Doctor Who Adventures issue 80, is now out across the UK.

PRESS RELEASE

This week in Doctor Who Adventures we’re off to a dangerous world. You’ll find everything you need to know about the mysterious monster that trapped the Doctor when he visited the planet Midnight.

The weird thing is, we never got to find out what the creature looked like – so we’ve got a competition to draw what you think the creature looks like. The winning entry will receive a Dalek Voice Changer Helmet – and have their monster appear in a future issue of Doctor Who Adventures.

The issue comes with a free set of monster pens and stickers – featuring a scary Sontaran and deadly Dalek. There’s another set in next week’s issue too.

PLUS:

• The Fourth Doctor: A look at some of this Doctor’s top moments!
• Four posters! The Midnight gang, the hideous Trickster, Rose and the Ninth Doctor and a brilliant Cyberman poster.
• Win! Part two of your chance to win a Roboform head.
• Ultimate Ood: Concluding part of our guide to the Ood.
• Who knows: Your questions answered.
• Tales from the TARDIS: A shock for Yvonne Hartman and Jackie Tyler in Doomsday!
• Adventure Guide: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
• Comic strip: Part one of a new adventure for the Doctor and Donna – By Order of the Bonemenders.
• Doctor’s Data: Tim Latimer the psychic schoolboy!
• Time Teasers: Fun puzzles for you to work out!
• Activity: Make a Dalek Caan mutant.
• Woven wordsearch: Solve the clues and win a Doctor Who audio book.
• Win: Monster artwork and Doctor Who storybooks up for grabs!

Posted By John Bowman

The new edition of Doctor Who Adventures - out tomorrow in the UK - gives readers the chance to win a Roboform head worth 350 pounds.

The Roboform worked for the Empress of Racnoss in The Runaway Bride, and issue 79 carries the first of a three-part competition for the prize.

Also in the magazine:

•  Free Sontaran notebook and pen
  
•  Find out why Dalek Caan was the maddest Dalek of all time
  
• Actor Ryan Sampson, who played Luke Rattigan in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, talks about working with Sontarans and his time on Doctor Who
  
•  More Ood facts
  
•  Tales from the Tardis takes readers back to when Rose first met the Doctor
  
•  The Adventure Guide looks at Warriors of Kudlak from The Sarah Jane Adventures
  
• In part two of comic strip Attack of the Mange Mites, the Doctor has been sucked into space
  
• Doctor's Data is all about Bannakaffalatta - the little cyborg from Voyage of the Damned
  
•  Books and the latest Doctor Who DVD can be won.

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There is an exclusive interview with the unforgettable Donna Noble, when Catherine Tate talks exclusively to this months Doctor Who Magazine, released this week in the United Kingdom.

"What's weird is, I was going into an established, loved, successful show, so part of me was thinking, oh God, there's a responsibility there to that," Catherine tells the magazine. "But you can't go on set every day and think, I really hope I don't ruin this for everyone else involved! You just have to realise, yeah, I've taken this job, and the people around me wanted me to do it. Once you get down to the nuts and bolts of making the show, it was absolutely, and I can say this for certain, one of the best experiences of my professional life. Absolutely brilliant. There was just no down point."

Also in the Magazine.

• She was the the original feisty redhead! Bonnie Langford, aka companion Melainie Bush, talks candidly about her turbulant time on Doctor Who in the 1980's
• Manga Doctor Who? Miss Saigon? And the Doctor and Donna at extra-fast speed? Find out what it all means as Executive Producer Julie Gardner tells us what happened when she went to the USA with new showrunner Steven Moffat, in Production Notes.
• There's a multitude of adventures for the Doctor and Donna in a very special 10-page comic strip, The Time of My Life, written by Jonathan Morris with art by Rob Davis.
• It's a close shave for Peri, as The Time Team get their minds warped by The Trial of a Time Lord!
• Pomp and circumstance, and Cybermen! DWM takes an exclusive look at August's Doctor Who Prom and talks to composer Murray Gold and the people who made it happen.
• Some of the Doctor's most fondly remembered companions are back in an all-new series of audio adventures! DWM investigates the range and chats to the Doctor’s very first companion Susan, Carole Ann Ford.
• An alien killer on a space bus? The Doctor on a less-than-relaxing holiday? And bees that are far more intelligent than they appear? It can only be Delta and the Bannermen! Fact of Fiction examines one of the Seventh Docto'’s most extraordinary adventures.
• Neil Harris discovers the possible future of Doctor Who in You Are Not Alone
• Plus all the very latest news, reviews, previews and competitions!

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This week’s Doctor Who Adventures comes complete with an inflatable Sontaran. Guarding the Sontaran on the cover is an angry Judoon. Inside you can find out more about them and the outer-space police, the Shadow Proclamation.

