The Curse of Fatal Death

Welcome

As the anxieties and hardships of 2020 linger on into

THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

Amanda-Rae was born in 1989, the year the original

Gallifrey Guardian

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Daleks! on YouTube

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Revolutionary Figures

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Rock On

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Dalek Strategy

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The Daft Dimension

WHO TUBE

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OBITUARIES

Barbara Windsor, who played herself playing Peggy Mitchell

THIS MONTH IN… 1996 WEDNESDAY 10 JANUARY

So it wasn’t Baywatch half-man, half-mullet David Hasselhoff

ALSO THIS MONTH

Jon Pertwee returned as the Third Doctor, alongside

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I Am the Master

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COLONY OF FEAR AUDIO DRAMA

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THE HAND OF FEAR AUDIOBOOK

Pamela SaleMreads Terrance Dicks’ novelisation of Bob

THE DIARY OF RIVER SONG: SERIES 8 AUDIO DRAMA

Alex Kingston stars in four new audio adventures released

Coming Soon …

We talk to the talents behind the upcoming Doctor Who releases.

Gallifrey: Time War Volume Four

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RECASTING RASSILON

During the Time War, one of the founders of the Time

The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10 - Volume 2

Comprises: The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook by Andrewsmith

Upcoming Releases

The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 10 - Volume 2

The DWM Christmas Quiz THE ANSWERS

Last issue, JONATHAN M ORRIS devised a endish set of questions for our annual quiz. Now we’ve all recovered from the festivities, here are the ansWers…

THE Blogs of Doom

Sneaky peeks into th e se c re t diaries of characters in th e Doctor’s orbit…

STUDIO 84

RUSSELL T DAVIES is recreating some classic 1980s Doctor Who for his new Channel 4 drama. BENJAMIN COOK was on set for the second coming of Resurrection - sorry, Regression! - of the Daleks…

“THE BOYS ARE BACK”

Eric Saward delivered his scripts for Resurrection

“IF I TURNED THEM DOWN, I HAD GOOD REASON…”

Russell T Davies wrote his first Doctor Who script

DEVIl’S WEEKEND

PATRICK MULKERN accompanied 1970s Doctor Who stars KATY MANNING and JOHN LEVENE on a return visit to Aldbourne, nearly 50 years after the filming of The Dæmons.

MOMENTS IN TIME

“You know me, darling. I don’t really do dates or anniversaries,”

THE WORLD CUP OF THE MASTER (AND MISSY)

Thirty-two different Master (and Missy) schemes - but only one can be master (or mistress) of all those surveyed in a World Cup-style knockout tournament, as ALAN BARNES explains…

KNOCKOUT STAGE

To make it to the quarter-finals, the top 16 stories went head-to-head in a series of Master-takes-all match-ups! ALAN BARNES was our referee.

QUARTER FINALISTS

Your votes placed the following evil schemes in a Master class of their own.

The Dæmons

During location filming for The Dæmons in April 1971

The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

This is one of the most beloved Master stories in the

The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar

Perhaps more than in any other story before or since

QUARTER FINALS

Match 1 winner v Match 2 winner

SEMI FINALISTS

The Sea Devils

SEMI FINALS

Match 9 winner v Match 10 winner

Utopia

Professor Yana is the Master. We all know that’s the

The Deadly Assassin

The runner-up in our poll is the story that reinvented both the Doctor’s home planet and his old nemesis. There are shocking surprises in store, but EMMA REEVES nds Familiar villainy lurking in the shadows…

World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls

The explosive confrontation between the TWelfth Doctor and two incarnations of the Master appeared to seal all their fates. PAUL KIRKLEY admires our poll-winner for more than just its spectacle.

THE FFORIGINAL MASTER PLAN

A combination of time co n stra ints and human error compromise d Roger Delgado’snal appearance as the Master. DAVID J HOWE unravels a complexstory.

BLOWN-UP BLUBBER

In a 1993 interview with Anthony Brown and Gary Leigh

Essential Info

The Curse of Fatal Death was devised for the purposes

EXPLAIN EXPLAINED

Early in Part Two, in the rst iteration of a running

LOCATOR LOCATED

In Part Two, the Master has been tted with “Dalek bumps”

LOVE THE SINNER

OLLY ALEXANDER stars as Ritchie Tozer in It’s a Sin. But what does he make of Daleks, big guns, and resurrecting a Doctor Who classic from - ahem - years and years ago? BENJAMIN COOK finds out.

STARSHIP TROOPERS

All aboard the prison ship! BENJAMIN COOK tracks down three of Ritchie Tozer’s real-life counterparts who, as jobbing actors in the 1980s, made their mark on Resurrection of the Daleks…

OUT OF THE TARDIS

Doctor Who Magazine’sTARDIS tin contains 120 tantalising, taxing and trivial questions. Each intervieWee must ansWer a randomselection…