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Robert Smith is the author of Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die, the IPPY Award-winning Who is the Doctor and Modelling Disease Ecology with Mathematics (see if you can spot the odd one out). He's also editor extraordinaire of Outside In: 160 New Perspectives on 160 Classic Doctor Who Stories by 160 Writers, Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies and two volumes of Time, Unincorporated, all of which have brought a multitude of new voices into the conversation.
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Foreword | p. 12 |
| Beginnings | |
| My Adventures: (from Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, 2007) | p. 16 |
| An Old Man in Strange Skins: (from Shockeye's Kitchen #17, Spring 2006) | p. 32 |
| Half Canadian on His Father's Side: (from Enlightenment #97, March / April 2000) | p. 35 |
| Backwards, Forwards, Sideways, Hmm?: (from Enlightenment #104, June / July 2001) | p. 40 |
| The Forgettable Doctor: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 43 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 1: (from Enlightenment #120, February / March 2004) | p. 49 |
| The Land of Fiction | |
| What Has Happened to the Magic of Doctor Who?: (from TARDIS volume 3, issue 3, 1978) | p. 53 |
| Doctor Who and the Computers: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 55 |
| "Science, not Sorcery, Miss Hawthorne": (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, August 2006) | p. 67 |
| Everything You Know (Could Have Been) Wrong: (from Enlightenment #102, January / February 2001) | p. 76 |
| Symbolism: (from Burnt Toast #3, June 1990) | p. 79 |
| 31 Things I Wouldn't Know If I Didn't Watch Doctor Who: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, June 2000) | p. 85 |
| The Rule of Four: (from Shockeye's Kitchen #17, Spring 2006) | p. 87 |
| 10 Silly Story Titles (and What They Should Have Been Called): (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, July 1999) | p. 95 |
| Horror: (from Burnt Toast #1, February 1990) | p. 97 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 2: (from Enlightenment #121, April / May 2004) | p. 100 |
| I Cross the Void Beyond the Mind | |
| Jonny Come Home: (from Bog Off One Hundred, November 1993) | p. 104 |
| Wine, Cheese and Moralising: (from Enlightenment #99, July / August 2000) | p. 106 |
| Everything Old is New Again: (from Enlightenment #111, August / September 2002) | p. 108 |
| 10 Official Writer's Guidelines for the Pertwee Era: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, November 2001) | p. 112 |
| You Did It Yourselves!: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, July 2003) | p. 115 |
| Love, TARDIS-style...: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, February 2004) | p. 120 |
| Earth Shock | |
| The Talons of Stereotyping: (from Enlightenment #113, December 2002) | p. 125 |
| Queer as Who: (from Enlightenment #114, February / March 2002) | p. 131 |
| Is Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: (from Circus #9, Spring 2002; revised Spring 2009) | p. 134 |
| Anarchy in Who, UK: (from Shockeye's Kitchen #8, November 2000) | p. 144 |
| Is the Doctor a Pacifist?: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 147 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 3: (from Enlightenment #122, June / July 2004) | p. 155 |
| The Two Tom Bakers | |
| Williams' Lib: (from Enlightenment #199, July / August 2000) | p. 159 |
| A Year in the Life: (from Enlightenment #142, November 2007) | p. 163 |
| Was There a Hinchcliffe Era?: (from Faze #14, September 1998) | p. 167 |
| Heart of Darkness: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, October 2002) | p. 174 |
| 10 Things I Want to Say About the Graham Williams Era (Taking in "Why Various Other Shows are Rubbish" on the Way): (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, August 2000) | p. 177 |
| Love and / or Monsters | |
| Classic Shipping: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 186 |
| 10 Possible Girlfriends from Doctor Who: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, July 2004) | p. 192 |
| Miss Wright: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 195 |
| Real: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, April 2001) | p. 200 |
| Monster's Ball: (from Enlightenment #115, April / May 2002) | p. 204 |
| Metaphor of the Daleks: (from Shockeye's Kitchen #3, Spring 1999) | p. 206 |
| Womb of the Cybermen: (from The Whostorian Quarterly #20, Winter 1995) | p. 209 |
| Occam's Dalek: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 213 |
| Two-Four of the Daleks: (from Enlightenment #109, April / May 2002) | p. 221 |
| Why Was the Master so Rubbish?: (from Shooty Dog Thing #2, Summer 2007) | p. 228 |
| Claustrophobia: (from Dark Circus #5, Autumn 1991) | p. 232 |
| Why I Love Ace: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 234 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 4: (from Enlightenment #123, August / September 2004) | p. 240 |
| The Ones Who Made Us | |
| The Sulphur Man: (from Fringeworld #2, November 2001) | p. 243 |
| On Being Cruel to an Electron in a Particle Accelerator: (from Enlightenment #115, April / May 2002) | p. 247 |
| Dave's 7: (from Shockeye's Kitchen #13, October 2002) | p. 251 |
| The Rise, Fall and Decline of John Nathan-Turner: (from Enlightenment #110, June / July 2002) | p. 254 |
| The Maloney Era: (from Enlightenment #136, November 2006) | p. 259 |
| Crossing Midnight | |
| Don't You (Forget About Me): (from Enlightenment #117, August / September 2003) | p. 264 |
| Turning Eighteen: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 267 |
| Authorship in the John Nathan-Turner Era: (from Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, 2007) | p. 271 |
| Dwellings of Simplicity: (from Enlightenment #108, February / March 2002) | p. 286 |
| Untrue Grit: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, April 2002) | p. 288 |
| Dark Humour in Revelation of the Daleks: (from Burnt Toast #2, April 1990) | p. 295 |
| Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, November 2008) | p. 297 |
| Why I Like Cheese: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 302 |
| Ghost Light: Four Views: (from Dark Circus #4, Summer 1990) | p. 305 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 5: (from Enlightenment #124, November 2004) | p. 317 |
| Darkness | |
| The Doctor's Darker Nature: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 321 |
| The Day the Animals Learned About Death: (from Enlightenment #110, June / July 2002) | p. 324 |
| The Two Clowns With Skeletons in the Closet: (from Enlightenment #64, September / October 1994) | p. 327 |
| Death: (from Burnt Toast #6, December 1990) | p. 331 |
| Don't Tell the Sisterhood: (from Bog Off One Hundred, November 1993) | p. 334 |
| 20 Handy Tips for Survival in the Doctor Who Universe: (from The Doctor Who Ratings Guide, October 1999) | p. 340 |
| There are Worlds Out There... | |
| We the Asthmatics!: (from Doctor Who Magazine #350, December 2004) | p. 343 |
| Full Metal Frock Coat: (from Circus #9, early 2002) | p. 345 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being (a Doctor Who fan): (from Enlightenment #98, May / June 2000) | p. 350 |
| Eight Wonderful Things About the TV Movie: (exclusive to this volume) | p. 352 |
| Blowing Kisses to the Past, Making Love to the Future: (from Enlightenment #104, June / July 2001) | p. 356 |
| The Re-Awakening of Mediocre Who: (from Enlightenment #69, July / August 1995) | p. 359 |
| Interlude: The Key to a Time Lord û 6: (from Enlightenment #125, December 2004) | p. 361 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 365 |
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