Issue Description

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME? DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO COVER THIS THRILL-RIDE...

Heggessey's Legacy: As Lorraine Heggessey, the outgoing controller of BBC One, bids adieu to the Corporation, she grants Benjamin Cook an exclusive interview about how she saved Doctor Who from the scrap heap. “Eventually, I just lost my patience!” she explains...

Face the Music: Benjamin Cook travels to the year five billion to watch The End of the World. And he gets there by taxi, too...

The Diary of a Dalek (Part 1): On the day his childhood dream came true, Dalek voice artist Nick Briggs started writing a diary. The actual document is massively bigger on the inside than DWM, so using a Dalek mind probe, we've extracted the following abridged entries from Nick's Dalek-addled brain...

Comic Strip – The Love Invasion (Part 2): The Doctor and Rose continue their investigations into the sinister Lend-a-Hand agency – but who can be trusted?

New Series Preview: Episode 6 – Dalek

Under My Skin!: Victory should be naked! Benjamin Cook strips off at Downing Street, where he meets Aliens of London's trio of villains – Rupert Vansittart, David Verrey and Annette Badland, monster-maker Rob Mayor and the poor suffering suited Slitheen...

New Series Preview: Episode 7 – The Long Game

Interview – Bruno Langley: About Adam – As gay teenager Todd Grimshaw in Coronation Street, Bruno Langley certainly set a few hearts a-flutter. But Bruno switches Weatherfield for outer space this month, as he makes his Doctor Who début as Adam Mitchell. Benjamin Cook met up with Bruno to find out what's written in the stars for him...

New Series Preview: Episode 8 – Father's Day

New Series Preview: Episode 9 & 10 – The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, After Image – The End of the World, Off the Shelf, Production Notes by 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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