Issue Description

THERE'S A NEW DOCTOR ON THE HORIZON... BUT WE'RE STILL EMBROILED IN THE MIDDLE OF A FANTASTIC SERIES OF ADVENTURES FOR THE NINTH DOCTOR

The Piper's Tale: Benjamin Cook presents highlights from Billie Piper's recent 'round table' interview with the press. “This show is essentially celebration of life,” she tells him...

Diary of a Dalek (Part 2): Last issue, we left the 7-year-old Nick Briggs trapped in a dark cell with Christopher Eccleston and director Joe Ahearne. Except that Nick is really 43 and is having the time of his life as the Dalek voice in the new series of Doctor Who... on telly and everything!

Set Report – Episode 6: Benjamin Cook ventures to a concrete bunker deep beneath the salt flats of Utah to meet the cast of Dalek. Well, that's his story…

New Series Preview: Episode 11 – Boom Town

I, Captain (and a world of innuendo): Stand well back! Captain Jack, the self-confessed 'Mr Innuendo Man', joins the TARDIS crew this month, and my word, you're going to love him! John Barrowman invites Benjamin Cook into his trailer to chat about tongue-twisters, stripping off for the cameras, and Rose Tyler's bum...

Comic Strip – The Love Invasion (Part 3): Our latest comic strip adventure concludes with the Moon facing destruction, and the Doctor a Kustollon prisoner…

New Series Preview: Episodes 12 & 13 – Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways

Word Up: BBC Books has been publishing original Doctor Who novels for almost a decade, but this month's publication of The Clockwise Man, The Monster Inside and Winner Takes All marks the first occasion that a series of books has been launched alongside the ongoing television series. Writers Stephen Cole, Justin Richards Jacqueline Rayner are no strangers to writing for previous incarnations of the Doctor – so what makes these three books different? David Darlington finds out...

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, DWMail, The Time Team – Image of the Fendahl and The Sun Makers, Further Adventures, After Image – Aliens of London, World War Three and Dalek, Off the Shelf, Next Issue, 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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