The scattered fragments of a jewel that could stop the entire cosmos. The chase through Paris to halt a scheme to prevent life on Earth from ever starting. The day two separate armies desecrated the Capitol of the Time Lords - and the Doctor just let them. These aren't just the greatest, strangest or most Doctor-Who-like moments in Doctor Who. These are the moments that make up an era, part of a universe of things we'd never seen before and never expected. And this is the all-purpose handbook to that universe, both on- and off-screen. Contained within these volumes is everything you could reasonably want to know about the original series of Doctor Who, from the nuances of Cyberman culture to the science of the Eye of Harmony, from the programme's most triumphant successes to its most bizarre logical flaws, from its roots in the 1960s to its legacy in the here and now. But above all else, this is a history.

A history of the Doctor Who continuum; a history of the way the series changed across the span of a generation; and a history of those who grew up with it, of what it meant to the children of the '60s, 70s and '80s. This is, in a very real sense, About Time.