Issue Description

"I ALWAYS DID HAVE A SOFT-SPOT FOR ROUND NUMBERS"

Cardiff Data Bank: The Doctor Who production team answer your questions about the new series, both serious and silly!

Script Doctors – Steven Moffat: We chat with new series writer Steven Moffat about rediscovering his inner eight-year old...

The Fact of Fiction – The City of Death: Alan Barnes turns the clock back to 1979 to examine Doctor Who's highest-rated serial. There's nothing on ITV, so you might as well watch City of Death!

The Life and Times of Jackie Jenkins: Jackie's back, and a whole new future may be about to unfold. If she can get the leaves out of her rucksack!

Happy Times and Places? (Part 3 of 3) 1995-2004 – Big Fish: Marcus Hearn takes us through the 1990s and into a new millennium – and a new start for DWM... with a tale of bomb-threats, Vancouver, and something about Cardiff...

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 5 of 8): "We interrupt this programme... Central London under siege... Unidentified silver figures...”

Fluid Links – We the Asthmatics!: Matt Jones returns with a rousing call to arms...

UNIT Hotline: A belated return for the page which allows YOU to join up with the crack alien-fighting military team. And decode some messages or something.

It's the end, but...: The Watcher's back again – but for heaven's sake don't tell him anything about the new series...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Who Cares!, Coming Up, DWM Reviews, Production Notes #10 with Russell T Davies.

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FREE INSIDE! SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION REPRINT OF DOCTOR WHO WEEKLY ISSUE 1 FROM 1979

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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