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Happy Times and Places

Forty years of Doctor Who Magazine! How can one quiz possibly hope to do credit to nearly 550 issues of comic strips, interviews, previews, reviews, features, cartoons, crosswords, letters, Archives, episode guides, Gallifrey Guardians, Fact of Fictions, Time Teams and pin-ups of Anthony Ainley as the Master? It can’t. It’s too big a subject. So consider this just the tip of a melting iceberg, being whittled away piece by piece. Answers next issue – no prizes, it’s just for fun!

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