Issue Description

"THE CHILDREN'S OWN PROGRAMME THAT ADULTS ADORE..."

Meet the Class of 2005!: The students of Patcham High School give us their fascinating and frank opinions of the new series of Doctor Who

Comic Strip – The Cruel Sea (Part 3 of 4): In a deserted London street, in the aftermath of an Auton invasion, 19-year-old Rose Tyler is offered the chance to travel in time and space. An offer which she declines…

Pier Pressure: This year, Doctor Who monsters galore invaded Brighton Pier. But their aim wasn't conquest or destruction – just to entertain and scare a new generation of TV viewers. Jason Arnopp takes a look behind the scenes of the Doctor Who Exhibition...

Interview – Edward Thomas: The show’s design guru takes us, episode-by-episode through the challenges of Series One and looks forward to new worlds in the company of the Tenth Doctor

Write On!: Christopher Eccleston's Doctor may have already been consigned to TV history, but here's some good news for fans of the man in the leather jacket. Three new novels featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler are published this month by BBC Books – and this time the all-dating, all-dancing Captain Jack Harkness is along for the ride too! Authors Justin Richards, Gareth Roberts and Steve Lyons tell David Darlington about The Deviant Strain, Only Human and The Stealers of Dreams...

Doctor Who Confidential: DWM reviews the first series of BBC Three’s companion show, and speaks to its producers about Series Two

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Matrix Data Bank, DWMail, The Time Team – The Pirate Planet and The Stones of Blood, Further Adventures, Off the Shelf, Production Notes with Helen Raynor

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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