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READ PETER CAPALDI'S MOST EXTENSIVE AND REVEALING INTERVIEW TO DATE, ONLY IN DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 477!

In a bumper-sized 100-page issue, DWM catches up on set with the PETER CAPALDI – the new Doctor Who.

Doctor Who Magazine asked Peter how he has gone about making the part of the Doctor his own...

"Well," says Peter, "you begin with yourself. You begin with those elements of yourself that you feel would be at home in the role. There's an old actors' adage that you don't become the role, the role becomes you. It's trying to find those parts of you that will fit with the Doctor, and understand those bits that don't come so naturally to you, that you have to fabricate. I kept looking for people in my life who I thought had elements of the Doctor about them, and were inspirational in some ways. I composed a list of those..."

"Also, it's recognising what's been written," Peter continues. "My Doctor is written slightly differently from some of the other Doctors, and the Doctor changes quite dramatically from episode to episode. Some demand more of your comedy chops, graver or more serious episodes demand a more sombre creature. All these variations have to live in the same body, in the same face. Putting all that together is tricky..."

ALSO THIS ISSUE:

Read extensive previews of the first four episodes of the new series – Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood and Listen – as DWM talks exclusively to writers STEVEN MOFFAT, PHIL FORD and MARK GATISS.Doctor Who showrunner STEVEN MOFFAT answers readers' questions and reveals more behind-the-scenes secrets in his exclusive column.DWM reunites former Doctor and companion team TOM BAKER and LOUISE JAMESON with their producer, PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE, to chat about the new Doctor Who adventures that they're working on, and reminisce about the 1970s adventures.LOUISE JAMESON writes a very special letter to herself, exclusively for Doctor Who Magazine.A brand new comic strip begins: The Eye of Torment written by Scott Gray, illustrated by Martin Geraghty.DWM examines the unique scrapbooks of PETER HAWKINS, the man who was the voice of the Daleks in the 1960s.The Fact of Fiction takes a detailed look at the 1964 First Doctor adventure, The Reign of Terror.Legendary writer TERRANCE DICKS talks about his later work on Doctor Who – and what he thinks of the series today.The Time Team face an unknown horror as they watch the 2008 Tenth Doctor adventure Midnight.Jacqueline Rayner writes on the perils of watching Doctor Who on a dodgy TV in Relative Dimensions.The Watcher extols the virtues of not giving in to temptation in Wotcha!Reviews and previews of the latest CDs and books.Official news, the DWM crossword, prize-winning competitions and much more!PLUS! A giant, double-sided poster, featuring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor!

Doctor Who Magazine (1979)

Publisher

Panini Comics

Volume Description

AKA Doctor Who Weekly/Doctor Who Monthly

Publication history

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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