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Welcome
A s far as I remember, the arrival
THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE
Olivia Garrett Olivia writes about The Five Doctors
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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
FEATURES
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 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
INTERVIEWS
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
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