Issue Description

RUSSELL T DAVIES HAS DEMANDED THAT WE BRING BACK THE LITTLE BIT OF NONSENSE HIDDEN HERE IN THE INDICIA. "IT'S THE FIRST THING I READ!" HE BLUBBED.

Editor's Letter: I had one of those 'Oh dear God, it's all real' moments a week or so ago. I imagine most of you have had similar experiences... Next month, the countdown begins. Not just here in DWM, but everywhere. It's going to be great, of course. But it's going to make us fans feel ever so funny...

Bigmouth Strikes Again!: After over a decade of silence on her time in Doctor Who, DWM finally catches up with feisty and forthright Janet Fielding – otherwise known as ‘mouth on legs’ 1980s companion Tegan Jovanka. Have her opinions about the series mellowed over time? Don’t bank on it…

Script Doctors: Mark Gatiss – actor, writer, producer... renaissance man? - was interviewed extensively by DWM a little over eighteen months ago. And now we're speaking to him again. What on Earth could possibly justify such repetitive indulgence? Well... he has managed to blag the little old gig of writing for the new TV series of Doctor Who, for a start...

DWM Archive Extra – Dr. Who and the Daleks: It began just as you see here. The adventure was started by accident, taking Dr. Who and his young friends out of time and place to a lost planet... Come with Andrew Pixley into that strange new world. He can't guarantee your safety, but he can promise you a trip to Cannes...

The Secret Diary of a Script Editor (Part 2) – The Road to Remembrance: In the concluding part of this fascinating feature, Andrew Cartmel takes us on set as Remembrance of the Daleks begins taping.

Comic Strip – The Flood (Part 8): The eighth and final instalment of the Eighth Doctor's explosive comic strip epic – and things will never be the same again...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, Further Adventures, The Time Team – The Deadly Assassin and The Face of Evil, Next Issue, Off the Shelf, Production Notes - The Ruiners - 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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