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 a version of the diamond Doctor Who logo for the magazine's logo until issue 584 in 2022.

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 to most modern viewers, audio listeners, and readers of Doctor Who media, this Ninth Doctor would not be familiar to them as such, with the later announcement of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor, who was billed identically on the cover of issue 343 in 2004 in anticipation of Eccleston's debut in 2005, and was billed on the magazine's cover as "Nine" as late as issue 592 in 2023.

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 until 2022's DWM 584 to have a version of the "diamond" logo as part of the Doctor Who Magazine title.