Issue Description

"WE'RE GOING TO BE REWARDED WITH THE WHOLE OF TIME AND SPACE!"

When is a Police Box Not a Police Box?: Excited? Worried? Bemused? The fact that Doctor Who is returning to TV not quite sinking in? Well, imagine how Russell T Davies feels! The writer and executive producer of the new Doctor Who series took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Clayton Hickman about Garms and funny hats and bees. Mainly bees...

Curiouser and Curiouser: Benjamin Cook takes a trip to wonderland as he meets up with four Doctors, umpteen companions and numerous little ones, all gathered together to record Big Finish's November anniversary audio extravaganza, Zagreus. It's lucky he had his camera there to record it all for posterity. After all, what's the use of an article without pictures...?

Third Men: It was in the late 1960s that a young Barry Letts took over as Doctor Who's producer, soon joined by Terrance Dicks as his script editor. Now the twosome have joined forces once more for a new novel. David Darlington discovers how the two have found it difficult to leave the Doctor behind...

The Fact of Fiction – 100,000 BC: What's all this then? A fascinating Fact of Fiction article by Alan Barnes on 100,000 BC, that's what. And why not? After all, that's how it all started...

DWM Awards 2002: Who wins? You decide! In fact, you've already decided, as it's time to reveal the results of the DWM Annual poll!

Comic Strip – The Land of Happy Endings: Happy times and places. A return to simpler times in our special anniversary comic strip.

Companion Piece: Artist Andrew Skilleter unveils a new work celebrating 40 years of Doctor Who...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming Up..., The Time Team – The Green Death, DWM Reviews, It's the 40th Anniversary, But...

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FREE CD: Living Legend

SYNOPSIS

Planet Earth, 1982...

The world faces imminent destruction when Italy win the World Cup! Can the fabled Time Lady Charleyostiantayshius save humanity from the dreaded Threllip Empire, or will her idiot assistant, the Doctor, ruin everything?

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

Written By: Scott Gray

Directed By: Gary Russell

Paul McGann (The Doctor), India Fisher (Charley Pollard), Stephen Perring (Vengorr), Conrad Westmaas (Thon)

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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