May 28th, 2026
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 630
DALEKS CONQUER & DESTROY!
In this issue
- BRIAN HODGSON – the legendary Radiophonic Workshop sound designer who created the voice of the Daleks – and the sound of the TARDIS – discusses his Doctor Who work.
- The story of the remarkable recovery of a unique Dalek prop that has survived in a private collection since 1965.
- I was a secret Dalek! NICHOLAS EVANS – Dalek operator and Slyther in The Dalek Invasion of Earth – among other roles – talks to DWM.
- MICKEY LEWIS shares his memories of playing a Dalek – and a Dalek zombie – in 2012’s Asylum of the Daleks.
Plus
- A preview of the new ULTRA HD release of the TV movie starring Eighth Doctor Paul McGann.
- ALAN YENTOB – controller of BBC1 when the TV movie was being made – talks about his role in the return of Doctor Who in an interview conducted shortly before his death.
- RICHARD HUDOLIN – designer on the TV movie – discusses his extraordinary TARDIS sets…
- MARK STRICKSON on his time as shifty Fifth Doctor companion Turlough…
- Scores to settle! Find out all about how the music and sound effects come together in the latest part of our series on Rutans vs Sontarans.
- The truth behind The Lie of the Land. The Fact of Fiction dissects this unsettling Twelfth Doctor story.
- The Fifteenth Doctor faces off against the Daleks in the comic strip.
Regular features
- GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: our monthly round-up of news including the latest on the multi-platform series Circuit Breaker.
- Reviews – including PAUL KIRKLEY on the TV movie.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Prizes to be won! Including the latest audio dramas featuring the Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Doctors.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 630 is on sale Thursday 28 May 2026 from panini.co.uk and TG Jones priced £8.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £7.99.
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James
June 15th, 2026 - 1:33amWell Wilderness Years.2…..So how are they going to fill the magazine now for the next 2 years? Unless the magazine takes a break aswell..or goes bimonthly/quarterly..untill the series returns to production
Auton
June 15th, 2026 - 8:09amDWM continued during Wilderness Years 1, didn’t it?
bookcollector
June 15th, 2026 - 9:43amIt survived fine last time. Commercial circumstances are different these days (all print magazines are suffering) so well have to wait and see but if Tom spilsbury had an idea about what was about to happen when the Disney deal fell through then I imagine (apologies for this one) that the moment has been prepared for…
James
June 15th, 2026 - 11:06amYh but with print titles costing more and less people buying physical magazines it’s a bit different to WY1.
Love the pun book collector
not RTD
June 10th, 2026 - 5:47pmi can not wait for the 2027 yearbook from doctor who magazine to see what is not in it
James
June 15th, 2026 - 1:31amLol all we had this year was? O yh 5 eps of the spinoff…unless they will make it a 20th anniversary celebration of Modern Who like the annual
Duncan
June 15th, 2026 - 9:34pmWith everything thats been going on Im even more thankful that those two Dalek Masterplan episodes turned up !
Now, can we have some more, please ? 🙂
bookcollector
June 15th, 2026 - 11:58pmIf i remember correctly the only new who we got in 1990 was the mission to magnus target book. Not the greatest story to represent a whole year!
Prowl 1701
June 16th, 2026 - 3:25pmI liked Mission to Magnus myself, a good read.
bookcollector
June 16th, 2026 - 6:25pmOh it’s a fun read but even in 1985 it wou,d have been considered a bit old-fashioned in its attitudes.
bookcollector
June 16th, 2026 - 6:26pmHa, would, that’s what happens when you type without your reading glasses on!
Duncan
May 29th, 2026 - 4:47pmBeen up in the attic today and found a huge box full of old DWMs. Some oldies ! It’s fascinating reading some of the previews and musings about forthcoming adventures such as Mark Of The Rani and The Two Doctors. Scary really as looking through them transported me right back to the mid 80s. And that doesn’t feel that long ago.
War Chief.
May 29th, 2026 - 7:34pmVery good….!
I nearly fell off my chair when the Master suddenly appeared in Mark of the Rani….for the past year, I had thought he was dead….
And the Sontarans were brilliant in The Two Doctors….
bbb
May 28th, 2026 - 10:40pm631 apparently has the last part of the current comic strip . i hope so this one has dragged on a bit for me and after that DWM please use another doctor maybe 8.5
Professor Flibble
May 28th, 2026 - 8:37pmNo, no, it’s a flipped photo from Dalek Invasion, it’s a photo of it partly submerged in the water, and you can also tell its from Dalek Invasion because of the white eyestalk lens:
https://tragicalhistorytour.com/d01/1k/#img=d01-1k-153.jpg
War Chief.
May 28th, 2026 - 7:56pmWith the satellite dish on the back casing…..?
I think they’re my favourite 60s Daleks….Well, and the Skaro ones…and the Master Plan ones…
Oh nuts, I love them all….!
Trenzalore
May 28th, 2026 - 10:31pmMy favourite is death to the daleks silver and black, though not as keen on the story lol
War Chief.
May 28th, 2026 - 11:00pmDeath Daleks are good, but my ultimate (non 60s) favourite is or are the white and gold Revelation Daleks….
And the whole Tranquil Repose story….
not RTD
May 28th, 2026 - 11:48amgood cover GROOVY
Andy R
May 28th, 2026 - 12:48pmSubscriber version must look FAB
War Chief.
May 28th, 2026 - 2:13pmDoesn’t do much for me….a matt, grey Dalek….not a single reflective surface on it….
Come from the planet Karfel….?
Amypondfan
May 28th, 2026 - 5:31pmIts not matt grey war chief, its a black and white photo
War Chief.
May 28th, 2026 - 6:21pmAre you sure…? It looks kind of…odd…
Even the Daleks don’t shine….
Amypondfan
May 28th, 2026 - 6:42pmThat is definitely a black and white photo from the first dalek story.
War Chief.
May 28th, 2026 - 6:49pmWell, that has reduced the mystery…..!
Professor Flibble
May 28th, 2026 - 7:35pmIt’s a photo from Dalek Invasion of Earth with the base trimmed.
Amypondfan
May 28th, 2026 - 8:22pmDefinitely from the first dalek story. They had the slim base.
Professor Flibble
May 28th, 2026 - 8:44pmNo, no, it’s definitely a flipped photo from Dalek Invasion. You can tell because of the white eyestalk iris. Actually, it’s got a slim base in the photo, because it’s from the Episode 1 cliffhanger of the Dalek rising from the water. Tried to send a link to the photo on Tragical History Tour but the comment had to be monitored, but it’s towards the end of Dalek Invasion’s publicity still gallery on there.
Demdike@CultLabs
May 28th, 2026 - 8:54pmDefinitely from Invasion of Earth. The Daleks in the first story all had black eyes whilst the ones in Invasion all had white / silver.
Amypondfan
May 28th, 2026 - 9:02pmFair enough