Issue Description

ALEX KINGSTON TALKS EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE!

Doctor Who Magazine 439 previews the astonishing climax to the current series, THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG, and interviews star Alex Kingston (River Song) about her forthcoming nuptials...

“Towards the end of this episode, we have one of the most exciting sequences we’ve ever done,” Alex reveals. “While this battle is going on, there are scenes between the Doctor, River, Amy and Rory where the final jigsaw pieces are put in place. Um…” She’s choosing her words carefully now. “Let’s put it this way: there’s a big revelation about River, and River gets a big revelation about the Doctor…”

ALSO THIS ISSUE:

BUSINESS UNUSUAL
DWM catches up with GARETH ROBERTS and finds out about his latest episode, CLOSING TIME, his forthcoming novelisation of Douglas Adams’ SHADA, and how to write for the most complex character on TV – the Doctor!

THE GIRL WHO WAITED – AND THE BOY WHO WROTE IT
DWM chats to KAREN GILLAN and ARTHUR DARVILL, Amy and Rory Pond, about the heart-breaking episode THE GIRL WHO WAITED – and interviews the story’s writer TOM MacRAE about his remarkable script, the immersive theatre production CRASH OF THE ELYSIUM and the secrets of creating great drama.

PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW STEVEN MOFFAT, Doctor Who’s showrunner, says fond farewells and recalls initial encounters with two of the most important people on the show in PRODUCTION NOTES.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED What do Buddy Holly, Alan Turning and the dodo have in common? Discover the answer in the second part of the thrilling new comic strip adventure THE CHILD OF TIME, by Jonathan Morris with art by Martin Geraghty.

PAST AND FUTURE GLORIES DWM revisits Doctor Who’s tenth season – five fantastic stories, featuring Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor, that celebrated the past and lay seeds for the future – as COUNTDOWN TO 50 continues.

DELETE! DELETE! 108 episodes of Doctor Who have been wiped from the archives and no longer exist. That’s terrible, right? Or is it? DWM’s JONNY CANDON and TOBY HADOKE argue the surprising pros and cons in the latest BATTLE OF WITS.

IT’LL BE ALL REICH ON THE NIGHT River Song herself, ALEX KINGSTON, takes DWM behind the scenes of LET’S KILL HITLER and reveals her thoughts on River’s past – and future – in Doctor Who…

YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH! A creepy clown, Weeping Angels and a marauding Minotaur – yes, it’s possibly the weirdest story this year, THE GOD COMPLEX! DWM chats on set to the cast and crew of this a-maze-ing tale, including stars MATT SMITH, KAREN GILLAN and ARTHUR DARVILL, writer TOBY WHITHOUSE and the Minotaur itself – SPENCER WILDING.

THE FINAL ADVENTURES PHIL FORD, head writer on THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES, gives DWM readers an exclusive preview of what to expect in all three stories of the fifth and final series of the popular CBBC spin-off from Doctor Who.

EXCUSE DAVID, HE’S A BIT OF A FAN… DAVID WALLIAMS, star of THE GOD COMPLEX, talks about his memorable role as the cowardly alien, Gibbis, and confesses his long-term love of all things Doctor Who.

BOOM! BOOM! Emma, Chris, Michael and Will take a trip to sunny Wales and watch the Ninth Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack and Mickey take on Margaret Slitheen – what on Earth will THE TIME TEAM make of BOOM TOWN?

PLUS! All the latest official news, TV and merchandise reviews, previews, competitions, a 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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