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Doctor Who Chronicles: Issue 7: 1988
Available to order from www.forbiddenplanet.com and www.panini.co.uk
Digital editions for this series are available from www.pocketmags.com
This lavish 116-page publication from the makers of DWM looks at the stories, people, events and news in this remarkable year – a time when Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred starred as the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with four memorable adventures: Remembrance of the Daleks, The Happiness Patrol, Silver Nemesis and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The bookazine includes exclusive articles, previously unpublished interviews and rare behind-the-scenes images.
Matt Y
March 12th, 2023 - 8:47pmFound on Friday in Reading Station WHSmiths. They are inally beginning to appear in the wild!
VortexMachine
February 23rd, 2023 - 4:03pmCan’t find it in any shops, anywhere. Has it even hit stores yet?
the 15th doctor
February 23rd, 2023 - 2:28pmit is still not in the shops i could understand if i lived in the usa or Australia that it would a few weeks to find it but in the uk it should not happen with every magazine every month
mick
February 16th, 2023 - 2:00pmAnyone had a dispatch email from panini for this yet?
Kevin225
February 16th, 2023 - 9:13pmYes, I got a dispatch email around 7:30pm this evening
mick
February 17th, 2023 - 3:13pmMy email came around the same time
Harold Shand
February 18th, 2023 - 1:57pmHad dispatch email Thursday, and Magazine arrived this morning
mick
February 18th, 2023 - 2:26pmGot mine today
me
February 3rd, 2023 - 1:05amit was expensive at £10 but now it has gone up to £12
Jay
February 3rd, 2023 - 2:43pmI agree, it’s ridiculously expensive at £12.
Anonymous
March 26th, 2023 - 7:38pmCost of Living I’m afraid’ affects everything. Terrible I know. It is a good publication though.
Daniel Seymour
February 1st, 2023 - 1:01pmGuesses for the one after this? On balance it will have to be a post 2005 era, so I would say either 2005 or 2013 (or maybe 1996). Also for the Sixth Doctor, 1985.
TimelordTim
February 1st, 2023 - 2:25pmBack when the Pertwee issue came out I said they’d go for:
6th – 1986
7th – 1988
8th – 1996
9th – 2005
11th – 2011
Going to stick with these predictions going forward although there are other good options for sure (the 8th Doctor included as they could focus on one of the Big Finish years instead).
Matt Y
March 10th, 2023 - 9:28pmAfter lots of looking it has been found! Reading Railway station WH Smiths. They are finally making it out there.
Anthony Fagn
February 1st, 2023 - 6:26amOrdered it from Panini yesterday. Its gone up by two quid. Plus the postage makes it just short of £15..Still I’m sure it will be worth it.
atl
January 31st, 2023 - 5:05pmi hope it is in the shops when it is supposed to be ….the new/old logo looks good on everything
James
February 1st, 2023 - 9:18pmFrom experience of working in a shop on the High Street… Being these are bookazines I stead of special issue mags, they do not come in from the same place as mags. So depends on stores delivery days of normal stock and distribution centres stock levels.
Lewis Frisby
January 31st, 2023 - 3:43pmWow that looks great my second favourite season of classic who I can’t wait for this do we have. A release date
AT
January 31st, 2023 - 1:45pmAmazing! An excellent year and one of my fav seasons of the show. Love the cover!
bob hellier
January 27th, 2023 - 6:05pmlooking at panini website it could be available around 24th feb like last year for 2007 chronicle
Anthony Fagn
January 27th, 2023 - 9:18amNothing on the Panini website about it…
David Havers
January 31st, 2023 - 11:40am16 February is the release date
bob hellier
January 22nd, 2023 - 3:37pmi wonder when this will available as a chronicle
MJS
January 18th, 2023 - 9:14pmIt was a magical year for Who. I think I will get this one.
ChrisP
January 18th, 2023 - 4:26pmOoh brilliant
The Toymaker
January 17th, 2023 - 8:32pmI know there’s no connection but I would love this to mean we see Season 25 of The Collection on BluRay this year, given Ace’s return as well. Also, Season 20 has The Five Doctors and has been long rumoured, plus has Tegan, who just returned. Both sets of The Collection would be appropriate for the 60th anniversary year! Fingers crossed.
Anthony G
January 18th, 2023 - 2:10pmI think s21 will have The Five Doctors
daz
January 18th, 2023 - 4:57pmThe Five Doctors, although a special on it’s own inbetween Season 20 and 21 on broadcast, is always classes as part of Season 20 as it is the 20th Anniversary Story.
So it will be on he Season 20 Collection set.
DPHill
February 1st, 2023 - 7:50amYeah, despite K9 and company being part of season 19s production, it was on 18, I think it will be on 20 though as 21 has 7 stories already, I think 18 had K9 and Co just for the completion of 1981 and also Tom’s era pals
Jay
January 17th, 2023 - 4:12pmThe year I became a DW fan, so this is one I have to get.
Daniel Seymour
January 17th, 2023 - 4:07pmForgot to say in relation to DWM and its extra publications, all 90 editions of Doctor Who: The Complete History will eventually be available on PocketMags, uploaded for sale in batches of 20 each month. I’m hoping they will do more to cover the 13th Doctor era and 2023.
GuyTheZygon
February 1st, 2023 - 12:26amWould be even better (though highlY unlikelY) for the original publishers to resume the phYsical Complete HistorY hardbacks from where theY left off, certainlY missing a trick if theY don’t, as there’s a huge market for them; namelY everyone who owns the full set 1-90 (of which there must be tens of thousands) – but I imagine several more Doctors would need to be “history” before that would seriouslY be considered…
Daniel Seymour
February 1st, 2023 - 12:59pmYes I agree the Thirteenth Doctor era (and beyond) is just as valid as everything else.
Daniel Seymour
January 17th, 2023 - 3:38pmBrilliant, I was hoping it would be the 25th Anniversary Year next! Remembrance! Dapol! Star Books double novels!