June 22nd, 2021
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 566
JODIE WHITTAKER & MANDIP GILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
Highlights of this issue also include:
- A CGI reconstruction of the sets from Episode 4 of The Tenth Planet.
- A tribute to the late Roy Scammell, who performed some of Doctor Who’s most spectacular stunts.
- The performance that recreated sections of Richard Rodney Bennett’s score for 1964 story The Aztecs.
- The story of Donald Wilson, and the part he played in the creation of Doctor Who.
- An interview with the museum owner who restores and exhibits Doctor Who monster costumes.
- Collectivity meets the fans who love Doctor Who audio cassettes.
- Apocrypha looks back at the 1978 Target book Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures.
- The Fact of Fiction analyses the 2014 episode Kill the Moon.
- Sufficient Data crunches Doctor Who’s numbers
- Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser and more.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 566 is on sale from panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 24 June
priced £5.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99
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Timelord63
June 25th, 2021 - 10:21amAnother issue no comic strip. And looking at next issues contents still none. I do think after over 40 years they’ve dropped the comic part.
Anonymous
June 27th, 2021 - 5:24pmThey said an issue or two ago, they’ve had to put the comic on hiatus because of the pandemic. It will hopefully return, but even if it doesn’t, it’s not the Magazine’s fault.
Timelord63
June 30th, 2021 - 11:53amWhich probably means it’ll never return. They said Doctor Who Adventures was on ‘hiatus’ and bar a one off special it never returned?
TheMaster
June 24th, 2021 - 11:01amSo has the magazine come out?
booboo
June 24th, 2021 - 11:03amshould have done unless there is some sort of delay, Pannini sent the PR out today
John T
June 24th, 2021 - 11:34amYes – I picked up a copy at my local Coop this morning.
Kevin225
June 24th, 2021 - 11:35amNo sign of my subscriber copy in today’s post – has anybody received theirs?
Timelord63
June 24th, 2021 - 12:44pmNot come into either WHSmiths or Tesco in Hull city centre today
Demdike@CultLabs
June 24th, 2021 - 2:28pmYeah, it would be nice to actually receive subscriber copies on time.
Alan Silvester
June 24th, 2021 - 6:39pmNope, no subscriber copy received today. Would be really nice to start receiving these on time.
Peter C
June 25th, 2021 - 10:40amStill no sign of my subscriber copy this morning.
Demdike@CultLabs
June 25th, 2021 - 7:40pmSubscriber copy arrived today. I hope nobody is expecting any sort of quality interview regarding the new series with Jodie and Mandip.
Do expect questions like “If your TARDIS could dispense anything alongside custard creams, what would it be?”
Haza14
June 26th, 2021 - 2:24amLol! Oh blimey… I do despair a bit! Even when we get access to the current cast and crew, the features are dumbed down.
WhereRU
June 24th, 2021 - 10:54amSo has it actually come out as WH Smiths here say its Not out?
Timelord63
June 24th, 2021 - 12:43pmNot come into either WHSmiths or Tesco in Hull today
Dalekz
June 23rd, 2021 - 5:08pmLovely cover, I love them both so much!
Anonymous
June 23rd, 2021 - 1:31pmSo, uh, what’s this Tenth Planet reconstruction thing all about?
Mac
June 23rd, 2021 - 3:12pmCGI reconstruction of the sets used during the studio.
Anonymous
June 23rd, 2021 - 3:43pmOh.
Jake
June 23rd, 2021 - 6:43amLove that cover
bryan
June 22nd, 2021 - 11:12pmOnly to say. Yay.. Jodie on the cover with Yazz. In a lovely informal picture. Shame there isn’t more back up for Them. All the other articles look like classic who related ( Bar Time Fracture )
Great cover will look superb textless on subscriber copies
Anonymous
June 22nd, 2021 - 8:32pmOh, love that cover…
Timelord63
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:02pmMy God! They’re actually featuring the current doctor on a cover? Still no more behind the scenes features on current episodes? Still no comic strip?
Anonymous
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:09pmI have no clue why they haven’t said anything behind the scenes on previous episodes. They’ve been out for quite a while now and we still don’t have any details on the production of those episodes
Phasergrim
June 22nd, 2021 - 7:51pmThey’re not being invited to the set. Moffat and RTD in particular made DWM a priority in terms of exclusives and presence on set. Chibnall had no such inclination. He doesn’t even write his production notes page like the others did.
Timelord63
June 22nd, 2021 - 8:50pmBut that’s just ridiculous and shows the sheer arrogance of chibnall! The magazine is the ‘official ‘ magazine of the show so they should be granted full access. They need to get the BBC to have a word with chibnall.
Anonymous
June 23rd, 2021 - 12:30amErr, no, timelord63. The show is what matters, the magazine is official but it is also subservient to the show. In this age of people demanding all story details be released before transmission i for one love the tightening of the info.
Haza14
June 23rd, 2021 - 10:19amWell actually we’re not talking about spoilers here, we’re talking about retrospective commentary on the episodes that have gone out. I also like the fact we know hardly anything before episodes air (although I do think they’ve tightened up too much to intrigue more causal viewers, as a fan I think it’a good!). But the magazine seems starved of content both before and after the episodes air. While the show should always come first, in the RTD and Moffat eras the magazine supported and complimented the show brilliantly. I think it probably took a bit of extra effort for them, but actually they did realise it made the overall brand that bit stronger.
