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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 550

FLASH SALE ON THE NEW ISSUE OF DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE – AND FREE DELIVERY!

Please note the console room diorama is 5″ scale

You can subscribe at www.paninisubscriptions.co.uk and enter the code DWP50 to get the offer by 5.00pm ON TUESDAY 24 MARCH

Some people are having problems with the code, you can also try THIS LINK

Issue 550 of Doctor Who Magazine is part of a bumper package that includes a poster magazine, a TARDIS control-room diorama, six 1970s-style collectors’ cards, a stunning Talons of Weng-Chiang poster and a download code for a four-part Big Finish adventure starring Tom Baker and Louise Jameson.

The retail price for this unique issue is £9.99, but a new offer from publisher Panini includes the issue as part of a six-month subscription with massive savings on cover prices. The offer includes issues with exclusive, subscriber-only covers, DWM Special Editions and FREE DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR. There’s never been a better time to subscribe to Doctor Who Magazine!

For a limited time only, you can receive a six-month subscription to Doctor Who Magazine and its Special Editions for just £32.50. If you take out a new subscription by 5.00pm ON TUESDAY 24 MARCH, you can receive issue 550 as part of this special offer.

Editor Marcus Hearn says:

“We all need our spirits lifting at the moment, and hopefully the extra-special issue 550 will help. Free delivery for subscribers is another bonus that will make things easier for a lot of our readers in these difficult times.”

To take advantage of this limited-time offer, simply head to www.paninisubscriptions.co.uk and enter the code DWP50. The 30% discount is open to UK direct debit subscribers only and is valid from 23 March to 23 April 2020. Minimum subscription term is one year. There are two payments of £32.50 during the first year of subscription. Subscriptions are charged at £37 per six months following the first year of subscription.

Issue 550 celebrates Doctor Who’s mid-70s classics. Highlights include:

• Showrunner Chris Chibnall and former producer Philip Hinchcliffe – together at the Doctor Who studio!
• Director Michael E Briant describes the making of his 1977 classic The Robots of Death.
• Sadie Miller remembers her mother, Sarah Jane Smith actress Elisabeth Sladen.
• The Doctor Who Magazine review of Series 12 – every episode from Spyfall to The Timeless Children!
• A diary and scrapbook of 1976-77 – the extraordinary months that spanned the broadcast of Season 14.
• A new presentation of Dr Who and the Hell Planet, a 1976 short story by Terrance Dicks.
• A review of the new, animated version of The Faceless Ones.
• How Robert Holmes reimagined the Time Lords for his 1976 story The Deadly Assassin.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 2006 story Tooth and Claw.
• A look at Exploration Earth: The Time Machine, a 1976 schools programme starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen.
• Updates on Doctor Who luminaries, past and present, with Time and Space Visualiser.
• Public Image analyses the ratings for the final episodes of Series 12.
• Part Two of The Piggybackers, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• Big Finish previews and reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, The Blogs of Doom and much more!

PLUS:

• 1977-style poster magazine
• TARDIS control-room diorama
• Talons of Weng-Chiang music-hall poster
• Six collectors’ cards
• Four-part Big Finish download

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 550 is on sale from Thursday 2 April 2020m £9.99.

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