Doctor Who Annual 2023

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From the late 1960s through to the late 1980s (with the single exception of 1971), World Distributors, Ltd published Doctor Who Annual. On the contents page, the line STORY TITLE TO COME is given for Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest on page 28.

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Due to the show’s nature there was naturally a lot of scope for features devoted to real historical figures, science and space. This year's journey through time and space will take you through the Doctor Who universe like never before - to the past, present, future. With the Doctor Who annuals usually geared at younger readers, the 70s was a unique period where the annuals felt more adult than the series itself. While they may have delivered something closer to the expectations of fans of Peter Davison and Colin Baker on television, they’ve proven less memorable over time, and tend to be looked back on with less nostalgia than the earlier entries. These followed the same mix of prose, comic strip stories and features, this time all Who-related and directed at a more sophisticated audience.Davies’‘Meet the Doctor’ contained a brief history of the Time War revealing details not yet seen on television, as well as hints about the Face of Boe’s secret and the message “You Are Not Alone” over a year before ‘Gridlock.

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You can catch up with past series and specials, most recently featuring Jodie Whittaker in the title role, on BBC iPlayer now. I’d like to see him bring back McGann, Davison et al for hour long specials during 2023 to lead into the November special assuming it’s then, it would give the others screen time they were denied in the 50th Anniversary, which essentially was a celebration of the relaunched series, not even from 2005, cos Eccleston didn’t appear properly…. For five years in the mid-1990s, Marvel UK took up the baton with a series of Doctor Who Yearbooks from the team behind Doctor Who Magazine. This year’s journey through time and space will take you through the Doctor Who universe like never before – to the past, present, future.

The impact of this on the Doctor Who annuals was a new uniformity; the short stories and comic strips may have had as straightforward, brief plots as ever, but they now felt more like missing scenes from Doctor Who on television, rather than windows into a weird alternate universe. It also featured Clara Oswald and the Enchanted Forest as the only prose short story, and which served as a preview for Origin Stories published that same month. To partially quote Gatwa's Doctor, here's everything we know about "what the hell is going on here". But arguably some of the special flavour of the Doctor Who annuals had been lost; they no longer had their own unique appeal and character. The results were comic strips and stories that often required a bit of squinting to recognise the characters from the TV show, both in how they looked and how they acted.

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But it’s clear that as for as long as there are people who love Doctor Who, there will be a new Doctor Who annual for them each year. And on every Christmas since then, little hands find their way to a oversized hardback book featuring some extra adventures for their favourite characters. Also joining the cast for upcoming episodes are Neil Patrick Harris, Yasmin Finney, Ruth Madeley and Jinkx Monsoon.

Ncuti Gatwa takes over the role as the Fifteenth Doctor over the festive season 2023 alongside Millie Gibsonwho has recently been announced as Ruby Sunday. As Russell T Davies says: "You’ll find out in 2023, but it’s an absolute joy to welcome Yasmin to the Doctor Who set. Annuals usually include a classic mix of new fiction, features about the fictional universe of the subject, along with puzzles and games.