August 2016 – Page 8

SNEAK-PEAK AT SUPREMACY OF THE CYBERMEN ISSUE 2

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Titan Comics have released details of the upcoming issues in their Doctor Who event series, Supremacy of the Cybermen. We’ve also got a sneak look inside the issue! Written by George Mann & Cavan Scott, with art by Ivan Rodriguez & Walter Geovanni, this five-part event unites Doctors Nine through Twelve and pits them against the Cybermen. Take a look at the cover art and synopsis below: Cyberships on fire in the Thames, as the Ninth Doctor battles for the soul of…

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Is this teenager the UK’s biggest Doctor Who fan?

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A teenager who has spent six years’ worth of pocket money buying 1,500 pieces of Doctor Who memorabilia says that her collection is now worth almost £10,000. Sophie Clark, 17, started collecting back in 2010 but has now been banned as her mum claims her life-sized Daleks and aliens are taking over their house. She’s even resorted to using the garage as a storage room for the bits of memorabilia that are too big to fit into the house. But…

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Matthew Waterhouse – Then and Now

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HE TRAVELLED in the TARDIS with not one but two Time Lords during his adventures on Doctor Who, but companion Adric looks very different today. Actor Matthew Waterhouse, who played the role of the young native from the planet Alzarius, has certainly come a long way since his time on the long-running science fiction series. The now 54-year-old shot to fame on Doctor Who when he played the plucky sidekick to Peter Davidson and Tom Baker’s incarnations of the time…

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Dancing with the Doctor

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Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades. She considers the showrunners, directors, producers and writers and the problems this flagship science fiction series has had in offering alternative gender models. Constructions of masculinity, the author function, and how gender intersects with the other facets of identity, race, ethnicity and age, are just some of the areas explored in this…

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Doctor Who : The Twelfth Doctor Volume 5 – The Twist

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The Doctor visits planet Twist, the colony with ‘the best punk scene this side of the 40th century!’ But something is amiss when a murder mystery occurs, leading the Doctor and the planet’s inhabitants to question their very origins! On Sale From 20th January 2017

Space Helmet for a Cow

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In Space Helmet for a Cow 2, Paul Kirkley (Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Times, SFX) continues his witty and irreverent history of Doctor Who, from the wilderness years of the 1990s when the 30th anniversary special was so bad, it didn t even go straight to video to its triumphant 50th birthday celebrations, when every single person in the world sat down to watch Doctor Who together (except Christopher Eccleston, who was busy). It s the book that answers such…

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Running Through Corridors 2

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In Running Through Corridors, two Doctor Who lovers of old – Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke – embark on an epic quest of friendship: spend the gap year of 2009 (when Doctor Who consisted of a handful of specials rather than a full season) re-watching the whole of Who two episodes a day, every day, from the show’s start in 1963 and ending with David Tennant’s swan song on New Year’s, 2010. This series contains Shearman and Hadoke’s diary of…

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Doctor Who: Scales of Injustice

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An unabridged reading of this original novel featuring the Third Doctor, as played on TV by Jon Pertwee. When a boy goes missing and a policewoman starts drawing cave paintings, the Doctor suspects the Silurians are back. With the Brigadier distracted by questions about UNIT funding and problems at home, the Doctor swears his assistant Liz Shaw to secrecy and investigates alone. But Liz has enquiries of her own, teaming up with a journalist to track down people who don’t…

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The Space Pirates

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An unabridged reading of this novelisation of a classic 1960s TV serial, featuring the Second Doctor. When space beacon Alpha One disintegrates into lumps of metal, General Hermack of the Space Corps realises that space pirates have discovered a new source of precious argonite. After witnessing further destruction, the General leaves a squad of guards on beacon Alpha Four – just as the TARDIS materialises. Suspected by the Space Corps of being pirates, then pursued as spies by the pirates…

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The Day of the Daleks

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An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation of a 1972 TV story featuring the Third Doctor, as played on TV by Jon Pertwee. Mysterious humans from 22nd Century Earth ‘time-jump’ back into the 20th Century, so as to assassinate a high-ranking diplomat on whom the peace of the world depends. The Doctor, Jo Grant and the Brigadier are soon called in to investigate. Jo is accidentally transported to the future; the Doctor follows, eventually to be captured by his oldest…

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