Issue Description

THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE NEW SERIES OF DOCTOR WHO, PREVIEWED IN DWM 491!

Doctor Who Magazine exclusively previews the first four episodes of the new series: The Magician's Apprentice & The Witch's Familiar and Under the Lake & Before the Flood...

Under the Lake and Before the Flood form Toby Whithouse's first two-part Doctor Who story – and it hinges on time travel – and fairly mind-bending time travel at that. While plotting and writing, did Toby ever come to regret taking the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey route?

"Oh never, I loved it! I've always wanted to do a timey-wimey episode," he says. "In fact, it was going to be a lot more timey-wimey, but we lost some of that before we started filming. It's enormous fun to deposit something in a script, then have the reason for it happen later."

This is also the first story that Toby's written to star Peter Capaldi as the Doctor.

"I think he's the most 'alien' Doctor we've had since the show came back," says Toby. "Even though the essentials of the character remain the same – his heroism, his brilliance, his enthusiasm – he feels to me like much more of an outsider than Chris Eccleston or David Tennant or Matt Smith were. He's more strange and otherwordly. That's really interesting to play with."

ALSO INSIDE THE BUMPER 100-PAGE ISSUE 491...

TARDIS TAKE-OFF!The Doctor's days off and the TARDIS' take off – showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers' questions.CLARA OSWALD'S 100 IMPOSSIBLE FACTS
She has been something of 'a mystery wrapped in an enigma' but we've got to know Clara better than you might think. Jonathan Morris summarises everything we know about the Impossible Girl.MONSTERS OF THE MILLENNIUM
How do you go about making monsters for Doctor Who? Millennium FX prosthetic effects supervisor Kate Walshe reveals all!LEGO DIMENSIONS!
Official Lego products and a brand new video game.... Doctor Who is about to enter a new dimension. DWM talks to the team behind the project.BEST DRESSED TIME LORD
DWM interviews costume designer Ray Holman, the man behind the Twelfth Doctor's new look."GOOD GRIEF!"
As the Third Doctor returns for a brand new series of audio adventures, DWM talks to the man who is recreating the role made famous by Jon Pertwee: Tim Treolar.THE WAR GAMES
The Fact of Fiction explores the Second Doctor's final story, a 10-part epic which threw the Doctor and his companions back into the events of the First World War.JUNGLE FEVER!
The adventure continues in the brand-new comic strip adventure, Spirits of the Jungle, by Jonathan Morris, illustrated by John Ross.WHO HOMEWORK
Jacqueline Rayner makes her kids' summer homework fun with an exciting Doctor Who project in her regular column, Relative Dimensions.MISSING IN ACTION
Graham Kibble-White reviews The Macra Terror, a Second Doctor story missing from the BBC archives.COMING SOON
DWM talks to the people involved in the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases, including Justin Richards and Miranda Raison.THE UNEXPLAINED
The Watcher reflects on past Doctors and anticipates the new series of Doctor Who in Wotcha!.PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions and The DWM Crossword.AND! A giant-sized, double-sided poster!

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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