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Tuesday, 22 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
Update: Outpost Gallifrey has received the full cover illustration and blurb for Doctor Who Magazine issue #355; click on the cover for a larger version. (Thanks to Tom Spilsbury/DWM)
DWM takes a look at the new-look TARDIS.

In issue 355 concept designer Bryan Hitch explains how the new-look TARDIS was created.

"What we eventually eureka!-ed was that the TARDIS was the Doctor's VW camper van - old and a bit hippy-ish, somewhere to sleep," he says. "It needed to feel as if it had been repaired on the road for 900 years with whatever technology a particular time period had to offer, and that the Doctor had rigged it to work for one pilot, rather than the three that we thought a six-sided console would need. All of these factors needed to be taken into account when designing the feel of the set. Also, it's the control room, not the living room, so armchairs were out!"

Also this month, the Ninth Doctor and Rose make their DWM comic strip d?but, in the first part of a brand-new full-colour adventure, The Love Invasion, written by Gareth Roberts, with artwork by Mike Collins.

Actor Simon Callow talks about his guest role as Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead; DWM goes behind-the-scenes on Episode 1, Rose, to find out what it takes to bring an episode of Doctor Who to the screen; and there are some tantalising previews of the next four episodes coming soon on Saturday nights - The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead, Aliens of London and World War Three!

There's also an in-depth review of the first episode; more from executive producer Russell T Davies in his Production Notes column; the latest casting news, and a special report from the Doctor Who press launch in Cardiff.

DWM 355 is published on Thursday 31 March.




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