Issue Description

"RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW..."

Interview: Davy Jones is the make-up designer on the new season of Doctor Who. DWM tracked him down to find out how he's found making-up aliens and the Time Lords...

The Two Doctors: Paul McGann and Daphne Ashbrook, reunited for the first time in over eight years, talk candidly to Benjamin Cook about the TV Movie, hacking each other off, kissing with tongues, their 'amazingly bad' co-star, and walking out of the première. All this plus what Paul really thinks about the new series. “I'm here to tell you that I would have turned it down,” he insists...

Doctor Who on Radio, 1993-2002 (Part 2 of 2): In the second part of this Archive Extra, Andrew Pixley tunes in to discover the aural delights of The Ghosts of N-Space and Death Comes to Time, discovers Whatever Happened to Susan, and charts some of those stories that never quite made it...

Strange Love: As an indulgent Christmas treat in this, the final issue of the old-style DWM, we throw all reverence to the wind and unashamedly celebrate the bits of Doctor Who that, frankly, aren't much cop at all – but that doesn't stop us loving them dearly! Come join arch curmudgeon, Gareth Roberts as he 'bah humbug's the classy bits...

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 6 of 8): The Doctor and Destrii have been captured by the Cybermen and none of their allies are in any position to rescue them...

Call to Arms: This month sees the launch of UNIT – a new spin-off series from Big Finish. Producer Ian Farrington reveals how he and his writing team have set about re-inventing the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Coming Up, The Time Team – The Seeds of Doom, DWM Reviews, Production Notes #11 Resilience of the Daleks with Russell T Davies.

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FREE CD: 1.0. UNIT: The Coup and Silver Lining

UNIT: THE COUP

SYNOPSIS

London, the near future. UNIT is finished. The UK division of the UNIT prepares to cede its authority to a new organisation... But who is attempting to sabotage the hand-over?

Written By: Simon Guerrier

Directed By: Ian Farrington

Cast

Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Siri O'Neal (Colonel Emily Chaudhry), Scott Andrews (Scott Christie), Matthew Brehner (Silurian), Sara Carver (Captain Andrea Winnington), Michael Hobbs (Francis Currie), Joseph Lidster (Sergeant French), and Mark Wright.

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SILVER LINING

SYNOPSIS

The Planet Tysir IV: Benny Summerfield, archaeologist, adventurer and all-round trouble-magnet is asked to investigate the remains of an ancient civilisation. As she digs deeper into the mystery, Benny discovers that Tysir IV is not quite as dead as she’d been told...

Written By: Colin Brake

Directed By: Gary Russell

Cast

Lisa Bowerman (Bernice Summerfield), Nicholas Briggs (Lynton Jellis and The Cybermen).

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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