Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 561

This month's Doctor Who Magazine looks at the Target range of Doctor Who novelisations and includes an exclusive free book for those buying the physical publication

Highlights of the new issue include:

• Exclusive interviews with some of the authors of the upcoming Target novelisations: Robert Shearman (Dalek), Mark Gatiss (The Crimson Horror) and Joy Wilkinson (The Witchfinders).

• A celebration of the classic Target books.

• Target collectors discuss their hobby.

• Inside the making of the trailer for the Season 24 Blu-ray box set, featuring contributions from Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford and writer/director Pete McTighe.

• Patrick O’Kane discusses his portrayal of Ashad, the Lone Cyberman, in Series 12.

• An interview with editor Rebecca Trotman, who won a BAFTA for her work on Ascension of the Cybermen.

• Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to acclaimed Doctor Who writer Philip Martin.

• The evolution of the scripts that would eventually become Vengeance on Varos, Philip Martin’s first Doctor Who story. 

• A Review of the Daleks! YouTube series. 

• Public Image looks at the ratings for Revolution of the Daleks.

• The Fact of Fiction analyses the 1978 serial Underworld.

• The third part of The White Dragon, a new comic-strip adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor.

• Previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, The Blogs of Doom and more.

• PLUS a double-sided Target wallchart and a new and exclusive Target book! *

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 561 is on sale from Thursday 4 February

£9.99 (UK)