DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 389

Peter Davison and David Tennant compare notes on playing the Doctor in a joint interview in this month's Doctor Who Magazine. In an extensive interview with both Doctors they talk about the forthcoming Children in Need Special as well as discussing Davison's time on the show.

Also in this month's issue
- Discover the most popular story of Series Three as the winners of 2007's DWM Awards are revealed
- the writers of The Sarah Jane Adventures share their secrets about the making of the hit CBBC show
- Mickey actor Noel Clarke 'fesses up as he answers questions from Out the TARDIS Tin
- the latest full-colour comic strip, The First, reaches its conclusion
- Russell T Davies confesses his love of multi-Doctor stories in Production Notes
- 1979's Destiny of the Daleks is scrutinised in The Fact of Fiction

DWM 389 is available from Thursday 15 November 2007.


DOCTOR WHO – IN THEIR OWN WORDS VOLUME FOUR: 1982-86

This new 100-page Special Edition gathers the best of previous interviews from the magazine, as the cast and crew recall their part in the history of Doctor Who.

Volume Four covers the colourful exploits of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, and unmasks a line-up of weird and wonderful adversaries – Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, the Master, the Valeyard, and a green-painted panto horse! Find out how Davros got high, how low fandom sunk, and what happened when the BBC axed Doctor Who

Featuring contributions from Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, John Nathan-Turner, Eric Saward, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford and many more – plus an Afterword by Dalek writer Robert Shearman!

DWM Special 18: In Their Own Words Volume Four is on sale from 22 November 2007

Titan Publications have released a preview of the front cover image for the very first edition of their new, officially-licensed Torchwood Magazine, due to be released in January 2008.

The cover features John Barrowman as Torchwood's main character Captain Jack Harkness alongside Freema Agyeman, who guest stars asMartha Jones, crossing over from Doctor Who, in three episodes of next year's second series of Torchwood. Further information on the magazine is available from Titan's website. Click the thumbnail below for a larger image of the cover.

(Thanks to "GracieLizzy" from The Doctor Who Forum)

The official website of the BBC's Radio Times listings magazine has released details of its new issue, due out tomorrow in the UK, including an image of the cover. For the 15th time since the return of Doctor Who in 2005 (including multiple covers in the same week), the series is the main feature, promoting the special episode "Time Crash", due to be shown on BBC One on Friday November 16th as part of the annual Children in Need charity telethon event.

The cover image features Peter Davison and David Tennant as the Fifth and Tenth Doctors, who meet for the first time in this special episode. The preview on the Radio Times website promises an exclusive on-set report from the making of the mini-episode. Click the thumbnail below for a larger image of the cover.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures, out from the 25th October, features background on the Doctor and Donna's latest foe, the Sontarans.

Plus

Fact file - read about the Family of Blood's sinister straw army - the Scarecrows.
Tales from the TARDIS - it looks like curtains for Sally Sparrow as the Weeping Angels attack in Blink.
Comic strip - part two of Cold War. Will the Doctor be able to stop mad Mallingane's plan to melt the ice world of Isqar before Martha drowns?
Doctor’s Data - lots of scary facts on motorway monsters - the Macra. Snap!
Adventure guide / Doctor Who Confidential extra - the Doctor discovers the terrifying truth behind the Face of Boe’s prophesy in Utopia.
Posters - three exclusive posters of Luke, Clyde and a slimy Slitheen, the Cult of Skaro with their Pig Slaves, and Professor Yana and the Doctor.

The issue comes with a free gift of a scarecrow mask and talons.

The cover for the next issue of Doctor Who Magazine has been unveiled - click on the thumbnail below to see a larger version.

As the cover suggests, the issue will preview the forthcoming Children in Need special featuring Doctors Five and Ten, as well as revealing the results of the magazine's recent season survey. Issue 389 goes on sale on 15th November.

The latest issue of the BBC's ever Who-friendly Radio Times listings magazine is released in the UK today, and contains various items of interest to Doctor Who fans.

Billie Piper is the issue's cover star and the subject of an interview inside the magazine, promoting her new ITV2 drama series The Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Interviewer Zoe Williams writes: "She won't be drawn on Doctor Who (will she return before David Tennant departs?) - for personal or contractual reasons, we can only guess."

On page three, Radio Times editor Gill Hudson asks her readers to guess what connects three of the major television events of the week - Billie Piper's new role, the first appearance of Christopher Eccleston in BBC Two's run of the US fantasy series Heroes, and the return of Sarah Jane Smith. "Right first time!" Hudson tells her readers.

The Sarah Jane Adventures is listed as one of the picks of the week on page four, and on page 31 is given a one-page preview feature, in which Gareth McLean interviews Russell T Davies about the show and his return to children's television, where he started out with dramas such as Dark Season in 1991, from which a photo of Kate Winslet and Jacqueline Pearce is shown.

"I loved the sort of dramas that were set in this world, but had an otherworldliness to them," Davies tells McLean. "They had all this possibility that there were fantastic forces at work beneath the ordinariness of the world. How marvellous!" Davies also reflects on how he never felt children were his natural audience, and on the changes to children's television since he worked in it. He concludes that "With the likes of Disney investing so much money in children's TV, I do feel optimistic about its future."

The Sarah Jane Adventures is one 'Today's Choices' for Monday September 24th, with reviewer Mark Braxton commenting: "The show looks perfect for cheering up Mondays; it confirms the promise of the pilot and has its heart in exactly the right place."

The magazine also confirms that the next episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures will follow on the CBBC Channel at 5.30pm on Monday, immediately following the previous episode's BBC One premiere.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures is released today and includes a chance to win a life-size bronze Dalek!

In a report released by BBC Magazines, Doctor Who Adventures has become the fastest growing consumer magazine in the UK. Doctor Who Adventures magazine posts the industry's biggest year on year growth, up a staggering 99 percent, selling 47,000 more copies per issue than last period.

What do YOU think happened to Dalek Caan?

The new issue of Doctor Who Adventures - out today - takes a look at Caan and wonders if he could be the last Dalek in the universe.

PLUS:

The Journal of Impossible Things - look inside John Smith's mind with our guide to his fantastic dream book.
Doctor's Data - find out about Sally Sparrow, the girl who saved the Doctor.
Adventure guide / Doctor Who Confidential extra - return to present-day Earth for monster scares in The Lazarus Experiment.
Comic strip - a new adventure for the Doctor and Martha called Signs of Life.
Scary mask - become a Pig Slave and serve the Daleks!
Who knows? - your Doctor Who questions answered.
Tales from the TARDIS - the Doctor is attacked by a Plasmavore.
Posters - five exclusive posters of the Ood, Dalek Caan, Gridlock, The Lazarus Experiment and Martha and Tish.

This issue comes with a free gift.