Time and Relative Dissertations in Space

David Butler is Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester

• Part I: An earthly programme: origins and directions1. How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who - David Butler2. The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who - Jonathan Bignell3. ‘Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?’ History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who - Daniel O’Mahony4. Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s - Matthew Kilburn Part II: The subtext of death: narratives, themes and structures5. The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who - Tat Wood6. The ideology of anachronism: television, history and the nature of time - Alec Charles7. Mythic identity in Doctor Who - David Rafer8. The human factor: Daleks, the ‘evil human’ and Faustian legend in Doctor Who - Fiona Moore and Alan StevensPart III: The seeds of television production: making Doctor Who9. The Filipino army’s advance on Reykjavik: world-building in studio D and its legacy - Ian Potter10. ‘Who done it’: discourses of authorship during the John Nathan-Turner era - Dave Rolinson11. Between prosaic functionalism and sublime experimentation: Doctor Who and musical sound design - Kevin J. Donnelly12. The music of machines: ‘special sound’ as music in Doctor Who - Louis NieburPart IV: The parting of the critics: value judgements and canon formations13. The talons of Robert Holmes - Andy Murray14. Why is ‘City of Death’ the best Doctor Who story? - Alan McKee15. Canonicity matters: defining the Doctor Who canon - Lance Parkin16. Broader and deeper: the lineage and impact of the Timewyrm series - Dale Smith17. Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of ‘tele-centric’ Doctor Who - Matt HillsAfterword: My adventures - Paul Magrs