DWM 247

The 247th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 19 December 1996 and had a cover date of 15 January 1997.

Articles

 * The mourning after...: A Gallifrey Guardian Special Feature - Part Two Come on Grace, we've got work to do... Gary Gillatt concludes our thought-provoking and exhaustive look at the current status of Doctor Who, and considers the hurdles the series must overcome before it can return to our screens...
 * Includes interview with Philip Segal


 * The Celestial Toymaker's Game of the Year! A frantic race through 1996 for 2 to 4 players, age 5 and up!
 * Readers' Survey
 * 20 distressingly common misconceptions about Doctor Who... - By Steve Lyons and Chris Howarth

Comic content

 * Endgame - Part Four

Archives
By Andrew Pixley
 * TV: The Horns of Nimon

Interviews / Profiles

 * Out of the TARDIS! - Sylvester McCoy played the Seventh Doctor for the series' last three years on BBC television in the 1980s, and briefly reprised the role in the 1996 TV Movie/ DWM visited the Doctor's longest-serving incarnation to present him with perhaps the greatest challenge - the TARDIS tin...
 * Send in the Clowns! - The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Chapter Eleven - Season Twenty-Five

Shelf Life
Reviews by Dave Owen
 * VIDEO: TV: The Leisure Hive
 * PROSE: Burning Heart
 * REF: The Nth Doctor
 * MERCHANDISE: The Official 1997 Calender Doctor Who Heroes & Villains 

Regular features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Timelines (Letters)
 * Crazy Caption!
 * Fluid Links - Kid's stuff? by Matthew Jones

Credits

 * Santa: Gary Gillatt
 * Santa's little helper: Alan Barnes
 * Christmas cracker: Paul Vyse

Additional details
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