Issue Description

HANDS UP WHO LOVES DOCTOR WHO'S NEW COSTUME!

Interview – Russell T Davies (Part 2 of 2): As executive producer and main writer of the TV sensation of 2005, Russell T Davies certainly has a lot to smile about these days! In part two of our exclusive chat, Benjamin Cook quizzes Russell on badly-placed cooling systems, being interrupted by Graham Norton, and choosing the Tenth Doctor's new look. Hoots mon, let's get started!

Comic Strip – The Cruel Sea (Part 2 of 4): The Doctor makes a surprising discovery…

Interview – Camille Coduri: Rose Tyler might be having the time of her life travelling through time and space in the TARDIS, but back home on Earth her mother Jackie has had a few close encounters of her own. Camille Coduri tells Benjamin Cook about facing Autons, Slitheens, Reapers... and flirting with Doctor Who!

Interview – Edward Thomas: The job of production designer on Doctor Who is a bit more complex than for most TV shows. Not only do you have to come up with a look for kitchens and bedrooms and all those everyday items, but you have to imagine what spaceships and aliens look like too! Edward Thomas tells Jason Arnopp about his visual imagination...

DWM 2004 Poll Results: Find out what you voted as the best of last year’s Dr Who.

Regulars: Matrix Data Bank, DWMail, The Time Team – The Invasion of Time Makers and The Ribos Operation, After Image, Further Adventures, Off the Shelf, 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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