The summer 1981 special - subtitled The Very best of Doctor Who was presented in a similar stye to the 1980 one, reprints again being the order of the day.

Comic Strips Timeslip (Issues 17 & 18) and Business as usual (Issues 40 - 43) make another appearance. Early DWW features Inside the TARDIS (15 & 16), The Zygons (Issue 9) and The UNIT files (22 & 23) are also reprinted along with the JN-T interview from Issue 31, the Companions from Issue 49 and Architects of Fear from Issue 48)