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“In 1999, four fans embarked on a quest to watch every episode of Doctor Who, in order, from the start…”

ROUNDEL BOOKS is pleased to present THE TIME TEAM UNEARTHED, a collection of ADRIAN SALMON‘s artwork from the classic feature in Doctor Who Magazine!

A fan-favourite feature in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine for a decade, The Time Team followed four fans as they made their way through the entire back-catalogue of Doctor Who from the very beginning. Initially presented as a single-page, the feature’s popularity soon saw it expanded to a regular three pages, appearing in more than 100 issues between 1999 – 2009.

Every edition of The Time Team was illustrated with striking new artwork from comics legend ADRIAN SALMON, already known to readers of DWM from his work on the comic strip, most notably The Cybermen, which ran as a regular feature from 1994 – 1996.

‘I had just got back home from my day job, driving a delivery van for the Evening Gazette, to find DWM editor Gary Gillatt on the phone” remembers Adrian. “He asked if I’d be interested in illustrating a new feature for them called “The Time Team“. Gary explained the concept of four people discovering the show for the first time and I was hooked. “It’s seven years work and the fee is £40.00 a drawing,” he said. I’d probably have drawn it for free, if only he’d known!’

In total, Salmon created more than 150 illustrations for The Time Team‘s original run, before returning in 2011 to continue his work throughout the feature’s second incarnation, as it ventured into the revival series covering episodes from 2005 onwards. Regularly described as the ‘fifth member’ of the team, Salmon’s art is synonymous with the feature.

‘What Adrian did so brilliantly,’ recalls DWM editor Gary Gillatt, ‘was illustrate the feeling of watching Doctor Who for the first time. He has the ability to look at a scene, get in there and capture the shot the TV show was aiming for but couldn’t afford to do, or technology wouldn’t allow them to do.’

Gary Russell, another DWM editor who brought Adrian into the magazine to illustrate The Cybermen, agrees. ‘Everything Adrian turned his hand to was just colossally brilliant and unique. There was no other artist like him out there.’

THE TIME TEAM UNEARTHED collects together, for the first time, all of Salmon’s artwork for the original Time Team feature, covering the entire run of 20th Century Doctor Who, from An Unearthly Child through the 1996 TV Movie. Alongside these, the book also features Adrian’s two DWM covers from 2001 and 2002, plus assorted other related art, including the pieces from the two Time Team reunions for the Nothing at the End of the Lane scriptbooks.

For the majority of the Time Team‘s run, each issue covered eight episodes, and until the Tom Baker era it was usual to only feature a single illustration in each edition. As such, there’s a number of stories from the first three Doctors which never got the Adrian Salmon treatment. We’re thrilled to have commissioned more than 20 new illustrations, ensuring that every one of Doctor Who‘s 20th century televised adventures are covered.

These new additions include iconic stories like The Daleks, The Myth Makers, The Moonbase, The Evil of the Daleks and The Time Warrior. Adrian has already started work on these new pieces, and we’ll be revealing some during the run of the campaign. To kick us off, here’s an exclusive first-look at Adrian’s gorgeously atmospheric work on the 1966/67 story The Highlanders.

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