Issue Description

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO THE NEW-LOOK DWM. GLOSSINESS, BIGNESS AND COLOURFULNESS...

Inside Number Ten: As the countdown to the new series begins in earnest, DWM meets a man who’s right in the thick of things – producer Phil Collinson. Find out what goes into the making of a flagship BBC show, and what we can expect to find in the new-look TARDIS…

The Fact of Fiction – The Tenth Planet: Alan Barnes visits the South Pole to document the first appearance of the Cybermen in 1966

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 7): "We finally looked up, but too late". The Doctor prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice to save Earth…

The Secret Diary of a Script Editor (Part 1) - Remembering the Daleks: As Doctor Who's script editor from 1987-89, Andrew Cartmel had a huge input into the development of this exciting era of the show. Starting this issue, Andrew shows us how one of the most popular Seventh Doctor adventures, Remembrance of the Daleks, came into being, with exclusive extracts from his diary....

Script Doctors: We speak to new series writer Paul Cornell about his lengthy Doctor Who career and finally bringing the Doctor back to TV.

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, The Time Team – The Masque of Mandragora and The Hand of Fear, Off the Shelf, Further Adventures, Production Notes 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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