DWM 500

Doctor Who Magazine  was the issue of the magazine cover-dated July 2016. As a milestone edition, it celebrated five hundred issues of Doctor Who Magazine, and had a cover which was based on the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly back in 1979. Also sold with the magazine was a 116-page supplement, 500 DWM Issues.

Profiles / Interviews

 * Tom Baker
 * William Hartnell & Peter Capaldi
 * A reprint of William Hartnell's replies to young fan Lynn Young in 1965 (published in DWM 375 in 2004), and Peter Capaldi's responses to the same questions


 * Steven Moffat

Comic strip

 * The Stockbridge Showdown
 * Story: Scott Gray
 * Art: Dave Gibbons, Roger Langridge, Adrian Salmon, Dan McDaid, John Ridgway, David A Roach
 * Pencils: Mike Collins, Martin Geraghty
 * Inks: David A Roach
 * Colours: James Offredi
 * Letters: Dave Gibbons, Roger Langridge
 * Editor: John Ainsworth


 * Doctor Whoah! by Baxter
 * The Secret History of Life Before Doctor Who Magazine! by Lew Stringer
 * Doctor Whos? by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett

Fiction

 * Entry 15234/C-4
 * A Letter from the Doctor

The Fact of Fiction

 * The Day of the Doctor

The DWM Review

 * Book: In the Blood
 * Talking book: The Invasion
 * Vinyl LPs: Genesis of the Daleks, Dr. Who & the Daleks
 * DVD: Myth Makers: Nigel Robinson
 * Missing in Action!: The Tenth Planet episode 4
 * DWM looks back on one of Doctor Who's missing episodes

Competitions

 * Win over £500 of Doctor Who Blu-rays and DVDs
 * Win BBC Audio CD bundle
 * Win a visit to Big Finish's studios
 * Win The Tenth Doctor Adventures CD box set
 * Win In the Blood book

Coming soon

 * Audio: The Two Masters, The Trouble with Drax, The Second Doctor: Volume One, Shutdown, Lost and Found, Torchwood: Moving Target
 * Talking books: The Claws of Axos, Scream of the Shalka

Pick of the Penguin

 * Frobisher returns to the magazine's letter page to look at what DWM readers have posted.

A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects...

 * The Y-chromosome

Special features

 * A Letter from the Doctor
 * Doctor Who Magazine has a great artistic flavour...
 * DWM goes behind the scenes with its Peter Capaldi cover shoot celebrating 500 issues


 * The TARDIS Log!
 * A guide to the first 500 issues of DWM


 * Doctor Who 2001
 * Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman talk to DWM about their 2001 pitch to bring back Doctor Who


 * Let's do the Time Vworp again!
 * DWM looks back at 20 of the best moments of the past 500 issues of the magazine's comic strip

Credits

 * Editor: Tom Spilsbury
 * Deputy Editor: Peter Ware
 * Art Editor: Richard Atkinson
 * Editorial Assistant: Emily Cook
 * Cover Photograph Shot Exclusively for DWM by Ray Burmiston
 * Panini UK Ltd


 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Head of Production: Mark Irvine
 * Production Assistant: Jez Meteyard
 * Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Rebecca Smith
 * Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
 * Marketing Executives: Jess Bell, Becci Andrews
 * BBC Worldwide, UK publishing
 * Director of Editorial Governance: Nicholas Brett


 * Director of Consumer Products and Publishing: Andrew Moultrie
 * Head of UK Publishing: Chris Kerwin
 * Publisher: Mandy Thwaites
 * Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik