I was particularly thrilled to get all the surviving UNIT family on board for the annual, and I’ve been knocked out by the enthusiasm and talent of the contributors. Mark Worgan says: “It’s been hard work for everybody but I’m beyond delighted to be bringing this out, especially as 2019 is the centenary year of Jon Pertwee’s birth. The official annual for 1971 offered 96 pages, while the 1973 annual had 80 pages, but this one comes in at a whopping 184 pages! The project was launched in September 2017, with people working on it in their spare time for free, and the hardback annual is packed with stories, puzzles, features and TERRAQUEOUS DISTRIBUTORS more, emulating and evoking the style, tone and quirkiness of the 1970s annuals, which were allowed a freer rein as regards their relationship to the programme than those later in the run.” They and the large number of Doctor Who fan writers and artists have been joined by visual effects wizard, model unit supervisor and author Mike Tucker plus renowned artist Alister Pearson and Wayne Howarth – the son of Walter Howarth, who was the main illustrator on some of the original annuals. A whole host of star names from the show signed up for the project, including Katy Manning, who played companion Jo Grant, John Levene (Sgt Benton) and Richard Franklin (Capt Mike Yates) – the surviving members of what became affectionately known as “the UNIT family”. The Unofficial Doctor Who Annual 1972 is now available at last and the Press Release explains that the book “ transports readers TARDIS-like back to the very early 1970s when Jon Pertwee had just finished his second series in the title role and the show was mostly Earth-bound, with the Doctor assisting the military organisation UNIT as its scientific adviser. Mark was determined to create a book which would, as far as possible, emulate the style of the original annuals and he has curated a massive 184-page volume full of thrilling text stories, exciting comic strips, features and puzzles. In STARBURST Magazine issue 456 we spoke to Mark Worgan, Editor of an ambitious upcoming publication entitled The Unofficial Doctor Who Annual 1972, designed to fill in the aggravating gap in Doctor Who fans’ collections of the classic World Distributors Annuals which were published between 19 but with no annual published for 1972.
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