TECHNICAL BREAKDOWN

ADVENTURES IN SPACE

For many years the Radio Times habitually described

THE BRITISH INVASION OF SPACE

For a nation that didn’t even compete in the original Space Race, the United Kingdom has played a surprisingly prominent role in mankind’s conquest of the stars. At least it has in the fictional universe of Doctor Who…

THE SENSORITES

THE DOCTOR IS CONCERNED: THE TARDIS HAS landed but

SAUCER MEN

One of Doctor Who’s award-winning visual effects designers traces the intriguing story of the flying saucer from the 1966 film Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Who made this impressive model, and where did it go?

THE DALEK’S MASTER PLAN

IN THE PLANET KEMBEL IN THE YEAR 4000, THE Daleks have

SPACE SHOTS

Douglas Camfield had only recently embarked on his illustrious Doctor Who career when he directed The Daleks’ Master Plan from 1965 to 1966. This epic adventure would stretch his ingenuity, and his patience, to the limit…

THE SPACE PIRATES

SPACE PIRATES LED BY MAURICE CAVEN ARE raiding beacons

FUTURE TRENDS

Designer Nicholas Bullen regards his way-out costumes for The Space Pirates as a highlight of his sometimes difficult career at the BBC.

THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH

MORE THAN SEVEN MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE Mars Probe

MISSION TO MOSCOW

In July 1969, while writing The Ambassadors of Death, David Whitaker was caught up in a real-life plot almost as extraordinary as the Doctor’s voyage to Mars…

FRONTIER IN SPACE

THE YEAR IS 2540. TENSIONS ARE ONCE AGAIN rising between

JOURNEYS INTO SPACE

The traditional science-fiction style of Frontier in Space makes this 1973 story something of a rarity in the Doctor Who canon. So why has the series presented so few space operas?

THE ARK IN SPACE

HAVING INADVERTENTLY GIVEN THE HELMIC regulator quite

Space ADVENTURES

Highlights of the many Doctor Who comic-strip stories that have explored space, freed from the restrictions of the television series’ budget.

UNDERWORLD

WHEN THE TIME LORDS WERE NEW TO space-time exploration

THE FABULOUS BAKER BOY

Influenced by Dan Dare and Stanley Kubrick, writer Bob Baker spent much of the 1970s sending Doctor Who into space.

NIGHTMARE OF EDEN

IN 2116, THE INTERSTELLAR CRUISE LINER EMPRESS IS chartered

STAR MAN

BBC graphic designer Sid Sutton took viewers on a journey through space when he created a new set of opening and closing titles for Doctor Who in 1980.

ENLIGHTENMENT

APPEARING INSIDE THE TARDIS, THE WHITE Guardian delivers

MOBY DOC

The Song of the Space Whale is one of the best-known ‘lost stories’ from 1970s and 80s Doctor Who. As writer Pat Mills recalls, it took 30 years for his ambitious ideas to be realised…

THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD

BY THE THIRTIETH CENTURY, HUMANITY HAS SPREAD across

STATION MASTERS

The season-long story The Trial of a Time Lord began with a stunning shot of a vast space station. More than 30 years later, this still ranks among the best visual effects sequences ever seen in Doctor Who.

THE END OF THE WORLD

IN AN EFFORT TO IMPRESS HIS NEW COMPANION, THE Doctor

SPACE ON THE SHELF

The official novels and novelisations based on Doctor Who have often been braver and more ambitious than the television series in their depictions of space travel.

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WITH A MINIMAL CREW MAINTAINING ITS automated systems

THE IMPOSSIBLE SUIT

How did costume designer Louise Page ensure that the Tenth Doctor’s first trip to an alien world would look convincing?

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

WITH ITS DEFENCES DOWN, THE TARDIS COLLIDES with a

THE ART IN SPACE

The work of Doctor Who’s concept artists reveals much of the detailed planning that goes into the series’ spacebound episodes.

THE BEAST BELOW

IN THE TWENTY-NINTH CENTURY EARTH IS ROASTED BY solar

BREATHING SPACE

In his script for the 2017 episode Oxygen, writer Jamie Mathieson depicted a dangerous and terrifying environment that had terrible consequences for the Doctor…

OXYGEN

ORED WITH HIS LARGELY SEDENTARY ACADEMIC life, the

GROUND CONTROL

In Oxygen, director Charles Palmer orchestrated a nerve-racking adventure quite unlike anything that had previously been seen in Doctor Who.

FiGHTiNG THE SUiTS

Oxygen presents a bleak future vision of capitalism in space. Hayley Nebauer, costume designer on the 2017 series of Doctor Who, explains how she dressed to kill…

DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

The TARDIS travels through time and space, but only one of those domains was considered a worthy subject for articles in the Doctor Who Annual.