I Never Report Myself Anywhere; Particularly Not Forthwith

Following on from my earlier post, here's my Third Doctor collection.

VHS

Inferno
The Claws of Axos
The Time Warrior
Death to the Daleks
Planet of Spiders

DVD

Spearheads from Space
Beneath the Surface Box Set (The Silurians / The Sea Devils / Warriors of the Deep)
Inferno
The Claws of Axos
Peladon Tales Box Set (The Curse of Peladon / The Monster of Peladon)
Myths and Legends Box Set (The Time Monster / Underworld / The Horns of Nimon)
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Dalek War Box Set (Frontier in Space / Planet of the Daleks)
The Green Death
The Time Warrior

Audio

BBC Radio Plays

Paradise of Death by Barry Letts
The Ghosts of N-Space by Barry Letts

Big Finish

Find and Replace by Paul Magrs

Novels

Novelisations

Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters by Malcolm Hulke
The Ambassadors of Death by Terrance Dicks
Inferno by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon by Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who and the Deamons by Barry Letts
Doctor Who and the Deamons by Barry Letts / The Time Monster by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon by Brian Hayles
Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke
Dr Who and the Mutants by Terrance Dicks
The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Space War by Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Green Death by Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who and the Time Warrior by Terrance Dicks
The Paradise of Death by Barry Letts
Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion by Malcolm Hulke x 2 copies
Death to the Daleks by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders by Terrance Dicks

Virgin Missing Adventures

Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis
The Scales of Injustice by Gary Russell
Dancing the Code by Paul Leonard
Speed of Flight by Paul Leonard
The Ghosts of N-Space by Barry Letts

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

The Devil Goblins from Neptune by Martin Day & Keith Topping
The Wages of Sin by David A. McIntee
Verdigris by Paul Magrs
Catastrophea by Terrance Dicks
Last of the Gaderene by Mark Gatiss
Amorality Tale by David Bishop

Annuals

Doctor Who Annual 1973

People Spend All Their Time Making Nice Things And Then Other People Come Along And Break Them

Following on from my earlier post, here's my Second Doctor collection.

VHS

The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Troughton Years
Daleks – The Early Years
Downtime

DVD

The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Mind Robber
The Invasion Special Edition
The Seeds of Death
The War Games
Lost in Time Box Set

Audio

The Glorious Revolution by Jonathan Morris

Novels

Novelisations

The Power of the Daleks by John Peel
The Highlanders by Gerry Davies
Doctor Who and the Cybermen by Gerry Davies
The Faceless Ones by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen by Gerry Davies
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowman by Terrance Dicks (+ Docteur Who L'Abominable Homme Des Neiges!)
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles
Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World by Ian Marter
Doctor Who and the Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks
Fury from the Deep by Victor Pemberton
The Dominators by Ian Marter
The Mind Robber by Peter Ling
The Invasion by Ian Marter
The Krotons by Terrance Dicks
The Seeds of Death by Terrance Dicks
The Space Pirates by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the War Games by Malcolm Hulke [H/B]

Virgin Missing Adventures

Invasion of the Cat-People by Gary Russell
Twilight of the Gods by Christopher Bulis
The Dark Path by David A. McIntee
The Menagerie by Martin Day
Downtime by Marc Platt

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

The Roundheads by Mark Gatiss
Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards
World Game by Terrance Dicks
Players by Terrance Dicks

A Meeting on the Common

Following on from my earlier post I said I'd be (for the first time bizarely, given that Who fans have list making hard wired in to their DNA) attempting to catalogue my Doctor Who collection as I went about reorganising my room.

I'll do it as I go along so I'll split it by Doctor. Here therefore is my First Doctor collection.

