Issue Description

DWM 313 'SHUTS DOWN THE HIGHER THOUGHT PROCESSES AND ROTS THE BRAIN'.

Just Visiting this Planet: City of Death: Tom's finest hour – or the one where “the funny bits got filmed wrong”? Charles Martin spoke to much-missed Doctor Who author and script-editor Douglas Adams about rewriting, recycling and releasing Shada, accidentally...

Tales from the Fiction Factory (Part 4) – The Gap Band: In which the first six Doctors finally get a literary look-in as Virgin launch a new/old range of fiction. David J Howe explores the Missing Adventures milieu...

Twenty, Not Out: Two decades ago, 'that bloke from the vet series' became the fifth actor to play Doctor Who. Twenty years on, and that very same bloke is still on active TARDIS duty – albeit on audio these days. “I should have been rich by now,” Peter Davison tells Benjamin Cook...

The DWM Archive – The Five Doctors: With a guest-list as long as your arm, Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary tale was a dream-come-true for fans, but a nightmare to organise. Andrew Pixley wonders why they couldn't just have baked a cake...

Comic Strip – Children of the Revolution (Part 2): The Argus is dropping like a brick! K-CHNK! "Alison, break your tether line, it's our only chance!"

Regulars:Coming Up..., Timelines, Gallifrey Guardian, DWM Review, It's the End, But...

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FREE CD: The Ratings War

SYNOPSIS

Beep the Meep is back - and he's found a new channel for his aggression! A brand new series is about to make television history, but can the Doctor prevent his furry foe from turning a docu-drama into a crisis, or will the fluffy-wuffy animals get it in the neck? The first shots in the ratings war have been fired, and the next one is aimed at your head...

This release is now available through the Big Finish site with thanks to Tom Spilsbury and all at Doctor Who Magazine

Written By: Steve Lyons

Directed By: Gary Russell

Colin Baker (The Doctor), Toby Longworth (Beep the Meep), Robert Jezek (Roger Lowell), Alistair Lock (Robbie McHale), Jane Goddard (Lucy)

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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