Issue Description

"CONSISTING IN PART OF FANTASY AND REALISM..."

Directing Doctor Who: The 2005 season's first confirmed director, Keith Boak, puts down his megaphone and talks to DWM about calling the shots for a TV legend...

Eric Saward Interview (Part 1) - In at the Deep End: A new Doctor, a new job and a new challenge. In part one of a major interview, his first with DWM for over 15 years, former Doctor Who script editor Eric Saward discusses the highs and lows of Season Nineteen. It wasn't all celery and cricket, you know...

The Telesnap Archive – Marco Polo (Part 6): Mighty Kublai Khan - Marco Polo and friends arrive at the Khan's palace...

Inquire Within: Eighteen years after her appearance in The Trial of a Time Lord, Lynda Bellingham has been back in action as the Inquisitor recently, in Big Finish's Gallifrey series. DWM sent along Mark Wyman to cross-examine her...

Scheduled For Success (Part 5) – Lucky F-F-F-Fourteen? In the 1960s, the average length of a Doctor Who season was 42 episodes. 1n 1986, it was f-f-f-fourteen. But were we lucky to have even that? Find out as Andrew Pixley discovers Winston Churchill's part in our favourite show's downfall!

His Dalek Materials: Big Finish's Dalek Empire III CD series began its epic six-part run at the end of May. Author, director and self-confessed Dalek nutter Nicholas Briggs stops to ponder just what the hell he thinks he's playing at...

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 1): It started like every other day. The Doctor and Destrii arrive in Camden...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Coming Up, The Time Team: The Sontaran Experiment and The Genesis of the Daleks, DWM Reviews, and Production Notes #6 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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