In the new issue of BBC Doctor Who Adventures you can prove how much of a Doctor Who mastermind you are, and you could win a money-can’t-buy prize, with the magazine offering one lucky reader the chance to be the Editor for a day.

Current Editor, Moray Laing, says: You’ll also find the second token to enter a competition to win a life-size TARDIS for your school. If you missed the first token, don’t worry because there will be a bonus token in the following issue.

Plus:

• SIX free gifts – including stickers, a notebook, badges and key ring.
• Check out what’s coming up in the next two episodes.
• Tricky puzzles
• What is the ultimate robot?
• Dalek shocks! How can a Dalek be good?
• Win a Doctor Who box set and figure.
• Interview with Samuel Anderson who spills some on-set secrets.
• More amazing fact figures!
• Find out what the Alien Babies are up to.
• Another exciting comic strip with the Doctor and Clara!
• All this and loads more!

BBC Doctor Who Adventures Issue 354, on sale 10 – 23 September 2014, priced £3.49.

The new digital issue Radio Times, available iOS on Apple’s Newsstand, includes an exclusive 46 page supplement of the Top 10 Doctor Who Companions as voted for by readers of Radio Times. The supplement includes archive interviews and photoshoots with the Doctor’s most memorable companions.

The new issue of Radio Times also includes interviews with Jenna Coleman on the rumours of her departure from the hit show, working with Peter Capaldi and her experiences of launching the new series around the world; Cilla Black, ahead of the ITV drama based on her life; the panel of BBC’s Would I Lie to You; and Nicholas Lyndhurst; plus comprehensive TV and radio listings 13-19 September 2014.

The Radio Times digital special also features an exclusive photo-galleries of Sherlock star Andrew Scott; the cast of BBC One’s Would Like Lie to You; and a behind the scenes look at new drama The Great Fire.

Radio Times on iPad contains all the great features, interviews, reviews and comprehensive TV and radio listings for 146 channels available in the print issue, alongside additional interactive features to enhance the readers’ experience. The additional features in the digital issue include:

• Specially designed contents page for quick and easy direct access to daily choice and listings pages
• Direct links to the week’s recommended programmes on-demand and catch-up TV services, including Netflix, BBC iPlayer and 4OD
• Photo galleries, including exclusive behind the scenes videos from photo-shoots and interviews
• Pinch and zoom TV & radio listings for ease of use
• Comprehensive TV and radio listings, including BBC local radio, with handy links so you can jump to your desired day of the week.

Radio Times is available on the Apple Newsstand every Tuesday, for iPad and iPhone, at £1.99 per issue, £6.99 for a monthly subscription or £79.99 for an annual subscription. The digital issue is initially available on Apple devices and will be rolled out across other mobile and tablet platforms thereafter.

Final figures for the UK transmission of Into The Dalek confirm the episode was the ninth most watched programme on British television for the week.

The final rating of 7.29 million includes those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. Doctor Who benefits from delayed viewing more than most other programmes, resulting in a chart position much higher than that based on the initial overnights. The final share was 30.4% of the total TV audience.

Doctor Who was the second most watched programme on BBC Television for the week, with The Great British Bake Off topping the chart for BBC One with 10.25 million watching. The highest rated episode of the soap EastEnders was Monday's with 6.82 million watching. Top for the week was Saturday's X Factor with 10.6 million. Other entries in the top ten were the Sunday edition of The X Factor and the five episodes of Coronation street.

The Sunday repeat of Into The Dalek had a final consolidated rating of 0.39 million viewers and a share of 1.9% of the total TV audience. The AI for the repeat was 78.

A fan from Manchester in the United Kingdom has been recognised by Guinness World Records for having the largest collection of Doctor Who memorabilia worldwide. Ian O'Brien's collection comprises of some 1,573 items at the time of recognition on 6th September 2014, with more added since that date!

Ian told us:

Full details on Ian's record can be found via the Guinness World Records website.


Doctor Who and its fans are not strangers to the Guinness Book of World Records, which celebrates its own 60th Anniversary this year. Rob Hull was recognised in 2011 for having the largest collection of Daleks, Doctor Who Magazine became the "Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series" in 2010, and the series itself was recognised in 2009 as the "Most successful sci-fi series". Last year's 50th Anniversary episode, The Day Of The Doctor, was also officially recognised as "the world's largest-ever simulcast of a TV drama".

The BBC have released details of the fifth episode of the upcoming series of Doctor Who Time Heist.

The episode has been confirmed for transmission on BBC One on Saturday 20th September at 7.30pm



The episode will follow Pointless Celebrities, the quiz show based on guessing the least likely answer, and will be followed by The National Lottery: In It to Win It. Against the Doctor ITV will once more offer a celebrity edition of the quiz show The Chase and the next edition of The X Factor.

