September 12th, 2024
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 608
Inside this issue
- Join DWM at rehearsals for the Doctor Who Prom! We talk to host Catherine Tate, composers Murray Gold and Segun Akinola and exec producer Julie Gardner.
- Voice of the Daleks, and Big Finish boss, Nicholas Briggs talks about the challenges presented by the live performance of audio drama The Stuff of Legend, and his experiences on the TV show itself.
- Script to Screen! Discover how Dot and Bubble’s monstrous Mantraps were brought to life!
- Ahead of the release of Season 25 on Blu-ray, we interview Kandy Man actor David John Pope.
- The concluding part of our in-depth chat with 80s designer John Asbridge, covering his work on Silver Nemesis and The Happiness Patrol…
- Cyber Leader David Bank face the Memory Worm – will he remember the highlights of his Doctor Who career?
- DWM presents an indispensable guide to Doctor Who related activities around the UK…
- …and checks in with the Worlds of Wonder exhibition as it reaches New Zealand.
- Doctor Who fan Danny Howroyd shares his experiences of working on 73 Yards as a supporting artist.
- Back to 1964 – viewers left bereft as Doctor Who goes off air for the first time!
- The Fact of Fiction – we examine the Twelfth Doctor’s encounter with Davros in The Witch’s Familiar…
- A brand-new comic strip adventure with the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.
PLUS!
- Gallifrey Guardian – the latest news from the Whoniverse – including details about new books and audio releases!
- Shelf Life – including reviews of the latest action figure exclusives.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Prizes to be won including the new comic collection Black Sun Rising.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 608 is on sale Thursday 12 Septmber 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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MDS
September 18th, 2024 - 3:21pmHi, quick question but has anyone else not received their subscription copy yet?
time lord
September 13th, 2024 - 6:48pmquick question is it just me or is doctor who magazine getting harder to get hold of in the shops
Snowman
September 13th, 2024 - 7:51pmI went to Morrison’s were I usually go for a Copy and they had plenty of Copys in as Usual.
So I can’t really see it myself.
Amypondfan
September 14th, 2024 - 8:24pmMy local whsmith and Tesco’s usual have plenty of copies.
Snowman
September 14th, 2024 - 9:07pmIt might just be Certain Areas, (were Time Lord lives)?
I remember not so long ago there was a bit of a North/South Divide with Magazines.
On here, people in the South were getting Magazines without any Problems but us in the North were getting them weeks late.
Amypondfan
September 14th, 2024 - 9:50pmI’m in the north snowman and whilst smiths and Tesco’s got the mag sainsburys were late getting them for some months. I do know friends who live in different areas had trouble while others didn’t. No rhyme or reason to it, it seems. Hopefully we will have no trouble with the next issue as it’s the first one I want to get in some time now.
Phasergrim
September 13th, 2024 - 5:38pmHoly Doctor Who Adventures cover Batman!
Mrs Croot
September 13th, 2024 - 6:38pmHopefully a free monster army this issue 🙂
DSeymour
September 12th, 2024 - 2:25pmI decided to give up buying this magazine from this issue onwards, as I have zero interest in the Proms and the miniuatue on how digital effects are created. Although now as a Target Books collector I will have to get next issue! Can anyone tell me if this issue has details of the next Bookazine ?
Andy R
September 12th, 2024 - 5:08pmNo bookazine details from the flip through i did.
Snowman
September 13th, 2024 - 5:00pmThe Target Book next Month is Evil of the Daleks. It shows the Book Cover on the Inside Back Cover of the Magazine.
Patrick Troughtons on the Front Cover with is Two Companions, Surrounded by Daleks and the Supreme Dalek behind them.
The Cover background is Dark Blue. (Which Target have been using alot Recently) The New Diamond Logo is on the Front Cover above the Evil of the Daleks with Frazer Hines directly Underneath.
Looks a really Nice Cover.
Bookcollector
September 13th, 2024 - 9:38pmBeen waiting for the paperback was hoping for a group announcement, evil with a bunch of other new stories but will have to buy the magazine instead. Hope it’s the full version of his book and not an edited one.
Snowman
September 13th, 2024 - 11:16pmYes Book Collector, Do you think it will be an Edited Version. The last Time I remember a Target Book Exclusive with the Dr Who Magazine was in 2021, The Library of Time and it was just a Sampler.
