Issue Description

"WE COULD SELL A MILLION A MONTH IN AMERICA..."

250 (and then some): DWM, Doctor Who's official flagship, has now notched up 250 regular issues – not to mention umpteen Specials, Yearbooks, Poster Magazines... Stephen Cartwright yanks 17 years' worth of back numbers from beneath his bed – and presents the secret history of the comic magazine that became an institution in itself...

Comic Strip – A Life of Matter and Death: The is a story of two worlds...

Doctor Who's 20 Best Ever Scenes – 10 More Moments: “You fools! You've forgotten this!”

“Mrs Miller, were you really Sarah Jane?”: Mrs Brian Miller has a big secret; many years ago, she travelled through time and space under the alias of companion Sarah Jane Smith. Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons recently doorstepped actress Elisabeth Sladen, aka Metropolitan magazine's permanently AWOL star reporter.

Shelf Life: The Well-Mannered War by Gareth Roberts and The Dying Days by Lance Parkin.

The DWM Archive – Genesis of the Daleks: In writing the allegorical 1975 six-parter Genesis of the Daleks, Terry Nation reinvented the history of his own creations – the Daleks – and, in Davros, brought to life one of the Doctor's most chilling adversaries. Turning his attention to this much-loved tale, Andrew Pixley continues his story-by-story account of Doctor Who's production.

Out of the TARDIS – Barry Letts: Producer, executive producer, scriptwriter, Missing Adventures author... in Doctor Who terms, Barry Letts thought he had done it all – but that was before he faced twenty random and reckless questions from the TARDIS tin...

The Life and Times of Jackie Jenkins: Monday 3 March, Wednesday 5 March, Saturday 8 March.

Vox Pops: The BBC Audience Research Department regularly monitored audience response to Doctor Who with the assistance of an ever-changing panel of license-payers. Stephen James Walker dips into their files - and discovers what viewers really thought of the Pertwee years...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Timelines, Next Issue.

Doctor Who Magazine (1979)

Publisher

Panini Comics

Volume Description

AKA Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly

In October 1979 Marvel UK launched Doctor Who Weekly. The license to produce Doctor Who comic strips had been held by Polystyle since 1964, and the character had appeared almost continuously in their titles, starting in TV Comic then jumping to Countdown (later Countdown to TV Action and finally TV Action), then back to TV Comic. However, late in 1979 Polystyle lost the license to Marvel UK, and for the first time the Doctor had a regular title entirely devoted to himself.

It is the longest running TV tie-in magazine in the world, having an unbroken publication run of thirty-two years and counting (October 1979 to date). It began life as a weekly title, but switched to monthly production in September 1980 with its 44th issue, when its titled changed to Doctor Who - A Marvel Monthly. The title underwent further minor modifications over the next few years, becoming finally just Doctor Who Magazine as of #107.

Doctor Who Magazine contains a serialised monthly comic. It is ten oversized pages long. Each issue has features on the show, which have included news about current productions and releases, interviews with actors, retrospectives on past episodes, previews of upcoming episodes in production and reviews of licensed products.

In addition to the ongoing comic strip, early issues had back-up strips, both reprinting Marvel science fiction tales and providing new stories set in the Doctor Who Universe but not featuring the Doctor.

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