The classic series writer Jane Baker has died.

Jane Baker, along with her husband and writing partner Pip, was one of the best known writers from the mid 80's era of Doctor Who, writing eleven episodes for the series. Together they created the Rani, a female Time Lord scientist who was brought to life so vividly by the late Kate O'Mara, as well a creating the companion Mel.

Pip and Jane Baker began writing together in the 1960's working on the films The Painted Smile, The Break, The Night of the Big Heat and Captain Nemo and the Underwater City. On Television they worked on the children's thriller Circus as well as episodes of Z-Cars and Space 1999.

In 1985 they were commissioned by producer John Nathan Turner to write for the first full series of the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, producing the story Mark of the Rani. The story was well received and the couple returned the following year to pen Terror of the Vervoids the third segment of the Trial of a Time Lord Season, envisaged as a whodunnit in space.

Later that year the couple were called into rescue the series following the departure of the then Script editor Eric Saward, following a disagreement with Nathan Turner. Saward had withdrawn his script for the final episode of the season leaving the Bakers to come up with an alternative ending, without access to anything already written, and without creating anything which needed a new set to be built. They had just three days to come up with a script capable of concluding a season they had very little part in conceiving. Jane Baker later described to Doctor Who Magazine the period as challenging rather than exciting, but rated the script produced as one of her favourites.

After the transmission of the season, Phi and Jane Baker found themselves defending their scripts on the BBC's feedback programme Open Air, facing criticism from some fans including future script writer Chris Chibnall. It was an experience Jane found perplexing. "We were presented with four young men, who seemed to say on the one hand it was to complicated and on the other it was too simple".

The Bakers returned to Doctor Who at the start of the next season, introducing the seventh Doctor in Time and the Rani, a script which brought back their most enduring creation The Rani.

In the early 1990's they created the children's programme Watt on Earth which ran for 24 episodes on BBC One.

Tributes to Jane Baker have been led by Colin Baker, who posted on twitter

Though the modern series of Doctor Who has yet to be established as essential viewing on television in Japan, fans in the country will now be able to enjoy the series in their native language thanks to an initiative announced by production company Kadokawa for this Autumn.

Doctor Who: New Generation will see the Matt Smith era released in the country starting with his debut series on 3rd October 2014, with the sixth and seventh series following over the next few months. The episodes will be fully dubbed into Japanese, with the voice of the eleventh Doctor portrayed by Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Amy by Kana Uetake, Rory by Yoshiki Nakajima, and River Song by Kozue Harashima.

The Series 5 Boxed set will be presented with Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo soundtracks in Japanese and the original English, plus Japanese subtitles; as well as the thirteen episodes of the series, the seven disc set will also include the 2010 Christmas special, A Christmas Carol:

• Disc 1: 11番目の時間 (The Eleventh Hour); 眼下の獣 (The Beast Below)
  
• Disc 2: ダーレクの勝利 (Victory of the Daleks); 天使の時間 (The Time of Angels)
  
• Disc 3: 肉体と石 (Flesh and Stone); ヴェネチアの吸血鬼 (The Vampires of Venice)
  
• Disc 4: エイミーの選択 (Amy's Choice); ハングリー･アース (The Hungry Earth)
  
• Disc 5: 冷血 (Cold Blood); ゴッホとドクター (Vincent and the Doctor)
  
• Disc 6: 下宿人 (The Lodger); パンドリカが開く (The Pandorica Opens)
  
• Disc 7: ビッグバン (The Big Bang); クリスマス・キャロル (A Christmas Carol)
  

The DVD is available to pre-order via Amazon.

The BBC has released a new set of pictures from the next episode of Doctor Who, Listen, which debuts next Saturday. Written by Steven Moffat, and directed by Douglas Mackinnon.

The Horror Channel has announced an additional seventeen Doctor Who stories are to be added to its line-up from October:


Horror Channel broadcasts can be found via This Week in Doctor Who.

Doctor Who Robot of Sherwood had an Audience Appreciation Index or AI score of 82.

The Appreciation Index or AI is a measure of how much the audience enjoyed the programme. The score, out of a hundred, is compiled by a specially selected panel of around 5,000 people who go online and rate and comment on programmes.

The score is the same as that scored for the series opener, Deep Breath. On the main two channels Casualty scored the highest for Saturday, with 86.

Sundays's launch of Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor pushed Doctor Who into 20th place for the week. Final figures will be published next week.

The Sunday repeat of Robot of Sherwood on BBC Three had an overnight estimate of 0.36 million viewers, a 1.4% share of the audience.