Back in 1974 there was no Doctor Who Weekly / Monthly / Magazine. Other than the Radio Times and the occasional Countdown or TV Action Summer Special, there were very few places where you could find articles and - more importantly for many of us - images from the series.
One place where you could see Doctor Who material was the short-lived horror movie magazine World of Horror. It ran for only 9 issues, yet all but the second issue had a feature of some sort on the programme, with some great photographs.
Issue 003 even had the series on the cover (above), with an Ogron portrait and a smaller image of Pertwee with a Sea Devil. Issue 001 only had an isolated picture of Malpha, from Mission to the Unknown, as part of a generic monsters photo-spread.
Within Issue 003 was a feature on some of the monsters:
The feature proved very popular, according to the letters page in issue 004, but the magazine had already committed to bringing more Doctor Who monster-related features - as shown by the "Part One" on Page 36 above.
All the images this issue derived from the Pertwee era, which was just coming to an end - ranging from an Inferno Primord (played by Dave Carter) to Bellal from Death to the Daleks. The Ogrons were obviously very popular with the mag's editor, as we get another two images of them from the Southbank Centre filming on Frontier in Space.
Over the next couple of weeks, I'll bring you some other features from this much missed publication.
The odd copy can be found on internet auction sites - but they'll cost you a lot more than 30p!
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