I've gone back in time for this little selection. The most recent series of Doctor Who saw me keep to the style of the later nineties Target reprints for my designs. You'll find them earlier in the blog.
These are more traditional in the style of the original few that were published in the mid seventies.
I'm actually quite pleased with these. I may go back and do the rest of the series at some point.
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I make no excuse that one of my favourite ancient Doctor Who serials is the epic 'The Daleks Master Plan'. The soundtrack is being released on vinyl shortly - yes, all thirteen episodes of it (including the 'Mission to the Unknown' prologue episode). The cover is lovely. Don't get me wrong. Very stylish and atmospheric.
I've done a few alternative versions of my own - including one that harkens back to the 1979 LP of 'Genesis of the Daleks'.
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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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Here's a couple of full covers for cult TV stuff not yet released on DVD for various reasons...
Counterstrike was a short-lived science fiction thriller series produced in the late sixties by the BBC. It starred Jon Finch as Simon King - a man from another galaxy who attempted to thwart an invasion of Earth by his own people. Only four episodes (the first four) exist. One episode of the original run was never shown and is amongst the missing ones.
The first series of ITV's Freewheelers does exist in its entirety but is very poor quality. Only the sixth series has been released officially. It's also been rerun on Talking Pictures TV. The later colour series - although available in fan circles - only exist as VHS dupes.
If you have any suggestions for other rarieties that 'need' liberating with DVD covers (whether the episodes exist or not), let me know on the Twitter feed.
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I see they are releasing two classic Doctor Who soundtracks on vinyl for Record Store Day this year. Well, they seem to do something like this every year now. The covers for Galaxy Four and Destiny of the Daleks are online now and look very nice and artistic... if a little bit TOO modern for my tastes. Naturally I like harkening back to the past and that rebellious, pseudo-punk cover that was produced to accompany the original release of Genesis of the Daleks by BBC Records back in 1979.
Here's two designs what I have done that keep to the style of that original design classic...
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I've done a few alternative versions of my own - including one that harkens back to the 1979 LP of 'Genesis of the Daleks'. 
They are done in the style of Target books from around the period that the original stories were transmitted in the mid-eighties.
Counterstrike was a short-lived science fiction thriller series produced in the late sixties by the BBC. It starred Jon Finch as Simon King - a man from another galaxy who attempted to thwart an invasion of Earth by his own people. Only four episodes (the first four) exist. One episode of the original run was never shown and is amongst the missing ones. 
