The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine confirms the forthcoming releases of Tales From the TARDIS, Volumes 1 & 2, which are both "MP3-CD" releases (not standard issue CD's, but instead featuring MP3 computer files on them) and are due out on July 5. As previously noted, the first volume includes "The Curse of Peladon" read by Jon Pertwee, "Kinda" read by Peter Davison, "Attack of the Cybermen" read by Colin Baker, the "Out of the Darkness" short story collection read by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, and the "Short Trips" anthology collection read by Nick Courtney and Sophie Aldred. Volume 2 features "Planet of the Daleks" read by Jon Pertwee, "Warriors of the Deep" read by Peter Davison, "Vengeance on Varos" read by Colin Baker, and two readings by Paul McGann, "Earth and Beyond" and the 1996 TV movie novelization. A small thumbnail of the cover is at right. DWM also confirms June 7 for the release of the MP3-CD version of Death Comes to Time and August 2 for the regular BBC Radio Collection audio soundtrack release The Crusade. (Thanks to Galaxy 4)

A new article on the restoration of The Green Death for its forthcoming DVD release has been uploaded at the Restoration Team site. "2004's third DVD release is 'The Green Death'," says the article, "which, as 'the one with the giant maggots,' is one of the few Doctor Who stories remembered by the general public and is well deserving of its status as a true classic." You can read it at the RT site now.

Something we missed during our couple of weeks down around the convention: Iron Legionis the first of DWM's new reprints of classic Doctor Who comics from the pages of the magazine of yesteryear. "Enter worlds where robot centurions defend the mighty Roman Empire, where love is punishable by death, where the colonists of New Earth live in fear of the vicious Wereloks, where a simple request for a cup of tea could lead to the end of everything, and where your best hope of escape is the 5A bus... Join the Doctor, that immortal traveller in time and space, on five of his wildest and wittiest comic strip adventures - The Iron Legion, City of the Damned, The Star Beast, Dogs of Doom and The Time Witch." Featuring work from the award-winning Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Pat Mills and John Wagner (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog), and Steve Moore (Abslom Daak), these five classic strips from the pages of Doctor Who Weekly have been digitally restored for the 21st century and are reprinted for the very first time in their original, black and white format, on glossy paper. Panini Books (publishers of DWM) will release this in March, with more to come later.