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Howe's Who: Collectors' Corner
The Doctor Who Annual Manufacturer: World Distributors Year: 1965 until 1985 with the exception of 1971 (copyright dates, not cover dates) Original Price: 9/6d (approx 45 pence) to �3.25 For many years the Doctor Who annual, with its classic blend of text stories, incomprehensible artwork stories and totally unrelated...
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Howeswho: Collectors' Corner
Doctor Who and the Daleks Cuttamastic Manufacturer: Bell Toys Ltd Year: 1965 Original Price: 29/11d (approx �1.50) (large set), unknown (small set) Taking a leaf out of the BBC Scenic Design Handbook, this incredible toy involved cutting shapes out of sheets of white expanded polystyrene using a battery-heated...
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Dalek Construction Kit Manufacturer: Sevans Models Year: 1984 Original Price: �11.95 When I opened my Construction Kit I was confronted not so much with a disassembled Dalek, more of a pile of assorted bits of plastic, mesh, paper and wire. With perseverance and a degree in mechanical engineering it was possible...
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Howeswho: Collector's Corner
Doctor Who Data Printer Manufacturer: Dymo Year: 1978 Original Price: 91 pence Why is it that everyone goes through a phase of labelling everything they own with a Dymo? Those self adhesive strips onto which you can emboss your name, your address or indeed any message of your choosing seem to have been around...
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TARDIS Easter Egg Manufacturer: Suchards Year: 1982 Original Price: unknown Not many people know that there was a TARDIS Easter Egg produced. This is mainly due to the fundamental design flaw that meant that, by careful positioning of the cardboard cut-out Peter Davsion, he would appear to have a large flash of...
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Howeswho: Collectors' Corner
Super 8mm Films Manufacturer: Walton Sound and Film Services Ltd Year: 1977 Original Price: Full film: �133.00 (8 reels), �16.00 (1 reel) 2 Reels, Abridged film, Colour/Sound: �16.00 each reel 2 Reels, Abridged film, Black & White/Silent: �6.00 each reel Note: The prices relate to both films, Doctor Who and the...
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Anti-Dalek Fluid Neutraliser Manufacturer: Lincoln International Year: 1965 Original Price: 3/11d (approx 20 pence) When approached by big boys in the school playground, the hapless Who fan could whip his trusty Fluid Neutraliser from his satchel and let fly with a powerful liquid ray that would instantly render...
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Doctor Who Underpants Manufacturer: British Home Stores Year: 1981 Original Price: 85 pence The pride of every fan's wardrobe. The underpants with the image of the Doctor emblazoned on the crotch were guaranteed to impress the girls at parties. They could also be worn on the head at conventions, and even used...
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Dalek Rolykins Manufacturer: Louis Marx Year: 1965 Original Price: 1/- (5 pence) each There was a time when Dalek Rolykins could be bought in almost any high street store. Now they are harder to find. I had a Rolykin (in fact I still do have it) that I had found in a jumble sale when I was about 4 years old. It...
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Doctor Who Tiles Manufacturer: Pictiles Ltd Year: 1983 (Illustration dates from much earlier 1975 - 1979 Original Price: �15.00 (set of 9 tiles) Judging by the merchandisers, everyone goes through a phase of wanting one's hero staring down at you from either wallpaper, bedspreads or clothing. The problem with...
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Howeswho: Collectors' Corner
Weetabix stand-up Figures Manufacturer: Weetabix Ltd Year: 1975 Original Price: 4 figures given free with each box of Weetabix. 24 figures in set. There was a time, back in 1974, when I proved that man can live on small oblongs of dried, compressed wheat alone. I had to - I had run out of money buying them and...
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Howeswho: Collectors' Corner
Collectors' Corner A great many items of Doctor Who merchandise have been produced over the years. Some of them have been great ... and some have been less than great. Collectors' Corner is the antidote to anyone who takes this stuff too seriously ... Return to Howeswho
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Howeswho: CV
Bibliography and Credits Here's a hopefully complete list of all the books and other bits and pieces that I've been involved with over the years. BIOGRAPHY David J Howe has been involved with Doctor Who research and writing for over thirty years. He has been consultant to a large number of publishers and manufacturers...
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Howeswho: Favourite Stories
My Favourite Things Over the years I have written extensively about the history of Doctor Who. I've delved into each era of the show with a methodical precision in order to eke out the facts and details which readers hopefully find as fascinating as I do. One thing I've never done, however, is to try and come...
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Howeswho: Articles
Sadness I'm sitting writing this column on the evening of Saturday 6th September 1997, the day of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. It has been an awful week, starting, of course, with the shocking news of the Princess' death last Sunday morning. Since then, the newspapers and television stations have featured...
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Howeswho: Articles
Autons and Signings October and November 1997 are good months if you are a Doctor Who fan, but less so if you don't have a bottomless budget. There are so many new items on sale that one could be forgiven for thinking that the subject matter is in some way popular. First, there are the books. Of course you have...
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The Nine Lives of Gallifrey One Having just experienced my first American Doctor Who convention with the lovely people at The Nine Lives of Gallifrey One, I thought that a) it was about time to add another Howe's Who to the site and b) that rather than writing about it, I'd present a handful of photos from the...
