The Diary of THE MEEP

WELCOME

'Tis the season to be jolly! And wow!

A FAMILY CHRISTMAS!

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

A COUGHLAN CHRISTMAS!

The casting of Irish actor Nicola Coughlan

COSMETIC CHANGES!

Make-up artist Julie Kendrick will be joining the

KING TACKLES THE BEAST

j acqueline King, seen recently playing Donna’s

50 YEARS OF THE DIAMOND LOGO

Anew book tying in with the 50th

LIBERATION COMPILATION

Last year, Liberation of the Daleks saw

GALAXY FORUM

Your views on the world of Doctor Who...

STAR LETTER

JOHN COOK, EAST LONDON How wonderful it

WHO TUBE

THIS ISSUE’S SELECTION OF WHO-RELATED VIDEOS...

THE DARFT DIMENSION

LETTER FROM THE SHOWRUNNER

Russell T Davies gears up for Christmas with a Santa sack full of on-set secrets…

Production Diary

The Fifteenth Doctor’s second season about to start filming, the Fourteenth Doctor’s on-screen debut fast approaching, and every Doctor on BBC iPlayer… Scott Handcock explains how the production team have been busier than ever!

TIME AND SPACE VISUALISER

THIS MONTH IN... 1982 MONDAY 4 JANUARY

A new comic strip adventure – starting where The Star Beast ended!

A lost world… on Earth! Some

MEMORY WORM

Alistair McGown continues to test Doctor Who luminaries, to see if they’ve met the infamous parasite! This issue: what does 1980s director Andrew Morgan remember of Remembrance?

Reviews

Audio Frequencies 

The Underwater Menace

An octopus’ garden, in Professor Zaroff’s lab.

The Evil of the Daleks

Book Featuring The Second Doctor, Jamie, Victoria and

Action Figures

Character Options The Deadly Assassin Collector Figure Set

COMPETITIONS

YOUR CHANCE TO BAG THE LATEST WHO GOODIES!

Seven and the Ragged Timeline

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

Valarie Lockwood

GALACTIC PERSONAE

Ronny Jhutti

IN THE GREEN ROOM WITH...

Snowbound Stories

SIX OF THE BEST

A Christmas Kraal

ALSO RELEASED

Case Closed?

T he War Doctor believed the conflicted

SUBSCRIBE TO SAVE 30%

£38.50 FOR A SIX MONTH DIRECT DEBIT

STAR BEAST

THE GIGLE

ESSENTIAL INFO Broadcast: Saturday 9 December (on BBC

THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD

ESSENTIAL INFO Broadcast: Monday 25 December (on BBC

EXTRAS TERRESTRIAL

Supporting artists have been in the background since Doctor Who began. Robbie Dunlop reveals the story of the agency that supplied many of them in the 1960s…

FURTHER THAN WE’VE EVER GONE BEFORE

What could be better than a Doctor-Donna two-hander? A Doctor-Donna twohander with two Doctors, two Donnas, and very big hands, of course. Emily Cook goes behind the scenes to discover the visual trickery of Wild Blue Yonder.

Hell Bent

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

The DWM Christmas Quiz

For this 60th anniversary year, 60 points can be scored by completing our annual quiz – but don’t write in, it’s just for fun! Compiled by Eddie Robson.

Alien Supestar

In his first-ever DWM interview, Ncuti Gatwa tells Benjamin Cook about fan love, tripping the light fantastic, and why his Doctor isn’t afraid to show his vulnerable side. “I’ve felt like an alien my whole life,” he confesses.

SUNDAY BEST

The Church on Ruby Road ushers in a whole new era of Doctor Who, and at its heart is an incredible family unit in the shape of the Sundays. Jason Quinn caught up with two of them prior to the screening of this year’s Christmas Special.

MY OLD SOLDIER

In his last-ever interview, on the Doctor Who set in Camden Town, Bernard Cribbins talks to Benjamin Cook about the Doctor’s “faithful old big brother”, the magnificent Wilfred Mott.