DWM 475

Doctor Who Magazine  was the issue of the magazine cover-dated August 2014. This month's issue was "themed" around the Paternoster Gang. Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax were featured on the cover, while Neve McIntosh, Catrin Stewart and Dan Starkey, the characters' actors, were interviewed. The issue also featured the comic debut of the gang in The Crystal Throne Part One.

Furthermore, the issue included a tribute to the memory of Kate O'Mara, who passed away a few months earlier. She was known for her role as the Rani on the classic series of Doctor Who.

Profiles / Interviews

 * Dan Starkey, Neve McIntosh & Catrin Stewart
 * The three members of the Paternoster Gang tell what it's like to play a whole assortment of alien creatures...


 * Terrance Dicks
 * Part one of three of an interview with the Doctor Who script editor, author and screenwriter.

Comic strip

 * The Crystal Throne Part One
 * Story: Scott Gray
 * Layouts: Mike Collins
 * Finished Art: David A Roach
 * Colours: James Offredi
 * Letters: Roger Langridge
 * Editors: Tom Spilsbury & Peter Ware

The Fact of Fiction

 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang

The DWM Review

 * Audio: Tomb Ship, The Elixir of Doom, Last of the Colophon, Charlotte Pollard: Series One
 * Book: Wit, Wisdom and Timey-Wimey Stuff
 * Comic collection: The Cruel Sea
 * Ebook: A Handful of Stardust

Competitions

 * Win Tenth Doctor limited edition collector figure
 * Win Engines of War book
 * Win Counter-Measures: Series 3 box set
 * Win Monarch DVD
 * Win TARDIS edition of The 50th Anniversary Collection soundtrack

Coming soon

 * Engines of War
 * Breaking Bubbles
 * Counter-Measures: Series 3
 * The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
 * The Abandoned

The Time Team

 * The Unicorn and the Wasp

Galaxy Forum

 * DWM readers discuss the First Fifty Years poll results from DWM 474

Production notes

 * Steven Moffat
 * The head writer and executive producer answers questions from DWM readers

A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects

 * Alydon's cloak

Special features

 * The Cartmel Master Plan Part Two
 * Script editor Andrew Cartmel and his writing colleagues Ben Aaronovitch, Graeme Curry and Stephen Wyatt discuss their work on season 25


 * The Times of the Rani
 * A send off to the life of actor Kate O'Mara, who died in March 2014

Credits

 * Editor: Tom Spilsbury
 * Assistant Editor: Peter Ware
 * Art Editor: Richard Atkinson
 * Designer: Paul Vyse
 * Production Assistants: John Ainsworth, Mark Wright
 * Panini UK Ltd


 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Head of Production: Mark Irvine
 * Production Assistant: Jez Meteyard
 * Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Katie Wilkinson
 * Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
 * Marketing Executive: Jess Bell
 * BBC Worldwide, UK Publishing


 * Director of UK Publishing: Nicholas Brett
 * Head of UK Publishing: Chris Kerwin
 * Head of Editorial, UK Publishing: Jenny Potter
 * UK Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik