As I've mentioned before, I am new to Doctor Who. and, naturally, once I was hooked I needed to learn more. I did that by watching the various shows produced for the 50 year celebration, and by reading, reading, reading! Doctor Who: Celebrating Fifty Years: a History, by Alan Kistler is full of many interesting things. The Tardis set, designed to be easy to take down and move about, regeneration to allow an easy change of actors, travels in time and space so a story could be about anything, any time, anywhere ...

I was able to find lots of books (what a fun trail this has been!) so I'll break it into several posts.

Who played Who? (sorry) What did the actors do before and after their tenure as Doctor Who? What was being the Doctor like? Find out all that and more in The Doctors Who's Who: Celebrating Its 50th Year: the Story Behind Every Face of the Iconic Time Lord, by Craig Cabell.

Naturally, the BBC has published many books about Doctor Who. They are filled with wonderful pictures, trivia, entries from cast and crew members, the writers, and so forth. Great fun! In no particular order they are:

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Lives and Times, by James Goss and Steve Tribe. Looking a bit like a scrapbook, there are internal notes and memos, pictures of guest stars and comments from each of the actors who played the Doctor (including John Hurt, but just before Peter Capaldi).

For a glimpse at the regeneration process, there are pictures in Doctor Who: 50: the Essential Guide. No author mentioned until the fine print on page two where I found "written by Justin Richards." Lots of great pictures and short bios on various companions and characters.

There will be more Who books in later posts, but this is a good start. ;-)

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