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Panini’s lavish series of bookazines – The Essential Doctor Who – continues with a 116-page issue devoted to Davros and Doctor Who’s other notorious villains. “The last issue dealt with monsters,” says editor Marcus Hearn, “so this time we’re turning our attention to the Doctor’s humanoid adversaries. Davros made a huge impact in the recent story The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar, so he leads the charge!” Davros and Other Villains includes exclusive interviews with Davros actors Terry Molloy and David…

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Doctor Who Magazine looks ahead to the dramatic final episodes of the latest series – Sleep No More, Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent, and talks to to the writers of the episodes: Mark Gatiss, Sarah Dollard and showrunner Steven Moffat. We also catch up with the director of the series finale, Rachel Talalay and the Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi… “The whole episode’s quite big,” Peter tells DWM of the 12th and final episode of the series, Hell…

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And Sarah Jane is along for the ride… Titan Comics had been rapidly growing its new Doctor Who line over the past year, and now the Fourth Doctor will be the latest to strut across the pages. Tom Baker’s iconic Doctor is the latest to join a lineup that now includes the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations, reports CBR. He will be joined by his best-known companion Sarah Jane Smith, famously portrayed on TV by the late Elisabeth…

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“I’M THE DOCTOR, AND I’D VERY MUCH LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING IN MY HOUSE…” Get ready for an all-new season of comics adventures featuring the Eighth Doctor, as played by Paul McGann in the Doctor Who movie, fan-favorite minisode Night of the Doctor… and over fourteen years (and counting!) of astounding Big Finish audio spectaculars! Five amazing, interconnected new stories take the Doctor on a rollercoaster of threat and misadventure, as he investigates the mysteries surrounding his new…

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THE ZYGONS ARE COMING! DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE PREVIEWS THEIR RETURN IN ISSUE 492! Doctor Who Magazine looks ahead to the return of one of Doctor Who’s most popular monsters, in the forthcoming two-part adventure The Zygon Invasion & The Zygon Inversion – which also sees the return of fan-favourite Osgood… “There was a certain amount of fan outrage when Death in Heaven saw the apparent death of Osgood,” episode writer Peter Harness tells Doctor Who Magazine. “Ingrid Oliver’s character was…

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NEW SERIES! NEW WRITING TEAM! NEW LASER-FILLED, TIME-MANGLING, GALAXY-SPLODING DYNAMIC! Accused of a genocidal crime he (probably) didn’t (possibly) commit (oh hell, he totally did it), the Doctor and Alice – along with a unique! new! companion! – go on the run. But extreme hyperviolence-for-hire is hot on their tail, tracking them wherever and whenever they go. With chainswords! It’s a race to clear our tricksy Time Lord’s name and spare the lives of his friends, with the only answers…

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THE FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE NEW SERIES OF DOCTOR WHO, PREVIEWED  IN DWM 491! Doctor Who Magazine exclusively previews the first four episodes of the new series: The Magician’s Apprentice & The Witch’s Familiar and Under the Lake & Before the Flood… Under the Lake and Before the Flood form Toby Whithouse’s first two-part Doctor Who story – and it hinges on time travel – and fairly mind-bending time travel at that. While plotting and writing, did Toby ever…

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THE NEW DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE SPECIAL IS MUSIC TO OUR EARS! For the first time in the 36-year history of Doctor Who Magazine – an entire issue devoted to the music and sound design of Doctor Who! From Delia Derbyshire’s groundbreaking experiments in the Radiophonic Workshop, to the acclaimed performances of Murray Gold’s orchestral scores at the Royal Albert Hall, The Music of Doctor Who explores one of the most celebrated and mysterious sonic landscapes in television history. “We think this Special Edition is unprecedented in…

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STEVEN MOFFAT PREVIEWS THE NEW SERIES OF DOCTOR WHO, EXCLUSIVELY IN DWM 490! Doctor Who Magazine spoke to the show’s executive producer and head writer, Steven Moffat, to give us a taste of what’s in store over the next 12 episodes… “Why not start with a blockbuster?” says Steven of the two-part opening story, The Magician’s Apprentice and The Witch’s Familiar. “Why leave it till the last two weeks? So yes, it’s like starting with a finale, and having a…

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