Issue Description

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE celebrates the life of ELISABETH SLADEN in a special 100-page issue, packed with rare and never-before-published photos, dedicated to the actress who played the best-loved companion of them all – Sarah Jane Smith. Among those paying tribute are Doctors TOM BAKER, DAVID TENNANT and MATT SMITH.

Tom describes Lis’ death in April as “a terrible blow,” and remembers being overwhelmed by the public reaction. “Such an outpouring of grief, the spontaneous grief of people, the extravagance of people saying how great and wonderful she was, sprang out of that shock that we’ve lost part of a culture generated by a programme that goes back… well, she was with me in 1974, and she only died this year. She was a piece of television, wasn’t she? A piece of people’s lives, their childhoods…”

ALSO THIS ISSUE:

REMEMBERING ELISABETH SLADEN Family, friends and colleagues, including BRIAN and SADIE MILLER, KATY MANNING, JOHN BARROWMAN, LOUISE JAMESON, SOPHIE ALDRED, RICHARD FRANKLIN, JOHN LEVENE, PHILIP HINCHLIFFE, TERRANCE DICKS, CHRISTOPHER BARRY, GRAEME HARPER and many more, share their personal memories of Lis.

THE DOCTOR’S BEST FRIEND
DWM takes an in-depth look at the life and times of Elisabeth Sladen, from her childhood in Liverpool, through to her starring roles in Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

THE FINAL INTERVIEW
DWM presents Elisabeth Sladen’s final magazine interview, originally conducted for Radio Times in 2010, and published here exclusively in full for the first time.

INTRODUCING MISS SMITH It was the series that saw the first appearance of Sarah Jane Smith – and the departure of the Third Doctor. DWM looks at a year of Daleks, Ice Warriors and Sontarans as COUNDOWN TO 50 reaches 1973/4’s Series Eleven

THE LAST ADVENTURES
DWM catches up with PHIL FORD, the Head Writer of THE SARAH JANE ADVENUTRES, and stars DANIEL ANTHONY, ANJLI MOHINDRA and SINEAD MICHAEL, about working with Lis and making the final series of the top-rated CBBC spin-off from Doctor Who.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Doctor Who’s showrunner STEVEN MOFFAT has some confidential thoughts to share exclusively withDWM readers in the 100th edition of Production Notes!

WORLD’S END! The Doctor, Amy and Alan Turing are on a mission to stop Chiyoko – and save the human race – in Episode 3 of the latest comic strip, THE CHILD OF TIME by Jonathan Morris with art by Martin Geraghty.

GAME ON! The Doctor on Big Brother. Rose on The Weakest Link. And Captain Jack with the makeover from hell!DWM’s TIME TEAM – Emma, Chris, Will and Michael – travels to the year 200,100 and watches the penultimate Ninth Doctor story, BAD WOLF as their mission to watch every episode in order continues!

WOTCHA, SARAH JANE! The Watcher uncovers a feast of fantastic facts about everyone’s favourite investigative journalist, in WOTCHA!

PLUS!

All the latest official news, reviews of 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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