This month’s Doctor Who Magazine investigates how digital technology transformed Doctor Who.

DWM charts the history of digital effects in Doctor Who from the 1970s to the most recent episodes.

Plus interviews with costume designer @HolmanRay and composer @segunakinola, tributes to Chris Achilléos and Bob Baker, and much more!

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Highlights of the new issue include:

• DWM charts the history of digital effects in Doctor Who from the 1970s to the most recent episodes.
• Dave Bannister and Andrew Robertson from VFX company DNEG describe their contributions to Flux.
• Digital matte artist Jim McCarthy discusses his work on Doctor Who in the 1980s.
• Interviews with the people who brought us some of the first Doctor Who computer games.
• The second installment of a two-part feature in which Ray Holman explains the background to his costume designs for Series 13.
• An interview with Frances White, who played Cassandra in 1965’s The Myth Makers.
• Composer Segun Akinola discusses the musical juxtaposition of romance and Daleks in the New Year’s Day Special.
• Tributes to renowned Target cover artist Chris Achilléos, who died on 6 December, and writer Bob Baker, who died away on 2 November.
• The Fact of Fiction revisits 2010’s The Beast Below.
• Public Image analyses the ratings for Flux.
• The Doctor Who Magazine Christmas Quiz answers.
• Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser and more.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 573 is on sale from panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 6 Januarypriced £5.99 (UK).

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £4.99.