Bookcollector
September 14th, 2024 - 1:18amIt seems strange to release it as an exclusive paperback. I assume more people buy the books than the magazine but I could easily be wrong. I hope it’s the full version, it wouldn’t be any longer than some they have already done as it had big print in the hardcover edition. I’ll get it and hope it’s the full version. I don’t really see the point of it if it isn’t. The library one was different. It was a sampler book with a short introduction. Hopefully we will get more info before the mag comes out.
Snowman
September 12th, 2024 - 2:08pmFantastic Cover, Love it.
Snowman
September 12th, 2024 - 5:19pmAlways loved a Montage of Interesting Characters rather than a Single Character on a Cover or Sleeve.
Cully’s Pal
September 12th, 2024 - 2:00pmThat bird faced being in the bottom corner is ludicrous I assume its from a last season episode I turned off. Consideing the funds and effects at their diposal the monsters have really gone downhill….Peri looked more convincing when she turned into a bird in ‘Vengeance….’
beef
September 14th, 2024 - 10:36amjust so obviously untrue lol
Cully’s Pal
September 14th, 2024 - 1:56pmI agree that thing is terrible…
Anon
September 14th, 2024 - 1:58pmCheer up cully! If it upsets you that much just don’t watch. Equally though if you don’t watch don’t comment. This episode was great and the makeup was excellent. Still, you won’t care about that… too busy complaining constantly about new who. Just let it go…
Cully’s Pal
September 14th, 2024 - 2:11pmYou dont believe in free speech and anyones opinion other than your own do you anon. Never mind ratings show Im right and youre wrong too bad. I cant be as argumentative as you.
Anon
September 14th, 2024 - 6:26pmThe BBC have already said that ratings are good. They no longer use overnight or even weekly consolidated figures to go by. The whole of the TV industry has hugely reduced figures. So does that mean everything is bad? No. Viewing habits have changed massively. And you are entitled to an opinion but if you don’t actually watch the series how can you have an informed opinion? Free speech is just another way of saying shut up I’m right. So you have just done to me exactly wha you are accusing me of!
Anon
September 14th, 2024 - 6:48pmP.s This anon doesnt speak for all anons.
booboo
September 14th, 2024 - 7:00pmThat’s fine, Anon and all variations of anonymous will be blocked from now on so there is no confusion in future.
Andy R
September 12th, 2024 - 11:38amNext issue – an exclusive target book version of Evil of the Daleks is inlucuded. Assume this is a physical copy rather then ebook version. New cover artwork too.
time lord
September 12th, 2024 - 11:50ami have not read Evil of the Daleks so it will be good to have
Anon
September 12th, 2024 - 12:44pmIs it the frazer Hines version?
Andy R
September 12th, 2024 - 2:00pmHard to tell from the details but you would expect so.
Whofan44
September 12th, 2024 - 3:18pmIt is the Frazer Hines version
Wbook
September 12th, 2024 - 3:37pmFull book or extracts to get you to buy the full book ?
£3 for the ‘book’ to be included
Whofan44
September 12th, 2024 - 3:52pmAll it says is “exclusive target paperback edition of the evil of the daleks”
Rory
September 12th, 2024 - 4:57pmI’m a sucker for an exclusive book, so I’ll be buying the next issue.
Fred
September 12th, 2024 - 10:36amUnusual collection of monsters there. Chuldur and Foretold? And Cybermen last seen 14 years ago?
And while I’m sure he’s a lovely man and I have nothing against his existence, is there *seriously* a featured interview with an extra from 73 Yards? Astonishing.
TheOther
September 12th, 2024 - 10:43amThose Cyberman appeared in 2011, 2012, 2017 and 2020
TheOther
September 12th, 2024 - 10:44amThey also appeared in HellBent I believe
Mrs Croot
September 12th, 2024 - 10:54amPretty sure they’re all the monster costumes used at the proms, so that’s why the monsters are so random too. Yes the 2013 and 2020 ones were also there but the cubes costumes are probably the most recognisable ones to put on the cover of a magazine.
cosmosboy98
September 12th, 2024 - 9:40amVery pleased the Proms is the cover story. Bewildered that they’ve not decided to use any photography taken from the actual Proms itself on the cover. Visually, there’s nothing to tell me this is the Proms, if I’m glancing it’s just a collection of monsters. I accept, perhaps too much musical iconography may give a false impression on the genre of the magazine, but surely there was some photography taken they could use that showcases both the monsters and the event! If there are arguments that printing deadlines meant this wasn’t possible… the Proms was two and a half weeks ago…
Martino
September 12th, 2024 - 12:55pmCoincidentally, the Proms programme went on sale yesterday, if you collect that sort of thing …