Also in the issue

• Monster music! Read about the team’s trip to the recent Doctor Who prom.
• Posters of the Doctor, The Sarah Jane Adventures gang, Judoon, and a Sontaran.
• Ultimate Ood: Part two of the guide to the Ood!
• Adventure Guide: Trouble for Sarah Jane in Eye of the Gorgon.
• Tales from the TARDIS: The Doctor and Donna are captured in Planet of the Ood.
• Secrets: How the face of Davros was created!
• Who’s where? Take a trip to Camp Caan and find the Time Beetles.<li>
  
• Comic strip: Part one of a new adventure for the Doctor and Donna – Attack of the Mange Mites.
• Doctor’s Data: Facts about the Seventh Doctor.
• Time Teasers: Puzzles to strain your brain.
• Woven wordsearch: Win some books!
• Win: DVDs and a radio-controlled car up for grabs.

Doctor Who Adventures issue 77 is out today across the United Kingdom.

Press Release

Fearsome females in Doctor Who

In this week's Doctor Who Adventures there's a look at some of the most frightening females in Doctor Who. There have been loads throughout the series, and the DWA team have chosen five of their favourites.

We've also got a fact file, or should that be fat file, about one of the scariest ladies from the last series – Matron Cofelia. Was she really bad or did she just love the Adipose babies too much?

The issue comes with a fantastic free Adipose stationery set – which includes a notepad, pencil, ruler, erasers, clip and stickers.

PLUS:

Posters! Jabe from The End of the World, the Doctor and deadly Davros!
Ultimate Ood: Find out more about these creatures in the first of our four-part ultimate guide!
Adventure Guides: Back in time to The Fires of Pompeii and a Slitheen story with Sarah Jane Smith!
Tales from the TARDIS: The Doctor says goodbye to Donna and Rose in Journey's End.
Win a Cyber Controller head part 3 – worth almost £700!
Comic strip: A brand-new adventure called Shark Bait.
Who knows? The answers to your Doctor Who questions.
Time Teasers: Mates in a muddle and find the stowaway!
Woven word search: Find the missing word and win a toy TARDIS.
Win: Doctor Who DVDs and Lego Star Wars up for grabs!
Subscription offer: Subscribe and you'll get a FREE Doctor Who TARDIS and Doctor Files.
ALL THIS AND LOTS MORE!

Posted By John Bowman

Tomorrow sees the publication of Doctor Who Magazine's in-depth special looking back over the latest season of adventures.

At 148 pages, The Doctor Who Companion - Series Four is the biggest DWM special so far, and gives readers a step-by-step guide to the making of all 13 episodes as well as the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned and the Children In Need scene featuring the Fifth Doctor, Time Crash.

Tom Spilsbury, the editor of Doctor Who Magazine, said: "DWM has been given exclusive access to all the scripts and shooting schedules to tell you what was shot when and where, what was left on the cutting-room floor and why, and even the truth behind a few of those rumours that hit the tabloids!

"Packed with anecdotes and comments from the men and women who make the programme, script extracts, deleted scenes, and a full list of cast, crew, transmission times and ratings, with hundreds of beautiful and previously unseen photographs, this is the ultimate guide to Doctor Who 2008."

A Doctor Who themed cover for Radio Times has been nominated as one of the best magazine covers of all time.

The poll, conducted by industry publication Magazine Week 2008, consists of a series of covers nominated by UK magazine editors. The general public is invited to vote for their favourite.

The Radio Times nominated cover is the Vote Dalek edition from May 2005. The edition was published in the week the first series episode Dalek was shown and the UK's last general election was held. The cover was nominated by the editor of Gardeners' World, who described the cover as capturing the essence of the mood of the nation in a brilliant and original way.

Other covers nominated include "Posh and Becks'" wedding on the cover of OK, Diana, Princess of Wales on Vogue and a two-fingered salute on the front of Time Out.

The winner will be announced during the week beginning 29 September.

This month's Doctor Who Magazine features Davros himself, actor Julian Bleach, talking exclusively about taking on the role of the Daleks' creator.

Is the fact that other actors have played the part in the past a help or a hindrance? "That can make it harder to approach it afresh," considers Julian, "but it's more of a problem if you're trying to find a new interpretation of the character. What I was trying to do with Davros was to recreate, and match as closely as possible, a previously established character." So what’s Julian's take on Davros? Twisted megalomaniac? Mad scientist? Misguided genius? "All of those things, but I'd say the character was very probably originally inspired by Hitler, and I found that to be quite a useful reference point, particularly in some of his more dogmatic speeches!"

