Sep 11
So, one of my good friends is getting married tomorrow and he has even got me to wear a kilt. As some sort of strange wedding present I decided to include these covers I discovered in the depths of a charity shop. They break our rules due to being a franchise but hey, they are still fantastic.
Graeme, I hope you have a fantastic day, and I hope everyone else enjoys these Doctor Who covers. It’s not my favourite doctor *coughs* John Pertwee *coughs* but they are just brilliant!
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September 11th, 2009 at 11:23 am
They’re all pretty amazing… they’re all so… 70′s…
I’ve never been a huge fan of Dr Who, though i think i’ve seen most of the older ones.
The Planet of Evil cover is my favourite, does anyone know if the pointy tooth guys head is really meant to be that huge? Compared to the plants it must be 4-5m tall. The expression on The Doctor is priceless too.
Congrats to Graeme! Good Show Sir!
( Is you wearing the kilt got anything to do with the wedding, or is that an unrelated matter?)
September 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Oh I do love the classic Who!
The new stuff just gives us such great lines as:
Someone on TV: “There’s only one weapon against the master.”
CSA: “God, bet it turns out to be love.”
SI: “hahahahaa. No but surely not that’s just cheesy.”
Someone on TV: “It’s love.”
SI: ……
CSA: ……
And yes, I am an usher!
And doing some sort of reading. Unfortunately just some poem and not my choice, an excerpt of RX for Chaos! 
September 11th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Finally my having watched every Doctor Who episode comes in useful. All of these covers massively misrepresent the episodes in question. The giant head with pointy teeth was not a 5m tall monster, but a human-sized monster with fake teeth and a wig. The other three books all star the Jon Pertwee doctor. The Doomsday Weapon cover bears little relation to the Colony in Space episode it’s based on, the Day of the Daleks was set on Earth and contained no alien planets or spaceships, and the Invasion of the Dinosaurs only contains a few solitary dinosaurs rather than the hordes shown on the cover, and in the TV show were the most fake looking dinosaurs ever recorded.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Good job Chris! I knew there was someithing wrond with the 5m tall dude.
I remember watching the Day of the Daleks series with my dad when i was really young. I vaguely remember being scared by them.
SI: that was one of my proudest TV predictions, made better by the fact i was only half serious.
In some ways some of the really bad 70′s covers you could get away with having now. The whole “retro” look etc. I think maybe 1/3 people who saw you reading that on a train might even think its cool.
Surely in the Dr Who case they are selling the books based on the success of the TV series… so why didnt they just use a still picture from the series on the cover? seems strange
September 11th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I do appologise Chris! I didn’t realise the other ones were the Pertwee! I guess I just assumed they were all Baker.
Come to think of it… I do have a strange memory of that terrible dinosaurs. I’m not old enough to remember when they were first on TV but they used to show all the old ones on BBC2 at dinner time. But I still knew terrible effects when I saw them!
Do I dare start a Who conversation? Chris, favourite episode + Doctor etc?
September 11th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I have to say I’m not a Docter Who person but the Doomsday Weapon is my fav. Love the crazy heads within crazyheads with random naked man.
What more could a girl want!?
PS. good luck with the poetry reading and the kilt!
September 13th, 2009 at 2:56 am
My favourite Doctor: Tom Baker
My favourite stories: City of Death, Human Nature
September 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
What the hell is that Day of the Daleks cover about? There was no spaceship or huge firey planet in that story, just three Daleks wobbling along a canal towpath with the operators’ feet showing. I am guessing the gorrilla is supposed to be an Ogron but even that doesn’t even look like one.
Reminds me of those old 1930s and 40s serials such as Batman and Flash Gordon where the posters were big, bold and busy and promised much more action than they actually delivered.
September 18th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Welcome to the site, Jon, a pleasure to have you here!
Your comments are putting me in danger of kicking off the weekend with a rendition of the original 1960′s Batman movie in full shark-punching glory…
September 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
thanks Justin, followed a link here from twitter – had a lot of fun checking out these great covers!
And the original Batman movie is a great way to start the weekend!
Jon
September 19th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Well, I guess they had to get people to spend £2 somehow
Orginal batman movie? Is that the one where they turn all the world leaders into dust? Doesn’t it also have batman punching a shark! I wish I’d started my weekend with that!!!!