DWM 253

The 253rd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 5 June 1997 and removed from British newsstands on 2 July 1997.

Articles

 * 1966 and all that - Lost or incomplete for nearly 30 years, The War Machines, the first Doctor Who serial to have an explicitly contemporary edge, has been restored, re-mastered and is finally released on video this month. Richard Molesworth, a member of the team who pieced the story back together, tells how the Machines came to be dismantled in the first place.
 * Includes inset articles:
 * Ghosts in the Machines - The original director of The War Machines re-views his work of 31 years ago
 * Noises off - Sound engineer Mark Ayres on hiss, clicks, pops and drop-off...


 * "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" - Compiled by The Monitor
 * Robots: Part 4 Holmes and Vardans - DWM sleuth Stephen Cartwright dons deerstalker and cape to search out Doctor Who's many strange and eccentric relatives and finds bodies in the library...
 * 1997 Readers' Survey - The Results!

Comic content

 * The Dalek Chronicles - Return of the Elders - Part 5 of 6
 * Fire and Brimstone - Part Three

The DWM Archive
By Andrew Pixley
 * TV: The Pirate Planet

The Telesnap Archive
Compiled by Matthew Pereira
 * TV: The Macra Terror - Episode 3

Interviews / Profiles

 * 1666 and all that - Director Peter Moffatt was a mainstay of early eighties Doctor Who. In the first part of a wide-ranging two-part interview he talks to Peter Griffiths about his work on State of Decay, The Visitation and Mawdryn Undead.

Shelf Life
none this issue

Regular features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Timelines (Letters)
 * The life & times of Jackie Jenkins

Credits

 * Editor: Gary Gillatt
 * Assistant Editor: Alan Barnes
 * Designer: Michael Yeowell, Gary Gillatt

Additional details
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