Cover of About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 4 to 6)

About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 4 to 6)

About Time seriesNext:About Time 6: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 22 to 26, the TV Movie)(2007) →

Constituting the largest reference work on "Doctor Who" ever written, the six-volume "About Time" strives to become the ultimate reference guide to the world's longest-running science fiction program. Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989), detailing how the issues of the day influenced this series. As part of this grand opus, About Time 2 examines "Doctor Who" Seasons 4 to 6 (1966 to 1969) — a massive paradigm shift for the show, as Patrick Troughton takes over the lead role. Among other things, About Time 2 answers such vitally important "Who" questions as "What's the Timeline of the Cybermen?," "Whatever Happened to the USA?" and "Did Sergeant Pepper Know the Doctor?"

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 287 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 4 to 6)? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Seasons 4 to 6). Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Running Through Corridors, Volume 1: The 60s - Rob and Toby's Marathon Watch of Doctor Who Shares nonfiction, doctor who non-fiction, tv
  2. Doctor Who the Handbook: The Second Doctor Shares doctor who non-fiction, who, nonfiction
  3. Doctor Who the Handbook: The Seventh Doctor Shares doctor who non-fiction, who, science fiction
  4. Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide Shares tv, who, doctor

“If you want more of the same (science fiction about doctors), start with these.”

  1. Shattered dreams?
  2. Mayo Clinic cardiology
  3. The Color of Air
  4. Scalpel's Edge, The

“If it was the doctor who non-fiction that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Discontinuity Guide
  2. Doctor Who - Timeframe: The Illustrated History
  3. Doctor Who the Handbook: The Fifth Doctor
  4. Ahistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Islamism: What it Means for the Middle East and the World
  2. Ten keys to Latin America
  3. Vampires and Vampirism
  4. Not in sisterhood