Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 557

Thursday, 15 October 2020 - Reported by Marcus

The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine included an exclusive preview of the new animated series Daleks!

Highlights include:

An exclusive look at the new animated YouTube series Daleks!, featuring interviews with the cast and crew members.
Voice artist Nicholas Briggs explains how he brought the Emperor Dalek to life.
Doctor Who’s 50 scariest moments, with comments from Maxine Alderton, Chris Chibnall, Frazer Hines, Steven Moffat and more.
Ray Holman’s guide to the creatures he designed and dressed for Series 12 – with never-before-seen sketches from the Doctor Who Costume Department.
The second part of Time Lord Victorious: Monstrous Beauty, a new comic-strip adventure for the Ninth Doctor and Rose.
A new regular feature on memorabilia looks at how to collect the Doctor Who Annual.
The Fact of Fiction continues its exploration of the 1964 story Marco Polo, plus interviews with Carole Ann Ford, Philip Voss and production assistant Penny Joy.
Apocrypha rediscovers the 1987 comic-strip The World Shapers
Reviews of new books The Monster Vault and The Knight, the Fool and the Dead.

Also includes previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, The Blogs of Doom and more.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 557 is on sale from Thursday 15 October £5.99 (UK)

FILTER: - DWM

Thu 10:40 GMT
(21:40 AEDT)
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