The latest issue in this series of 116-page bookazines examines Season 21 and the world of Doctor Who during Peter Davison’s final year in the leading role. 

Chronicles 1984 is packed full of new and rare content, which has been compiled in co-operation with some of the biggest names from the show. 

Editor Marcus Hearn explained

Highlights of the new bookazine include:

• In an exclusive interview, Peter Davison recalls his final season as the Doctor and his decision to leave the series.

• Janet Fielding discusses her relationship with 1980s producer John Nathan-Turner and returning to the role of Tegan.

• In another exclusive, director Graeme Harper offers a behind-the-scenes insight into the key moments of his classic story The Caves of Androzani.

• In his first Doctor Who Magazine interview, Oscar-winning visual effects artist Dimitri Delacovias describes working on Season 21 and shares previously unseen concept designs.

• A preview of the Warriors of the Deep Special Edition, with contributions from director Pete McTighe, visual effects designer Chris Thompson and others.

• An archive interview with Warriors of the Deep writer Johnny Byrne, unseen since December 1983.

• The life and career of Eric Pringle, writer of The Awakening.

• The strange story of how The Five Doctors’ writer Terrance Dicks fell out with John Nathan-Turner.

• Novelist Jenny Colgan describes spending a day at Television Centre on the set of Frontios.

• A look at the new merchandise available on both sides of the Atlantic in 1984.

PLUS

    Guides to every story in Season 21, Target books, the Doctor Who Annual, comic strips and much more!

Doctor Who: Chronicles 1984 is on sale 12 February, price £12.99 from panini.co.uk and selected news retailers while stocks last. Also available digitally from pocketmags.com price £11.99.

Issue 626 of Doctor Who Magazine is out today and features the Daleks.  

In this issue

• Join THE FIFTEENTH DOCTOR as he finally confronts his arch-enemies, the Daleks, in our comic strip adventure Corruption of the Daleks!

• An exclusive look at the content of the forthcoming Blu-ray release of Season 21 – PETER DAVISON’s final season as the Doctor, that also introduced Sixth Doctor COLIN BAKER.

• Writer and exec producer PETE McTIGHE continues his Production Diary giving us a day-to-day look at the production of The War Between the Land and the Sea.

• DYLAN HOLMES WILLIAMS, director of The War Between, shares his techniques!

• Scientific advisor DAVE HONE on giving the Sea Devils a ‘proper’ name.

• Can on-screen clues reveal exactly where and when the Doctor’s latest adventures take place?

• This month in 1980… A look at COLIN BAKER’s other big sci-fi role…

• UNA McCORMACK considers how important Liverpool has been in the fortunes of Doctor Who.

• Decipher the secrets of the Long Song in our Fact of Fiction feature on The Rings of Akhaten.

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: including the latest news about this spring’s Target Books releases.

• Reviews – including a look at the DVD and Blu-ray of The War Between the Land and the Sea.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won – including Blu-rays, audio dramas, action figures and theatre tickets! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 626 is on sale Thursday 5 February 2026  from panini.co.uk and TG Jones priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

The latest Special Edition from Doctor Who Magazine looks back at last year's season of Doctor Who

In this issue

• A look back at Ncuti Gatwa’s second – and final – season as the Doctor, including:The design of The Robot Revolution.The animation in Lux.Stunt work on The Well.A study of the Shreek from Lucky Day.Interviews with the Barber and Abena from The Story & the Engine.Staging The Interstellar Song Contest.The costumes of Wish World and The Reality War.

• Plus – we check in with Who fan Lizzie Abel since she became part of the Whoniverse!

• Meet the Who Kids of The Lamplighter School in Dallas, Texas…

• Memories of 2025’s Gallifrey One convention.

• How monster actor Mickey Lewis took the Cybermen home with him…

• Location Manager Iwan Roberts on finding alien worlds…

• Fans reflect on the importance of disability representation in the latest series.

