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Talkback - The Sixties: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Doctor Who Interview Book edited by Stephen James Walker
01/01/2007 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
Pub: Telos. 197 page enlarged paperback. Price: £12.99 (UK), $22.95 (US), $29.95 (CAN). ISBN: 1-84583-006-7. Buy Talkback - The Sixties: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Doctor Who Interview Book in the USA - or Buy Talkback - The Sixties: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Doctor Who Interview Book in the UK  check out website: www.telos.co.uk
This was a book I was looking forward to reading after reviewing Telos' ;The Handbook: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Guide To The Production Of Doctor Who' last year. This is in a similar vein but totally focused at looking at the origins of 'Doctor Who' in the 60s which is essentially the Hartnell and Troughton years. The thirty-one interviews are pulled from Doctor Who publications from across the years that are no longer available mostly conducted by Stephen Walker and David Howe. Bearing in mind the time interval and relative ages, many of these people are no longer with us so this makes this an important document of the time period of Britain's longest running SF TV show.
If anything, this is very much a time capsule, not only of 'Doctor Who's origins but also that of many of its creators. There is really a lot for everyone. If anything, I was struck most by the interviews with Ian Stuart Black and Malcolm Hulke as to their persistence in breaking in as scriptwriters that there is a need to turn your hand to every kind of material - a worthy reminder to all you neo-writers out there that this is a profession of survivors as well as talent.
It's interesting how some of the stories behind the scenes were remembered slightly differently mostly because of failing memories but Walker annotated pertinent notes clarifies details building a broader picture without hindering the reading.
With so many of you folk new and definitely too young to have been there for the early 'Doctor Who' but getting the earlier adventures on DVD now, you should find this book as asset filling in details. I certainly found it matching into the extras of some of the Who DVDs I'd been reviewing in the past year. When the production crew, reading of the problems of low and sometimes none-existent budget they had to do anything on, it's an indictment to how resourceful they were 40 years ago. Add this book to your reading list and I'm looking forward to the next volume.
GF Willmetts
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