DWM 584

Doctor Who Magazine  was the issue of the magazine cover-dated December 2022. It was the first issue to feature the Fourteenth Doctor on the cover and utilised the traditional "...is the Doctor!" headline, uniquely commemorating David Tennant for the second time after issue 359.

Interviews
None this issue

Articles

 * Gallifrey Guardian Extra - Meet the New Team - Introducing the new production of Doctor Who for 2023 and beyond: Joel Collins (Executive Producer), Vicki Delow (Producer), Julie Gardner (Executive Producer), Scott Handcock (Script Editor]], Ellen March (Co-Producer), Chris May (Producer), Philip Sims (Production Designer), Jane Tranter (Executive Producer), Chanya Button (Director - Third 2023 Special), Dylan Holmes Williams (Director - Block One of Series 14), Tom Kingsley (Director - Second 2023 Special) and Rachel Talalay (Director - First 2023 Special)
 * Reach Up for the Sunrise - Fourteenth Doctor actor David Tennant, showrunners Russell T Davies and Chris Chibnall, directors Jamie Magnus Stone and Rachel Talalay and CG artist Ben Pickles discusses with Benjamin Cook about recording the Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration scene from The Power of the Doctor
 * The Strip of a Lifetime - Liberation of the Daleks was DWM's first full Dalek comic strip since Children of the Revolution and was the Fourteenth Doctor's first full story, bridging the gap between The Power of the Doctor and the 2023 specials. Eddie Robson chats with Alan Barnes, Russell T Davies, Scott Handcock and Lee Sullivan about the origins of this comic strip
 * The Watchers, Part One: Inside the Spaceships - David Richardson meets Doctor Who fans who watched the filming of the series during the 1960s and 1970s
 * Hack to the Future - Chris Bentley chats with the team behind the new illustrated novelisation of Doctor Who and the Daleks
 * Factory Record - Simon Guerrier and Rhys Williams recreates the Dalek production line set from The Power of the Daleks

Production Notes
Russell T Davies returns to the Production Notes column, discussing how bringing back David Tennant and Catherine Tate for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary specials was made possible.

Production Diary
Incoming script editor Scott Handcock begins his production diary on the forthcoming episodes of Doctor Who

Galaxy Forum
Readers discuss The Power of the Doctor, the revised version of the diamond logo and recreating a moment from the First Doctor era

Time and Space Visualiser
Wednesday 21 November: The transmission of Search Out Science, one of the few TV stories of Doctor Who during the 'Wilderness Years'
 * This Month In... 1990

Comic strip

 * Liberation of the Daleks, Part One
 * Story: Alan Barnes
 * Art: Lee Sullivan
 * Colour: to be added
 * Lettering: to be added
 * Editors: Marcus Hearn, Alan Barnes & Jason Quinn


 * The Daft Dimension by Lew Stringer

The Fact of Fiction

 * Army of Ghosts

Collectivity
The TARDIS

Reviews

 * TV: The Power of the Doctor
 * Audio: Hidden Depths, The Lincolnshire Poacher, Geronimo! & Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus
 * Book: Origin Stories

Competitions

 * Win The Collection: Season 2 Blu-ray box set
 * Win The Power of the Daleks audiobook
 * Win Escape from Reality audio drama
 * Win Doctor Who and the Daleks hardback
 * Win Doctor Who Am I DVD

Other Worlds

 * Fiction Burns - Previewing The War Master audio anthology Escape from Reality
 * Drax - Promoting the audio anthology Connections, a recap is given to the Time Lord engineer Drax, who returns in this box set
 * Paul Magrs - Paul Magrs discusses adapting Doctor Who annual comic strips into audiobooks for the audio anthology Dead on Arrival & Other Stories
 * UNIT Stories - Writer Robert Valentine reveals his six personal favourite UNIT stories in preparation for the release of the UNIT: Brave New World audio anthology Visistants
 * Barber, Black Sheep... - Actor Jonathon Carley discusses recreating the role of the War Doctor for the audio anthology He Who Fights Monsters
 * The Horror and the Ivy - Preview of the Torchwood audio story The Empire Man

Sufficient Data

 * The 14* Doctors - An attempt to place all the known incarnations of the Doctor in chronological order, including the Timeless Child, Fugitive Doctor, Morbius Doctors, the Watcher, War Doctor and the Valeyard incarnations

Credits

 * Editor: Marcus Hearn
 * Deputy Editor: Peter Ware
 * Art Editor: Peri Godbold
 * Design: Paul Taylor
 * Contributing Editor: Alan Barnes


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