The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine features exclusive previews of the new season, due to launch on New Year's Day.

Every issue of the festive Doctor Who Magazine includes:

• A Giant Double-sided Poster
• A Thirteenth Doctor Art Card

Other highlights include:

• An exclusive, in-depth interview with showrunner Chris Chibnall, plus his latest Production Notes.
• The directors of Series 12 speak exclusively to DWM.
• Exclusive previews of the first new-series episodes: Spyfall Parts One and Two.
• Tosin Cole (who plays Ryan Sinclair) answers questions from the TARDIS Tin.
• An Advent in Space and Time: six decades of festive TV and radio highlights.
• DWM revisits the Doctor Who pantomimes of the 1980s.
• The final part of a candid interview with former script editor Andrew Cartmel.
• Broadcaster Ian Collins recalls playing a Haemovore in 1989’s The Curse of Fenric.
• An exclusive preview of the Season 26 Blu-ray box set.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 2012 Christmas Special The Snowmen.
• DWM’s fiendishly tricky Christmas Quiz.
• Part Four of Mistress of Chaos, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• Audio and book reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more!

On sale from Thursday 12 December 2019 £6.99 (UK)

In this month’s Doctor Whi Magazine, thirty-two Dalek stories battle for supremacy in the epic Twitter contest. Which is the fans’ favourite?  

Highlights of this issue include:  

• A 16-page celebration of the Daleks, including the results of DWM’s online tournament.
• An exclusive Series 12 update.
• Writer and director Pete McTighe goes behind the scenes on The Promise, his new trailer for the Season 26 Blu-ray box set.
• Sophie Aldred discusses her on-screen return as Ace.
• Production designer Arwel Jones gives DWM a tour of the Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS.
• The first part of an exclusive interview with former script editor Andrew Cartmel.
• A preview of Tiny Rebel’s final Doctor Who: Infinity games.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 1973 story Carnival of Monsters.
• The answers to last issue’s fiendishly difficult quiz about the first 40 years of DWM.
• Part Three of Mistress of Chaos, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio and book reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much more.

  

On sale from Thursday 14 November 2019 £5.99 (UK)

Doctor Who Magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary in issue 544.

The celebratory issue comes with:

• A 100 minute Doctor Who DVD including exclusive and previously unseen material.
• A 32 Page Supliment featuring an index of DWM and its sister publications, from 1979 to the present day.
• A download code for 11 complete hour-long audio adventures from Big Finish.

Other highlights of this issue include:

• Exclusive interviews with showrunners Chris Chibnall, Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat.
• Doctor Who Weekly’s founding editor Dez Skinn and its original features writer Jeremy Bentham reunite to discuss the magazine’s earliest days.
• Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell pays tribute to his friend and mentor Terrance Dicks.
• A previously unpublished interview with Terrance Dicks, in which he remembers his working life away from Doctor Who.
• Highlights from the original, unpublished manuscript of The Eight Doctors, Terrance’s first commission for BBC Books’ range of original Doctor Who novels.
• Professional Doctor Who fiction writers select highlights of Terrance’s Target novelisations and other books.
• A look back at how readers’ views of Doctor Who episodes, as expressed in DWM’s Season Survey results, have evolved over the last four decades.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 1979 story The Creature from the Pit.
• A fiendishly difficult quiz, all about the first 40 years of Doctor Who Magazine.
• Part Two of Mistress of Chaos, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• Audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more! 

On sale from Thursday 17 October 2019 £9.99 (UK)

Doctor Who Magazine continues its in-depth chronicle of the show’s production with a 100-page volume dedicated to four memorable episodes of Series 8 starring Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald:

• Time Heist 
• The Caretaker
• Kill the Moon
• Mummy on the Orient Express 

 Andrew Pixley’s unparalleled behind-the-scenes coverage – originally presented in the partwork Doctor Who: The Complete History and now revised and reproduced in magazine format for the first time – examines every aspect of the stories’ development, from scripting through to transmission and beyond.

 Richly illustrated with rare images, this is the essential guide to the series that took Doctor Who in a remarkable new direction.

Available from WH Smith from Wednesday 16 October 2019 priced £7.99 and digitally from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

Please note that this publication is not available as part of a subscription to Doctor Who Magazine.

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Doctor Who Magazine.

Doctor Who Magazine began life as Doctor Who Weekly, published for the first time on 11th October 1979, featuring the then-current Doctor, Tom Baker, on the front cover.

For the cost of just 12p, Doctor Who Weekly, published by Marvel, was the first officially approved publication, which was totally dedicated to serving fans of Doctor Who. It ran as a weekly until September 1980 when, with issue 45, the magazine moved to a monthly schedule and was renamed Doctor Who Monthly.

The name was changed to Doctor Who Magazine with issue 107 in December 1985. Now approaching issue 544, the magazine holds the Guinness World Record as the longest-running TV tie-in magazine.

Over the years the magazine has had twelve editors, the longest-serving being Tom Spilsbury who edited the Magazine from 2007-2017.

DWM is now published by Panini Comics, which purchased the title in 1995. The next edition, out next week, with be a special anniversary edition.

This month's Doctor Who Magazine takes a new perspective on Doctor Who’s longest-serving producer John Nathan Turner.

Issue 543 of the magazine looks at the legaxy of the contriversal producer and includes previously unseen images from his own scrapbooks!

