DWM 258

The 258th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was current from 23 October through 19 November 1997.

Articles

 * Robots: Part 6 Bard to Verse - Concluding his fascinating study of the diverse sources to feed into televised Doctor Who, Stephen Cartwright considers the influence of Shakespeare and Shaw, Wilde and Webster, and Blake and Bowie...

Comic stories

 * Tooth and Claw - Part Two

The DWM Archive
By Andrew Pixley
 * DW: Castrovalva

Interviews / Profiles

 * This is Ground Control to Major Tom... - He's spaced-out oddity who inhabits a world of Dickens, dingy bars and the dead...He's Tom Baker, the fourth and most popular Doctor, and he's busy publicising his autobiography. Seizing the opportunity, Gary Gillatt tried to get the measure of the man - only to come away more confused than ever...
 * Fifth man in - Come 1981, a new face stepped up to the sticky cosmic wicket vacated by outgoing Doctor Tom Baker. In the second part of his exclusive chat with writer/script editor Christopher H Bidmead, Peter Griffiths is stumped by strange tales of Sealed Orders, 'star-ishness' and celery...

Shelf Life
Reviews by Jackie Jenkins
 * EDA: Alien Bodies
 * PDA: The Roundheads
 * REF: Doctor Who - The Handbook: The Second Doctor
 * REF: Licence Denied
 * BBV: Auton
 * Includes inset article with Writer/director of Auton - Nick Briggs

Regular features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Timelines (Letters)
 * The life & times of Jackie Jenkins
 * Fluid Links - Oh stop yer moaning... by Matthew Jones

Credits

 * Editor: Gary Gillatt
 * Assistant Editor: Alan Barnes
 * Design: Michael Yeowell

Additional details
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