Survival Part Three aired on BBC1 on 6 December 1989 – and for once there was no on-screen announcement that the show would be returning for another series the following year. As the 1990s dawned, Doctor Who faced a very uncertain future. Issue 157 of DWM highlighted the ambiguity, with a cover depicting puppet versions of Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, and the headline ‘Ssh! Who knows?’ The puppets had previously appeared on another DWM cover a year earlier. John Freeman explains how this had come about...