Doctor Who Magazine Issue 544

Thursday, 17 October 2019 - Reported by Marcus

Doctor Who Magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary in issue 544.

The celebratory issue comes with:

A 100 minute Doctor Who DVD including exclusive and previously unseen material.
A 32 Page Supliment featuring an index of DWM and its sister publications, from 1979 to the present day.
A download code for 11 complete hour-long audio adventures from Big Finish.

Other highlights of this issue include:

Exclusive interviews with showrunners Chris Chibnall, Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat.
Doctor Who Weekly’s founding editor Dez Skinn and its original features writer Jeremy Bentham reunite to discuss the magazine’s earliest days.
Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell pays tribute to his friend and mentor Terrance Dicks.
A previously unpublished interview with Terrance Dicks, in which he remembers his working life away from Doctor Who.
Highlights from the original, unpublished manuscript of The Eight Doctors, Terrance’s first commission for BBC Books’ range of original Doctor Who novels.
Professional Doctor Who fiction writers select highlights of Terrance’s Target novelisations and other books.
A look back at how readers’ views of Doctor Who episodes, as expressed in DWM’s Season Survey results, have evolved over the last four decades.
The Fact of Fiction explores the 1979 story The Creature from the Pit.
A fiendishly difficult quiz, all about the first 40 years of Doctor Who Magazine.
Part Two of Mistress of Chaos, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
Audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more!

On sale from Thursday 17 October 2019 £9.99 (UK)

FILTER: - DWM

Thu 10:40 GMT
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The Woman Who Lived

Fri 03:55 GMT
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The Zygon Inversion

Fri 10:57 GMT
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The Zygon Invasion

The Dalek Invasion of Earth: World's End premiered on BBC One in 1964 at 5:40pm GMT, watched by 11.40 million viewers.

Doctor Who - Blue Peter Special premiered on CBBC in 2013 at 5:30pm GMT

An Adventure In Space And Time premiered on BBC2 in 2013 at 9:02pm GMT, watched by 2.71 million viewers.

William Hartnell: The Original premiered on BBC2 in 2013 at 10:25pm GMT

Who is The Doctor? premiered on BBC Radio 2 in 2013 at 10:30pm GMT

Face The Raven premiered on BBC One in 2015 at 8:10pm GMT, watched by 6.06 million viewers.

Village of the Angels: Flux: Chapter Four premiered on BBC One in 2021 at 6:19pm GMT, watched by 4.57 million viewers.

Birthdays

Liza Tarbuck is 60 today - 3 credits, including Captain Kaliko in The Infinite Quest

Jon Older is 61 today - 4 credits, including First Assistant Director for The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances

Nickolas Grace is 77 today - 10 credits, including Albert Einstein in Death Is the Only Answer

Juliet Mills is 83 today - credited as Miss Carew in The Devil and Miss Carew(TW)

Ingrid Pitt (died 2010 aged 73) would be 87 today - 3 credits, including Solow in Warriors of the Deep

Malcolm Hulke (died 1979 aged 54) would be 100 today - 13 credits, including Writer for The War Games

Deaths

Cynthia Grenville (died 2021 aged 90) - credited as Maren in The Brain of Morbius

Rodney Bewes (died 2017 aged 79) - credited as Stien in Resurrection of the Daleks

Anthony Read (died 2015 aged 80) - 10 credits, including Script Editor for Underworld