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BILLIE PIPER SPEAKS!

Billie: In an exclusive, in-depth interview – her first for DWM – award-winning actress Billie Piper tells Benjamin Cook all about life in the media spotlight, love in the TARDIS, and why new Doctor David Tennant is her “little Bambi”!

Preview – The Christmas Invasion: DWM takes an exclusive look behind the scenes of the BBC’s hour-long Christmas Day special. Ho, ho, and indeed, ho!

Comic Strip – A Groatsworth of Wit (Part 2 of 2): The Ninth Doctor’s comic strip swansong reaches its conclusion

The Brand of Fear: “Based on the popular BBC-TV series!” Words to chill the blood of Doctor Who fans during the 1960s and 70s. Back then, you see, quality control, faithfulness to the series and plain common sense weren't things the makers of Doctor Who spin-off merchandise needed to have knowledge of! So, as a festive treat, Sorvad grabs his ray gun, abuses his companions and takes a fond look back at Doctor Who's maddest spin-offs. We've never had it so good!

Voice From the Vortex!: A nostalgic Dr Who Annual story. Be afraid…

2005 Review: We were promised “the trip of a lifetime,” - so how was it for you? Tom Spilsbury looks back at the year Doctor Who returned from the wilderness, and finds it to have been the most eventful in the show's 42-year history...

Script Doctors – Steven Moffat: We catch up with the writer of Season One’s DWM poll-topping two-parter, plus a look ahead to The Girl in the Fireplace.

The DWM Christmas Quiz: The Watcher returns…

Regulars: Gallifrey Guardian, Matrix Data Bank, DWMail, The Time Team – The Armageddon Factor, 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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