Issue Description

"HE'S REVERSED THE LINEARITY OF THE PROTON FLOW!"

Here Comes the Sun: In the concluding part of her revealing interview with Benjamin Cook, Lalla Ward tells us all about life with Tom Baker, her brush with the seedier side of film-making, and losing her best friend Douglas Adams...

Comic Strip – Bad Blood (Part 4 of 5): Spirit in the Sky – Will the Doctor survive his encounter with the one true Windigo?

The Revenge of the Accidental Tourist: In an epilogue to his popular series of articles on the random nature of Doctor Who's creation and development, and in the light of the new series currently in pre-production, Daniel O'Mahony turns his attention to the fragmented nature of our favourite series during the 1990s, and the thorny problem of 'canon'...

Doctor Who on Stage (Act Two of Two) – The 1980s and Beyond: It's time to put on make-up! It's time to dress up right! It's time to go on a tour of provincial cities with a lavish new play featuring the Daleks, the Cybermen and an actual TV Doctor Who – tonight! Andrew Pixley concludes his look at theatrical Doctor Who and slips off to Bar Galactica for a well-deserved drink...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming up…, DWM Reviews, The Time Team: The Monster of Peladon and Planet of the Spiders, Production Notes #1 – The Sound of Silence – with Russell T Davies.

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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