Doctor Who Annual 1983

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Text Stories: Danger Down Below, The God Machine, The Armageddon Chrysalis, The Haven, The Penalty, Night Flight to Nowhere Comic Strip: On the Planet Isopterus Behind the Scenes: The Visual Effects Department (interview with BBC Visual Effects designer Simon Macdonald), Enter Peter Davison as Doctor Who (Colin Lavers' design for the Fifth Doctor's costume), The Producer (a profile of John Nathan-Turner's role), Set Design and Costume (interview with Janet Budden and Odile Dicks-Mireaux about working on Castrovalva) Notes: The year '1983' does not appear anywhere in the book. This was the first full-length Davison annual, and featured the comic strip On the Planet Isoterus, which was the last of its kind to appear in the annuals. Glenn Rix was again the main artist, but got to illustrate the comic strip as well this time. Although 14 pages were taken up with features, almost half of these were articles about the series itself. Titled Behind the Scenes at Doctor Who these items delved into such aspects as set and costume design, often very well illustrated with photos and drawings by the designers themselves. Articles of this nature appeared in all of the last four annuals. The companions were Tegan and Nyssa. Adric only appeared only in the strip story, which suggests that the strip was created before the rest of the annual's contents. The Master appeared in Night Flight to Nowhere, which shares some plot similarities with Time-Flight. This annual was printed in Belgium. Around 46,000 copies were sold.