March 6th, 2012
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 445
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 445
SOPHIE ALDRED – THE DOCTOR’S COMPANION ACE – TAKES A CANDID LOOK BACK AT HER TIME IN DOCTOR WHO, IN ISSUE 445 OF DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE:
“We never thought, at the time, how far-reaching our episodes would be – especially now, with this rebirth of the series, people discovering our episodes for the first time. It would be interesting to see what Amy Pond thought of Ace…”
ALSO THIS ISSUE:
DOCTOR DOWN UNDER
Executive producer CAROLINE SKINNER tells DWM about her recent trip Down Under for the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular and her reaction on reading the script for Episode 1 of the new series in her first ever PRODUCTION NOTES! DWM catches up with the scourge of the Silents, CIA agent Canton Everett Delaware III – aka actors MARK SHEPPARD and his father, MORGAN SHEPPARD –and finds out about making it as an actor, and whether Canton could return…
IT’S THE KEY THING!
DWM celebrates 1978/9’s KEY TO TIME Season – six linked adventures which introduced the Time Lady Romana and featured Douglas Adams’ first script for Doctor Who – as COUNTDOWN TO 50 continues.
THE FALL OF THE GODS?
With the Doctor at the mercy of the mighty Zeus, and with Rory and Amy facing a titanic foe in Ancient Athens, what can humble philosopher Socrates do to save the day? Find out in the final world-changing episode of the latest comic strip, THE CHAINS OF OLYMPUS, written by SCOTT GRAY with art by MIKE COLLINS.
THE LAST VOORD!
Get ready for adventures within adventures, as the First Doctor and his companions brave screaming jungles, snows of terror and seas of acid! Discover a wealth of fascinating new info as THE FACT OF FICTION scrutinises the 1964 story, THE KEYS OF MARINUS!
CHANGING HISTORY FOR THE BETTER…?
Doctor Who fans are spoilt with the care and attention that is lavished on the DVD releases. But as well as being lovingly restored, should the stories be improved, correcting technical ‘errors’ of the past? Sparring partners TONY HADOKE and JOHNNY CANDON argue whether rewriting history is ever justified in A BATTLE OF WITS!
CHAOS IN THE CLASSROOM!
THE TIME TEAM go back to school with the Tenth Doctor and Rose, and are reacquainted with two dear, old friends – Sarah Jane Smith and K9. Join Chris, Emma, Will and Michael on the sofa, and see what they make of 2006’s SCHOOL REUNION…
OFF THE RECORD!
The Watcher challenges readers with The Six Faces of Delusion, celebrates another Supporting Artist of the Month and continues A History of Doctor Who in 100 objects with a look at the extraordinary 1980s single Doctor in Distress, in WOTCHA!
PLUS! All the latest official news, TV and merchandise reviews, previews, competitions, a prize-winning crossword and much, much more!
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Jason doctorwhoone
March 9th, 2012 - 7:48pmI should have mentioned it this when I wrote my first comment, but has anyone else noticed the similarity between the jacket worn by Sophie Aldred’s Ace and the leather jacket worn by Craig Charles Dave Lister from Red Dwarf ?. Both Ace and Dave added badges, patches etc to their jackets. If there was a Doctor Who /Red Dwarf cross over, they would probably be busy comparing jackets. Here’s a picture of Lister in his from Red Dwarf – Series V – http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/gallery/index.cfm?page=series-5&image=5-1
McGann is The Doctor.
March 10th, 2012 - 10:48pmWhich reminds me, 11th Doctor (Series 5) and Mr Bean’s jackets. Nuff said.
David
March 9th, 2012 - 1:18amI’ve got issues from 352 to 444(since DWM started to be made with rigid cover), including all covers variants,all in near mint condition…how much would my collection be worth?
McGann is the Doctor.
March 7th, 2012 - 11:20amI still haven’t got issue from before this one. 🙁 my VISA needs replaced, it’s bent and doesn’t work on the cashier. ❗
So annoying, I’m too late to get the last issue now I will have to buy it on ebay or something, probably end up costing more. 😡
I wanted to go into eason’s, get the 11th Doctor companion volume 4, the latest DWM and some white paint to fix my 11th Doctor series 6 figures. (the blue shirt doctor is supposed to have WHITE buttons)
Ughhhhhhhh ! ❗
McGann is the Doctor.
March 7th, 2012 - 11:22amI’m not angry or anything, despite all these things bothering me.
If only my stupid VISA wasn’t bent, I could have all this by now, I have no cash in hand ! 🙁
Adam
March 7th, 2012 - 6:49amAce is the BEST COMPANION EVER!!!
