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I Love the Bones of You: My Father and the M aking of M e

Simon & Schuster RRP £20 Written by Christopher

Coming Soon …

We talk to the talents behind the upcoming Doctor Who releases.

Happy Tim es and Places

Last issue, we tested your know ledge of Doctor W ho M agazine’s 40-year history. Here are the answ ers to all those endish questions…

THE Blog s of Doom

Sneaky peeks into the se cre t diaries of characters in the Doctor’s orbit…

THE WORLD CUP OF THE DALEKS

Thirty-two Dalek stories – but only one can emerge to take its rightful place as the supreme Dalek story in a World Cup-style knockout tournament…

Knockout Stage

As the tournament progressed, recent favourites were pitted against classics from the earliest decades of the show’s history…

Quarter Finalists

These stories didn’t have what it took to win our tournament, but each one is a classic in its own right…

Remembrance of the Daleks

In a close final round, this story gained a 44 per cent share of 4,493 votes to become our runner-up…

Genesis of the Daleks

Despite strong competition, our poll confirms that fans still regard Genesis as the finest of all Dalek stories. But how would contemporary audiences have perceived it? And what place did it occupy in the television landscape of the mid-1970s?…

THE Five Best Dalek Variants

Alongside the familiar ranks of Dalek drones and supreme leaders live the outliers of Skaroene society…

THE Five Best Dalek Comic-Strip Stories

Dalek comic strips are among the earliest examples of Doctor Who merchandise. Here are five of the best, beginning in the 1960s…

THE Five Best Dalek Audio Adventures

Withtheir grating voices and distinctive sound eff ects, the Daleks are just as eff ective on audio as they are on television.

THE Five Best Exterminations

Most exterminations are of unnamed, even unseen characters. Many Dalek victims go unrecognised and unmourned. But here are a few who stand out…

THE Five Best Dalek Toys

As arguably Doctor W ho’s greatest icon, it was inevitable that Daleks’ invasions of Earthwould include Britain’s toy shops…

“Come on, Ace, we’ve got work to do!”

The Prom ise, a new trailer for the Season 26 Blu-ray box set, sees the return of the SeventhDoctor’s com panion, Ace. Its author reveals how the story cam e about.

THE END OF INFINITY

Video gam e developer Tiny Rebel says goodbye to Doctor W ho withtw o nal stories for its In nity project…

Carnival of Monsters

Roll up, roll up, for a peepshow w here the Doctor and Jo Grant discover that sm all isn’t always beautiful…

Dimensions in Time

The job of redes igning the ThirteenthDoctor’s TARDIS went to production designer Arwel Jones. During the production of Series 11, he gave us a tour of the new -look sh ip…

A ceof Hearts

For Sophie Aldred, the on-screen revival of her m ost fam ous role was an em otional experience.

Somewhere there’s Injustice…

Next m onth, it’ll be 30 years since the axe fell on Doctor W ho – just as the show was enjoying som ething of a renaissance. “W e were beneathcontem pt”, lam ents late-1980s script editor Andrew Cartm el.