DWM 180

The 180th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 31 October 1991 and removed from British newsstands on 27 November 1991.

Articles

 * The Troughton Years by David Howe
 * On Set: The Tenth Planet a look at set design

Comic content

 * Evening's Empire - Part One
 * The Dalek Chronicles - Issue 1
 * Includes introduction by Andrew Pixley

Interviews / Profiles

 * Directing Who: Christopher Barry - Marcus Hearn talks to the director who has done much to shape the Doctor Who legend...
 * Producing Who: Innes Lloyd - Adrian Rigelsford talked to the former Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd shortly before his untimely death earlier this year...
 * 'Talking to Tom Baker': Part Two - Continuing a three part interview with the programme's most popular Doctor, explores the Graham Williams years, Tom's thoughts about the TARDIS and his decision to leave the show...

Archive feature

 * Archive Feature: Serial EE The Power of the Daleks By Andrew Pixley

Off the Shelf
Gary Russell boldly goes where no DWM reviewer has gone before...
 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * REF: The Gallifrey Chronicles

Also featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian (News)
 * Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
 * Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
 * Doctor Who? by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett
 * You on Who (Letters)
 * 'Who in Review' (Who event coverage) Nebula 91
 * Data Coils (now incorporating pen-pals and events listing)
 * Don't quote me on this ... (mentions of 'Who' in strange places)

Random quote
"Come on Ace, we've got work to do ..."
 * The Doctor to Ace from Survival

Credits

 * Senior Editor: John Freeman
 * Security Chief: Harry Papadopoulos
 * Copy Control: Sophie Health
 * Design: Peri Godbold
 * Head Girl: Louise Cassell
 * Promotion: Jane Sumner
 * Production: Mark Irvine
 * Advertising: Jane Smale
 * Adviser: John Nathan-Turner
 * Editorial Director: Paul Neary
 * Managing Director: Vincent Conran
 * Excelsior: Stan Lee

Additional information

 * This issues cover features artwork by X, which was also included as a free poster. It was priced at the new, higher price of £2.25 (UK) but with an increase to 52 regular pages. This issue also saw more colour photos and features.
 * The Archive feature is redesigned and moved to the centre eight pages so it could be detached and filed.
 * The new font and typeset used on the opening Gallifrey Guardian/ Matrix pages was not popular and soon dropped.
 * Andrew Pixley introduces a new run of the Daleks comic strip from the beginning, reproduced in full as they originally appeared, including STOP PRESS! headlines.
 * The cover tease for the comic story refers to it as "A new graphic adventure!"
 * On the copyright page of the magazine (usually page 3) is a box of very small text. The end of this text reads "Caught in a time storm, Ace's bed decided that it was a thoroughly bad day to be a piece of inanimate furniture bought from an MFI catalogue..."