October 10th, 2025
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 622
32-PAGE MINI-MAG INCLUDED WITH THIS ISSUE: RUSSELL T DAVIES’ PRODUCTION NOTES ON DAVID TENNANT’S FIRST SEASON
PLUS – A DOUBLE-SIDED BBC AUDIOBOOKS WALL CHART
In the magazine
- Composer MURRAY GOLD, writer JUNO DAWSON and designer DAN MAY on the Interstellar Song Contest hit Dugga Doo and the alien race behind it…
- ROBERT SHEARMAN discusses his new novels – Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight – based on audio dramas he wrote for the Sixth and Eighth Doctors in the early 2000s.
- A tribute to Season 18 script editor and the writer of Logopolis, Castrovalva and Frontios,
- CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEAD who died in August.
- Previously unpublished extracts from an interview with Christopher H Bidmead conducted in 2017.
- SOPHIE ALDRED talks about returning to the early days of companion Ace in a new audio drama box set.
- KATY MANNING and CAROLE ANN FORD discuss short stories they have written for a new anthology that explores what happened to their characters, Jo and Susan, in the aftermath of TV episodes…
- A celebration of BBC Audiobooks’ Doctor Who releases – including their recently completed run of talking books based on the Target novelisations.
- The Black Archive Quiz – how sharp is your Doctor Who knowledge?
- The monster hospital – the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi’s NEIL COLE explains how he’s brought some of the series’ memorable creatures back to life!
- A deep dive into the world of the Eleventh Doctor episode Let’s Kill Hitler.
- Back to 1988! What did the critics make of Seventh Doctor story Remembrance of the Daleks?
- Will computers be to blame for our downfall? Gary Gillatt investigates…
- A new comic strip adventure for the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda…
Regular features
- GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: our news round-up including details of Russell T Davies’ BAFTA win and the ‘Speakies’ nomination for First Doctor audiobook Agent of the Daleks.
- Reviews – featuring the latest audios, books, records and action figures.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Prizes to be won – including Season 13 on Blu-ray!
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 622 is on sale Thursday 9 October 2025 from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £10.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £9.99.
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Chris H
October 10th, 2025 - 7:25pmIt’s mostly a great issue, but the interview with Robert Shearman is actually really poor on the part of the interviewer. Shearman is great, but the interviewer is not. Doctor Who Magazine is so desperate to maintain that the show is fine and everything is wonderful, that the writer attacks Shearman’s comments multiple times when he says he feels like the show is currently dead, saying things like, “Maybe he’s being needlessly pessimistic”, and “The BBC maintains that it’s committed to the show.” The magazine has had its head buried in the sand since the season 2 finale, and simply won’t let another opinion exist within its pages, even though Shearman is basically saying what most of the fanbase is thinking. It’s incredibly out of touch.
Brilliant articles otherwise!
James
October 10th, 2025 - 8:01pmIt feels like the magazine is running out of ideas and stuff to write on as well as the price tag it isn’t justified purchasing it in my opinion
NickD
October 10th, 2025 - 9:49pmIt is the “official” magazine which means that they have to toe the official party line of the BBC
MonoSupreme
October 10th, 2025 - 3:50pmAlright, yep I’m gonna sound complainy, maybe just for the sake of it ahaha.
But the cover really just screams of the show not being able to move on from its “golden years” (pardon the pun). The show should be pushing, new, new, new. Or at the very least, something new in the old (like the blu-ray sets/colourisations etc)
This is just a low effort re-use of 2005 publicity shots just for nostalgia.
Lends into an even wider issue of why we never get anything new Dalek wise.
Stale, stale, stale.
I do love the show, honest XD
The Fishmonger
October 10th, 2025 - 4:40pmI know what you mean but whenever the magazines editor tries anything different, people just complain. So they can’t win really.
Demdike@CultLabs
October 10th, 2025 - 5:15pm“The show should be pushing, new, new, new. Or at the very least, something new in the old (like the blu-ray sets/colourisations etc)”
You mean something new like Robert Shearman discussing his new novels, Sophie Aldred talking about her forthcoming audio stories, Carole Ann Ford and Katy Manning telling us about their stories for a forthcoming anthology… that kind of thing? What about the massive 12 page feature on the season 13 Blu-ray box set they did recently?
Oh wait.
NickD
October 10th, 2025 - 9:47pmYou can love it and be critical as well and objective. If you just slavishly love it that’s not love it’s crazy.
Snowman
October 10th, 2025 - 3:41pmReally Great Cover. Worth getting for that Alone.
Whofan44
October 10th, 2025 - 2:55pmRather liked the article about the BBC Audiobooks and very happy to see there are plans to do the Virgin New Adventures and Missing Adventures. Never been that bothered by the target ones but the Virgin books I will buy every single one
Peter C
October 10th, 2025 - 12:43pmAlso a shame my copy arrived with audios poster almost completely ripped down the centre seam!
not RTD
October 10th, 2025 - 11:05amits a better magazine then last month the supplement is ok i thought it would be just a reprint of the PRODUCTION NOTES but there is a bit more in there the poster is big you would need a hell of a wall to put it up on i do miss the art cards that use to come with the magazine they were more manageable to find room for …but overall not bad 7 out of 10
James
October 10th, 2025 - 11:25amShame they keep using paper and plastic packaging. Like to keep them prestige but having to rip open annoys me
Ano miss
October 10th, 2025 - 2:23pmPristine