• Pete McTighe and Chris Chapman assess their work on the Blu-ray range.

• A big year for Big Finish – we talk to the producers about new innovations on audio…

• Writer and designer Paul Lang on his work on the Doctor Who Annual 2026.

• Join Brand Manager James Page as he welcomes fans to Stonehenge for Doctor Who Day.

• Join DWM at the table read for The War Between the Land and the Sea.

• In Memoriam… Paying tribute to Doctor Who contributors who we’ve lost in the past year.

Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition – The 2026 Yearbook is on sale Thursday 29 January 2026  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £9.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £8.99.

Issue 625 of Doctor Who Magazine is published today

In this issue

• This month TOM BAKER will celebrate his 92nd birthday. Join his family, friends and dignitaries on the day he was awarded an MBE for his services to television.

• An interview with The War Between the Land and the Sea star RUSSELL TOVEY. Now the series has aired he talks further about playing Barclay – ambassador for the whole of humanity!

• PETE McTIGHE, writer and executive producer of The War Between, shares his production diary…

• PLUS – an access-all-areas look at the production of this spectacular spin-off series.

• Destination: Daleks! Join Fifth Doctor PETER DAVISON and JANET FIELDING (Tegan) as they film a new mini-adventure for the forthcoming Season 21 – The Collection Blu-ray…

• Who Year’s Resolutions! Plans for Doctor Who fans in 2026!

• Back to 2009 – How did fandom react to the casting of Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith?

• We consider the tragedy of Time Lord renegade MORBIUS…

• The second part of our deep dive into the fact and fiction of the epic Third Doctor adventure Doctor Who and the Silurians.

• A brand-new, not-to-be-missed comic strip adventure with the Fifteenth Doctor and Melanie Bush…

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: News including the latest on the animated CBeebies Doctor Who series.

• Reviews – featuring new audio releases including the Original Television Soundtracks of Series 10 and The War Between the Land and the Sea.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won – including audio dramas featuring the Daleks and Cybermen! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 625 is on sale Thursday, 8 January 2026  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine previews the new spin-off series launching next Sunday, The War Between the Land and the Sea

In the magazine

• As THE WAR BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA surfaces on BBC One and iPlayer, we speak to star RUSSELL TOVEY about his role as Barclay Pierre-Dupont.

• Writer PETE McTIGHE, producer JOEL COLLINS and director DYLAN HOLMES WILLIAMS discuss the development of this eagerly awaited spin-off.

• A preview of the new 90-minute version of Third Doctor classic THE SEA DEVILS.

• UNIT intelligence on previous SEA DEVIL skirmishes!

• Back to 1968! UNIT’s first encounter with the Doctor – 57 years ago!

• Concept artist PETER McKINSTRY talks about his work and his new book The Art of Time Travel.

• Doctor Who showrunner RUSSELL T DAVIES shares his latest 12 Days of Christmas!

• Looking back on 60 years of the Doctor Who Annual.

• We remember Doctor Who’s very first Dalek December…

• …and the many ways in which Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has influenced Doctor Who.

• We excavate the Cave-Monsters – in the first part of our deep dive into the fact and fiction of Doctor Who and the Silurians.

• A ghost story for Christmas featuring the Fifteenth Doctor…

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: News including the launch of The War Between the Land and the Sea, a round-up of this year’s Doctor Who Day activity, and a Children in Need Special.

• Reviews – featuring the latest audios, books and action figures.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe – including the War Doctor’s clash with every Cyberman ever!

• Prizes to be won – you could win a massive Christmas bundle of Blu-rays and CDs! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 624 is on sale Thursday 4 December 2025  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £8.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £7.99.

The next DWM Special Edition begins a new series called Doctor Who: Legends, with a look at the life of Dalek creator Terry Nation.

Editor Marcus Hearn explains

The all-new content includes previously unpublished interviews, deep dives into all of Nation’s Doctor Who stories, and extracts from scripts that never made it to the screen. The issue is lavishly illustrated with rare and unseen images, including pictures from the Nation family’s collection. 

