The Black Archive

Letter from the Editor

There’s nothing quite like settling down with a good book,

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?

After Viking girl Ashildr dies fighting the Mire (The Girl

Doctor, I married him

The double doors swung open, Murray Gold’s ‘Clara’ theme came

PICTURE PERFECT!

From Doctor Who’s Space War to his encounter with The

UNDER THE SPELL

‘‘ After I’d done the 50th anniversary one,” Clare Higgins

Project: Meantown

On 13 April 2016, we started Series 10 in top-level

Mel and Ace join forces!

Almost 30 years after the 1987 story Dragonfirein which they

Class cast revealed

BBC Three has announced the lead cast of the forthcoming

Cosplay Record!

◼ Peter Capaldi accepted a new Guinness World Records title

Free Story

◾ Candy Jar Books has released a free new

New Radiophonic CD

◼ Silva Screen Records has released BBC Radiophonic Workshop -

Return to Corridors

◼ Mad Norwegian Press has announced two forthcoming publications: Robert

Beyond the TARDIS

■ Peter Capaldi, who was the Radio Times Your RT

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

This May, former Doctor Who head writer Russell T Davies

GalaxyFORUM

Last issue, we previewed the new audio adventures of the

THE DAFT DIMENSION

The Night of the Doctor

A gunship spirals through the void as its one remaining

WATCH HUNT

Dress for the occasion

Doctor Who is now being enjoyed by a whole new

Fishy business

The continuing mission to watch all 826 episodes of Doctor

Warriors’ Gate

For those who travel on the time winds the vastness

The Complete Ninth Series

The Twelfth Doctor started life in a bad mood. Maybe

365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible Things

The Tenth Doctor once said that marking out time with

The Peterloo Massacre

The purely historical Doctor Who story, with no sci-fi twists

Doom Coalition 2

Whether it’s the reputation of the scripts or those famous

Death to the Daleks

Some of the old Doctor Who novelisations are as reassuring

The Memory of Winter

For the final instalment of its Winter series, BBC Audio

Myth Makers: Andrew Smith

‘Teenage takeover in Doctor Who?’ questioned the Radio Times heading

Doctor Who Novelisations

IN A NUTSHELL: Seven classic novels based on TV stories

In the Blood

IN A NUTSHELL: All over the world, people are ‘ghosting’

IN THE SHOPS...

◼ Doctor Who and the Zarbi [First Doctor] by Bill

Vampire of the Mind

IN A NUTSHELL: Somewhere off the south coast of England,

Gallery of Ghouls

IN A NUTSHELL: When the TARDIS lands in Brighton, the

This Sporting Life

IN A NUTSHELL: The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive in

Gallifrey: Enemy Lines

IN A NUTSHELL: With the threat of impending war, the

Torchwood: Ghost Mission

IN A NUTSHELL: Sergeant Andy meets Norton Folgate – a

Shakedown

IN A NUTSHELL: For thousands of years, the Sontarans and

BACK ON TV!

Utopia, The Sound of Drums, The Doctors Revisited: David Tennant,

The King’s Demons

IN A NUTSHELL: The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough meet King

WOTCHAI

Before hooking up with the Doctor in the Land of