DWM 157

The 157th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of February 1990.

Articles

 * Doctor Who Worldwide - Australia "Bonzer, Doc!" Dallas Jones tracks the course of the show through the early years ..
 * "April Showers" by Mark Wyman takes you behind the scenes in the making of The Curse of Fenric.

Comic content

 * Hunger from the Ends of Time! - Part 1 (reprint)
 * Comic Assassin : Ghost Light by Kev F & Steve Anton Noble (one page)

Archives

 * Archive Feature The Web Planet (Episodes 6) with Fact File by Andrew Pixley Illustrated by Colin Howard (2 of 2)
 * Episode Guide: Season 19: Peter Davison (Castrovalva - Time-Flight including K9 & Company)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Jackie Lane (Dodo Chaplet) a former companion is interviewed by Jean Riddler about her time on the programme.
 * Season 26 Focus: Frank Windsor who played Inspector Mackenzie in Ghost Light interviewed by Adrian Rigelsford

Previews

 * None this issue

Reviews - Off the Shelf

 * Gary Russell reviews the merchandising output of 1989

Page Pin-ups

 * Morgaine from Battlefield
 * Inspector MacKenzie from Ghost Light.
 * The Daleks hovering above a sandpit. Photograph by Julian Vince.
 * The Fifth Doctor and the Master from Time-Flight.

Also featuring

 * Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
 * Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
 * Gallifrey Guardian (News)
 * Data Coils (now incorporating pen-pals and events listing)
 * You on Who (Letters)
 * Doctor Who? by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett
 * "Nix View" by Nick Miller (cartoon)
 * Competition: Three questions and a tiebreaker (10 x Metro Music International's Doctor Who - Variations on a Theme CD and Who Dares Publishings new audio tapes)

Random quote
“Where are we going, Doctor?”

“Into the land of dreams and fantasy ...”
 * Leela to the Fourth Doctor in The Invisible Enemy.

Credits

 * Editor / Designer: John Freeman
 * Paste-up: Jacqui Papp
 * Production: Mark Irvine
 * Advertising: Julie Hughes
 * Advisor: John Nathan-Turner
 * Magazine Group Editor: Sheila Cranna
 * Managing Director: Robert Sutherland
 * Excelsior: Stan Lee

Additional details

 * This issue's comic strip is a reprint of a strip that first featured in The Incredible Hulk Presents.
 * Additional Input (from DWM 159): In the "Bonzer Doc!" feature, the photo was actually from Marco Polo: "Assassin at Peking", not from a cut scene in "Rider from Shang-Tu". In the "Matrix Data Bank", lyrics printed for the song in Ghost Light should read, "Next Monday I will come and bring you such a lot of nuts", not, "Next month ...". Corrections to the "Episode Guide" include Barry Letts was not executive producer, Visitation should have read The Visitation, Transmission dates for Time-Flight were 22.3.82 and 30.3.82. And finally the script editors on K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend were Anthony Root and Eric Saward.
 * This issue priced £1.50 (UK) featured the Seventh Doctor and Ace courtesy of Sue Moore and Stephen Mansfield (caricatures) with photography by Stephen Hampshire and set by Guy Stevens.
 * "Matrix Data Bank" this issue includes a (continuing) list of the Doctor eating and drinking (from the Fourth Doctor). See also DWM 145