Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 555

Wednesday, 19 August 2020 - Reported by Marcus

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine goes back to the 1970's to investigate a TARDIS journey we never saw.

Highlights of the new issue include:

The story behind a bizarre and long-lost adventure starring Tom Baker as the Doctor.
Derek Jacobi answers questions from the TARDIS Tin.
An exclusive preview of the new animated version of Fury from the Deep.
How Doctor Who was nearly cancelled in 1970… and how the show was saved.
How Doctor Who joined the satellite revolution on Super Channel and UK Gold.
The inside story of BSB’s Doctor Who Weekend – 30 years on.
The Controversial Continuity of Doctor Who companions, the Silurians, UNIT dating and time travel.
The Fact of Fiction explores the 2014 story Mummy on the Orient Express.
Apocrypha revisits Continuity Errors, Steven Moffat’s first professional Doctor Who story.
A review of The Power of the Daleks Special Edition.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 555 is on sale from Thursday 20 August £5.99 (UK)

£22.82

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