For RTD especially when he was bringing it back, he identified that strategically, the magazine was key for him to have involved. It creates that dialogue with the fans, and causal viewers were buying the odd copy too! I’d love to know the thought processes behind some of the most recent stories, why Chibnall thinks they’re so significant for the Doctor, what decisions Jodie has taken in her performance etc etc. All of which we used to get an insight into.
Obviously we’re not entitled to anything at all, they don’t have to provide us or the magazine with anything, but I struggle to see why they don’t, especially after the episodes have aired. It’s only reducing the quality of the overall brand in small ways as far as I can see.
Gareth Pugh
June 23rd, 2021 - 11:37amAndrew Pixley has mentioned on a certain forum that he has already begun the prep work on fuller ‘archive’ style making-of articles on Jodie’s seasons for DWM, so it looks like we are going to get the same sort of in-depth coverage of her seasons at some point; personally I wonder if they are nowadays saving this material for a future run of their specials rather than put it in the main magazine. Meanwhile, this ‘gap’ is where the Figurine Collection magazine really comes into its own – in many ways, their 13th Doctor issues are for now the most comprehensive behind the scenes write-ups of many of her stories and I’m really pleased we’ve got those.
Haza14
June 24th, 2021 - 11:04amThat’s good at least! I’m hoping they continue with the 12th Doctor volumes too. While they’ll be interesting, I still think they’re missing a trick by not having more interviews with the cast and crew. Usually Steven Moffat would do one big interview a year after each season and quite a few small ones throughtout, as well as production notes etc etc. Pretty sure Russell did the same. Even remember they said that sitting down with Russell to do a big interview each summer was becoming a tradition! Times have changed of course, but still think there’s a noticeable difference.
Maybe they are saving it for specials though, I did notice that the 2021 yearbook had quite a few interviews in it, including Jodie. As I was reading I remember thinking that go back 5 years, these would have just been in one issue of normal DWM, either before or after the NYD special depending on spoiler content.
I don’t get the figurine collection stuff, so missed out on that content. Nice to know those magazines have stuff in though!
the ergon
June 22nd, 2021 - 3:29pmI remember collecting those old music audio cassettes and the quick wear and tear. Either sounding sluggish or unravelling /tearing. I was so thankful when cds came along years later when they rereleased the music soundtracks. I also used to record a lot of off air television stories in the 1980s onto those old TDK D90s (Everyone in the house had to be silent for those 25 minutes) and listen them back later as well as taping them off the telly. This years before their VHS release onto video and before all those lost episodes were released.
Doug Who
June 22nd, 2021 - 4:02pmI had copies of ‘The Sea Devils’ and ‘The Mutants’ on audio cassette that were so distorted though copying it was mostly a tortuous hiss!
I do remember recording season 18 as a teen…the nightmare of hoping there was no noise ruined the enjoyment of the show!
The article on preserving costumes looks really interesting in this issue – shame there is no BBC permanent exhibition for them now…
the ergon
June 22nd, 2021 - 4:52pmI used to hate the continuity announcements spoiling the end of my recording especially the ones in the mid 80s where the announcer would take ages explaining the evenings entertainment then the cherry on the cake ‘and in a moment more dreams come true in Jim,ll fix it’. I had to rerecord over those with no announcement and the end theme tune just playing through.
i might just buy it this issue for that item on preserving costumes. A lot of those items which sold at auction looked really tatty, so it would be interesting to see any perfect replicas or how they have managed to preserve what there was of them.
Dalek Commander
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:11pmAgree the BBC should reopen a permanent exhibition. The Cardiff one was fantastic and I am sure was a good money maker for them.
Really can’t see why they ended it.
booboo
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:22pmactually it wasn’t, visitor number were far less that projected and ended up costing local tax payers £1million plus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-43159603
Doug Who
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:51pmHi Ergon! Mike Tucker and more recently Neil Cole have done incredible work restoring and preserving old monster costumes. I hope the resources are found to preserve the ones that are still holding on in there.
Steve Cambden did a fantastic job restoring the Brontosaurus model from ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’ too!
I never went to the Cardiff Experience but it seemed huge and I imagine would have needed enormous footfall year on year to break even.
It’s a shame something on the perhaps more manageable scale of the unforgettable original BBC Blackpool exhibition can’t be reestablished. If I ever win the lottery – mind you I’d have to actually start doing the lottery first!
The ergon
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:55pmI,d liike someone to get the licence and reopen a smaller exhibition in blackpool. The golden mile just isn,t the same now.
Dalek Commander
June 22nd, 2021 - 6:16pmThat’s a surprise it lost money. It was packed every time I went. A real shame.
booboo
June 22nd, 2021 - 6:26pmBrand new building, today’s high commercial expectations and projected visitors numbers just not adding up.
Find a suitable vacant location run with a bit of nostalgia rather than high end profits and it might just work
John Torr
June 22nd, 2021 - 2:35pmLovely photo on the front cover and some interesting features. Preserving Classic Costumes sounds intriguing. Will definitely be buying this issue.
Pete X
June 22nd, 2021 - 5:12pmI’m hoping for an article on how costumes (both monster and humanoid) are being conserved in the face of decaying latex, fading dyes, disintergrating expanded foams, fraying cloth, etc; rather than simply bought at aution or saved from recycling/the skip.
Anonymous
June 22nd, 2021 - 2:22pmYeah! Love 13 and love when the magazine covers our current doctor.