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Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale (Doctor Who)

by: Russell T. Davies, Benjamin Cook

September 25, 2008


Read Robert McKee and you'll see what proper endings are and how RTD can't design them.

Watch BSG and B5

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Doctor Who: Shooting Scripts (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover))

from: BBC Books

October 13, 2005
Russell Davies' regenerated Dr Who has been a triumph not only of nostalgia but of new beginnings.

Not content with merely bringing the Time Lord back to the small screen with a big budget, Davies sidestepped the obvious error and made sure that the scripts outshone the CGI at every turn. Delivered by a superb ensemble cast, headed up in series 1 by Christopher Eccleston as a stark loner plagued by survivor guilt, the new episodes were miracles of economic but stylish drama.

Devoid of sentiment but packed with emotion, they scared us rigid, built characters we cared about and still found time to take apart the vanities of 21st century culture - from reality TV and makeover shows to the Blair regime's paranoid obsessions ... Read More:

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The Doctor Who Storybook 2007 (Dr Who)

by: Russell T Davies, Tom MacRae, Gareth Roberts, Nicholas Briggs, Clayton Hickman

July 01, 2006
With the glut of Doctor Who related merchandise that fills the shelves these days there are inevitably high and low points. Never mind the lows though, this is a definite high! Apart from the dodgy sketch of Rose on the front cover this is a high quality offering from Panini books and deserves the positive reviews given here. The only possible criticism is the artwork but the contents and layout are top drawer. Story-wise, highlights are Mark Gatiss' 'Cuckoo Spit', the tale of a lonely boy whose life is shaken-up by The Doctor and Rose and 'Gravestone House', a creepy mystery which shows that things aren't always what they seem; reminiscent of that master of teenage fiction, Robert Westall. Never preachy but always leaving the reader with something ... Read More:

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Dark Season

by: Russell T. Davies

November 14, 1991
The book of the classic b.b.c. kids drama shown in 1991 works even better than the brilliant series. It basically a book of two half's.(or two season's if you will). Quite dark and gloomy for kids and very intriguing throughout Russell T davies expands on the t.v. adaptation to add futher depth to the characters and give more of a past to each of them. It read's very much like a Doctor Who novel (which he has done too) and has many a plot twist with a great one at the end. I saw the series when it was on t.v. back in 1991 and as the series has never been on video(why not!!) this is a great way to re-discover a lost gem.Do not dismiss this as a childens book. I'm 25 and enjoyed every moment of it. Its just a whole lot of fun.

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Damaged Goods (New Doctor Who Adventures)

by: Russell T. Davies

October 24, 1996
How is it fair to criticize the man who single-handedly ressurected a dead T.V classic and reinvented it as one of the leading dramas of the 21st Century? It isn't, hence 4 stars rather than 3.
Russell.T.Davies has produced what seemed at first to be a classic 'New Adventure' for Doctor Who. The TARDIS crew arrive on Earth in the late nineteen-eighties and are immediately embroiled in the nefarious world of crack cocaine and gangland terror. Davies initially recreates the superbly sleazy world of night-time homosexual encounters and queer-bashing; illicit drug deals; violent criminals and seedy council estates of Thatcher's Britain; with the spectre of AIDS hanging over the whole lot like some underfed, deadly vulture. The novel is consequently ... Read More:

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"Queer as Folk": The Scripts

by: Russell T. Davies

November 12, 1999
If you are a big fan of QasF, as I am, you will really like this book. It contains all the scripts from the programme, and some unseen material also. It is what it says. There are also some fab pics in the middle of the book. Recommended!

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DOCTOR WHO: ROSE

by: KEITH BOAK(DIRECTOR), CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON, BILLIE PIPER(STARS) RUSSELL T DAVIES(SCRIPT)

2006
If you are a big fan of QasF, as I am, you will really like this book. It contains all the scripts from the programme, and some unseen material also. It is what it says. There are also some fab pics in the middle of the book. Recommended!

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Dark Season

by: Russell T Davies

1991
If you are a big fan of QasF, as I am, you will really like this book. It contains all the scripts from the programme, and some unseen material also. It is what it says. There are also some fab pics in the middle of the book. Recommended!

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DOCTOR WHO: UTOPIA(DVD)

by: GRAEME HARPER(DIRECTOR), DAVID TENNANT, FREEMA AGYEMAN(STARS) RUSSELL T DAVIES (SCRIPT)

2008
If you are a big fan of QasF, as I am, you will really like this book. It contains all the scripts from the programme, and some unseen material also. It is what it says. There are also some fab pics in the middle of the book. Recommended!