Highlights include:

• Terry Nation reflects on Doctor Who, Survivors and Blake’s 7 in a previously unpublished interview conducted in 1991.

• An exclusive interview with Rebecca and Joel Nation, in which they remember growing up with their famous father.

• Doctor Who writer and former showrunner Steven Moffat pays tribute to Terry Nation and revisits an overlooked Dalek story.

• Lost scenes from some of Terry Nation’s greatest scripts are brought to life with fresh analysis and new artwork.

• Kevin Jon Davies describes childhood meetings with Terry Nation in the 1970s.

• The story of Nation’s entire career from the 1950s to the 80s, including details of his contributions to Out of the Unknown, The Saint, The Avengers and other classics.

• Every Terry Nation film, television and radio credit, compiled for the first time.

• A previously unpublished interview with Nation’s friend and former agent, Beryl Vertue.

• The script-to-screen development of every Terry Nation Doctor Who story, including details from newly discovered notes and drafts.

    AND MORE!

Doctor Who: Legends – Terry Nation is available at panini.co.uk and good news retailers, price £9.99. It will also be available digitally from pocketmags.com price £8.99.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine is published today.

In the issue

• CAROLE ANN FORD, the first person cast in Doctor Who – as the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan – speaks to DWM about First Doctor WILLIAM HARTNELL, how she would have like to have played Susan and returning to Doctor Who in 2025!

• We examine how the character of Susan Foreman came into being…

• …and delve into the paperwork to discover the other actors considered for the role.

• We take a look at a new book celebrating the artwork used in DWM’s own Time Team column – encompassing every story from An Unearthly Child to the TV Movie.

• Back to 1980! PETER DAVISON is cast as the Fifth Doctor, and the demise of the last standing Mark 2 Police Box… 

• Gary Gillatt explains what dogs can teach us about our relationship with the Doctor…

• It’s the last throw of the dice for humanity. We travel to the end of the universe in search of Utopia…

• As we celebrate 62 years of Doctor Who we look back at the 20th Anniversary Special The Five Doctors…

• The concluding part of our latest comic strip featuring the Fifteenth Doctor…

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: Doctor Who returns to TV for Christmas 2026! Plus, we talk to Film Is Fabulous! about the hunt for missing episodes and bring you details of forthcoming audio releases.

• Reviews – featuring the latest audios and books.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won – including Blake’s 7 Season 2 on Blu-ray! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 623 is on sale Thursday 6 November 2025  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

The latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine, issue 622,  includes a 32-page mini-mag and a double-sided BBC Audiobooks wallchart

In the magazine

• Composer MURRAY GOLD, writer JUNO DAWSON and designer DAN MAY on the Interstellar Song Contest hit Dugga Doo and the alien race behind it…

• ROBERT SHEARMAN discusses his new novels – Jubilee and The Chimes of Midnight – based on audio dramas he wrote for the Sixth and Eighth Doctors in the early 2000s.

• A tribute to Season 18 script editor and the writer of Logopolis, Castrovalva and Frontios, CHRISTOPHER H BIDMEAD who died in August.

• Previously unpublished extracts from an interview with Christopher H Bidmead conducted in 2017.

• SOPHIE ALDRED talks about returning to the early days of companion Ace in a new audio drama box set.

• KATY MANNING and CAROLE ANN FORD discuss short stories they have written for a new anthology that explores what happened to their characters, Jo and Susan, in the aftermath of TV episodes…

• A celebration of BBC Audiobooks’ Doctor Who releases – including their recently completed run of talking books based on the Target novelisations.

• The Black Archive Quiz – how sharp is your Doctor Who knowledge?

• The monster hospital – the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi’s NEIL COLE explains how he’s brought some of the series’ memorable creatures back to life!

• A deep dive into the world of the Eleventh Doctor episode Let’s Kill Hitler.

