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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Private Who |
| Publisher: | |
| Editor(s): | Guy Daniels |
| Date(s): | 1985 |
| Medium: | |
| Fandom: | Doctor Who |
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Private Who is a gen Doctor Who zine of press clippings and articles. It has a sister zine called Chronotis.
Private Who 3 was published in December 1985 and contains 24 pages.
- Contents include a 4-page interview with Tom Baker with a glossy 7 x 5 inch photo; a Behind the scenes photo from the Sea Devils; Right to Reply; Seeds of Doom Episode 6 photo strip; Private Who on Tour; a satire of Celestial Toyroom (CT); Marvel Index; Letters & Leisure Hive convention photos.
Private Who 7 was published in January 1986 and contains 20 pages.
- Inside cover: "The Trial of a Time Lord in 14 parts", press articles, season 23 ratings and a women as the next Doctor?!
Private Who 10 was published in October 1987 and contains 24 pages.
- contains radio times supplement for season 2, part 1
Private Who 11
- includes radio times supplement season 24
Private Who 12 was published in April 1988.
Private Who 13 was published in August 1988.
Private Who 16 was published in October 1989. It is 24 pages and contains
- Stephen Wyatt The Private Who Interview
- Battlefield Location Report
- Ghost Light Set Report
- Peter Darvill-Evans on WH Allen
- Preview: The Dalek's Masterplan
"The first DW fanzines I can remember buying were issues six, seven and eight of Private Who from London’s Forbidden Planet in 1987. At this stage it hadn’t quite transformed itself into the prozine it would become (later it would attract bitter criticism from certain quarters thanks to its enthusiastic cheerleading of the McCoy era). This incarnation of Private Who was willing and able to lob a few brickbats in the series’ direction (issue six featured a thumbs down review of The Trial of a Time Lord)."[1]
Private Who appeared in late-1985, the first of a new breed of glossy A4 fanzines, although at least in it's early issues it maintained a pretence of fannishness. Pre-1986 fanzines were characteristically based more on personal opinion, reflection and invention than fact. Before the days of widespread availability of early episodes on video, many fans were largely ignorant of the detail of the series's past, the only window on this "lost" world being the official Marvel magazine, although then it was obviously weighted more towards the current (or not!) series. Fan access to that photographic and documentary material that did exist was virtually minimal, and the best the average fanzine could come up with was the occasional badly-reproduced "rare" photograph or two. By the late-1980s the situation was difference, with certain fans having established impressive contacts that would allow them to disseminate the information they had access to to a wider audience.[2]
cover of issue #3
cover of issue #7
front cover of issue #10
inside issue #10
Inside issue #10
back cover issue #10
cover of issue #11
cover of issue #12
cover of issue #13
