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The Black Archive #80: Mawdryn Undead
 

No. 80 of 94 in the The Black Archive books series
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By:Kara Dennison
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Released:  8 December 2025
Publisher:  Obverse Books
ISBN:978-1-913456-65-8
Format: paperback
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Note:  Originally announced for an August 2022 release date, but delayed extensively.

Cover blurb:
‘Spare me the endurance of endless time, the agony of perpetuity!’

Mawdryn Undead (1983) was an ambitious serial, weaving familiar elements of Doctor Who together with myth and legend. Balancing two Brigadiers, a murderous new companion, and a crew of hubristic mutated scientists is no mean feat, resulting in divided opinion across viewers.

Four decades on, Kara Dennison re-examines the first instalment in the Black Guardian trilogy as a story potentially before its time. What makes a ‘good’ companion? What truly makes immortality a curse? And what does it mean to trust a hero who will never stop changing?


THE BLACK ARCHIVE:
Book-length looks at single Doctor Who stories from 1963 to the present day

“A grandly ambitious thing to attempt with something as exhaustively detailed as (Doctor Who). But they actually manage it. Treat your bookshelf."
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