DWM 157

The 157th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in February 1990.

Articles

 * Doctor Who Worldwide - Australia ‘Bonzer, Doc!” Dallas Jones tracks the course of the show through the early years ..
 * ‘April Showers’ by Mark Wyman takes you behind the scenes in the making of The Curse of Fenric.

Comic story

 * Hunger from the Ends of Time - Part 1 (reprint)
 * Comic Assassin : Ghost Light by Kev F & Steve Anton Noble (One page)

Archives

 * Archive Feature The Web Planet (Episodes 6) With 'Fact File' by Andrew Pixley Illustrated by Colin Howard (2 of 2)
 * Episode Guide: Season 19: Peter Davison (Castrovalva - Time-Flight including K9 & Company)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Jackie Lane (Dodo Chaplet) a former companion is interviewed by Jean Riddler about her time on the ptogramme.
 * Season 26 Focus: Frank Windsor who played Inspector Mackenzie in Ghost Light interviewed by Adrian Rigelsford

Previews

 * None this issue

Reviews - Off the Shelf

 * Gary Russell reviews the merchandising output of 1989

Page Pin-ups

 * Morgaine from Battlefield
 * Inspector MacKenzie from Ghost Light.
 * The Daleks ‘hovering’ above a sandpit. Photograph by Julian Vince.
 * The Fifth Doctor and the Master from Time-Flight.

Also featuring

 * Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
 * Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
 * Gallifrey Guardian (News)
 * Data Coils (now incorporating pen-pals and events listing)
 * You on Who (Letters)
 * 'Doctor Who?' by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett (comic strip)
 * 'Nick's View' by Nick Miller (cartoon)
 * Competition: Three questions and a tiebreaker (10 x Metro Music International’s Doctor Who: Variations on a Theme CD and Who Dares Publishings new audio tapes)

Random quote
“Where are we going, Doctor?” “Into the land of dreams and fantasy …”
 * Leela to the Fourth Doctor in The Invisible Enemy.

Credits

 * Editor / Designer: John Freeman
 * Paste-up: Jacqui Papp
 * Production: Mark Irvine
 * Advertising: Julie Hughes
 * Advisor: John Nathan-Turner
 * Magazine Group Editor: Sheila Cranna
 * Managing Director: Robert Sutherland
 * Excelsior: Stan Lee

Additional details

 * This issue's comic strip is a reprint of a strip that first featured in The Incredible Hulk Presents.
 * Additional Input (from DWM 159): In the Bonzer Doc! feature, the photo was actually from Marco Polo: Assassin at Peking, not from a cut scene in Rider from Shang-Tu. In the Matrix Data Bank, lyrics printed for the song in Ghost Light should read "Next Monday I will come and bring you such a lot of nuts", not "Next month ...". Corrections to the Episode Guide include Barry Letts was not Executive producer, 'Visitation should have read The Visitation, Transmission dates for Time-Flight were 22.3.82 and 30.3.82. And finally the script editors on K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend were Anthony Root and Eric Saward.
 * This issue priced £1.50 (UK) featured the Seventh Doctor and Ace courtesy of Sue Moore and Stephen Mansfield (caricatures) with photography by Stephen Hampshire and set by Guy Stevens.
 * Matrix Data Bank this issue includes a (continuing) list of the Doctor eating and drinking (from the Fourth Doctor). See also DWM 145