Issue 5 is my
favourite of these pre DWAS issues because it has an absolutely gigantic, step
by step account of the 1976 Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition. I know I’ve just run a
series of posts about that but I wanted to save this one for here. Some people will
find it dull to read, others of a certain vintage will find themselves
re-living every sight and sound. There's even a clip from Tom Baker's column for the magazine Reveille in which he describes switching on the Blackpool Illuminations. This mega feature, reprinted at the end of this
post, was treated like a separate wraparound booklet inside which the rest of
the issue resided. It’s a cool fanzine idea that was surprisingly not done that
often by any editors though few will have published such a lengthy article! Its
penned by Stuart Glazebrook, better known back in the day for his artwork, but
his account here certainly shows how he could perfectly capture an event with
words too.
