DWM 50

The 50th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in March 1981. It was a special edition to commemorate its fifty issues and featured a new cover design.

Articles

 * A Tourist's Guide to Gallifrey
 * Photo-feature: Dr. Who Monster Gallery: The Cybermen

Comic Strip/s

 * Doctor Who: The Life Bringer (Part Two)
 * Crisis on Kaldor

Fiction

 * None

Archives

 * Archive Feature: (DW): The War Games Part One of Two (synopsis only by Richard Marson)
 * Episode Guide: An Unearthly Child to The Keys of Marinus (listing details including dates, episode endings, credits and dates)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Star Profile: William Hartnell (Actor)
 * Photo-File Number 1: Matthew Waterhouse

Previews

 * TV:  The Keeper of Traken

Reviews

 * None

A4 pin-ups / Poster

 * B&W Robot from DW: The Robots of Death
 * (see comment below regarding four Doctors centre-page pull-out)

Also featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
 * Fantastic Facts
 * Colouring Competition (For 1 of 30 sets of K9 Books by Sparrow Publishing)
 * Tie-breaker Competition (For 1 of 20 Doctor Who Boardgames from Games Workshop)

Credits

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Layout: Steve O'Leary and Rahid Khan
 * Consultant: Jeremy Bentham
 * Publisher: Stan Lee

Additional details

 * Additional Input: Letters Page (from DWM 53): For the second time DW: The War Games is incorrectly stated as being the longest Doctor Who story.
 * The cover images are from DW: The Three Doctors, and the Fourth Doctor from DW: Robot.
 * This "Special 50th Issue" of DWM includes a free A2 full colour pull-out showing all four Doctors with a listing of their adventures (indicating the number of individual episodes). Although this is a stapled insert and so could be regarded as a part of the magazine and its occasional use of centre colour pages, the reverse side is blank and for this reason is not being counted as a 'normal' but a special addition.
 * The first part of a detailed Episode Guide to all the Doctor's adventures begins in this issue.
 * The Archives feature returns to breaking the story down into episodes.
 * The letters page is renamed "Doctor Who Letters".
 * The year is not included on the front cover, which had a cover price of 30p (UK).