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Welcome

At the end of February, before life changed for everyone

THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

Martin . rst pencilled the DWM strip back in 1993

Production NOTES

Showrunner Chris Chibnall recalls the momentous day when he invited one of his predecessors to the set of Doctor Who…

At Home with Davros

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

Galactic Garments

Replicas of the knitwear worn by Jodie Whittaker’s

New Pins

Doctor Who socks and new metal pin badges decorated

Master Storytelling

This July, BBC Books will publish I Am the Master:

Series 12 Sounds

The original television soundtrack for Doctor Who’s

Record Store Massacre

Anarrated full-cast TV soundtrack of the lost 1966

Time Fracture

Tickets are now available for Doctor Who Time Fracture:

Dalek Escapades

Escape Hunt has launched a new Doctor Who escape room

Galaxy Forum

Your views on the world of Doctor Who…

WHO TUBE

This issue’s selection of Who-related videos…

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

Derek Fowlds, the popular actor best known for Yes

THIS MONTH IN… 1976

The dead Viking is laid upon a funeral pyre in the

ALSO THIS MONTH

Tuesday the 20th Mime artiste Sylveste [sic] McCoy

Public iMaGE

The latest update on Doctor Who’s ratings looks at the closing episodes of Series 12.

Exploration Earth THE TIME MACHINE

The adventures we might have missed between television episodes…

Reviews

Our verdict on the latest episodes and products.

Audio Frequencies

• Donna Noble: Kidnapped!

Talking Book

Featuring the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith

Competitions

The competitions are free to enter. Just visit the DWM website and follow the links: doctorwhomagazine.com/competitions

CRY OF THE VULTRISS AUDIO DRAMA

New from Big Finish is Cry of the Vultriss, a full-cast

THE LOST TV EPISODES: COLLECTION THREE – 1966-1967 SOUNDTRACKS

The third box set in BBC Audio’s The Lost TV Episodes

SUSAN’S WAR AUDIO DRAMA

Carole Ann Ford and William Russell reprise their roles

THE MASSACRE VINYL

The narrated full-cast TV soundtrack of the 1966 story

Holmes Away From Home

From its conception, Robert Valentine’s script for

Scorched Earth

RRP £14.99 (CD), £12.99 (download)

Regeneration Impossible

RRP £2.99 (download)

The New Counter-Measures: The Dalek Gambit

RRP £10.99 (CD), £8.99 (download)

Upcoming Releases

► Scorched Earth [Sixth Doctor] by Chris Chapman Big

THE Blogs of Doom

Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries of characters in the Doctor’s orbit… #30: HieronymousThe Masque of Mandragora (1976)

TRAVELS IN TIME AND TERROR

Welcome to an all-new poster special about your favourite

THE SECRET LIFE OF LEELA…….

“We wanted Raquel Welch in the jungle, handy with a

NASTIER THAN EVER BEFORE!

A cadaverous, skull-like face… Hoarse, laboured breathing…

THE MAKING OF DOCTOR WHO

Despite rising inflation, the 1976-77 season looked

ANOTHER SPECIAL MONSTER-PACKED ISSUE!

The 1970s were the heyday of the poster magazine. For

THE END OF INNOCENCE

In 1976, Tom Baker’s Doctor Who was front and centre during a golden age of British television. But just over the horizon, a war was looming…

The End of Innocence

So what rivals for viewers’ aff ections did Doctor

IDENTITY PARADE

Though there are arguably more problematic stories

TOP OF THE LEAGUE

BBC1 scheduling in the mid-1970s was a funny old game

Season 14 Diary

Doctor Who enjoyed a huge public profile from 1976 to 1977. This is a fan’s-eye view of the months that spanned the broadcast of Season 14…

PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY

In The Timeless Children it was revealed that the Doctor had once worked for a mysterious Time Lord agency called ‘the Division’. But long-term viewers have known about the Doctor’s secret missions for nearly 50 years…

LONE GUNMAN

The main narrative plotline of The Deadly Assassin

Dr Who AND THE Hell Planet

The 31 December 1976 edition of the Daily Mirror included a new short story by one of Doctor Who’s most influential writers and script editors. The adventure bears all the hallmarks of a style that was already familiar from the author’s acclaimed Target books, but it has been largely overlooked for the last 43 years. Dr Who and the Hell Planet is reprinted here for the  rst time…

AFTER IMAGE Series 12

Jodie Whittaker’s second run of stories took a deep dive into Doctor Who mythology – and delivered plenty of seismic shocks along the way.

SPYFALL Parts One and Two

The Fam are attempting (like Amy, Rory, Clara and Bill

AFTER IMAGE

Every season needs at least one proper, ocean-going

ORPHAN 55

Offered all the wonders of time and space, Graham still

NIKOLA TESLA’S NIGHT OF TERROR

The Doctor has always wanted to meet Nikola Tesla

FUGITIVE OF THE JUDOON

The Doctor has been secretly visiting the ruins of

PRAXEUS

Splitting up to investigate feral birds, alien signals

CAN YOU HEAR ME?

The Doctor and her friends encounter terrifying visions

THE HAUNTING OF VILLA DIODATI

The Cyberium, containing all Cyber-knowledge, has been

ASCENSION OF THE CYBERMEN THE TIMELESS CHILDREN

The Doctor and her friends head to the future Cyber-War

Tooth and Claw

In 2006 showrunner Russell T Davies brought Doctor Who back to the Gothic territory that had defined some of the series’ greatest successes.

Essential Info

► Tooth and Claw didn’t feature in writer and showrunner

ZAHN UND KLAUE

At 11m 29s, Queen Victoria describes how Sir Robert

WHEN THE WOLF-BANE BLOOMS…

“Wolf’s-bane, what about that?” asks Rose, while the

SHOOT TO KILL

Director Michael E Briant shares his grand designs for The Robots of Death, the classic Fourth Doctor story originally broadcast in 1977.

ROSE’S ROBOTS

“In February this year,” says Michael, “I was in Los

Family Values

With the passing of Elisabeth Sladen in 2011 it seemed that Sarah Jane’s adventures had come to an end. However, a new chapter will begin when Elisabeth’s daughter Sadie Miller appears alongside Tom Baker in a new Big Finish production…

MUM AND DAD

“I don’t know if people think of actors in a certain