num_pages: 244
description: The Doctor is many things  curious funny brave protective of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe the Doctor hinted at a host of previous untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a 'wet weekend' with Harry Houdini learning how to escape from chains underwater; and more.In this collection of new stories Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history from 500BC to the swinging 60s going deeper into the Doctor's notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.
language: English
title: Doctor Who: Star Tales
publisher: BBC Books