DWM 278

The 278th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 6 May 1999 and removed from British newsstands on 2 June 1999. This was the last issue to use the diamond Doctor Who logo for the magazine's logo which had been in use since issue 170 in 1991.

This issue also advertised the airing of the Comic Relief Doctor Who parody The Curse of Fatal Death, for 1999's Red Nose Day. It billed Rowan Atkinson as the "ninth Doctor", though he was portraying a version of the Doctor not considered a canon descendant of Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor. That distinction would go to John Hurt as the War Doctor, who played the ninth incarnation of the Doctor to exist, while the actual title of Ninth Doctor would be given to Christopher Eccleston when the series returned in 2005.

Articles

 * "Can you still love me in my new body?" - Alan Barnes at the recording of The Curse of Fatal Death
 * Video Sales 1986-97; 2,083,764 - BBC Video tapes by Mark Wyman
 * The Shelf Life Awards

Comic content

 * The Road to Hell - Part One

Archives

 * TV: Death to the Daleks by Andrew Pixley

Profiles / Interviews

 * Peter Griffiths talks with scriptwriter Anthony Read

Reviews - 'Shelf Life'

 * VIDEO: TV: The Face of Evil
 * PROSE: Players
 * PROSE: Dominion
 * PROSE: Millennium Shock

Regular features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Timelines (Letters)
 * The life & times of Jackie Jenkins

Credits

 * Editor: Gary Gillatt & Alan Barnes
 * Design: Peri Godbold

Additional details

 * This is the last magazine to have the "diamond" logo as part of the Doctor Who Magazine title.