DWLit Presents: Jason's Improbable Library
10/20/24 • 55 min
This week Doctor Who Literature takes a week off from the Target novelizations to explore the rest of Jason's childhood bookshelves. I started reading the Target Doctor Who titles when I was 11, but I started reading just before turning 5. That's a lot of reading long before I found Terrance Dicks.
So let's take an hour and walk through what Jason loved before Doctor Who. We'll discuss the Dutch-language children's fiction of Dick Bruna; the magic of Little Golden Books; the Big Three comics lines of the 1970s: Marvel, DC, and Gold Key/Whitman; baseball annuals aimed at children; and, of course, the Hardy Boys, the Choose Your Own Adventures, and the pictorial novelizations of Peanuts TV specials.
We hope you'll join for this week as we walk not just through Jason's childhood bookshelves, but also, really, his brain.
EDIT: I found that version of "The King" on YouTube. It's amazing.
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This week Doctor Who Literature takes a week off from the Target novelizations to explore the rest of Jason's childhood bookshelves. I started reading the Target Doctor Who titles when I was 11, but I started reading just before turning 5. That's a lot of reading long before I found Terrance Dicks.
So let's take an hour and walk through what Jason loved before Doctor Who. We'll discuss the Dutch-language children's fiction of Dick Bruna; the magic of Little Golden Books; the Big Three comics lines of the 1970s: Marvel, DC, and Gold Key/Whitman; baseball annuals aimed at children; and, of course, the Hardy Boys, the Choose Your Own Adventures, and the pictorial novelizations of Peanuts TV specials.
We hope you'll join for this week as we walk not just through Jason's childhood bookshelves, but also, really, his brain.
EDIT: I found that version of "The King" on YouTube. It's amazing.
If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!
Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.
Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.
Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.
Please e-mail the pod at [email protected].
You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.
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Episode 129 - The Underwater Menace (with Nigel Robinson)
This week we extend a warm Doctor Who Literature to author Nigel Robinson, who penned this week's Doctor Who novelization, an adaptation of the infamous -- but also wonderful -- 1967 Patrick Troughton adventure, The Underwater Menace. Nigel also walks us through the rest of his prolific career as a writer and editor, as we cover almost 60 years of fandom in just under 60 minutes.
Thanks so much to Nigel Robinson for his time in the recording of this episode.
This week's opening number was recorded by Jim Sangster.
You can also hear Jason, Si, and Frazer on Trap One discussing the animated release of Underwater Menace earlier in 2024.
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Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.
"Doctor Who – The Underwater Menace" features cover art by Alister Pearson.
Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.
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You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.
Next Episode
DWLit Presents: Return of the Daleks (with Paul Scoones)
We remain off the boards for one more week, to discuss not a Target Doctor Who novelization, but rather a new publication from Panini Comics. It's The Return of the Daleks (purchase link: here), a compilation of the Doctor-less backup strips from the earliest days of Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly/DWM. The compilation features commentary from Paul Scoones -- who joins us this week to discuss not only this new book, but also the TSV novelizations, high-quality fan-made novelizations of five 1970s/'80s Doctor Who TV serials which, for rights reasons, were never novelized by Target during the line's original run.
If you enjoyed this episode, please follow, subscribe, and rate us!
Find Doctor Who Literature at https://linktr.ee/DrWhoNovels.
Watch this episode and all previous episodes on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@drwhonovels.
Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.
Please e-mail the pod at [email protected].
You can catch all past episodes at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.
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