Issue Description

OH, ONE LAST THING - DON'T FORGET TO BUY SOME BLANK VIDEOS. I HEAR THERE'S SOMETHING WELL WORTH TAPING ON SATURDAYS...

Gardner’s World: She's the busiest lady in the world, one of the most influential people in television, and coming to the end of a gruelling shoot for Doctor Who – but she's not too grand to share her sandwich with DWM! Executive Producer, Julie Gardner, gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of the show’s return…

New Series Preview, Episode 1 – Rose: At last – DWM presents the first of the previews of the new series of Doctor Who! Benjamin Cook talks to writer Russell T Davies and gives you all an idea of what to expect on that fateful first Saturday. And fear not – we're keeping things relatively spoiler-free...

The Fact of Fiction – Spearhead from Space: Alan Barnes smears vaseline on his face and hangs around a hospital (nothing new there) to bring us the untold stories behind this classic Third Doctor adventure.

BBC Audiobooks – Exciting Adventures: It was over 40 years ago that the first Doctor Who novelisation was published, and now Doctor Who and the Daleks is about to have a new lease of life as an MP3 CD. Michael Stevens tells the story of how this very special release came about…

Come In Number Eight: Celtic Hero or Sly Trickster? Giant Smurf or Angry God? Jonathon Blum pieces together the many fragments of Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor as we bid him a fond farewell…

DWM Archive Extra – Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.: Planet Earth has been savagely invaded by men of steel who have no flesh to pierce. And Britain’s cinemas ring to the Daleks’ lucrative battle cry once again. Andrew Pixley doesn’t find life so easy in the year 2150 A.D...

The Wilderness Years?: Gareth Roberts does his sums and collates all the useless facts and figures you'll need to know about Doctor Who's 'resting' years!

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, The Time Team – The Robots of Death and The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Further Adventures, Off the Shelf, Production Notes with Russell T Davies.

Nb: No comic in this issue as there was a period of transition from the 8th Doctor and the Classic Series to the Ninth Doctor and the reimagined series.

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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