• Back to 1988! What did the critics make of Seventh Doctor story Remembrance of the Daleks?

• Will computers be to blame for our downfall? Gary Gillatt investigates…

• A new comic strip adventure for the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda…

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: our news round-up including details of Russell T Davies’ BAFTA win and the ‘Speakies’ nomination for First Doctor audiobook Agent of the Daleks.

• Reviews – featuring the latest audios, books, records and action figures.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won – including Season 13 on Blu-ray! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 622 is on sale Thursday 9 October 2025  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £10.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £9.99.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine celebrates the Thirteenth Doctor

In this issue

• In Thirteenth Doctor JODIE WHITTAKER’s most in-depth interview ever, she talks about joining the Fifteenth Doctor in his final episode, her love for Mandip Gill and the rest of the fam, and how she would love to return to Doctor Who with Billie Piper! 

• Director JOE CORNISH (perhaps best known for his collaborations with Adam Buxton) talks about casting Jodie in his 2011 movie Attack the Block – and how he thinks it might have worked as a Doctor Who movie.

• Writer JESSE ARMSTRONG (Peep Show, The Thick of It, Succession) on Jodie’s performance in anthology series Black Mirror’s first season finale.

• Writer JACK THORNE (His Dark Materials, Adolescence, The Hack) discusses Jodie’s central role in Netflix drama Toxic Town, plus his work with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.

• Former showrunner CHRIS CHIBNALL talks about Jodie in Broadchurch and reflects on the essential characteristics of the Thirteenth Doctor’s tenure…

• Back to 1974! David J Howe describes his attempts as a young fan to build his own Dalek!

• Concluding our scene-by-scene analysis of the Twelfth Doctor’s first season finale.

• Memories of the BSB weekend in 1990 – when the satellite broadcaster devoted an entire weekend to showing episodes of Doctor Who…

• Gary Gillatt considers the dread conjured up by the series’ doppelgangers.

• The final part of His Mad Pranks – our comic strip story featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda…

Regular features

• GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: our news round-up including details of YouTube series The Whoniverse Show, concept artist Peter McKinstry on his new book and the latest screening at Riverside Studios.

• Reviews – featuring the Season 13 Blu-ray set, the latest audios, books and action figures.

• Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.

• Prizes to be won – including Season 20 on Blu-ray! 

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 621 is on sale Thursday 11 September 2025  from panini.co.uk and WH Smith priced £7.99 (UK). 

Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £6.99.

Doctor Who Magazine previews the forthcoming Blu-ray release of Season 13 in a special issue about the series’ Gothic horror episodes.

Every print copy includes a new and exclusive compilation CD from BBC Audiobooks!

 Doctor Who Magazine editor Marcus Hearn says

Highlights of the new issue include:

• Behind the scenes on the shoot that brought the Skarasen back to life.

• The restoration secrets of Terror of the Zygons and the other stories in The Collection: Season 13.

• An exclusive interview with Anna Ridley, the designer of 1977’s Image of the Fendahl.

• A look at the late-night TV schedules of the mid-1970s, with details of the horror-film screenings that inspired producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes. 

• The surprising story behind The Brain of Morbius – revealed by recently discovered documents in the archive of director Christopher Barry. 

• Doctor Who’s most controversial episodes – were any of Mary Whitehouse’s complaints justified?

• Eye witnesses share their memories of the 1975 location shoot for The Android Invasion. 

• The unmade Robert Holmes stories that would have taken Doctor Who even further into the dark side.

• The life and career of Louis Marks, who wrote The Masque of Mandragora.

• A guide to the Fourth Doctor’s friends and foes during the Gothic horror years.

PLUS

    A new and exclusive short story by Louise Jameson, who played Leela.

    AND MUCH MORE!

Gothic Horror is on sale now, RRP £10.99 from panini.co.uk and good news retailers while stocks last. 

It’s also available digitally from pocketmags.com priced £9.99.