DWM 555

Doctor Who Magazine  was the issue of the magazine cover-dated October 2020.

Interviews

 * Out of the TARDIS
 * Derek Jacobi interviewed by Scott Handcock

Articles
A look at UKTV Gold repeats of Doctor Who during the 1990's and early 2000's. Discussion of the appearance of Tom Baker in his Fourth Doctor costume within a 1978 promotional photoshoot for Country Times lemonade. In-depth look at the 1990 BSB TV repeats of Doctor Who and their culmination in a Galaxy Weekend event - a weekend-long repeat marathon, featuring special studio guests, linking material and interviews. The making of the Fury from the Deep animation. A look at the complicated and sometimes contradictory information given in the TV show about certain companions and their lives.
 * Golden Years
 * Secret Lemonade Drinker
 * A Near-Death Experience
 * Smart to be Square
 * Making Waves
 * Controversial Continuity - Companions
 * Controversial Continuity - Silurians
 * Controversial Continuity - UNIT Dating
 * Controversial Continuity - The Fourth Dimension

Comics

 * none this issue

The Fact of Fiction

 * Mummy on the Orient Express

Apocrypha

 * Continuity Errors

Reviews

 * Blu-ray DVD The Power of the Daleks Special Edition
 * Audio: The Sixth Doctor and Peri: Volume One, Out of Time
 * Soundtrack: The Massacre

Competitions

 * Win The Complete Series Six Blu-ray Steelbook


 * Win The Flying Dutchman / Displaced Audio Drama

The Blogs of Doom

 * The Investigator

Credits

 * Editor: Marcus Hearn
 * Deputy Editor: Peter Ware
 * Art Editor/Designer: Peri Godbold
 * Designer: Mike Jones
 * Editorial Assistant: Emily Cook
 * Panini UK Ltd


 * Managing Director: Mike Riddell
 * Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
 * Head of Production: Mark Irvine
 * Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Rebecca Smith
 * Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
 * Marketing Executive: Jess Bell
 * BBC Studios, UK Publishing


 * Chair, Editorial Review Boards: Nicholas Brett
 * Managing Director, Consumer Products and Licensing: Stephen Davies
 * Head of Publishing: Mandy Thwaites
 * Compliance Manager: Cameron K McEwan
 * UK Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik

Additional details

 * This was the fifth issue to be worked on remotely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 * This was the third consecutive issue to lack a comic story. As announced in DWM 552, the comic strips took a 3-issue break as a result of the aforementioned pandemic.