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The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also investigate the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and how they lead to the the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. We'll also discover amazing fan films leading up to the revival, some of them starring actual Doctors like Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, and the blazing new wave of productions including Trident, Fire and Ice, How to Stop a Time Lord, and series like DW2012 and Velocity. If you're a casual fan of Doctor Who, these books will blow your mind, and if you're a hard core fan, you'll love this cosmic tour de force and maybe even discover a few new things.
Titles in the series (3)
- A Pirate's History of Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #1
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Welcome to the first (but not the last) Pirate's History of Doctor Who. What's a Pirate's History, you ask? Well, there's the official, sanitized, orderly histories that are approved by and all about the powers that be. Then there are the Pirate's histories, the things that they don't want you to know about, or that they don't care about, things that are great and marvellous and intriguing... but unapproved. It's a history of secret and forgotten corners of the Whoniverse. Thrill to the story of the first Woman Doctor, Barbara Benedetti, whose four adventures during the end of the Colin Baker era and the start of the McCoy reign, rivalled the official BBC in quality, and launched an entire series of women Doctors, Sharon Horton, Lily Daniels, Krystal Moore, thirty years before Jody Whittaker. Or how about BBC's attempt to kill Doctor Who in 1984, the fan campaign that saved the show, the hiatus, and the slow secret war the BBC waged to end one of its most popular shows. There's the tragic tale of the decline and fall of John Nathan-Turner. There's a history that includes a fan group's attempt to create a feature length Doctor Who movie with Super 8 cameras in the 70s, and a whole lost generation of fans and films. Here's the story of the explosion of Doctor Who in the 80s, the emergence of fan culture, and the rise of fan films, beginning with the woman Doctor. As Doctor Who was driven into oblivion by the BBC, it was fans who stepped up, creating their own stories, building their own adventures, creating Daleks and Cybermen, producing parodies, and even re-creating the show that the BBC had abandoned with astonishingly professional productions. Here are the tales of stories and adventures aspiring to, and sometimes rivalling the classic series, Wrath of Eukor, Visions of Utomu, Ocean in the Sky, Regenesis, Phase Four, Spectre from the Past, the Experiment, the Chronotron Effect, Resurrection of Evil, Time and Again and others. Subsequent volumes will explore Doctor Who's history of stage plays; the recreation and resurrection by fans of Lost stories in every way, from pioneers audio-recording the entire series, to fan artists and animators re-creating the episodes, to the astonishing diversity and imagination of fan art. Witness the creation of audio Who universes, or the stories of fans who figured out how to make legal films and videos in the Doctor Who universe, whether the BBC approved. We'll bring you adventures and epics you've never heard of and never dreamed of, open new worlds in time and space, show how the fans creativity and accomplishments, often against the BBC's wishes, opened up creative possibilities for the show. And how people driven by nothing more than sheer love, were inspired to create amazing and wonderful works. You may think you know Doctor Who, but these are books unlike any other, and we'll show you places in the Whoniverse that you never dreamed of.
- Another Pirate's History of Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #2
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Welcome to the hidden histories of Doctor Who, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden. This second volume chronicles the record of Doctor Who stage plays, official and independent, from Curse of the Daleks to the Trials of Davros, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about these plays. It explores the bizarre copyright and legal structure underlying Doctor Who, that lead the BBC to discard two hundred classic episodes to the junk pile in the 70s, and that allowed fans to legally make their own movies in the Doctor Who universe in the 90s using everything but the Doctor himself. And we'll look at many of these productions, from Colin Baker's 'The Stranger' series, to Downtime with the Brigadier, Sarah Jane, Victoria Waterfield (witht the original actors playing their original roles), as well as the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, to excursions with Sontarans and Rutans, Autons, Daemons and more. We'll see how, despite the BBC's efforts, the fans managed to save every lost episode on Audio, were essential to the recover of over a hundred lost episodes on video, and the efforts to remake, reconstruct, and re-make lost adventures, including ones the BBC never actually filmed. Chock full of reviews and articles, the Pirate Histories pull back the curtains and show you the places and things in the world of Doctor Who that you never imagined.
- The Last Pirate's History of Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #3
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The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also investigate the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and how they lead to the the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. We'll also discover amazing fan films leading up to the revival, some of them starring actual Doctors like Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, and the blazing new wave of productions including Trident, Fire and Ice, How to Stop a Time Lord, and series like DW2012 and Velocity. If you're a casual fan of Doctor Who, these books will blow your mind, and if you're a hard core fan, you'll love this cosmic tour de force and maybe even discover a few new things.
D.G. Valdron
D.G. Valdron is a shy and reclusive Canadian writer, rumoured to live in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Like other shy woodland creatures, deer, bunnies, grizzly bears, he is probably more afraid of you, than you are of him. Probably. A longtime nerd, he loves exploring interesting and obscure corners of pop culture. He has a number of short stories and essays published and online. His previous book is a fantasy/murder mystery novel called The Mermaid's Tale.
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