DWM 178

The 178th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 5 September 1991 and removed from British newsstands on 2 October 1991.

Articles

 * The Colin Baker Years by Gary Russell
 * Behind the Sofa: The Doctor Who Exhibition at MOMI - Philip Newman explores the latest exhibition, which is doing roaring trade on London's South Banks.

Comic content

 * The Good Soldier - Part Four

Fiction

 * Brief Encounter - Affirmative by Daniel Read
 * Brief Encounter - An Unfulfilled Dream by Karen Dunn

Archive

 * Archive feature: BBC Radio Slipback
 * Compiled with factfile by Andrew Pixley co-editor of Time Screen With Gary Russell reporting of the studio recording.

Interviews / Profiles

 * Who's Who: - Michael Craze
 * 'Confessions of a Time Lady' - Paul Smith talks to the first Romana...Mary Tamm
 * 'First call!' - Sophie Aldred ponders the puzzles produced by Ghost Light and the problems of working as her character, Ace - especially in Victorian corsets!

Off the Shelf
Gary Russell explores the alternate world of a Nazi Britain in Exodus and even stranger permutations in the next New Adventures...
 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Writing the New Adventures Gary Russell talks with Terrance Dicks, Nigel Robinson and Paul Cornell about their novels Timewyrm: Exodus, Timewyrm: Apocalypse and Timewyrm: Revelation.

Page Pin-ups

 * Photocall for the Sixth Doctor with umbrella prop.

Also featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian (News)
 * Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
 * Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
 * Doctor Who? by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett
 * Into The Vortex / 'That Was the Who That Was' (Times Past)
 * You on Who (Letters)
 * Nix View by Nick Miller (cartoon)
 * Data Coils (now incorporating pen-pals and events listing)
 * Competition: to win Silva Screen Records.

Random quote
“ I'm not a human being ... I walk in eternity ..."
 * The Doctor to Sarah Jane Smith from Pyramids of Mars

Credits

 * Senior Editor: John Freeman
 * Copy Control: Sophie Health
 * Design Peri Godbold
 * Mind Control: Louise Cassell
 * Promotion: Jane Sumner
 * Production: Mark Irvine
 * Advertising: Jane Smale
 * Adviser: John Nathan-Turner
 * Editorial Director: Paul Neary
 * Managing Director: Vincent Conran
 * Excelsior: Stan Lee

Additional details

 * This issues cover features artwork by Colin Howard depicting Slipback the Archives story of this edition.
 * The TWO Brief Encounter stories this issue are the winners of a competition from DWM 173. Of the 250 winners, Daniel Read won the under fifteens, and Karen Dunn for the over 15's
 * This cover is flashed with a MOMI (Behind the Sofa) Doctor Who exhibition discount voucher offer.
 * On the copyright page of the magazine (usually page 3) is a box of very small text; the end of this text reads, "Husks appear courtesy of the Metabelis Export Company".