May 30th, 2018
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 526
TOM BAKER REVISITS HIS FIRST SERIES AS THE DOCTOR IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
As part of DWM’s detailed preview of the forthcoming Season 12 Blu-ray set, Tom Baker reflects on the role that changed his life. “You know, Doctor Who is nothing to do with science fiction,” he says. “It’s nothing to do with anything. It’s a bit like religion really, in that all you have to do is believe it. And I can believe any old nonsense.”
Also in this issue…
ROGER MURRAY-LEACH
An extensive interview with the production designer who achieved the impossible on Season 12 of Doctor Who.
THE HOLMES MASTER PLAN
How Season 12 script editor Robert Holmes created a storytelling formula that continues to influence the modern series.
KEVIN LINDSAY
The life and career of the Australian actor who played Styre in Season 12’s The Sontaran Experiment.
BREWING UP
The untold story of how Doctor Who led a marketing campaign for tea bags in 1976.
GEORGIA TENNANT
The actress talks about how her life has changed since she made her Doctor Who debut – and met her future husband – in 2008.
JESSICA MARTIN
Jessica talks about illustrating her character Mags (from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) for a new Seventh Doctor comic.
NEW FACES
The second part of a series looking at how new Doctors have been introduced to the public.
THE TIME TEAM
It’s hankies at the ready as the Time Team watch tearjerking episodes from 1982, 2006 and 2010.
THE CLOCKWISE WAR
Part Three of a new comic strip adventure written by Scott Gray and illustrated by John Ross.
PLUS…
The Blogs of Doom, previews, DVD and audio reviews, news, prize-winning competitions and much more!
Doctor Who Magazine 526 is on sale from Thursday 31 May, price £5.99.
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Phillip
June 21st, 2018 - 3:07amI agree that this is an improvement over the last several issues… I loved this issue all the way through. Great work Magazine crew:)
THE ERGON
June 12th, 2018 - 7:47pmBooboo, Do you have the picture cover for The Essential Doctor who-Adventures in the Future?. its supposed to be out Thursday 14th June.
booboo
June 12th, 2018 - 7:54pmnot seen one
Anonymous
June 12th, 2018 - 9:00pmIts out the 27th June 2018. I saw the cover on some social media site I think
booboo
June 13th, 2018 - 7:04amthere is a previews image but i dont know if its final as they change them a lot
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR181692
THE ERGON
June 13th, 2018 - 10:47amthanks for the image and date. I was just going on the forthcoming releases list.
booboo
June 13th, 2018 - 10:50amthey usually send out a press release on the released date so hopefully we will get one tomorrow if not before
London 1965
May 30th, 2018 - 6:53pmThis is a great issue!
MJS
May 29th, 2018 - 6:05pmMine arrived today! After all the debates after last issue, this one is a marked improvement, really is stuffed with things to read, no cosplay, can skim over the time team….quite enjoyed this one. Hope it’s the shape of things to come
Phillip
May 30th, 2018 - 10:31amI will pick it up and give it a second look:)
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 - 10:48amIt does threaten cosplay next issue though…
DWT
May 30th, 2018 - 2:07pmTotally agree, I really disliked last issue and felt worried about the future of DWM and whether it was for me any more. This issue, however, is top quality and one of the best I’ve read in a long while
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 - 7:36pmPlus, if the teaser trailer is to be released in the next couple of weeks as is speculated, there may acctually be something new for them to talk about next month…
Phillip
June 7th, 2018 - 1:27amJust ordered it, should be here in 3 days… Hope it is great.
Phillip
June 21st, 2018 - 3:08amIssue was great!!!
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 - 4:55pmThere’s a coming soon preview of ‘The First Doctor Adventures. volume 2’ including new images (I don’t think the cover for that has been revealed yet)
Loads on the s12 blu-ray
Time Team: ‘Tear jerkers’ Earthshock 4, Doomsday and Vincent and the Doctor.
Editorial acknowledges that issue 501 presented itself as Tom Baker’s final interview – “any reports of his retirement were greatly exaggerated”
There’s a big piece on Robert Holmes.
Interviews: Tom Baker, Roger Murray-Leach, Jessica Martin, Georgia Tennant
Next month: Wendy Padbury (Zoe’s 50th anniversary), Fact of fiction ‘The Vampires Of Venice’, police boxes article, cosplay, out of the TARDIS.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 - 10:40amI wish they’d call cosplay something that sounded a little more grown up…
Anonymous
May 30th, 2018 - 7:38pmIs’nt ‘cosplay’ itself just a grown up way of saying ‘fancy dress’?
MJS
May 29th, 2018 - 3:38pmAh darn it!! Another vinyl to hunt down….
