DWM 158

The 158th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of March 1990.

Articles

 * ‘The Press Gang’ Roger Clark looks at a year of Doctor Who in the British press (1989)
 * ‘SFX’ Justin Richards and Peter Angelhides talk to Effects Designers Malcolm James, Dave Bezkorowajny and Graham Brown about their work on Season season 26 that had a budget less than for a single episode of Red Dwarf

Comic stories

 * Hunger from the Ends of Time - Part 2 (reprint)

Archives

 * Episode Guide: Season 20: Peter Davison (Arc of Infinity - The Five Doctors)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Writing Doctor Who: Marc Platt writer of Ghost Light interviewed by Gary Russell
 * Writing Doctor Who: Bill Strutton writer of The Web Planet interviewed by Gary Hopkins
 * Kevin O'Shea the outgoing BBC Drama Publicity Press Officer interviewed by John Nathan-Turner, talks about the trials and tribulations of promoting twenty-two years of Doctor Who.

Previews

 * None this issue

Reviews - Off the Shelf

 * NOVELISATIONS: The Happiness Patrol by Graeme Curry (Target Books)
 * NOVELISATIONS: The Space Pirates by Robert Holmes novelised by John Peel (Target Books)

Page Pin-ups

 * The Seventh Doctor from Ghost Light
 * Judson / Fenric from The Curse of Fenric
 * Karra from Survival

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)
 * 'Nix View' by Nick Miller (cartoon)
 * An update on 'missing episodes from the Archives
 * Competition: 3 Questions & tiebreaker (10 x each The War Games & An Unearthly Child Videos)

Random quote
“Come on Doctor, wakey wakey - it’s all over now…”

“What did you say my boy? It’s all over, that’s what you said. No, but it isn’t all over. It’s far from being all over …”
 * Ben Jackson and the Doctor in The Tenth Planet

Credits

 * Editor / Designer: John Freeman
 * Designer: 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 issues comic strip concludes a reprint of a strip that first featured in The Incredible Hulk Presents title.
 * Priced £1.50 (UK), the cover shows Tom Baker on location for the first over-seas filming in Paris for City of Death.
 * The Matrix Data Bank includes a listing of all the clips used in the Boxpops edition entitled ' Space, Rockets and Aliens' first broadcast on 11th December 1988.