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Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine #565

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine delivers a smorgasbord of Classic Doctor Who goodness, with Season 24 taking centre stage (probably for the first time since 1987).

DWM #565 features the story behind the discovery of Season 24’s previously unseen footage, which is included in the upcoming Doctor Who: The Collection Season 24 set.

Gorgeous cover, too, huh?

The issue also includes:

  • An interview with 1980s production secretary Kate Easteal, who shares her memories of producer John Nathan-Turner.
  • Margaret Toley describes her role as secretary to Doctor Who’s story editors in the 1960s and early ’70s.
  • An in-depth preview of the new Season 24 Blu-ray box set.
  • Inside the comic-book sequel to the Season 24 story Paradise Towers, with comments from the original story’s writer, Stephen Wyatt.
  • Some of Doctor Who’s key visual effects designers reflect on their time working on the show in the mid-1980s.
  • Collectivity explores the miniature world of Dapol, the company that launched the first range of Doctor Who action figures.
  • A tribute to the late Frank Cox, one of Doctor Who’s first directors.
  • Apocrypha looks back at the 1989 comic strip Who’s That Girl!
  • The Fact of Fiction continues its analysis of 1970’s The Ambassadors of Death.
  • Sufficient Data crunches Doctor Who’s numbers.

PLUS: Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser and more.

Doctor Who Magazine #565 is on sale now, priced £5.99 (UK). It’s also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99.

Philip Bates

Editor and co-founder of the Doctor Who Companion. When he’s not watching television, reading books ‘n’ Marvel comics, listening to The Killers, and obsessing over script ideas, Philip Bates pretends to be a freelance writer. He enjoys collecting everything. Writer of The Black Archive: The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, The Silver Archive: The Stone Tape, and 100 Objects of Doctor Who.

Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine #565

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