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Howeswho: Articles
Tiredness Feeling very guilty because I've been somewhat lax about putting up new material here, I thought I'd better get round to another column as well as updating some bits and pieces across the site. It is hard to keep this sort of column going, not least when you are also trying to write two books, as well...
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Howeswho: Articles
Making Movies There are not many things that can tempt one out of bed at five thirty am, but the opportunity of helping out on a new Doctor Who spin off is one of them. I'm talking about MindGame, a new drama coming from Reeltime Pictures this autumn. My involvement came about when Keith Barnfather, Reeltime's...
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35 Years I've got a stinking cold as I sit here writing this. I mention this fact only because I've had it for the last three weeks or so and it's really starting to get me down. Trying to exist with a bunged up head, sniffly nose and dangerous-sounding cough is bad enough, but when one is right in the middle...
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Howeswho: Articles
Sequelitis The Date: Monday 1 February 1999. The Place: Reeltime Pictures' central London studios. The Time: From 7.30 am. Five or so months on from the recording of MindGame, Reeltime Pictures' drama starring Sophie Aldred, Miles Richardson and Toby Aspin, we're at it all over again. MindGame was so well received...
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Howeswho: Articles
Why No More? Back in Column 6 I talked about why the BBC won't make Doctor Who any more and worked out some figures based on profits from merchandise. Here's a slightly updated look at the same subject ... To take an example: the Doctor Who novels. With the BBC taking over the publishing of the novels from Virgin,...
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Howeswho: Articles
The Curse? I've just finished watching the first new Doctor Who to be produced by the BBC since Dimensions in Time back in 1993. The Curse of the Fatal Death was, like the 1993 project, made for charity - the BBC's Comic Relief fund - and was shown in four 'episodes' over the course of the fund-raising evening....
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Arrival and Departure 'So what did you think?' This has been the question on everyone's lips ever since the release on video and transmission on television of the new Doctor Who film starring Paul McGann as everyone's favourite time traveller. I was lucky enough to attend the UK premiere at the BAFTA centre in...
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Howeswho: Articles
Collecting Collecting can be very rewarding, but it can also be incredibly frustrating. Over the years I have collected numerous things on a sporadic basis. I still have in a drawer somewhere a collection of free fliers and catalogues picked up in shops while on holiday in the West Country. For reasons I cannot...
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Howeswho: Articles
Collecting #2 I have now been able, through some very kind people (hi, Robin, Karen and, especially, Mark) to actually complete a set of the collectible cards. This was not easy and I was very lucky to find someone selling copies of the ultra-rare Fourth Doctor and Davros cards (they only had one of each, though!)....
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The Green Death This October, after a long wait, BBC Video releases another Doctor Who adventure in the form of the Jon Pertwee story The Green Death. I well remember seeing this at the time it was originally transmitted - 19 May 1973 until 23 June - and being quite taken with the story. The plot of this very...
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BBC Launch I was talking in issue 3 of Infinity about the fact that Virgin Publishing are losing the license to produce Doctor Who fiction in June 1997. From that time, the books will be published by BBC Consumer Publishing and they have just announced the initial details of the range. There will be two series...
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Howeswho: Articles
... and the winner is Here's a question for all you budding TV buffs: which of the following television shows represents the very best of BBC popular drama over the last sixty years: All Creatures Great and Small Ballykissangel Bergerac Casualty Colditz Doctor Who EastEnders The Onedin Line When the Boat Comes...
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Howeswho: Articles
Reading and Watching I've been doing a fair amount of Doctor Who reading of late. There's nothing too unusual in that as, while researching the writing of my factual books, one tends to read through all manner of obscure and arcane tomes ranging from bound copies of 1960s Radio Times to copies of fanzines published...
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Listen Without Prejudice It's the start of July, 1997. Over a year has passed since the first, and so far only, UK transmission of the BBC/Universal Doctor Who television movie. And what has happened ...? Well, Doctor Who was voted by the general public to be the best BBC Drama series of the last fifty years and...
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Holiday Tales Looking at all the TV-tie-in merchandise that is currently being produced, Doctor Who sticks out like a sore thumb. It is the only show with new merchandise being produced, and current lines of merchandise continuing that is not actually being made. All the others - mainly X-Files, Babylon 5 and...
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Howeswho: Who's London
Who's London On several occasions I have been asked by people overseas about where a Doctor Who fan can go in central London. I have tried to help where I can, but have always been somewhat amazed that no-one has ever put a tour up on the net. Until now. The following tour can be undertaken easily within a single...
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TimesChampion.indd
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Time's Champion: Ordering
Time's Champion: Ordering Time's Champion is now sold out for online orders. Thanks to everyone who has ordered copies, we have so far raised over �2000 for the British Heart Foundation. A further sum will be sent once all the money from the final edition has been accounted. David J Howe will have some copies...
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Time's Champion: Ordering
Time's Champion: Success Thank you for ordering a copy of Time's Champion. Your transaction has been completed, and a receipt for your purchase has been emailed to you. You may log into your account at www.paypal.com/uk to view details of this transaction. Return to Time's Champion
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Howeswho: Collectors' Corner
Articles Way back in the dim and distant past I wrote a monthly column for Infinity magazine. The column was then continued for a time online. Here are all the pieces ... subjects ranging from movies to books to the Paul McGann TV Movie ... Column 18: The Curse? Column 17: Why No More? Column 16: Sequelitis Column...
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