This seems to be a bit of a habit now - producing new Target book covers for Doctor Who seasons as they are announced as brand spanking new blu-ray sets.
The much lamented Trial of the Time Lord season was officially named as the next box set a few weeks back and (luckily) I had a few ideas up my sleeve for this short season from 1986. I thought my original 70s Target designs for some of Jodie Whittaker's episodes worked quite well so I went back to those early works of art for this little set.
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A few weeks ago on the Twitter I put out a request for ideas for my 500th post. To say I was inundated with suggestions is an understatement. In the end I chose three ideas that tickled my fancy and here they are.
A big thank you to Paul Gibbs ( @gibbspaulus ) for the Threads baby mobile, Simon Hart ( @si_hart ) for the Encyclopaedia of Juliet Bravo - E-K, and Chris Orton ( @chrisorton2011 ) for the Tenko playhouse. Follow them as they seem to share the same sense of the absurd as I do.
Also a big thank you too to everyone who suggested their own ideas.
Following the huge phenomenal popular success of putting old Doctor Who episodes on to the Blu ray disc format, the BBC have decided to extend the idea to other cult TV shows in its back catalogue.
Following an analysis of social media (and in particular a select group of Twitter movers and shakers), they have chosen Juliet Bravo - the hit 80s police series - as their next project.
The series was hugely popular in the 1980s for many years and was a permanent fixture of Saturday night viewing until Casualty turned up and spoilt it all. Questions were often asked in the Houses of Parliament, not about the series but none-the-less, they were asked. And schoolboys everywhere filled their playgrounds with the sounds of "I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!, I-Am-Juliet-Bravo!!". There was even talk of a movie (by two old ladies in a Swindon cafe over a five-item breakfast.).
It was THAT huge!
Anyway, here's the covers for the first two releases -available in exclusive steelbook editions - which should hit stores when they are thrown at them from a short distance.
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I think it's safe to say that the covers for Eric Saward's novelisations of his two classic Doctor Who serials have not exactly been popular with their potential market.
I had avoided doing some alternative covers for them as there are some very good ones on the net already. But since I had the templates out and I'd had loads of requests (well, two anyway!) to do some, I knocked these up over an evening last week.
They are done in the style of Target books from around the period that the original stories were transmitted in the mid-eighties.
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Sorry I haven't added to the blog in the past month. I will rectify that over the next day or so with a few updates.
In the mean time, I've returned to some Target book covers. Season eighteen is due out on blu-ray shortly. I won't quote the current date as it may still change again. I did some new covers for the previous season releases so thought I'd do a few more for the next one. I did them quick over a couple of days and I hope you like them.
The one thing I was reminded of when doing these was how bloody dull the photos from Warriors' Gate are despite the final production being so gorgeously visual. You win some, you lose some.
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Well, the new series of TV's Dr Who is well underway and Jodie Whittaker is now a fully fledged Time Lord. The reaction seems to be overwhelmingly positive and certainly the ratings are very good.
The series certainly needed a proper reboot (not just a new Doctor) and Chris Chibnall has given it a shot in the arm with a 'back-to-basics' approach to both the show's look and its storytelling. To me it feels fresh and stylish whilst at the same time holding on to those quintessential elements that makes the series unique amongst its peers.
Change is good. Much as I loved Peter Capaldi's final run as the Doctor, the series itself was starting to become repetitive and formulaic. I might be 54 years old but I still have the attention-span of a teenager and get bored easily.
I had planned to stop doing my Target book covers with Capaldi's final turn as the Doctor, and concentrate on more unique designs and stuffs. They had started to become a bit of a chore and repetitive. But for some reason, watching Jodie Whittaker's first episode fired up my creative juices and I decided (very much at the last minute) to carry on and do some more.
There's also the challenge of the lack of pre-broadcast images and information which I actually like. It's like working under the same pressures as some of the artists on the original target covers worked under. (Remember The Five Doctors and Destiny of the Daleks covers?).
Here are the first four:
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I done season twenty of Doctor Who.
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It's only a few months until the nineteenth season of Doctor Who makes its debut on shiny new Blu ray discs.
Here's a version for the more budget conscious fan with too much spare shelf space... and a yearning for 80s tech nostalgia.
Well, the new trailer for the Doctor Who new series has debuted at SDCC and on line... and well, it looks good doesn't it?
Fired by the freshness and enthusiasm of the thirty second clip show, I've gone back and re-purposed some of the old familiar Doctor Who annuals of old. (including the 1978 one which I've struggled with over the years, trying to find some way of doing it justice.) All this despite the fact there's still only around six or seven official pictures of Jodie Whittaker and the cast to play around with...
I hope you like them.
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To celebrate the Royal Wedding between Harry and Princess Mertyl, the House of Andydrewz has commisioned this piece of collectors's tat for you to part with your money for...
It can't have gone unnoticed that I have a thing about merchandise based on the 80s BBC drama Threads. One of my earliest posts was for a Panini Threads Sticker Book. I've gone back and re-done that one now I know how Photoshop actually works. And also done a couple of other pieces of apocalyptic ephemera...
(Oh and by the way, I don't have any swapsies of "Woman Pissing Herself".)
The much lamented Trial of the Time Lord season was officially named as the next box set a few weeks back and (luckily) I had a few ideas up my sleeve for this short season from 1986. I thought my original 70s Target designs for some of Jodie Whittaker's episodes worked quite well so I went back to those early works of art for this little set.
Also a big thank you too to everyone who suggested their own ideas. 
It was THAT huge! 
They are done in the style of Target books from around the period that the original stories were transmitted in the mid-eighties.
In the mean time, I've returned to some Target book covers. Season eighteen is due out on blu-ray shortly. I won't quote the current date as it may still change again. I did some new covers for the previous season releases so thought I'd do a few more for the next one. I did them quick over a couple of days and I hope you like them. 
There's also the challenge of the lack of pre-broadcast images and information which I actually like. It's like working under the same pressures as some of the artists on the original target covers worked under. (Remember The Five Doctors and Destiny of the Daleks covers?).
I done season twenty of Doctor Who. 
It's only a few months until the nineteenth season of Doctor Who makes its debut on shiny new Blu ray discs. 
I hope you like them. 
(Oh and by the way, I don't have any swapsies of "Woman Pissing Herself".)