 Highlights of this issue include:

• Former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel describes working with John Nathan-Turner.
• Sophie Aldred explains how JNT changed her life.
• Stephen Cranford on what it was like to know JNT as a friend.
• Writer Philip Martin and actor Nabil Shaban reveal Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor.
• Composer Richard Hartley on recreating his score for 1986’s ‘Mindwarp’.
• An investigation into the deepest mysteries of regeneration.
• Your at-a-glance guide to Doctor Who’s post-regeneration stories.
• An interview with the creators of the new VR game The Edge of Time.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 2017 story Knock Knock.
• DWM’s verdict on Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 23.
• Part One of Mistress of Chaos, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more! 

On sale from Thursday 19 September 2019 £5.99 (UK)

This month's Doctor Who Magazine sees today's Doctor Who writers paying tribute to the series pioneers.

Featuring exclusive contributions from: Paul Cornell, Sarah Dollard, Matthew Graham, Peter Harness, Pete McTighe, Steven Moffat, James Moran, Rona Munro, Robert Shearman and Toby Whithouse.

This issue also includes:

• Exclusive interviews with Billie Piper and Camille Coduri ahead of Big Finish’s new audio series Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon.
• The Robots of Ravolox – investigating Robert Holmes’ final mystery.
• Bonnie Langford answers questions from the TARDIS tin.
• 1980s script editor Eric Saward reflects on the troubled production of The Trial of a Time Lord.
• The Trial of a Time Lord on trial: could it be Doctor Who’s most underrated story?
• The Fact of Fiction explores the 2008 Tenth Doctor story Planet of the Ood.
• An exclusive preview of Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 23.
• Part Three of Power of the Mobox, a new comic-strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more! 

On sale from Thursday 22 August 2019 £5.99 (UK)

The latest special edition from Doctor Who Magazine explores the world of the much loved Target Books.

Considered a unique record of Doctor Who’s history in the era before fanzines, official magazines and home video, Target books are probably the most cherished items of merchandise inspired by the show.

They’re certainly the most commercially successful. From the early 1970s to the early 90s, it’s estimated that Target sold over eight million novelisations and other Doctor Who books.

This is the inside story of a legendary imprint, from its rise and fall to its triumphant revival in 2018. 

Highlights include numerous rare images and exclusive interviews with the key players, including:

• Chris Achilleos (cover artist for The Auton Invasion, The Zarbi, The Doomsday Weapon, etc)
• Jeff Cummins (cover artist for The Mutants, The Horror of Fang Rock, The Talons of Weng-Chiang, etc)
• Peter Darvill-Evans (Target Books editor from 1989)
• Terrance Dicks (the most prolific author of Target books)
• Anthony Dry (cover artist for City of Death, Rose, The Day of the Doctor etc)
• John Peel (author of the novelisations of The Chase, The Power of the Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks etc)
• Marc Platt (author of the Battlefield and Ghost Light novelisations)
• Nigel Robinson (Target Books editor from 1984 to 1987)
• Andrew Skilleter (cover artist for The Gunfighters, The Abominable Snowmen, The Stones of Blood etc)
• Alan Willow (artist who provided internal illustrations for The Cybermen, Terror of the Autons, The Sea-Devils etc) 

 Other highlights include:

• Extracts from two unpublished manuscripts
• The untold story of Doctor Who Discovers, based on the archive of author Fred Newman
• Details of foreign editions
• The Companions of Doctor Who series
• Interviews with collectors who own original Target Books artwork

and an afterword from Pete McTighe, the writer of the 2018 story Kerblam!

On sale from Thursday 8 August 2019

Previous unseen images from some of the stories directed by Christopher Barry can be seen in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine.

Images from The Daleks, The Rescue, The Romans, The Savages, The Power of the Daleks, The Dæmons, The Mutants, Robot, The Brain of Morbius and The Creature from the Pit are included in the magazine, released today.

Also in this issue:

• Director Michael E Briant, actress Kay Patrick and writer Marc Platt recall working with Christopher Barry.
• Jon Pertwee reflects on life after Doctor Who in the second part of an interview conducted at his first-ever convention appearance in 1977.
• David Bradley answers questions from the TARDIS tin.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the Eleventh Doctor story The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon.
• Reviews of the Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 10 Blu-rays and Eric Saward’s Resurrection of the Daleks novelisation.
• Part Two of Power of the Mobox, a new comic strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio reviews, previews, news, prize-winning competitions and much more

DWM 541 is on sale from today, Thursday 25 July, priced £5.99.

Doctor Who Magazine celebrates Jon Pertwee’s centenary with 30 pages devoted to the Third Doctor.

This issue includes:

• The World Cup of the Third Doctor. How did your favourite story fare in our epic Twitter tournament?
• Lost for more than 40 years – a candid interview with Jon Pertwee from the very first Doctor Who convention in 1977.
• An exclusive interview with Jon’s son, actor Sean Pertwee.
• A previously unpublished interview with Barry Letts, who produced most of the Third Doctor’s stories and co-wrote classics like The Dæmons and The Green Death.
• An exclusive update on the production of Series 12 from showrunner Chris Chibnall.
• Katy Manning, who played the Third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant, visits the Time Team.
• The second part of an interview with costume designer Howard Burden, who created outfits for the Twelfth Doctor, Clara and Missy.
• The Fact of Fiction explores the Twelfth Doctor story Time Heist.
• DWM’s review of the Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 10 Blu-ray box set.
• The Legacy of Time – DWM talks exclusively to the cast and crew behind one of the most ambitious Doctor Who adventures ever, which features no fewer than six Doctors.
• Part One of Power of the Mobox, a new comic strip adventure featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends.
• The Blogs of Doom, audio reviews, news, prize-winning competitions and much, much more!

DWM 540 is on sale from Thursday 27 June, priced £5.99.