Doctor Who Annual 1986 was the twentieth and final Doctor Who annual published by World Distributors. It was released in August 1985.

Overview[]

Release Number 20

Publisher World Distributors

Released in August 1985

Priced £3.25

Format Hardback 64 pages

Featured Doctor: The Sixth Doctor

Featured Companions: Peri

Featured Enemies: The Master

Contents[]

Text stories[]

• The Fellowship of Quan
• Time Wake
• Interface
• Beauty and the Beast
• Retribution
• Davarrk's Experiment
• The Radio Waves

Features[]

• `Behind the Scenes at Doctor Who: Make-Up` interview with Dorka Nieradzik by Brenda Aspley

Additional notes[]

• Unusually, at the expense of new content, this annual featured three full-page colour publicity shots of the Sixth Doctor taken at his costume launch, showing him with the TARDIS, fishing, and with a multi-coloured umbrella (hastily provided to protect the costume from rain during the photocall).
• This was to be the last of the regular annuals published by World Distributors.
• Both John Nathan-Turner and the publishers, World Distributors, had become increasingly frustrated with each other, along with the show's 18-month hiatus (resulting in no new Doctor Who on television) and a reported decline in sales the previous year. The decision was reached that the license to publish the Doctor Who Annual would not be renewed.
• World Distributors did publish a further bumper sized volume (entitled Doctor Who Special: Journey Through Time), which featured reprinted pages from previous annuals and The Amazing World of Doctor Who book. This was similar to their earlier Adventures in Time and Space volume.
• It was to be many years before there was another Doctor Who annual. It was not published by World Distributors.
• For five of the in-between years (1991-1995) Marvel UK (publishers of Doctor Who Magazine) published a regular Doctor Who Yearbook which followed a format similar to the annuals, offering a mix of text stories, comic strip stories and features. These were significantly different from annuals in one respect. They did not review the year in question. Instead, they offered a mix of stories from every Doctor's era.