It's not just Davros who’s quizzed this issue, DWM features exclusive interviews with David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Freema Agyeman, Billie Piper, John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Eve Myles, Penelope Wilton, Jacqueline King, Bernard Cribbins, Noel Clarke, Camille Coduri, Adjoa Andoh, Elisabeth Sladen, Thomas Knight, John Leeson, Alexander Armstrong, Nicholas Briggs, Julian Bleach and Richard Dawkins. Find out which former companion had to have an injection to stop her vomiting. Discover whose bottom to hold onto in a crisis, and whose gave Catherine Tate a shock. Learn which actress is happy to "mug away in the background." And establish who would win in a Dalek Crucible-based wind-breaking competition!

PLUS!

• The Doctor and Donna’s battle with the Sycorax reaches its explosive climax in the final part of the latest full colour comic strip The Widow’s Curse.
• Showrunner Russell T Davies reveals exclusively what won't be in Series Five.
• The chance to vote for your favourites in DWM’s annual Season Survey
• The latest news on the forthcoming Doctor Who Specials and Series Two of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

AND... all the latest news, exclusive photos, reviews, previews, competitions and a choice of FOUR covers to collect!

Posted By John Bowman

There are Daleks everywhere in the new edition of Doctor Who Adventures out today.

It has a fact file about the Supreme Dalek plus part three of the win a life-size Dalek competition. In addition, there is the first part of a cut-out mini mag about the Daleks.

The free gift is Ood slime and a set of Ood eyeballs.

Also in issue 73:

Three posters: The Supreme Dalek, Mr Halpen with an Ood, and Matron Cofelia

Adventures Guide: Partners in Crime. Donna meets the Doctor again . . .

Tales from the TARDIS: There's something on Donna's back in a scene from Turn Left

Quiz: A Quintus from Pompeii quiz

Make: A Doctor mask

Doctor's Data: Find out about the Sixth Doctor

Comic strip: In the year 3269, trouble is waiting for the Doctor and Donna

Time Teasers: Shadow Monsters and TARDIS Scanner

Win: Lots of goodies - including Doctor Who DVDs

Find out: How to become a Time Agent and receive a free newsletter every week

The next issue of Doctor Who Adventures is out tomorrow, 10 July, across the UK. The cover and press release are below; click on the thumbnail image for a larger version.

What to do when Doctor Who isn't on TV!

Missing the Doctor and Donna already? Do Christmas adventures with Cybermen seem far off? Then get a copy of this week's Doctor Who Adventures! It's full of monster facts, things to make and you could even win a life-size Dalek!

The big story this issue is Donna Noble's sad farewell in last week’s episode. Doctor Who Adventures looks at the life of the temp from Chiswick, and see how she changed after meeting the Doctor.

We've also got a monstrous fact file about the creator of the Daleks, Davros.

And the issue comes with a cool FREE inflatable Toclafane AND set of Doctor Who monster Power Rollers!


PLUS:

• Four brilliant posters: Journey's End, the Judoon, Cybermen and K-9!
  
• Tales from the TARDIS: Trouble for the Doctor on the planet Midnight.
  
• Quiz:Test your knowledge on Journey's End.
  
• Make: A Supreme Dalek mask.
  
• How to: Draw a skeleton monster!
  
• Doctor's Data: The Duplicate Doctor and Rose.
  
• Comic strip: The Doctor and Donna land in a strange new world in CitiZen's Arrest.
  
• Time Teasers: Tyler Talk and Smith or Jones, along with Bloodtide and Doomfinger's Woven Word Search.
  
• Who knows!: What did the Ood mean when they were talking about the Doctor's song ending and can the Doctor marry a human?
  
• Win: Fantastic goodies up for grabs including Doctor Who DVDs!
  
• Subscription offer: Subscribe and you'll get a FREE Doctor Who – Creatures and Demonsbook!
  
• ALL THIS AND LOADS MORE!

The latest issue of the BBC's Radio Times listings magazine, on sale across the UK from Tuesday, once again featuresDoctor Who as its cover story. The image - a larger version of which can be seen by clicking on the thumbnail picture at the bottom of this report - is a significant spoiler for the final two-part story of series four, so overseas readers should be aware, if they are avoiding spoilers, not to read on.

The cover is the 44th the Radio Times has granted Doctor Who in its long history, and the 7th this year alone, including the four alternative covers produced to tie in with the broadcast of "Partners in Crime". It comes only two weeks after the previous Radio Times cover feature, which tied in with Rose's return in the episode "Turn Left".

Featured within is an extensive article looking behind-the-scenes at the final episode of the series, "Journey's End". Interviewed are various members of the cast and crew, including actor Julian Bleach (Davros), who comments: "I knew this character, this Dalek world and everything from my childhood — that's so deep in my memory. But so strange as well, to be suddenly plunged into the middle of it." Russell T Davies says of the finale: "For all the spectacle, it's about character, in the end. It's an honour to write dialogue for David and Catherine – whether I'll ever get that chance again depends on what happens in this final episode."