DWM 56

Articles

 * The Hartnell Years
 * Living in the Past

Comic Strips

 * The Free-Fall Warriors (Part One)
 * The Greatest Gamble
 * The Dalek Chronicles: The Rogue Planet

Fiction

 * None

Archives
DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits) EPISODE GUIDE (Listing details including dates, episode endings, credits and dates):
 * DW: Death to the Daleks
 * The Highlanders to The Faceless Ones

Interviews / Profiles

 * Photo-file Special: Michael Gough (Actor)
 * Dennis Spooner (Writer) interviewed by Jeremy Bentham

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * None

A4 Pin-ups

 * None

Additional features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
 * Matrix Data Bank (2 pages of Questions and Answers)

Credits:

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Design: Steve O'Leary and Rahid Khan
 * Consultant: Jeremy Bentham
 * Production: Tim Hampson and Nigel Bulloch
 * Publisher: Stan Lee

Additonal details

 * Special William Hartnell themed issue.
 * The year date is not displayed on the front cover.
 * The main cover image is a rare colour photo from DW: Marco Polo with the smaller photo, from DW: The Celestial Toymaker.
 * The Dalek comic strip appears on the back page in full colour for the first time. Despite announcing “follow the adventures of the Daleks every month in colour!” and “continued next month!”, the Dalek strip does not continue next month but DWM 58. The caption boxes at the start and end are again edited.