Issue Description

STOP PRESS : STOP PRESS : STOP PRESS. HE'S BACK!

In the dying seconds before this issue went to press, DWM learned the exciting news that a new television series of Doctor Who has been commissioned by BBC1!

No-one Can Hear You Scream: He sat in a cupboard and drank BBC coffee while BBCi's new internet animation The Scream of the Shalka was recorded. Benjamin Cook asked Richard E Grant and some other nice people whether life's a scream.

The Accidental Tourist (Part 2) – Curse of the Cat People: In the second part of his look at the different roads taken or avoided, Daniel O'Mahony examines the show's flirtation with mythology and discovers impact one unmade story might have had on Doctor Who's development...

The Soundtrack to Generation: DWM speaks to Michael Stevens, the man who co-ordinates BBC Audiobooks' series of Doctor Who releases.

After Eight?: He came back to life before your eyes. But now he's regenerated – and no-one thought to tell him! Benjamin Cook caught up with Paul McGann to mourn the passing of the Eighth Doctor and pass judgement on his usurper...

Comic Strip – The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack (Part 3): With the Pyrodines unleashed, are the Doctor and Penny helpless to stop them? Find out as the curious tale concludes.

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming Up..., The Time Team – Planet of the Daleks, DWM Reviews, It's the End, But...

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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