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Through Time: An Unofficial and Unauthorised History of Doctor Who (Dr Who) (Hardcover)

by Andrew Cartmel (Author)

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Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (15 Dec 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0826417345
ISBN-13: 978-0826417343
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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The cult classic, now revitalised to rave reviews, gets the history it deserves by an insider. The quirky British television series "Doctor Who" is a classic both of science fiction and television drama. First broadcast in 1963, it has remained an influential TV presence ever since, with an eagerly anticipated new series airing in 2005. As a vehicle for satire, social commentary, or sheer fantasy adventure, "Doctor Who" is unparalleled. It was a show created for children, but it was immediately usurped by adults. Arriving at a time of upheaval in the popular arts in Britain, "Doctor Who" was born into a television tradition influenced by the TV plays of Dennis Potter, the cult television drama "The Prisoner", the James Bond films and Stanley Kubrick's science fiction triptych - "Dr Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange".A British fantasy adventure that has unfolded across television screens over decades in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Conan Doyle and HG Wells, the strength of "Doctor Who" has always been its writers and the ideas they nurtured. In this new history of the show, Andrew Cartmel (who was the script editor on "Doctor Who" from 1987 to 1990) looks into its social and cultural impact - providing a fascinating read for committed and casual fans alike.

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Andrew Cartmel is a writer who lives in London. He was the script editor on Doctor Who from 1987 to 1990, and is also the author of the War Trilogy of spin-off novels from the show.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting until it becomes almost blindly self-congratulatory, 16 April 2006

By	M. J. Jacobs "michael jacobs" (Edgware, London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This starts out as a fascinating analysis of what was good and what was bad in the scripts and production of the series, seen from the point of view of a script editor in the final years of classic Who (the McCoy years). Rather than being a fan appreciation, Cartmel gives a technical insight into what makes a good story, and why good stories can be wrecked by bad props or casting the wrong actor (e.g. Davidson as Who). He also suggests where even fan favourites are weak because of factors which fans might choose to ignore. I mostly agreed with his conclusions from the Hartnell years right up to the point where he became the script editor himself, and then it was time to be self-critical.

Sadly, Cartmel lacked the ability to recognise flaws his own era, and praises stories which all my friends regard as complete turkeys (complete with stuffing and roast potatoes...). He isn't completely blind to faults in Curse of Fenric, but praises Rememberance of the Daleks for all the things which he criticises in earlier stories.

This is a very good book for the parts of Whostory which Cartmel isn't personally responsible - it's always easier to criticise somebody else's failings - but he is not a reliable judge of his own. So read the first chapters, and don't bother with the last ones, and you'll find this a fascinating read. I finished it in a day, and it is arranged in bite-sized chunks to make this easy, but leave it to others to do unto his work as he did unto others.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Just awful, 25 April 2006

By	D. J. Forbes "Speaker to Animals" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's hard to know where to begin with this, possible the worst book about 'Doctor Who' ever written.

What kind of 'History of Doctor Who' has no mention of 'Genesis of the Daleks' whatsoever and a single fleeting reference to 'The Deadly Assassin' - but wastes page after page on the tedious writings of the late Eighties - the stories coincidentally script edited by the writer of this book?

Most risible are the sections praising the 'radicalism' of Ben Aaronovitch, writer of 'Remembrance of the Daleks' and 'Battlefield'.

Cartmel makes him out to be some kind of Che Guavara figure with ambitions to bring down the Thatcher government through his work on 'Doctor Who' - no, really!

Oddly his actual scripts turned out to be little more than a series of continuity references punctuated by some neet explosions. A decade and a half on reveals him and Cartmell to be neocons just much as Aaronovitch's brother David - and their rewriting of the Doctor as a time-travelling vigilante waging pre-emptive war against enemies he has supplied with weapons of mass destruction ('Remembrance of the Daleks' and 'Silver Nemesis', for instance, or fifty odd 'New Adventures') now seem deeply suspect.

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