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GALLIFREY GUARDIAN

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

LETTER FROM The Showrunner

Russell T Davies looks back at an incredible year for Doctor Who.

GALAXY FORUM

Your views on the world of Doctor Who...

STAR LETTER

► EDWARD POTTS, EMAIL I was delighted

WHO TUBE

THIS ISSUE’S SELECTION OF WHO- RELATED VIDEOS

THE DAFT DIMENSION

Production Diary

Script editor Scott Handcock relives the final weeks building up to Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary.

Time And Space USIUALISER

This month in... 1966 FRIDAY 7 JANUARY

MEMORY WORM

SOPHIE ALDRED

COMIC STRIP Part One

Who One ------------------------------------------------------------ For all things Doctor Who

ANNIVERSARY AUDIO

RADIO My Life in a Mixtape: Sylvester McCoy/Janet

WHOTOPIA

Make no mistake – BBC Books’ hefty 300-page

ROSE

Back in 2018, Target Books launched their range

REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN

Soundtrack Music by Carey Blyton, with Peter Howell

TIME AND THE RANI

Soundtrack Music by Keff McCulloch Silva Screen Records

SERIES 1-4 & SPECIALS BLU-RAY COLLECTION

BLU-RAY Featuring The Ninth Doctor, The Tenth Doctor

THE ART OF THE AUDIO ADVENTURES

BOOK Written by Mark Wright Big Finish Productions

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER

AUDIO DRAMA Featuring The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard

TORCHWOOD: OODUNNIT

AUDIO DRAMA Featuring Zachary Cross Flane Big Finish

THE BOX OF TERRORS

AUDIOBOOK Written by Lizzie Hopley Read by Jon

COMPETITIONS

WIN!

Game of Clones

Your essential guide to the expanded Doctor Who universe – on audio, in print and more

Mrs Wormwood

GALACTIC PERSONAE

Rebecca Root

This month, the Doctor’s Baker Street housemate encounters another Doctor altogether – plus his nemesis!

Dodo Moments

SIX OF THE BEST

Puzzled

On a barren planetoid orbiting a dying star,

Twigged

Writers Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle. The disappearance

TALKIN" BOUT BI-GENERATION

No way! It’s Ncuti Gatwa’s first day on set. Benjamin Cook witnesses TV history in the making, with Doctor Who’s new leading man and his co-stars David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Bonnie Langford and Jemma Redgrave, director Chanya Button, showrunner Russell T Davies, and more!

RUBY SUNDAY JEWEL IN THE CROWN

The companions have always been an integral part of Doctor Who, be it Rose Tyler, Barbara and Ian, Amy Pond, impossible girl Clara, Yaz or Donna. Now we’ve got a great new companion to accompany a great new Doctor. Let’s take a look at the phenomena that is Ruby Sunday!

EVEN BIGGER ON THE INSIDE

Oh, you clever thing! To celebrate the TARDIS’ most magnificent makeover yet, Paul Kirkley gets the lowdown on its creation from Joel Collins (executive producer), Phil Sims (production designer), Crissy Howes (senior art director) and David Tennant (Time Lord).

SONIC DISRUPTORS

The team behind the Fifteenth Doctor’s striking new sonic screwdriver tell Paul Kirkley how they dared to think outside the box…

BLUE BOX PETER

What happens when two British TV institutions converge in the same space-time event? Magic, of course, as Paul Kirkley discovered when he joined the Blue Peter team – and their very special guest – for an exclusive Doctor Who set tour…

A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR

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

The DWM CHRISTMAS QUIZ ANSWERS

Time to cast your mind back to that distant pre-Fifteenth Doctor era and check how you fared with our Christmas quiz. Eddie Robson has all the answers…

DOCTOR, DOCTOR!

In their only joint magazine interview anywhere in the universe, two Doctors – “cool young buck” Ncuti Gatwa and “the one that we all remember from our childhoods” David Tennant – compare notes. Benjamin Cook listens in...

FIRST CLASS POST

Ceres Doyle is post-production producer and Liv Duffin is post-production supervisor on the recent Doctor Who specials and the full series coming in the spring. They tell Simon Guerrier about the final, busy period getting episodes ready for broadcast.

CROWD SOURCING

Robbie Dunlop concludes the story of the Denton de Gray extras agency – which populated 1960s Doctor Who with innumerable Dalek slaves, neolithic tribesmen, nitespot groovers and more.