July 18th, 2024
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 606
Inside this issue
- Behind the scenes on this year’s season finale with NCUTI GATWA, BONNIE LANGFORD, JEMMA REDGRAVE, YASMIN FINNEY, RUSSELL T DAVIES and many more!
- Join GABRIEL WOOLF as he records the voice of Sutekh for The Legend of Ruby Sunday and Empire of Death and remembers his role in 1975’s Pyramids of Mars. Plus! We talk to James Burge – the hand of Sutekh…
- Script to Screen: creating the bird-like alien Chuldur for Regency episode Rogue.
- We discuss the more unsettling aspects of Finetime with CALLIE COOKE and TOM RHYS HARRIES – alias Dot and Bubble’s Lindy and Ricky.
- Russell T Davies runs into Louis Theroux at the BBC and the conversation quickly turns to Doctor Who.
- What If…? We journey down the roads never taken during the Fourth Doctor’s era…
- The Time and Space Visualiser takes us back to 1982 to look at a formative Doctor Who publication…
- A tribute to WILLIAM RUSSELL. We reflect on the important role his character, Ian Chesterton, played in the series; take a look at his wider career; and share the memories of those who worked with him including CAROLE ANN FORD, MAUREEN O’BRIEN and PETER PURVES.
- Loose Ends drops in on Graham O’Brien’s companion support group, where they’re bidding a touching farewell to their most senior member…
- The Fact of Fiction – a detailed analysis of 1965’s The Space Museum.
- The latest instalment of our comic strip featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.
PLUS!
- Gallifrey Guardian – all the latest news, including details of the Eighth Doctor live on stage!
- Reviewed: audio dramas, books, games and models!
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Win Blu-rays, books and audio releases!
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 606 is on sale Thursday 18 July from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.
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mac
July 19th, 2024 - 12:43amRussell should have had the full cover like Sladen and Courtney in 2011
F D R
July 19th, 2024 - 8:26amyou are right he should have. he was one of the originals and not just in doctor who if he had died a few years ago he probably would have had a cover to himself. but i suppose they thought the younger generation would not know him
Peter
July 20th, 2024 - 9:52amHave to disagree with you about that one: Liz Sladen and Nick Courtney appeared in the show (and spin-offs) through several decades, while William Russell was ‘only’ there 1963-65 (plus amazing 2022 cameo). Yes he was a legend and looms large in the history of the show, but I don’t think his death at 99 should have merited a whole cover as a result.
WhoCollector
July 21st, 2024 - 7:13amPeter, its a shame you feel that way about not only one of the first companions… but the first male companion. Also, is he not one of the more important companion’s ? – as he technically helped shape The Doctor, into a hero. The first Doctor changes, drastically, after their travels. A full cover would have been respectful, slapping it as some sort of a “buy to read inside about” with somthing so insignificant like “life of people at finetime” seems strange.
WhoCollector
July 21st, 2024 - 7:22am“Flip side or fine time” – im getting a bit bored of hearing about that episode, if you cant tell. I personally found 73 yards more interesting as a concept. The only issue, is the drastic tone shift and poor execution of the story. I think, if it wasnt for the ending, dot and bubble would be one of those forgettable episodes. The ending shows Gatwa actually doing some good “acting like the doctor” – which he lacks most of the time. I just cant shake that gatwa admitted to living in his own leftist bubble, before the series aired. Which kind of makes him no better than the villains of the story, only letting people in they approve of. That story seems very meta, as i can see both Left and Right wing people in it. Especially when both are at their extremes, neither are pleasant. Each side like one elastic band expanding in opposite directions… eventually, as it always does, it will snap… and break
F D R
July 18th, 2024 - 7:24pmthere is not anything about the next one DWM 607 except it is out in the summer time so either there is something big to be announced or most likely they haven’t got anything special to put in it
DJS
July 19th, 2024 - 3:35pmProbably the latter given its quality lately.
Drwhofan08
July 19th, 2024 - 4:41pm15th August
Loobop
July 18th, 2024 - 2:54pmThis magazine must see a massive drop in readers when dr who isn’t on tv,looking at the cover i see nothing that would pull in the modern era dr who fans as it’s really nothing but filler content relying on classic era stuff. Good for the dedicated young at heart fans and young dr who nerds i guess but not brilliant for those like me who have only ever warmed to the modern era.How this magazine is still surviving is questionable.
Andy R
July 19th, 2024 - 2:32pmLasted from 1989 till 2005 with only a tv movie and repeats.. so not inconcievable its going to carry on. Though the price tag is much much higher – that would be where you’ll lose readers.
The Unlicensed Physician
July 19th, 2024 - 3:33pmI’m guessing people would be drawn in by the massive picture of the big villain from the latest episode.
daz
July 18th, 2024 - 2:09pmSutekh’s pose on the cover is the exact mega figurine I want Master Replica’s to announce. Hopefully it is already in production.
I don’t however buy DWM anymore. Except for the year book specials.
Drwhofan08
July 18th, 2024 - 2:32pmSame
Drwhofan08
July 18th, 2024 - 3:19pmOr sutekh wrapped around the Tardis as a special figure
WhoWhereWhy?
July 18th, 2024 - 1:49pmWhat’s happened to the TV episode reviews? There hasn’t been a single one for the past series. That’s not happened before has it?
demdike@Cult Labs
July 18th, 2024 - 4:47pmPerhaps the reviewers aren’t allowed to say what they really think of the episodes being an official BBC magazine.
WhoWhereWhy?
July 19th, 2024 - 7:23amMaybe, but the previous reviewer tended to gush the BBC party line to the point of embarrassment during the Jodie era. The most level-headed reviews came from Graham Kibble-White when Tom Spilsbury was editor.
Talking of Spilsbury, his feature on ratings this issue is a masterclass on spin. Such a shame how the magazine is following the show and becoming a shadow of its former self. Time to rest both for a while?
demdike@Cult Labs
July 18th, 2024 - 1:31pmI too agree. The subscriber cover is superb.
However, i really do feel it should have featured William Russell instead.
MDS
July 18th, 2024 - 11:37amThe subscriber cover is brilliant. I think it one of the best covers ever in my opinion.
The Monitor
July 18th, 2024 - 12:27pmI stared at it for five minutes. I agree. One of best ever for sure, and at the moment it is the very best cover for me.
Dave
July 18th, 2024 - 10:48amDefinitely a cover for subscribers; looks great plain, looks awful with the blurbs and other images.
Drwhofan08
July 18th, 2024 - 10:49amShame it don’t have the neon background