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At Home with the Daleks

Christopher Barry’s children are sharing items from a remarkable archive on the pages of DWM. Here they pay tribute to their father, a director who made a huge contribution to Doctor Who between 1963 and 1979.

The MUTANTs (AKA THE DALEKS)

In 1963, Christopher Barry played a key role in defining Doctor Who’s most enduring enemies.

THE RESCUE

Recently discovered documents from Barry’s second Doctor Who production reveal his meticulous working methods.

THE ROMANS

Christopher Barry’s next assignment presented him with a very different challenge: directing a black comedy with an historical setting…

THE SAVAGES

Christopher Barry gave The Savages a lot of care and attention. Maybe we should too.

THE POWER OF THE DALEKS

As the director who had done so much to launch the Daleks, and therefore Doctor Who itself, Christopher Barry was the obvious choice to oversee the creatures’ return in the series’ most ambitious relaunch…

Resurrection of the Daleks

One of the selling points of Doctor Who novelisations

Doctor Who: The Collection Season 10

Doctor Who’s tenth series was transmitted from 1972-73.

Coming Soon…

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

THE Blogs of Doom

Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries of characters in the Doctor’s orbit…

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How Doctor Who’s scriptwriting legends inspired a new

I’m Not Doctor Who

Continuing our edited highlights from Jon Pertwee’s first ever convention appearance in August 1977, here’s the man himself reflecting on life after Doctor Who and giving a singing lesson in Venusian. Yes, really…

David Bradley

Doctor Who Magazine’s TARDIS tin contains 120 tantalising, taxing and trivial questions. Each interviewee must answer a random selection…

THE DÆMONS

Christopher Barry channelled his enthusiasm for archaeology into a story now regarded as a classic of the Jon Pertwee era.

THE MUTANTS

In 1972, Christopher Barry pushed the boundaries of available technology and oversaw the most complex special effects shot yet seen in Doctor Who.

ROBOT

Christopher Barry was entrusted with another of the series’ landmarks when he directed the 1974-75 story that introduced Tom Baker’s mercurial Doctor.

The BRAIN OF MORBIUS

In 1975 Christopher Barry was initially reluctant to direct yet another Doctor Who story, but applied his customary vigour to a notoriously troubled script. The result was a Gothic masterpiece.

THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT

The last Doctor Who story that Christopher Barry directed was plagued with difficulties, not least of which was the realisation of its titular monster.

DOWNTIME

Christopher Barry revisited the world of Doctor Who with Downtime, an independent production first released on video in 1995. The story’s writer, Marc Platt, has fond memories of working with the director.

The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon

Amy, Rory and River witness the death of the Doctor. But that’s just the start of the story…