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John Bishop

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

The Power of the Daleks

On Bonfire Night 1966 Patrick Troughton made an explosive appearance as the Doctor in a serial that has since gone up in smoke

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

VHS Cassettes

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…

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

APOCRYPHA

STEVE LYONS looks at the adventures we might have missed between television episodes