Announcing the Official Doctor Who Hat Collection...

There's a new part work on the market which features a collection of Star Wars helmets (don't laugh!).

The publishers had a choice between that one and this one...

Classic Doctor Who novels re-branding - Season eleven

Season eleven. New title sequence and a new logo... So guess what? I've put a new logo on the book covers. 

It's actually a variant of the logo used on the 1976, 1977 and 1978 Dr Who annuals produced by World Distributors. 

I've also tried to move away from the white backgrounds used on the earlier efforts. 

Classic Doctor Who novels re-branding - Season ten

And hot on the heels of season nine comes season ten... 

Quite pleased with The Three Doctors as I think I've made the Gellguards look half decent...

Classic Doctor Who novels re-branding - Season nine

And following season eight comes season nine oddly enough.

There's actually some Daleks on the cover of 'The Day of the Daleks' for a change. 

And looking through the images available for 'The Curse of Peladon', I can find no decent ones of the Ice Warriors - so I cheated. 

Sorry!

Season eight can be viewed here.

Dr Who Activity Books for Christmas 1974!

Since Doctor Who returned in 2005, there have been a plethora of children's activity books. From the usual colouring books to the more specific 'Regeneration Activity & Sticker Book', there seems to be no end of them.

Back in the 70s, World Distributors came up with a handful of colouring books - particularly later into Tom Baker's run as the Doctor.

With my interest in creating new vintage Target covers for the classic series waning a little, I thought it would be fun to adapt Tom's first season into a series of World Distributors 70s-style activity books. 

In an alternate timeline, these were hastily created for the 1974 Christmas marker and to tie-in with the new Doctor's debut over the festive period. As such, precious little photographic material was available and the compilers of these gems had to use what little was freely available... 

They did try though...

(...despite Terry Nation's agent not playing ball again!)