Doctor Who Magazine Issue 579
DAVID TENNANT AND CATHERINE TATE – THE INSIDE STORY
Highlights of the new issue include:
- An exclusive from Russell T Davies, Doctor Who’s incoming showrunner, on the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the series.
- Newly released documents reveal the details behind the classification certificates of Doctor Who videos in the 1980s and 90s.
- Robert Sidaway, who played Avon in The Savages (1966) and Captain Jimmy Turner in The Invasion (1968), talks about his Doctor Who roles for the first time.
- The friends, colleagues and admirers of Verity Lambert pay tribute to Doctor Who’s first producer.
- Authors James Moran and Rona Munro discuss their forthcoming Target books, The Fires of Pompeii and The Eaters of Light.
- Writer Juno Dawson and producer Ella Watts on the making of the acclaimed podcast series Doctor Who: Redacted.
- Visual effects designer Paul Mann recalls the making of Timelash (1985) with the help of previously unseen photos from his collection.
- Chris Cassell and Justin T Lee explain how the special effects of Timelash have been newly enhanced for the Season 22 Blu-ray box set.
- Fear of the Future, a brand-new comic strip adventure for the Doctor, Yaz and Dan.
- The Fact of Fiction uncovers the hidden secrets of 1985’s Vengeance on Varos.
- Apocrypha revisits the seminal 1993 New Adventures novel Deceit.
- Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, Sufficient Data and more.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 579 is on sale now from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £6.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £5.99
Demdike@CultLabs
June 22nd, 2022 - 11:39pmMy subscriber copy arrived today. Looks a very good issue.
Sascha
June 21st, 2022 - 9:25amHas someone an Idea/Information when the Next Collection of DWM Comic Strips After Mistress of Chaos will be Released?
549-552 / 556-558 / 559-562 / 570-571 / 572 / 574-577 / 578 Are the issues with Comics covered so gar
Mistress of Chaos has covered the Comics of 18 issues DWM so I guess Even with COVID breaks there Are now 19 issues of Comic Content – i am looking forward to it
Demdike@CultLabs
June 20th, 2022 - 11:44pmI look forward to the article on Doctor Who and the BBFC.
I presume it relates to the home video market as the BBFC have nothing to do with tv broadcasts.
TheCertificate
June 21st, 2022 - 7:53amIts to do with censoring episodes to get the relevant age certificate
Thats what the BBFC is
Mac
June 20th, 2022 - 10:15pmCan’t wait for the 60th.
Loobop
June 20th, 2022 - 10:06amgreat release timing my mum gets 15% tesco staff discount this friday,never again would my mum think she’d hear this phrase again “mum can you get me doctor who magazine”