Issue Description

MATT SMITH, ELISABETH SLADEN, KATY MANNING AND RUSSELL T DAVIES TALK ABOUT THE ‘DEATH OF THE DOCTOR’ – EXCLUSIVELY IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 427!

DEATH OF THE DOCTOR is a brand new story for THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES, starring ELISABETH SLADEN and written by RUSSELL T DAVIES. The story features not only MATT SMITH as the Doctor, but also the return of KATY MANNING as Jo Jones (nee Grant!).

“It’s incredible,” says Matt, or working with his two co-stars. “You realise what a wonderful legacy you are part of, and how much it affects people. Just the very notion of the Doctor and the companion. It makes me feel quite warm that I get to work with two companions who have worked with two really great Doctors...”

Also this issue:

BAKER, HUDSON AND CROISSANTS!

The Fourth Doctor himself, the legendary TOM BAKER is out to lunch with costume designer JUNE HUDSON in the streets of Soho, London! DWM tags along and discovers a wealth of stories about Seagulls, Ice Queens and crumbly pastries… not to mention Tom’s return as the Doctor in DEMON QUEST! Not to be missed!

NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT!

They’re everyone’s favourite race of militaristic clones! Yes, the secrets of those squat, troll-like monstrosities, THE SONTARANS, are finally revealed, as THE WATCHER’S GUIDE presents the definitive low-down on one of the Doctor’s most enduring foes!

YOUNG, HANDSOME AND SMART!
DWM meets FINN JONES, who plays Jo Grant’s grandson Santiago in DEATH OF THE DOCTOR, to talk monsters, Matt Smith – and the possibility of his character’s return to the series…

RAIN GODS, DALEKS AND LEGS!What have rain gods, Daleks and Karen Gillan’s legs got in common? Find out, as NEIL GAIMAN writes exclusively in DWM about his much-anticipated Doctor Who episode in PRODUCTION NOTES!

MONSTERS, MUSIC AND MAYHEM!

It’s the show of the century! DWM goes behind the scenes of the brand new touring production, DOCTOR WHO LIVE, and talks to stars MATT SMITH, NIGEL PLANER and NICHOLAS BRIGGS, and writer GARETH ROBERTS about the spectacular stage show!

AXONS, UNIT AND HAVOC!

Things look grim for the Doctor and Amy as the Axons invade Tokyo! It’s action all the way as the thrilling new comic strip, THE GOLDEN ONES by Jonathan Morris and Martin Geraghty continues!

BRIGADIERS, TURLOUGH AND TIMEY-WIMEY CONFUSION!

THE FACT OF FICTION journeys back to 1983 and 1977, to look at the time-bending, Bliovitch-limiting, UNIT-dating-controversy-causing Fifth Doctor adventure MAWDRYN UNDEAD – and reveals all you need to know to make sense of the temporal paradoxes presented!

PLUS! Doctor Who’s executive producer and head writer STEVEN MOFFAT tells DWM all the latest official news; the latest DVDs and CDs are previewed; merchandise reviews; prize-winning 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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