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Following its introduction in the 1970s, the VHS format established itself as the home video medium of choice. The BBC’s VHS releases would transform the world of Doctor Who fandom, as JAMIE LENMAN discovers…
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SUFFICIENT DATA
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FEATURES
The Power of the Daleks
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The Highlanders
This tale of the Jacobite Rebellion consigned Doctor Who’s historical stories to the history books…
The Macra Terror
The last of Ian Stuart Black’s trilogy on totalitarian themes, The Macra Terror is another of Doctor Who’s missing serials
Fury from the Deep
This claustrophobic tale of killer seaweed is the last Doctor Who story that’s wholly absent from the BBC archive
The Orphaned Episodes
The scattershot archiving and recovery of Doctor Who means a lot of stories are plagued with gaps. EDDIE ROBSON talks to fans who remember highlights of the so-called orphaned episodes
Black Powder
In the concluding part of this exclusive adventure, Yaz pays a terrible price for going back in time to confront Schwarz…
FEELING THE PINCH
The Macra Terror was no holiday for designer Kenneth Sharp, who had to create an alien world and monstrous crabs with limited money, space and time. SIMON GUERRIER and RHYS WILLIAMS describe how the illusion was achieved. CGI models by GAVIN RYMILL
DEPTH CHARGE
In 1972, members of the Doctor Who production team were alarmed to discover that they were being scrutinised by the Ministry of Defence. ROSSA McPHILLIPS investigates a previously untold story about the making of The Sea Devils…
WORLD BUILDING
BOB FISCHER meets the writer and artists behind the Doctor Who Atlas, a new book for younger readers
The Web of Fear
ALAN BARNES joins the Second Doctor and his similarly besieged friends as their extraordinary journey through the London Underground reaches its tense conclusion
APOCRYPHA
STEVE LYONS looks at the adventures we might have missed between television episodes
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