DWM 256

The 256th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was current from 28 August until 24 September 1997.

Articles

 * Out of the vaults - Part Two: The seventies - Richard Molesworth continues his exhaustive search of the BBC's film and videotape libraries. In Part Two of this series, we uncover buried treasure from the Third and Fourth Doctor's eras...
 * Space buns and tea - Philip MacDonald tears off his rose-tinted glasses to investigate what happens when that fuzzy-fringed CSO horror, unconvincing giant rat or OTT guest tomfoolery makes you hate the show you love...

Comic content

 * By Hook or By Crook

The DWM Archive
By Andrew Pixley
 * TV: Planet of Giants

The Telesnap Archive
Compiled by Matthew Pereira
 * TV: The Macra Terror - Episode 4

Interviews / Profiles

 * Up a mountain in 11-inch platforms - Once a week between 1971 and 1973, scatty seventies companion Jo Grant muddled her way to Doctor Who iconhood. "They tried to make Jo a bit hip and groovy!" actress Katy Manning tells Peter Griffiths...
 * Out of the TARDIS: Sarah Sutton - Her Doctor Who character Nyssa, knew so little about "telebiogenesis" - but how much do we really know about actress Sarah Sutton? 20 posers plucked randomly from the now-infamous TARDIS tin should settle the score.
 * The man behind the masque - Scriptwriter Louis Marks, responsible for four serials spanning both Doctor Who's very beginnings and its glory in the seventies, remains as enthusiastic about the series as ever. "The whole concept was brilliant," he tells Peter Griffiths.

Shelf Life
Reviews by Dave Owen
 * PROSE: Genocide
 * PROSE: Business Unusual
 * PROSE: Down

Includes inset article:

The Web Planet
DWM's occasional look at Doctor Who on-line
 * Who's in Who Web Ring - http://www.wn.planet.gen.nz/~abates/mel/index.html (No longer online, accessed 22nd October 2008)
 * Appendices for Down - http://www.ndirect.co.uk/shebeen (No longer online, accessed 22nd October 2008)
 * Appendices for Down via WhoLINK - http://www.sky.net/~dgleason/wholink.html (No longer online, accessed 22nd October 2008)


 * The Doctor Who Bloopers List - http://orca.ucd.ie/Doctor_Who/bloopers.html (No longer online, accessed 22nd October 2008) (The Doctor Who Bloopers List is active at http://www.timelash.com/bloopers/ accessed 22nd October 2008)
 * Nitrate's Guide to DWW and DWM - http://www.nitrate.demon.co.uk/dwindex.htm (No longer online, accessed 22nd October 2008)

Regular features

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Timelines (Letters)
 * The life & times of Jackie Jenkins
 * Fluid Links - Do your best and don't worry by Matthew Jones

Credits

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

Additional details
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