Doctor Who Magazine: Issue 574

In this month's Doctor Who Magazine, Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Russell T Davies reveal the next chapter for the sixth Doctor

Highlights of the new issue include:

• An exclusive preview of Mind of the Hodiac (Russell T Davies’ first Doctor Who script) ahead of its Big Finish release, with contributions from Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford, Russell, Scott Handcock and Emily Cook.

• The first installment of a two-part interview with Doctor Who’s outgoing executive producer Matt Strevens.

• Visual effects designer Ben Pickles describes his contributions to the Thirteenth Doctor’s era.

• Zodiak VFX’s Tamsie Thomas and Myfanwy Harris talk about their award-winning work on Doctor Who.

• A tribute to Doctor Who director Michael Ferguson, who passed away in October.

• The inside story of how the BBC paved the way for Doctor Who’s long-awaited return in 2005.

• Pianist Jess Jurkovic discusses his YouTube project ‘Dudley Simpson IS Doctor Who’.

• Collectivity investigates the increasingly sophisticated world of trading cards.

• Apocrypha revisits Invasion of the Daleks, a seminal comic strip from 1964’s The Dalek Book.

• The Fact of Fiction looks at the 1965 story The Romans.

• Public Image analyses the ratings for Eve of the Daleks.

• The first part of Hydra’s Gate, a new comic-strip story for the Doctor, Yaz and Dan.

• Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, Sufficient Data and more.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 574 is on sale from panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 3 February priced £6.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99.