DWMS Winter 1981

The Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1981 was published by Marvel Comics UK.

Articles

 * The Complete Guide to the BBC Archives.
 * Photo-feature: Panopticon 81 by photographer Joyce Agee.
 * Boris the Spider with Mat Irvine

Comic content

 * Tales of the Time Lords: Minatorius
 * Skywatch-7 (Part Two)

Fiction
none this issue

Archives (Retold by episode, no credits)

 * The War Machines
 * The Evil of the Daleks

Interviews / Profiles

 * Sue Maldon (BBC Archives)
 * Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe (Writers and Producer)

Previews
none this issue

Reviews
none this issue

A4 pin-ups

 * B&W William Hartnell
 * Peter Cushing reading the Eagle
 * B&W Patrick Troughton
 * B&W Jon Pertwee
 * B&W Tom Baker
 * Colour The Fourth Doctor and Leela in the sewers of London from TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

A3 Centrespread

 * B&W Peter Davison

Additional features
none this issue

Credits

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Design: Jimmy Ross and Steve O'Leary
 * Consultant: Jeremy Bentham
 * Production: Tim Hampson and Nigel Balloch
 * Advertising: SH Space sales
 * Distribution: Comag

Additional details

 * Additional Input: Matrix Data Bank (From DWM Issues 64) Regarding the list of Episodes held in the Archives, Wheel in Space (6) does exist but The Invasion (4) doesn’t.
 * Holiday Specials were traditionally bumper sized comics/magazines from the publishers of regular titles. They were produced twice yearly and were generally released around Summer and Autumn, in time for the school summer holidays and the Christmas holiday period.
 * This third Special is the first of the Marvel specials to offer all-new material.
 * This Special offered the concluding half of the comic strip story "Skywatch-7" which appeared in DWM 58. The creative team on the strip had missed their deadline and no space was available in the main magazine by the time they had finished it. The most expeditious option was to print the conclusion in this issue.
 * This standard-sized magazine was printed in November 1981 and had a cover price of 45p (UK). The cover images features The Fourth Doctor, Adric and a Zygon from Terror of the Zygons
 * The indicia title for this issue was Doctor Who Special.