly different from annuals in one respect. They did not review the year in question. Instead, they offered a mix of stories from every Doctor's era.