Justininferno
March 6th, 2012 - 6:49pmLazy cover
Nicholas
March 6th, 2012 - 7:22pmI agree
Finlay
March 6th, 2012 - 7:47pmHow is it lazy? At least they’re than DWA! They’re awful ad theres WAY too much text on them!
volcanic7383
March 30th, 2012 - 8:20amDwa has rubbish front covers. There always too cramed up.
booboo
March 30th, 2012 - 8:21ampeople used to complain when they were to plain
Jason doctorwhoone
March 6th, 2012 - 5:43pmI would so love to see Sophie return as Ace to re-meet the Doctor again after all this time, since it would allow us to discover when and how Ace left the Doctor after 1989’s Survival when she just walked off with the Doctor and surprisingly wasint with him in the 1996 TV Movie. Cool cover thou, or as Ace would say – WICKED !!!!!!! 😀
Jason doctorwhoone
March 6th, 2012 - 5:49pmThinking about it, maybe Doctor Who needs a new Ace, perhaps if Ace had a daughter or something like that, and this relative is so much like Ace herself that she ends up travelling with the Doctor as Amy and Rory’s replacement. Now surely That is an ACE idea 😀
matparks08
March 6th, 2012 - 10:43pmI like your idea in a way….for fans of Ace in her New Adventures role in the 90s books though we already know what happened to her 😉
Twelth Cyber Legion
March 6th, 2012 - 5:22pmI must say in my opinion this is a beutifull front cover.
monster 01
March 7th, 2012 - 7:09pmi think its really bad
Bow tie of Doom (Causing Doom since 2010)
March 6th, 2012 - 4:24pmIt’s nice to see a lot more classic covers this year! Last year was completely dominated by new series covers and whilst that isn’t a problem I do think some covers could have been replaced with a different one especially that ‘Celebrate Christmas with the Doctor’ one!
Doctor Who goes to Spain! The rumours are true!!
Classic Who Is Cool !
March 6th, 2012 - 4:20pmi never use to like the sylvester mccoy era, but i have grown to love it and Ace Is Awsome 🙂
matparks08
March 6th, 2012 - 3:55pmI don’t know what other fans think too, but in terms of the ‘classic’ series I think, after Colin Baker, that Sophie Aldred is the biggest ambassador of the old series in terms of her boundless enthusiasm for it – despite some of the negative comments that she got (still, the same could be said for Colin too)
matparks08
March 6th, 2012 - 3:49pmFantastic cover, and good timing to go with the upcoming Ace box set – to finish the year can we have an Ace figure too? (please!) The 80s is MY Who era so looking forward to this months mag.
King of the Tenza
March 6th, 2012 - 1:28pmBut still, it doesn’t count. If it was 508, he would have said it in SJA: Death of the Doctor. So it’s really 507.
King of the Tenza
March 6th, 2012 - 1:30pmThanks booboo, and could you put these 2 comments for reply under? I put it as a new comment by mistake. 🙂
Anonymous
March 6th, 2012 - 6:32pmNot quite, the Doctor said the limit of times he could regenerate was 507, nothing about incarnations so 508 is correct. Before it was 12 so there would be 13 Doctors, the same applies here.
gordon
March 7th, 2012 - 9:32amRtd who wrote it said in an interview it was a throwaway line and wasnt to be taken seriously.
The 507th Doctor (Previously King of the Tenza)
March 7th, 2012 - 5:53pmWell I don’t really care to be honest. I think 507 is his last incarnation and you think whatever you want. And what do you mean, the first doctor didnt regenerate?! If he didn’t then he wouldn’t be in DWA two weeks ago in the regeneration section. And it perfectly said, “he regenerated”.
The 507th Doctor (Previously King of the Tenza)
March 7th, 2012 - 5:55pmI get what you mean. But I didn’t mean by how many times he regenerates. I mean by incarnation. He can regenerate 508 times, but he would die and not be called “The 508th Doctor”. Although he would have 507 incarnations. So I mean by incarnations.
King of the Tenza
March 6th, 2012 - 1:19pmIs it me or is Ace getting very popular now? Soon she’ll be on Doctor Who.
Anyway, is DWM good? 🙂
King of the Tenza
March 6th, 2012 - 1:21pmBooboo can I change my name to The 507th Doctor (picked that cause it’s his last incarnation)?
booboo
March 6th, 2012 - 1:28pmok
Anonymous
March 6th, 2012 - 1:24pm508th will be the last Doctor (he didn’t regenerate into his first incarnation after all).
booboo
March 6th, 2012 - 1:30pmIts because of the Ace box set, she was also due to be in the Sarah Jane Adventures.
hopefully we will get a figure one day as well
The 507th Doctor (Previously King of the Tenza)
March 6th, 2012 - 1:32pmWhen was she due in SJA?
booboo
March 6th, 2012 - 1:39pmshe had seen part of a script RTD had written, presumably in the second half of series 5 that was never filmed
you can hear it from Sophie Aldred herself here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC5hmfljCg
The 507th Doctor (Previously King of the Tenza)
March 6th, 2012 - 1:41pmOooh, I bet The Doctor would have been there too. Is there anything else that was due in the second part of Series 5?
booboo
March 6th, 2012 - 1:44pmnot that i know of and i dont think we will ever know to be honest.
Jason doctorwhoone
March 6th, 2012 - 5:46pmMaybe it’s because Sophie is voicing some cartoon character in a new kids series alongside the 10th Doctor himself, David Tennant.