Issue Description

Doctor Who Magazine 433 comes in a choice of FOUR collectable covers – one each featuring the Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song. And – spoilers! – in a staggering plot twist, DWM can confirm that ONE of those four characters will DIE in the first episode of the new series, which transmits on BBC One at Easter!

“You see those four different covers for this month’s Doctor Who Magazine?,” says Doctor Who’s head writer, Steven Moffat. “We’re not lying, we’re not cheating. One of those four people is going to die. The Doctor’s darkest hour is coming.”

The new issue of DWM features a full and exclusive interview with the programme’s executive producer and head writer.

“Shows like Doctor Who should have big, colourful, memorable moments that make you go, ‘What the hell -?’” Steven explains. “Well this is one of them. If you’re not going ‘What the hell -?’ it’s business as usual, but it’s hard to create a shock in Doctor Whowhen we’ve already blown up the universe a couple of times! What do you do next? When I came up with this incredible, heart-wrenching twist, I thought, ‘We kill off one of the leads in the season opener! Who’s going to stop watching at that point?’ It lures you in.”

ALSO THIS ISSUE:

THE WHOLE OF THE MOON!
DWM previews the incredible opening story of the new season, THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT/DAY OF THE MOON, and talks to stars MATT SMITH, KAREN GILLAN and ARTHUR DARVILL, as well as writer STEVEN MOFFAT and director TOBY HAYNES!

AUTHOR, AUTHOR! STEVEN MOFFAT reveals more about the writers he’s chosen to script the first seven episodes of the new season – and drops several tantalising hints along the way! – in PRODUCTION NOTES.

SHH, YOU KNOW WHO... Go behind the scenes of DOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL, as series producer, GILLANE SEABORNE and producer ZOE RUSHTON give DWM readers a sneak peak of the new season of BBC Three’s making-of show!

LOST AND FOUND Ever wonder what Doctor Who would have been like had it continued into the 1990s? DWM has the answer, as it talks to writer ANDREW CARTMEL, and actors SOPHIE ALDRED and BETH CHALMERS – stars of a brand new season of audio dramas of THE LOST STORIES, featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Raine!

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS THE TIME TEAM’s quest takes them to Number 10 Downing Street, as they watch the Ninth Doctor and Rose encounter flatulent aliens and a space pig in ALIENS OF LONDON!

AMERICAN DREAM! It was the only TV outing for the Eighth Doctor – but what an outing it was! Grab onto your motorbike and make sure you’re drezzed for the occasion as THE FACT OF FICTION takes a detailed look at the 1996 TV MOVIE!

A BATTLE OF WITS The TV Movie revealed that the Doctor is half-human – on his mother’s side! But is this revelation quite as shocking as seems? TOBY HADOKE and JOHNNY CANDON weigh up the pros and cons in A BATTLE OF WITS!

ALL CHANGE! It was the most ambitious and important series of Doctor Who to date – 1966/7’s Season Four, the series which introduced the Cybermen, killed off the Daleks and featured the first ever regeneration!DWM remembers this pivotal set of stories as COUNTDOWN TO 50 continues!

NIGHTMARE HOLIDAY! The Doctor and Amy take a trip to the seaside in the swinging 60s... Or do they? There’s a bad trip just around the corner in FOREVER DREAMING, a psychedelic new comic strip by JONATHAN MORRIS, illustrated by ADRIAN SALMON!

EEEEVIL – INFINITE EVIL!
DWM catches up with the Master himself, GEOFFREY BEEVERS, and find out not only about his own performance in 1981’s THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN, but also what he thinks about the other Masters...

PLUS! All the latest official news, previews, reviews, competitions, more madness from the Watcher, another prize-winning crossword, 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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