Issue Description

Doctor Who Magazine 415 TAKE A TRIP TO MARS IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 415!

LINDSAY DUNCAN, aka Captain Adelaide Brooke of Bowie Base One, reveals in an exclusive interview in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 415 how her character is put under pressure in the new Doctor Who Special The Waters of Mars…

DWM asked Lindsay, what was it like working with David Tennant? “His energy levels are so high. You think, oh God! In terms of my character, but also in terms of myself, the actor, I desperately wanted to keep up with him, but I have to admit it – I can’t run as fast as him! But I gave it a good shot. I didn’t want Adelaide to drop the ball. I didn’t want her to show any kind of weakness…”

Also in DWM 415:

SPACE ODDITY

DWM previews of the latest Doctor Who Special, THE WATERS OF MARS and finds out from writers Russell T Davies and Phil Ford about what the future holds for the Doctor…

HEROES

RUSSELL T DAVIES pays his own personal tribute to former Doctor Who producer, director and writer Barry Letts in Production Notes.

HALLO SPACEBOY

DWM reveals the the long-awaited results of the competition to ‘Be a Doctor Who Magazine reporter’, and follows the winner as she gets to go behind the scenes of the series – and chat to David Tennant and Russell T Davies!

DEAD MAN WALKING

The Doctor and Majenta uncover the terrifying secret behind the apparitions in the London Underground in Part Two of the latest comic strip, GHOSTS OF THE NORTHERN LINE by Dan McDaid with art by Paul Grist.

WITHOUT YOU

How different would things be if the TARDIS hadn’t taken the Doctor on some of his adventures? Neil Harris uncovers the surprising truth in You Are Not Alone…

SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)

Doctor Who stories that nearly made it onto TV are being made at last! DWM investigates how scripts featuring Sil, the Ice Warriors, the Celestial Toymaker and many more are now being realised on audio…

LOVING THE ALIEN

The Watcher continues his essential guide to the Time Lord’s many incarnations and uncovers everything you ever needed to know about the northern Ninth Doctor…

TIN MACHINE II

What happened K9 get into battle against a robotic parrot? Find out as The Fact of Fiction looks at Douglas Adams’ memorable Fourth Doctor story from 1978 – THE PIRATE PLANET.

STARMAN

DWM chats exclusively to actor MARK WILLIAMS, who brings the much-loved comic strip character of UFO spotter Maxwell Edison to life in the latest Doctor Who audio adventure!

PLUS!

All the latest news, previews, reviews, competitions and much, much more!

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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