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Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Silurians! Queen Nefertiti! And, of course, dinosaurs on a spaceship! ALAN BARNES looks back at one of the most audacious stories of the Eleventh Doctor’s era.
A marauding velociraptor; the freighter explodes in
Earthshock
(1982); a spread from
The Doctor Who Dinosaur Book
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A s we allow ourselves some cautious optimism
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The latest official news from every corner of the Doctor Who universe
A Melody Malone Mystery
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London, 1965!
Doctor Who: Chronicles is a new series of
Public Image Update
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Ace New Website
Sophie Aldred, who played the Doctor’s companion Ace
Script Doctor
Andrew Cartmel’s account of his time working as
Galaxy Forum
Your views on the world of Doctor Who
The Daft Dimension
TIME AND SPACE VISUALISER
Each issue, the Time and Space Visualiser looks back at a landmark moment and provides updates on Doctor Who luminaries, past and present…
THE WHITE DRAGON PART FOUR
Reviews
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Competitions
WIN!
The Lone Centurion Volume One
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SUFFICIENT DATA
Crunching the numbers and big ideas of Doctor Who
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON The DWM interview
Who’s army Tracking down the old soldiers of
INTERVIEWS
COVER STORY
CHRIS ACHILLÉOS’ Target book covers were an essential part of 1970s Doctor Who. Nearly 50 years on, they’ve lost none of their power to thrill fans (and Time Lords), as PAUL KIRKLEY discovers
HOWARD’S WAY
COLIN HOWARD began his career painting covers for novelisations and VHS releases. More than 30 years later his Doctor Who artwork is still in demand, as NICK SETCHFIELD discovers
STRIPPED ASSETS
Even though MARTIN GERAGHTY has worked on a diverse range of Doctor Who comic strips – and is now contributing to the animated reconstructions of missing episodes – he tells NICK SETCHFIELD that “There’s always an overarching style of your own”
BOXING CLEVER
NICK SETCHFIELD talks to STUART CROUCH about the power of digital technology, and his collaborator ANTHONY DRY, about breathing new life into a familiar style
MOVING IMAGES
The cover art for this issue of Doctor Who Magazine was created by ANTHONY LAMB, a digital artist who tells NICK SETCHFIELD about his ongoing fascination with Daleks
FORTY-TWO TO DOOMSDAY
It was commissioned by Douglas Adams to air as part of Doctor Who’s 1979 season, but it’s taken JOHN LLOYD’s satirical tale four decades to reach realisation – as he tells GRAHAM KIBBLE-WHITE
BIG TIME
CHRIS NOTH reprised his role of Jack Robertson in the New Year’s Day Special. He tells EMILY COOK what he makes of the Doctor’s greatest foes and why he’s waving the flag for Doctor Who in America
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Autographs
JAMIE LENMAN meets the collectors whose most treasured items cost nothing more than perseverance, politeness and the price of a stamp
Hold the Phone
CHRISTOPHER DRING speaks to the people behind a new game that evokes one of Doctor Who’s greatest stories
MOONBASE 3
SIMON GUERRIER and RHYS WILLIAMS examine the studio floorplans from the 1967 story The Moonbase, highlighting designer Colin Shaw’s ingenious use of space and revealing new details about the two missing episodes
THE MYSTERY OF THE MARIE CELESTE
“To think it was true, after all, that sea-serpents really existed.”
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