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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 619
In this issue
- CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON and BILLIE PIPER talk to DWM about being reunited for a brand-new series of audio adventures.
- Celebrating 60 years of Steven Taylor – actor PETER PURVES looks back over his fascinating career and his time travelling with the First Doctor.
- PLUS – a look behind the scenes of the Tales of the TARDIS episode that covered 1965’s The Time Meddler – including a chat with both Peter Purves and MAUREEN O’BRIEN who played Vicki in the serial.
- Script to screen: Find out all about how THE SHREEK from Lucky Day was conjured into reality!
- Illustrator extraordinaire DAN LILES shares some of the artwork he’s prepared for the Target Books range including original mock-ups and alternative designs.
- After Image: the first in a series looking back at episodes from the recent season – including reviews of the new Target Book adaptations.
- Boom! Piper Jones invites us to join her at the Ace Jacket book launch…
- Back to 1992: We look at some of Third Doctor Jon Pertwee’s final TV roles…
- The Randomiser: Gary Gillatt reviews chess as seen in Doctor Who with the help of expert THALIA HOLMES.
- We scrutinise the insect-world of Vortis in the concluding part of our Fact of Fiction on 1965’s The Web Planet.
- The Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda’s adventures continue in the comic strip.
Regular features
- GALLIFREY GUARDIAN – our news round-up including a look at plans for San Diego Comic-Con 2025.
- Reviews – featuring the latest audio and book releases.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe, including a chat with the team behind the new Ninth Doctor and Rose adventures!
- Prizes to be won – including the Limited Edition Steelbook of the Fifteenth Doctor’s second season!
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 619 is on sale Thursday 17 July 2025 from www.panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from www.pocketmags.com priced £6.99.
James Morris-Wyatt
August 6th, 2025 - 8:19pmStill wishing there was to get the regular covers as a subscriber. It’s really difficult knowing what content is in which issue when they all just have generic covers only pertinent to a small portion of the total content.
Andy R
July 20th, 2025 - 1:10pmCD sampler for the loch ness audio book with the nexr special edition magazine out 28th august, as mentioned in the news section. Wonder if this would be another chronicles magazine ?
Gareth Pugh
July 20th, 2025 - 6:23pmNo – DWM is referring to the next Special Edition, called ‘The Horror Issue’, out August 28th. It is themed to tie in with the next Collection set by focusing primarily on the Hinchcliffe ‘gothic horror’ era, but it’s not the next in the Bookazine range. That usually rocks up around October-ish. We don’t know what the subject of that will be yet.
MJS
July 20th, 2025 - 12:06pmI couldn’t be happier! As the world’s #1 Virtual Murder fan* and working on the Virtual Murder Celebration book, I was delighted to see almost a whole page devoted to the series and Pertwee’s role as Luis Silverado!
*Unproven
MDS
July 19th, 2025 - 8:12amMy local WHSmiths closed recently. However if you are looking for DWM try Waterstones. My local has just started selling magazines and it is included amongst their titles.
Duncan
July 18th, 2025 - 9:28pmI’ve not seen a copy of DWM round here for two years at least. We have a Smiths but they don’t appear to have any Who related goodies. I probably wouldn’t buy the magazine very often – last time I did buy a copy Smith was the Doctor . But it would be handy to at least have the option to pick up a copy if the contents interested me. As it is, if I really want the magazine I’ve got to go through the palarva of ordering it on line. There’s something nice about going into bricks and mortar to grab something.
Nevermind. Hopefully, Season 13 will be heading this way in the near future
Chris
July 19th, 2025 - 12:08pmWell there you go. You’ve not bought an issue in over a decade, so you can’t really complain if Smiths aren’t stocking it anymore.
James
July 18th, 2025 - 6:04pmMy whs bedford closed 2 weeks ago. Closest whs/tg jones is MK. Wonder if next month it will be advertised as WHSmith, TGJones, newsagents and comic book stores for September issue
Amypondfan
July 17th, 2025 - 9:20pmI look at Billie on the cover there and think, get her to play the doctor with her red hair! And get her to play the doctor completely differently to rose. She is a great actress let her show it.
Prof Horner
July 17th, 2025 - 6:59pmI will definitely getting this issue.
Barney
July 17th, 2025 - 5:24pmDoes it have any information on the season 13 collection blue ray? Someone mentioned it might in that thread but I feel like if it did it would of been listed on the cover
Gordon
July 17th, 2025 - 5:47pmPreview and presumably disc breakdown next issue.
Mb
July 17th, 2025 - 4:55pmGreat news issue! 🙂
Finlay
July 17th, 2025 - 2:12pmFound in WHSmith today. Pretty good issue, some new tidbits about the upcoming 9DAs.
anonymous
July 18th, 2025 - 10:21amto find a copy of DWM is hard enough but to find a WHSmith……. its like finding a yeti riding shergar
Amypondfan
July 18th, 2025 - 12:32pmMy nearest Smiths shop has always got the mag in. Has done for at least 30 years now.
anonymous
July 18th, 2025 - 2:06pmMy nearest Smiths closed last year and it was hit and miss if it did have DWM for 18 months before that
PJ
July 18th, 2025 - 11:53pmSo many shops are now closing
bbb
July 20th, 2025 - 10:34pmPJ my local town centre ( bridgwater somerset ) has nothing in it WHSmith’s closed last year and now the banks are closing its alright if you like expensive charity shops with nothing in them and people getting drunk on bottles on cider and fighting with each other,, but that doesn’t appeal to me