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► RELEASED OUT NOW!<br />
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424 pages Paperback<br />
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► Author Paul Hayes<br />
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Publisher Ten Acre Films<br />
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Few television shows - few things in life - have had their histories dissected in as forensic a level of detail as Doctor Who. As Toby Hadoke mischievously asks in his introduction to this latest addition to a crowded shelf, "There's nothing more that can be written about the early years of Doctor Who, surely?"<br />
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Paul Hayes, whose The Long Game charted the show's 21st century resurrection, clearly relishes a challenge. And, armed with access to the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham, a cultural historian's eye for context and a detailed knowledge of all things Who, succeeds in turning the facts of a TV legend's birth into a freshly engaging narrative.<br />
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Alongside portraits of key and frequently overlooked creative players, there are truly fascinating glimpses of how a premise emerged from the typewritten ether of internal memos and reports: foundational concepts ("time travelling"), soon discarded dead-ends ("scientific troubleshooters") and tantalisingly abandoned backstory ("Lord of the House of Dooclare"). It feels like we're witnessing mythology in protozoic form.<br />
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Hayes is also good on the nuts and bolts of how this whole "crazy enterprise" was actually made, in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination. Pull To Open indeed - there's more inside than you might imagine.<br />
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