About Time 4.1: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who Expanded 2nd Edition 1975-1977 Seasons 12 to 14

by Tat Wood, Lars Pearson (Editor)

In About Time , the whole of Doctor Who is examined through the lens of the real-world social and political changes as well as ongoing developments in television production that influenced the series in ways big and small over the course of a generation. Armed with these guidebooks, readers will be able to cast their minds back to 1975, 1982, 2005, and other years to best appreciate the series' content and character. The Second Edition of About Time 4 greatly expands upon the commentary and essays offered on Doctor Who Seasons 12 to 14: some of the most beloved material ever, starring the iconic Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor. Essays in this volume “Has the Time War Started?”, “What were the Cybermen's Daftest 'Only' Weaknesses?”, and “Mary What was Her Problem?”

400 pages, Paperback

Published May 16, 2023

About the author

Tat Wood is co-writer (with Lawrence Miles) of the About Time episode guides to the television series Doctor Who. This book series, begun in 2004, emphasises the importance of understanding the series in the context of British politics, culture and science. Volume Six is entirely Wood's work.

Wood has also written for Doctor Who Magazine. In a 1993 edition of "Dreamwatch", he wrote a piece entitled "Hai! Anxiety", in which the Jon Pertwee era of the series was — unusually for the time — held up to sustained criticism.

In addition to this he has written features for various magazines, on subjects as diverse as Crop Circles, Art Fraud, the problems of adapting Children's novels for television and the Piltdown Hoax.

He is also active in Doctor Who fandom, notably as editor of the fanzines Spectrox and Yak Butter Sandwich and Spaceball Ricochet, which mixes academic observations with irreverent humour and visual bricolage. Some of his fan writing was included in the anthology Licence Denied, published in 1997.

For most of 2005 he was the public relations face of the Bangladeshi Women's Society, a charity based in Leyton, East London, and managed to keep his work running a supplementary school separate from his writing.

Reviews

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first of two volumes that massively expands the original "About Time 4"...and I have to say, Tat Wood holds back most of his dislike for anything not 80s/new series/American, taking that old-man-shouts-at-cloud energy and deploying it on deeper analysis and detail across the first 3 years of Tom Baker's run as the 4th Doctor. I have no complaints so far...excellent work.

[Arthur B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent, but sometimes more is less; the expanded entries are significantly more cumbersome and some of the essay topics border on the irrelevant. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...