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THE NEXT FOUR EPISODES ARE PREVIEWED IN ISSUE 513 OF DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE!

The Ice Warriors and the Cybermen are on their way back to Doctor Who – so we have a choice of TWO monsters covers for our latest issue! Inside Issue 513, we preview the next four episodes to air, The Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars, The Eaters of Light and World Enough and Time.

Empress of Mars script writer Mark Gatiss tells us why he wanted to bring back the Ice Warriors in his new episode – but are they his all-time favourite Doctor Who monster?

The Cybermen are my favourites and yet I’ve never written for them, but the Ice Warriors are among my favourites: a great monster,” Mark smiles. “I always loved the pride of them, their Viking qualities and the voice. Even though they’ve had so few appearances, they loom so large. So I’d always wanted to bring them back, because I thought I could do something with them. You can just do a bit of worldbuilding, because there’s so much to play with…”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• ASK STEVEN: Showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers’ questions about the latest series.
• THE SOUL GARDEN: Part Two of the Doctor and Bill’s brand-new comic strip adventure, written by Scott Gray, with art by Martin Geraghty.
• CRAB ATTACK!: This issue’s Fact of Fiction uncovers the secrets of the 1967 story The Macra Terror, which saw the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie visit a far-future colony that comes under attack from giant crabs!
• REVIEWS DWM: reviews the latest TV episodes (Knock Knock, Oxygen, Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World) as well as audio and DVD releases in the world of Doctor Who.
• COMING SOON: Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
• PLUS!: All the latest official news, the Watcher’s column, competitions and the DWM crossword!

Doctor Who Magazine 513 is on sale from Thursday 1 June, price £5.99.

Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension:

Doctor Who fans are deep into the 10th season of the beloved BBC series, but they’re going to want to take a break to check out Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension, a crossover event featuring four Doctors from Titan Comics.

The Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors will need to come together to face a threat that no one Doctor could face alone.

The event kicks off in the Alpha issue being released on Titan’s “Doctor Who Comics Day” global event on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. The story continues in the Ninth Doctor special on the same week.

According to Titan’s description, Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension, “is an epic event – comprised of eight chapters over three months – crossing over all four ongoing series (Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor comics). The event will begin a new era for Titan’s Doctor Who comics, and will find the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor playing their part to battle The Void!

“The Void has always existed: ‘No place. The silent realm. The lost dimension.’ But the Void is no longer empty. The Void is hungry and devouring our universe – through time and space. Now, the four Doctors must join forces to save…everything!”

Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension will begin with the Alpha issue, which is being designed as a jumping on point for new readers, from writers George Mann (Eleventh Doctor), and Cavan Scott (Ninth Doctor), with art by Rachael Stott (Twelfth Doctor) and Rod Fernandes!

Doctor Who: The Lost Dimensions’ Alpha Issue will ship with three covers, including a special embossed foil TARDIS cover, a photo cover by Will Brooks, and a multi-Doctor mash-up by Rachael Stott and Luis Guerrero.

More details on Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension are still to come.

While Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension will feature the four modern Doctors, the BBC is busy casting the thirteenth. The tenth season of Doctor Who will be the final season for Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. It will also be the final season for producer and showrunner Steven Moffat, who will hand the job over to Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall, who will introduce a new Doctor in Doctor Who’s eleventh season. It is unclear if new companion Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie, will stay with the series.

The latest Special Edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to the many Doctor Who toys and games that have been released since the early 1960s.  

One hundred pages of all-new content includes surveys of the items produced in each decade, a feature on the rarest Doctor Who toy of all, the untold story of 1965’s Zarbi puppets and a ringside seat at a board-game marathon. Other highlights include a detailed analysis of Denys Fisher’s 1970s range of Doctor Who toys and exclusive interviews with the people behind the Dapol, Product Enterprise, Character and BIG Chief collectables.

Editor Marcus Hearn says: “It’s been more than 30 years since Doctor Who Magazine devoted an issue to merchandise, so it’s a subject well worth revisiting. This is the most ambitious Special Edition that I’ve worked on, and it was a real labour of love for all of us.”

Bursting with new information, discoveries from the archive and specially commissioned photography, this is the surprising story of Doctor Who toys and games – told by the people who make, sell and collect them.

Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: Toys & Games is on sale now at WH Smith and all good newsagents, price £5.99 (US: $11.99).

FOUR NEW EPISODES ARE PREVIEWED IN  ISSUE 512 OF DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE!

There’s an exclusive interview with guest star David Suchet who plays the enigmatic Landlord in Knock Knock…

“I suppose I so became so associated with Poirot,” says the distinguished actor, “but when they invited me to Doctor Who, I said yes before I’d even read the script!”

Why?

“Because it’s Doctor Who! It’s the most iconic series, even more so than Poirot. To have that opportunity was the greatest privilege.”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• NEW EPISODE PREVIEWS!
  DWM previews the next four episodes of the new series: Knock Knock, Oxygen, Extremis and The Pyramid at the End of the World.
• INTERVIEWS WITH THE WRITERS!
  We chat to Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the writer of Smile, and Sarah Dollard, the writer of Thin Ice.
• MEET THE DIRECTOR!
  Lawrence Gough, the director of The Pilot and Smile talks to DWM about his work on the new series.
• THE SOUL GARDEN!
  Bill Potts makes her comic strip début in the first part of the new comic adventure by Scott Gray, with art by Martin Geraghty.
• MONOID MANIA!
  This issue’s Fact of Fiction delves into the 1966 story The Ark, which took the Doctor, Steven and Dodo into the far future.
• REVIEWS
  DWM reviews the latest TV episodes (The Pilot, Smile and Thin Ice) as well as audio and DVD releases in the world of Doctor Who.
• COMING SOON
  Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
• PLUS! All the latest official news, the Watcher’s column, competitions and the DWM crossword!

 Doctor Who Magazine 512 is on sale from Thursday 4 May, price £5.99.

 

THE ESSENTIAL DOCTOR WHO: ROBOTS

Panini’s lavish series of publications devoted to key aspects of the Doctor Who universe continues with an issue devoted to robots. The Doctor’s deadliest adversaries include mechanical killers such as the Yeti, the Voc robots and the clockwork droids. For more than five decades the series has realised some of our darkest fears about artificial intelligence and mankind’s relationship with its automated servants.

This 116-page bookazine includes interviews with:

Chris Boucher (writer of The Robots of Death)

Michael Kilgarriff (Robot)

John Leeson (voice of K9)

Tom MacRae (writer of The Girl Who Waited)

Dave Martin (K9’s co-creator)

Paul Murphy (director of The Caretaker and Robot of Sherwood)

Paul Tams (co-creator of the K9 television series)

Kate Walshe (visual effects producer)

The classic story guides include The War Machines, The Web of Fear, The Android Invasion, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Husbands of River Song and many more.

Among the other highlights are The Vampire Planet (an unproduced William Emms story from 1969), the strange story of the Mechonoids, a look at the Out of the Unknown episode that gave us the Mind Robber robots, Douglas Adams’ original notes for the Polyphase Avatron, the rise and fall of Kamelion and the history of robot comic strips.

Editor Marcus Hearn says: “2017 marks the 40th anniversary of K9’s first appearance in Doctor Who, so he looms large in our journey through more than 50 years of the series’ robots. It must be said that most of the mechanical characters we’re featuring aren’t quite as friendly as the Doctor’s dog…”

The Essential Doctor Who: Robots is on sale now at WH Smith and all good newsagents, price £9.99.