Issue Description

"JUST SPOOKY ESCAPISM" – THE NINTH DOCTOR TALKS EXCLUSIVELY TO DWM!

Revolution #9 – The Christopher Eccleston Interview: It's the one you've been waiting for – the first in-depth interview with the Ninth Doctor's alter ego, Christopher Eccleston! Who were his favourite Doctors? Where would he like the TARDIS to land? Will he wear a scarf? Let's see...

The Fact of Fiction – The Mark of the Rani: Life in a Northern Town - Three Time Lords converging on a small 19th century mining village – what are the chances of that happening, eh?

The Telesnap Archive – Marco Polo (Part 2): The Singing Sands - Tegana is preparing a poisonous plan, while Susan gets a little sand between her toes! Our Telesnap Archive presents the second episode of the lost 1964 classic.

Comic Strip – Sins of the Fathers (Part 1): Flying Fish - Destrii's receiving much-needed treatment in hospital, but somebody else has plans for her - and they don't involve a relaxing lie-down and a bunch of grapes!

The TARDIS Outside In (Part 2): Having behaved erratically throughout the 1960s, the TARDIS came down to Earth with a bump in 1970. In part two of his user's manual, Gareth Roberts checks that his relative dimensional stabiliser, dematerialisation circuits and Randomiser are all functioning properly…

Master Class: DWM catches up with prolific Doctor Who author David A McIntee as we preview his latest BBC Books novel, The Eleventh Tiger.

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, What the Papers Said, DWMail, Coming up…, DWM Reviews, Production Notes #3 – Coffee and TV – 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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