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F ebruary has never been my favourite month

Russell T Davies

Zzz zzzt zip! DoctorWho’ s showrunner scrolls through his memories and looks ahead towards Season 2!

New novels announced in advance of Season 2

The latest official news from the Doctor Who universe...

Cybermen get vinyl treatment

F irst Doctor William Hartnell’s last story –

Tomb opened at Riverside Studios

T he Tomb of the Cybermen , one

The Ninth Doctor and Rose reunited!

C hristopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are back

Elders drawn to the BFI…

T he new animated version of First Doctor

Long live our local group!

T his year is a landmark for a

Galaxy Forum

Your views on the world of Doctor Who ...

Time and Space VISUALISER

Each issue, we tune into the activities of the Doctor Who luminaries past and present… and zoom in on a landmark moment from the series…

“No one can destroy the Nestenes!”

Autons, the animated-plastic troops of the Nestenes, have provided DoctorWho with some iconic moments. But, says Christian Dornak , no one’s perfect.

DANCE TILL YOU DROP

STORY: JASON QUINN, JOHN FREEMAN & MIKE COLLINS ART:

Shelf Life

The Collection: Season 7 BLU-RAY Featuring

Competitions

Your chance to bag the latest Who goodies!

Together in chronometric streams

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

Mondasian Cybermen

The Fifth Doctor discovers the origin of one of his oldest foes in a new audio dramatisation of a lost story.

Ayesha Antoine

She braved the horrors of Midnight , now, what fresh dangers await in the latest Fourth Doctor Adventure?

The Paternoster Gang

Dan Starkey – alias Sontaran Strax – picks the trio’s finest moments…

Smile like you mean it

T he late Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter has

THIS ISSUE: VENUS

The second planet from our sun has an extraordinary tale all of its own… but it’s never made it into DoctorWho . Gary Gillatt explains why.

Meet Belinda

As Season 2 rapidly approaches, Varada Sethu speaks to Richard Atkinson about taking on the role of new companion Belinda Chandra…

SEARCH FOR THE VILLAIN INSIDE YOURSELF

Sacha Dhawan is pulling out all the stops to find hidden depths in the Master. As he says to Richard Atkinson : “Go big or go home”.

OUTSIDE MAN

“The BBC had a secret coven of gays!” DoctorWho ’s original director, Waris Hussein , opens up to Benjamin Cook about love, pride, hate, fear, and the wild imagination of an unearthly child…

OUR MAN FROM WASHINGTON

Over 50 years since Bill Filer was first sent to gather intelligence about the Master, Paul Grist talks to Alex Moore about his memories of freak weather conditions, and just how he escaped the claws of Axos…

IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY...

… that a bunch of very clever people brought a certain Time Lord back to play, in a triumphant Doctor Who revival that more than lived up to its ‘trip of a lifetime’ billing. Kicking off a two-part anniversary celebration, Russell T Davies , Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter join Paul Kirkley to discuss ghosts from the past, aliens from the future... and whether it’s finally time to apologise to the Zogs of Zog. Plus: writers’ recollections from Paul Cornell and Robert Shearman

COMING OUT OF THE TARDIS

To mark 20 years of the UK’s LGBT+ History Month, Alex Hewitt argues that Doctor Who has always been, at its core, a defiantly queer show – since its very first episode in 1963…

MARCO POLO

Jonathan Morris journeys to the roof of the world to ref lect on the series’ earliest missing episodes – directed by this issue’s lead interviewee, Waris Hussein.

Under the Hammer

Treasures from across the Doctor’s recent adventures finally met their fate last month... Courtesy of the auctioneer’s gavel!

VAROS REVISITED

Riverside Studios saw the Sixth Doctor and Peri reunited for February’s Projections in Time : Vengeance onVaros and Robbie Dunlop was on hand to tell us all about it.

A DAY WITH A TV PRODUCER

DWM joins writer Stephen Wyatt and actor Richard Unwin at a special day celebrating eighties producer John Nathan-Turner .

KNOWING JN-T

The day’s other guests share their memories of John…

Creating Monsters!

The story behind Dance TillYou Drop .

Robot of Sherwood

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

Traitor’s dilemma

Vicki, the Doctor and Steven Taylor in The