Does Doctor Who frighten you? asks the strap
line for issue 6’s cover. I don’t know about that but the drawings above the
question certainly do frighten me! It’s April 1976 and the Doctor Who Appreciation
Society is a heartbeat away from going national (check out last year’s posts
about the Society’s early years). Before it does though there’s one more issue
of `Tardis`. News items this issue include Tom Baker being mobbed in Southampton,
the new season featuring “more space and historical flavoured adventures” and
first news of a forthcoming record that would turn out to be `The Pescatons`.
Somehow though there’s room for speculation about why there was no Tardis sound
during one of the take offs in `Pyramids of Mars`. This question would
definitely have been trending on Twitter if they’d had it then!
The question of
how scary Doctor Who is brings together four
separate articles on the topic from recent publications. There’s also a review
of `Brain of Morbius` (it was “wonderful” to paraphrase four pages- see below)
plus a book review and lots of letters. Its not as packed as issue 5 but the
key lines sit in the editorial which is curiously located on the third to last
page. “We’ve got lots of plans for the future of `Tardis` and Doctor Who fandom
so watch this space.” Wasn’t that true!!
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