Table of Contents

Part I: An earthly programme: origins and directions
1. How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who - David Butler
2. The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who - Jonathan Bignell
3. ‘Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?’ History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who - Daniel O’Mahony
4. Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s - Matthew Kilburn
Part II: The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures
5. The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who - Tat Wood
6. The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time - Alec Charles
7. Mythic identity in Doctor Who - David Rafer
8. The human factor: Daleks, the ‘evil human’ and Faustian legend in Doctor Who - Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens
Part III: The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who
9. The Filipino army’s advance on Reykjavik: world-building in studio D and its legacy - Ian Potter
10. ‘Who done it’: discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era - Dave Rolinson
11. Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who and musical sound design - Kevin J. Donnelly
12. The music of machines: ‘special sound’ as music in Doctor Who - Louis Niebur
Part IV: The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations
13. The talons of Robert Holmes - Andy Murray
14. Why is ‘City of Death’ the best Doctor Who story? - Alan McKee
15. Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon - Lance Parkin
16. Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series - Dale Smith
17. Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of ‘tele-centric’ Doctor Who - Matt Hills
Afterword: My adventures - Paul Magrs

About the Author

David Butler is Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester

Reviews

"Adds to existing scholarship on "Doctor Who" in important ways the book brings together the work of an impressive range of writers that collectively present an engaging, thought-provoking and complex analysis of the texts of "Doctor Who.""--Cathy Johnson, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London."