The 2020 Doctor Who Christmas Special That Wasn't... Again!

There haven't been proper Christmas specials for Doctor Who since 'Twice upon a Time' in 2017. 

Since then, I've taken it upon myself to fill in the gap with my own takes on these festive sci-fi treats. Just a blu-ray cover or two together with a Radio Times cover to whet the appetite. 

Before you ask... Yes, I do have plots for these adventures in mind. 

If any Doctor Who showrunner has run out of Christmassy ideas for future specials, then they should contact me via the Twitter. 

My DMs are usually open. 

Here are the original two specials that I did for 2018 and 2019 - 'Hark the Weeping Angels Sing' (in which the WA's invade Earth using Christmas cards) and 'Daleks of Christmas Past' (in which the Daleks infiltrate a US town in the 1950s and plan to turn the inhabitants into drones under the cover of a mysterious and magical circus that's a bit like the one in 'The Seven Faces of Dr Lao' - Davros might even have been the eponymous Dr. Lao... I hadn't got there far in my head. Bit obvious though. Maybe make the Master the Ring MASTER instead now that we have him back on the show.)

Anyhow, this year's was tweeted out on Christmas Eve as part of a Christmas TV Specials of Old advent calendar. Here are the finished articles in full. You might even be able to read the text on these images...

Links to the previous ones:

The 2018 Christmas Special that wasn't.

The 2019 Christmas Special that wasn't.

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Doctor Who Season Eight Movie Posters...

Following on from my follow on in the previous post, here's some more attempts to scrape the barrel of creativity with the 'Doctor-Who-Movie-Posters' theme. 

Not sure I'll do any more for the time being as the results are getting pretty desperate. 

(There's also a bonus cover from a VERY rare Channel Five VHS release in the late 80s for Colony In Space. TV's Michael Dennis reminded me about it. Thanks Mike! Not alot of people have heard of this curiosity piece... and for good reasons!)

Classic Doctor Who novels re-branding - season eighteen

I have to be honest that I did consider a new branding of the novels to coincide with the new direction that Doctor Who took with its eighteenth season but I felt it would only detract from the continuity of all of the Tom Baker covers I've now done. 

These are the final ones... all 41 stories have now been dissected and Photoshopped into alternate covers. 

Hopefully, I'll start tackling the 80s shortly... but not today. My head hurts and I need a mug of tea and couple of paracetamol! 

Classic Doctor Who novels re-branding - season fourteen

Here's season fourteen... I have to be honest. I've probably upped the gruesome level on some of these and they probably wouldn't have been produced by a kids publishing company like World Distributors but what the heck...

I've also broken one of my own rules and fixed the problem with the giant rat in The Talons of Weng Chiang with a proper one - abeit with a bit of Photoshop trickery... 

Apologies for that.

Some Third Doctor Adventures from the Dawn of Target Books...

I had a few enquiries - well, one - asking if I was going to continue doing my vintage Target book covers into the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who. 

The simple answer to that is "No, I'm not." 

However, I have done a handful following a viewing of the DVD of 'Day of the Daleks' - where the production subtitles offered a tantalising hint of an early version of Louis Marks' script without the Daleks. 

These are three Pertwee stories novelised and utilising early working titles. I'm particularly fond of 'Doctor Who and the Black Hole' - the cover of which completely omits the unique selling points of the televised production...

A Page from The Master Annual 1975

Those days of cleaning up when you empty your sock drawer and find it lined with a decades old page from a newspaper. You stop to read it. Every single sentence and word takes you back to your childhood. The adverts make you smile. The pictures are so badly printed, they are unidentifiable...

This isn't one of those days but I'll pretend it is.

Look what I found...