Doctor Who Magazine Issue 575

Issue 575 of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates 40 years of the Fifth Doctor

Highlights of the new issue include:

• The results of DWM’s World Cup of the Fifth Doctor, which saw his 20 television stories pitted against each other in a series of polls on Twitter.

• An exclusive look at the files of 1980s script editor Eric Saward, including new interviews with Eric and some of his prospective writers.

• A previously unpublished interview with the late Spencer Chapman, in which he discusses his design work on the 1960s productions The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Space Museum. 

• The final instalment of a two-part interview with Doctor Who’s outgoing executive producer Matt Strevens.

• A recreation of the sets from 1968’s The Wheel in Space, featuring new CGI models.

• How to navigate the BBC’s growing online archive of Doctor Who content.

• Collectivity explores the appeal of action figures.

• Apocrypha revisits Catalogue of Events, a short story in Marvel Comics’ 1983 Doctor Who Summer Special.

• The Fact of Fiction looks at 2009’s The Waters of Mars.

• The second part of Hydra’s Gate, a new comic-strip story for the Doctor, Yaz and Dan.

• Previews, reviews, news, prize-winning competitions, Time and Space Visualiser, Sufficient Data and more.

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 575 is on sale from panini.co.uk and WH Smith from Thursday 3 March priced £6.99 (UK).

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