THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

Welcome

A s far as I remember, the arrival

SUBSCRIPTIONS

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Raising the Devils

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

“Excellent, Scibus …”

Character Options has announced its first online exclusive

Stephen Noonan is the Doctor!

Former Royal Shakespeare Company member Stephen Noonan has

Read the Room

Showrunners Chris Chibnall, Steven Moffat and Russell T

Dead Wax

Demon Records has announced two new additions to

Galaxy Forum

Your views on the world of Doctor Who

STAR LETTER

► DANI, REBECCA and JOHN (CO-HOSTS OF

The Daft Dimension

WHO TUBE

This issue’s selection of Who-related videos

ON TWITTER…

@LittleWhoGirl Finally got around to constructing the Fifth

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…

OBITUARIES

Valentine Palmer Stephen Churchett Valentine Palmer, who played

ALSO THIS MONTH

Matthew Waterhouse, Janet Fielding, Anthony Ainley and Sarah

COMIC STRIP

Audio Frequencies

Our verdict on the latest episodes and products

Revenge of the Cybermen

Audiobook Featuring The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith

Sleeper Agents

Audiobook Featuring Ben and Polly Written by Paul

Competitions

Your chance to bag the latest Who goodies!

Coming Soon …

We talk to the talents behind the upcoming Doctor Who releases

Upcoming Releases

AUDIOS

SUFFICIENT DATA

Crunching the numbers and big ideas of Doctor Who

Legend in the Making

Exclusive preview of the next Doctor Who Special

The Trials of a Script Editor

How difficult is it finding suitable scripts for “the hardest show on TV to write”? Very difficult indeed, if newly discovered paperwork from the 1980s Doctor Who production office is anything to go by… “It defeats a lot of writers,” former script editor ERIC SAWARD tells PAUL KIRKLEY

Man of Letters

Selected highlights from Eric Saward’s correspondence, 1983-85

The WORLD CUP of the FIFTH DOCTOR

It’s just not cricket, is it? And it’s not football either – it’s the latest of DWM’s Twitter World Cups. This time we focused on the Fifth Doctor, pitting his 20 television stories against each other in a series of polls on the @DWMtweets account in early February. The final attracted well over 2,500 votes. So join us for some post-match analysis with EDDIE ROBSON

QUARTER FINALISTS

As the battle for supremacy gathered pace, a number of clear favourites emerged. We asked our panel of experts what set these stories apart from their rivals

Mawdryn Undead

With its many mysteries and exciting cast of

Resurrection of the Daleks

The Fifth Doctor’s only confrontation with the Daleks

The Visitation

Michael Robbins guest stars as Richard Mace in

QUARTER FINALS

MATCH 9 Match 1 winner v Match 2

SEMI FINALISTS Enlightenment

A ship sails through space in Enlightenment (1983).

SEMI FINALS

MATCH 13 Match 9 winner v Match 10

The Five Doctors

Four incarnations of the Doctor (Richard Hurndall, Peter

EARTHSHOCK

2ND PLACE

The CAVES of ANDROZANI

1ST PLACE

The Five Best MONSTERS

MARK WRIGHT selects his personal favourites from the Fifth Doctor’s extra-terrestrial foes

The Five Best COMIC STRIPS

The Fifth Doctor starred in some of the greatest comic strips from the pages of DWM and its predecessors. PAUL SCOONES revisits the very best stories

The Five Best AUDIO STORIES

MATT MICHAEL curates a list of audio highlights, including a classic that helped to inspire one of the Tenth Doctor’s television stories

Figurines

A number of licensees specialise in collectables that look like action figures, but are actually quite different. JAMIE LENMAN discovers why some fans prefer their Doctor Who figures with less articulation

Radio Control

There’s a new way to experience the BBC’s ever-growing online archive. EDDIE ROBSON goes in search of its best Doctor Who content…

SILVER SCREEN

The opening episode of 1968’s The Wheel in Space is missing from the BBC archives – but RHYS WILLIAMS and SIMON GUERRIER have forensically examined the surviving photos to establish how the sets would have looked in the studio. CGI models by RHYS WILLIAMS and GAVIN RYMILL

The Waters of Mars

Revealing the secrets of the Doctor’s adventures – scene by scene

CATALOGUE OF EVENTS

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

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME

In the concluding part of PAUL KIRKLEY’s interview with MATT STREVENS, the outgoing executive producer teases the remaining Thirteenth Doctor Specials and explains why he’s proud to have been “a little part of history”

Invasion Plans

Spencer Chapman, who died in January aged 84, designed the 1960s productions The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Space Museum. In this previously unpublished interview conducted in July 1995, he told PHIL NEWMAN about the challenges he faced – and an intriguing special effect that was never seen