Doctor Mysterio
May 30th, 2018 - 10:42amI thought that, and in half the number of last time! I think it might be an ebay job if desperate. A greater number being available would have got me into HMV but by the time I could get there for this they’ll be sold out.
Anonymous
May 31st, 2018 - 6:31pm6 copies per hmv store.
Scott hall
May 29th, 2018 - 3:02pmIn the whispers at BBC headquarters the rumour and innuendo is that it will be shown on Sunday tea time starting from November.
Tim M
May 29th, 2018 - 3:26pmWhat time of day though 7.00pm or 8.00pm?
Shaun
May 30th, 2018 - 7:40amWhich seems out of kilter with all the release dates for 13th Doctor novels etc
Doctor Mysterio
May 30th, 2018 - 10:47amPerhaps the thought is that the ITV Sunday schedule will be less competition for a relaunch. I just hope that they pick a time and stick to it each week, some series (like series 7) I think suffered from moving around the Satuday night schedule.
Saturday evening would still be my preferred choice though.
Dan
May 30th, 2018 - 5:44pmAlthough now it was rumoured to be Saturday 6th October. It’s never going to premiere in November that is far to late. If it’s 6th October that seems to 1. fit in well if they are having a Christmas Special 2. Do well with timings of the stuff to do with the show by this i mean that the Sunday after episode one airs BBC are going to be announced that the script for Episode 1 is going to be auctioned off for Children in Need and to get people a bit more interested in it it will have to be announced after people have seen the episode so they know is worth it or not if you get me
6th October is the most likely and currently rumoured date
Andrew
May 29th, 2018 - 2:02pmBut wasn’t issue 501 Tom’s “Final” interview? Wonder how they explain that.
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 - 3:17pmYep it was very clear it was his final one at the time. Odd.
THE ERGON
May 29th, 2018 - 4:54pmThat was a personal interview, this looks just like a promotion Q and A for the bluray release.
Doctor Mysterio
May 30th, 2018 - 10:51amAny chance to hear more from Tom is welcome in my book
Dalek Eye Stalk
June 2nd, 2018 - 1:23pmI look forward Doctor Mysterio to your Book, and hopefully hearing/reading more from Tom. 🙂
Demdike@CultLabs
May 29th, 2018 - 11:23amThis looks great. I loved those Typhoo tea cards at the time.
Does anyone remember issue 501? The FINAL interview with Tom Baker? Lol!
Not that i’m complaining.
DalekAgent
May 29th, 2018 - 9:03amI literally just got this in the post, first time ive ever got it this early lol
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 - 9:27amIs it a good issue? Could you just let us know what’s on the back page with next issue? Thanks 🙂
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 - 9:58amDoes it have the Big Finish reveal?
Eoghan Daly
May 29th, 2018 - 10:09amFrom pictures I’ve seen, this month does hav a reveal of a new big finish range
booboo
May 29th, 2018 - 10:13ambe good if big finish got the news out themselves now its all over the net anyway
DalekAgent
May 29th, 2018 - 10:19amNext issue has an interview with Wendy Padbury because it will be 50 years since she first appeared in Doctor Who, the new Big Finish range is Class which will have 2 volumes of 3 stories whith the first being released in august and will feature Ace and the Daleks also they have announce another vinyl which will be Infamy of the Zaross featuring the 10th Doctor and Rose and will be a HMV exclussive this time
DalekAgent
May 29th, 2018 - 10:39amI should of put SPOILERS incase some people didnt want to know, sorry
Demdike@CultLabs
May 29th, 2018 - 12:20pmAre the Daleks so rubbish they can even be defeated by a class of school kids?
If i could use a face palm emoji at this moment i would.
The Outcast
May 29th, 2018 - 1:17pmYeah, the Daleks getting defeated by the kids of Class would be a bit dumb. Maybe they won’t win and the Doctor (probably not 12 though, lets be real here) will turn up to save their necks. Again.
Carl
May 29th, 2018 - 3:00pmNooooo!! Watching class was a bad enough experience who would want to listen to it!!
TARDIS H
May 29th, 2018 - 11:50pmME!
Doctor Mysterio
May 29th, 2018 - 9:01amA great cover. No mention on it of anything to do with the new series though.
The Outcast
May 29th, 2018 - 9:28amI don’t think we’ll hear anything until next month when the filming is done. Or maybe nothing until Comic Con.
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 - 10:08amI’ve heard a rumour that we’ll be getting a trailer in the next few weeks. Not sure how true that is though.
booboo
May 29th, 2018 - 10:09amif anything i think they may reserve that for comic con
The Outcast
May 29th, 2018 - 1:16pmI’ve heard the rumour we’ll be getting something in the next two weeks thing, but I thought it was a teaser rather than a full trailer.