VHS

The Aztecs
The Hartnell Years
Daleks – The Early Years

DVD

The Beginning Box Set (An Unearthly Child/The Daleks/Edge of Destruction)
The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue / The Romans Box Set
The Web Planet
The Space Museum / The Chase Box Set
The Time Meddler
The War Machines
Lost in Time Box Set

Audio

Talking Books

The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton, read by Stephen Thorne

Big Finish

The Transit of Venus by Jacqueline Raynor

Books

Novelisations [Unless otherwise stated they're all paperbacks]

Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker
Marco Polo by John Lucarotti
Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus by Philip Hinchcliffe
The Aztecs by John Lucarotti
The Sensorites by Nigel Robinson
The Reign of Terror by Ian Marter
Planet of Giants by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth by Terrance Dicks / Doctor Who and the Crusaders by David Whitaker
The Rescue by Ian Marter
Doctor Who and the Zarbi by Bill Strutton x 2 copies
The Chase by John Peel
The Time Meddler by Nigel Robinson
Galaxy Four by William Emms
The Myth Makers by Donald Cotton x 2 copies
The Daleks Master Plan Part 1: Mission to the Unknown by John Peel
The Daleks Master Plan Part 2: The Mutation of Time by John Peel
The Massacre by John Lucarotti
The Ark by Paul Erickson
The Celestial Toymaker by Gerry Davies & Alison Bingeman [H/B]
The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton x 2 copies
The War Machines by Ian Stuart Black
The Smugglers by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet by Gerry Davies

Virgin Missing Adventures

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Christopher Bulis
Venusian Lullaby by Paul Leonard
The Plotters by Gareth Roberts
The Empire of Glass by Andy Lane
The Man in the Velvet Mask by Daniel O’Mahoney

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

The Witch Hunters by Steve Lyons
The Time Travellers by Simon Guerrier
Byzantium! by Keith Topping
Salvation by Steve Lyons
Bunker Soldiers by Martin Day

Misc.

The Masters of Luxor script book by Anthony Coburn

Who Wants Everything? I'll Settle For 90 Percent!

Most Doctor Who fans (as opposed to Doctor Who viewers) probably have some sort of collection of merchandise related to the show. I don't think that's an unfair comment.

The degrees to which one has a collection will of course vary from person to person as will the motivations. Some people like the idea of a collection full stop and will buy any and all merchandise related to the show, take great pains to store and preserve it. Others buy the spin-off merchandise because they hunger for more Who adventures and with Big Finish issuing a new CD seemingly every single day there's certainly an appetite there for it!

Of course building a collection can be expensive. I recently joined eBay ironically because I wanted to thin out my collection (mostly duplicates of things). A month later I've sold nothing and spent over £300 plugging the holes in my Target Novelisation and New/Missing Adventures collections as well as buying up old fanzines that I missed out on first time (See my editorial in TTZ8).

My collection means a lot to me and I fall in to the category of "It's because I love Doctor Who and want more adventures!" My collection is predominantly books because I read with a voracious appetite and have done since I was a child and whilst I do try to not let Who predominate quite it often does. Ok so we're only in February but I've only read two non-Who book (Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, a really great read about a lost WWII U-Boat; and Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Brigg, simply beautiful), the rest is all Doctor Who. For the last few weeks I've been carting around the revised edition of The Writer's Tale which has simultaneously revitalised my desire to pursue a career as a screen writer (Which after all is what I set out to do when I went to uni, I certainly didn't dream of being an accountant, which alas for now I am!) but also reminded me what a dreadful procrastinator I am.

It's true even in this entry, I sat down to write rather than actually tidy up my collection!!

I owned toys when I was a kid and I actually played with them for hours on end so for those who like mint memorabilia they'd dissaprove of my one armed Mel, one legged Tetrap, no tailed K9 and totally emasculated Dalek. Some adults collect the toys now and fair play to then, it's not really my cup of tea but I will confess I do have a Tenth Doctor, a sonic screwdriver and a fob watch which doesn't work (In that it doesn't turn me in to a Time Lord!)

I wish I could pinpoint exactly which was the first Target book that kick started the collection. Technically the 1965 edition of Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker was my Dad's, brought at the time and thus by the time I laid eyes on it in the early 90s already yellow and fragile. I think the first I could call my own was either Doctot Who and the Terror of the Autons or The Faceless Ones given to me as a birthday present from one of my Mum's co-workers but I could be wrong.

Presently I am 12 books away from a complete Target collection (13 if we count Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma!), and 8 away from a complete Virgin NA/MA collection. I'm 5 billion away from a complete Big Finish collection!!!

Ok enough procrastinating. I'm on leave from work for a week and sorting out the Who collection (as well as the rest of my room) was top of my to do list. I may try and catalogue it and take photos along the way so stay tuned.