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Welcome

1989 was a pretty good time to be a Doctor Who fan.

Gallifrey Guardian

The latest official news from every corner of the Doctor Who universe…

GALAXY FORUM

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Beyond the TARDIS

Keeping up with the cast and crew’s activities away from the series…

Reviews

Our verdict on the latest episodes and products.

Competitions

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COMING SOON

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

THE BLOGS OF DOOM

Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries of characters in the Doctor’s orbit…

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”I wanted to go right back to the original. It felt

INTO THE UNKNOWN

In 1965’s Mission to the Unknown, the Daleks exterminated a Space Security Service agent who had been stranded on a hostile planet. Soon after, the episode itself was destroyed in one of the era’s notorious archive purges. Now, more than 50 years later, history is being (re)made…

REMEMBERING GRAEME CURRY

A former Doctor Who script editor pays tribute to the writer of The Happiness Patrol, one of the most memorable stories of the 1980s.

THEATRE OF WAR

Thirty years on from the Doctor Who stage play The Ultimate Adventure, we reveal that the production began life with a very different story…

Doctor Theatre

As the 1980s drew to a close, television Doctor Who neared the end of its original run. In theatres around the UK, however, an exuberant stage show offered the series a new lease of life…

A Man For All Seasons

The late Pat Gorman made a remarkable contribution to Doctor Who. Between 1964 and 1985 this unassuming actor appeared in well over 100 episodes across 41 stories.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

DWM is available every four weeks and packed with exclusive

FOR THE RECORD

This year’s Record Store Day includes lavish editions of Doctor Who soundtracks on a format that was once considered obsolete…

THE IMAGINEER

Doctor Who has frequently relied on talented freelancers to bring its menagerie of monsters to life. In the 1980s this responsibility often fell to a company whose driving force was the late Richard Gregory.

THE TIME TEAM

”Can’t you give him a sedative?” The Time Team dreamt they could hold back death – long enough to watch the Eighth Doctor’s entire TV run.

COSPLAY The First Doctor

Doctor Who’s earliest series are often overlooked by cosplayers, but there are some convention-goers who defy convention…

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

What challenges did Andrew Ireland overcome to make the new Mission to the Unknown?

Are You Teeth Face

Samuel Oatley played terrifying Stenza warrior Tzim-Sha, the first monster encountered by the Thirteenth Doctor.

Second Act

When The Ultimate Adventure arrived at Leeds’ Grand Theatre in June 1989, a budding teenage journalist went backstage to interview Colin Baker for his Doctor Who fanzine…

OUT OF THE TARDIS

Doctor Who Magazine’s TARDIS tin contains 120 tantalising, taxing and trivial questions. Each interviewee must answer a random selection…