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THE 2021 YEARBOOK

Even more than the regular issues of Doctor Who Magazine

The Year of the Doctor

From the revelations of The Timeless Children to surviving lockdown and embarking on Series 13 in the midst of a pandemic… JODIE WHITTAKER tells EMILY COOK how she’s dealt with a year like no other.

No Time to Die

“You missed me, right?” 2020 saw the long-awaited return of Captain Jack Harkness to Doctor Who.JOHN BARROWMAN talks to EMILY COOKabout keeping secrets - and keeping his famous character alive.

Spyfall Part One

When intelligence agents across the world come under attack from alien forces, MI6 calls in the Doctor… who’s soon drawn into a trap by an old enemy.

Khan-Do Atti tude

Prior to the broadcast of Spyfall, MANDIP GILLtalked to EMILY COOK about new challenges for her character Yaz and a memorable location shoot.

Spyfall Part Two

With the Master wreaking havoc, the Doctor trapped in the past and her friends on the run, our heroes face a desperate race against time to save humanity from extinction.

Life of Ryan

TOSIN COLE spoke to EMILY COOK about Spyfall at a press event in December 2019.

Orphan 55

Welcome to Tranquillity Spa. This exclusive retreat on the planet Orphan 55 is somewhere to escape all your stresses and anxieties. Or is it?

What We Did on Our Holiday

Writer ED HIME and actor LAURA FRASER talk to EMILY COOK about the making of Orphan 55.

Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror

The Doctor and her friends visit Gilded Age New York - where alien scorpions on a quest for ultimate power are headhunting a maverick inventor…

Fugitive of the Judoon

Everyone’s favourite space rhino police have arrived in Gloucester on the hunt for an intergalactic fugitive. The Doctor arrives to stop the situation escalating - only to discover a shocking secret that forces her to question everything she’s ever held to be true…

THE LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY

The owners of West Usk Lighthouse in south Wales achieved a life-long ambition when their family home featured in Fugitive of the Judoon.FRANK SHEAHAN tells EMILY COOK about a top-secret location shoot.

Praxeus

Investigating the connections between a missing astronaut in the Indian Ocean, birds going haywire in Peru and a US naval offi cer washed up on a Madagascan beach, the Doctor uncovers a deadly threat to the entire human race.

URBAN SPACEMAN

WARREN BROWN and MATTHEW McNULTY, who play on-screen partners Jake Willis and Adam Lang in Praxeus, tell EMILY COOK about guest-starring in Doctor Who.

Can You Hear Me?

From medieval Aleppo to present-day Sheffi eld, humans are being tortured by monsters. According to the TARDIS, however, the monsters don’t exist…

BEST MAIES

In Series 12 we met Ryan’s friend Tibo. BOUM TIHNGANG tells EMILY COOK about the way he approached the role and the importance of science flction in storytelling.

The Haunting of Villa Diodati

Lake Geneva, 1816: the Doctor and friends witness the birth of a legend. Nobody mention Frankenstein, and nobody snog Byron!

Tales of the Dead

MAXINE ALDERTON, the writer of The Haunting of Villa Diodati, talks to CLAUDIA BOLEYN about her spine-chilling story.

Ascension of the Cybermen

Having failed to heed Jack’s warning and stop the Lone Cyberman, the Doctor tries to atone by saving the remnants of humanity from Cyber-genocide in the far future…

Latent Talent

The Radiophonic Workshop, which provided special sounds and incidental music for Doctor Who’s first three decades, has been busy during lockdown. TIM WORTHINGTON tunes in.

The Timeless Children

In the ruins of Gallifrey the Master makes a shocking claim about the Doctor’s origins - and creates a monstrous race of Cybermen/Time Lord hybrids…

DRAWN TO DONATE

Artist SOPHIE ILES explains how her love of Doctor Who helped her to raise money for those in need during lockdown.

ANIMATION OF THE DALEKS

BBC Studios’ Time Lord Victorious saga includes a five-part YouTube series. The animation’s co-directors, PETER CADDOCK and JON DOYLE, show EMILY COOK how they brought Daleks! to life.

IN MEMORIAM

JONATHAN RIGBY pays tribute to the Doctor Who luminaries who passed away between December 2019 and November 2020.

“You are the Timeless Child”

For some younger viewers, Series 12 will become their earliest memory of Doctor Who. JONATHAN MORRIS reflects on how perceptions may change over the years…

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