DWM 79

The 79th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in August 1983.

Articles

 * Season Poll by Siobhan Landen
 * Conventions: (20 Years of a Time Lord)
 * TARDIS Console Designs

Comic Strips

 * Doctor Who: 4-Dimensional Vistas (Part Two)

Archives
DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits) TARDIS Log:
 * DW:  The Smugglers 
 * From DW:  Pyramids of Mars  to  DW: The Invasion of Time 

Interviews / Profiles

 * None

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * None

A4 Pin-up

 * B&W Nyssa 100 Years on from DW:  Mawdryn Undead 
 * B&W Tegan 100 Years on from DW: Mawdryn Undead 

Also Featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page) (2 pages)
 * featuring: `Doctor Who?’ by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett


 * Matrix Data Bank (2 pages)

Credits

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Feature Writer: Richard Landon
 * Design: Roger P. Birchall
 * Production: Tim Hampson and Alison Gill
 * Distribution: Comag
 * Financial Controller: Robert W. Sutherland
 * Advertising: Sally Benson
 * Publisher: Stan Lee
 * Advisor: John Nathan-Turner

Additional details

 * Convention themed issue.
 * Additional Input: Gallifrey Guardian (From DWM 82): Convention’ coverage was co-written by Tim Westmacott, who supplied twenty-nine of the photographs including the three on the cover.
 * The challenge to ‘Beat the Panoptropic Net’ is dropped to appear later on the pages of the Matrix Data Bank (for a while anyway!).
 * No year was shown on this cover of this issue, which was priced at 60p (UK).
 * The cover shows the First Doctor from DW:  Marco Polo.