DWM 49

The 49th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of February 1981.

Articles

 * Photo-feature: Monster Gallery 2: The Daleks
 * The Companions of Doctor Who

Comic content

 * Doctor Who: The Life Bringer! (Part One)
 * Voyage to the Edge of the Universe

Fiction

 * None

Archives

 * Archive Feature: TV: The Massacre (synopsis and some credits only by Richard Marson)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Star ProFile: Elisabeth Sladen (Actress)
 * Photo-File Number 1: K9

Previews

 * None

Reviews

 * None

A4 pin-ups

 * B&W The Third Doctor from TV: The Mind of Evil
 * B&W A puzzled First Doctor from TV: The Celestial Toymaker

Also featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Who Cares! (Letters Page)

Credits

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Layout: Steve O'Leary
 * Art Assistant: Rahid Khan
 * Consultant: Jeremy Bentham

Additional details

 * Additional Input: Letters Page (from DWM 53): February is spelt wrong on the cover and the internal photograph featuring a blazing Dalek and Exxilons is wrongly credited to a Tom Baker story and not a Jon Pertwee one!
 * The cover image is from TV: Full Circle
 * The Companions feature article is a bumper ten pages and goes up to Romana II.
 * No Fantastic Facts in this issue.
 * Alan McKenzie, former features editor takes over as full editor from Paul Neary.
 * Early stories (with individual episode titles) were not conventionally titled; hence The Massacre, The Massacre of Bartholomew, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.
 * The year is not included on the front cover, which had a cover price of 30p (UK).
 * The cover promises a look at TV: The Keeper of Traken, which is not in fact included and would appear in DWM 50 (along with another similar mention on its own cover). TV: Warrior's Gate was the only Season 18 story not to get a DWM preview; chronologically it should have occurred in this issue.