DWM 257

The 257th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was published on 22 October 1997.

Articles

 * The game's up! - As work on the two-year project nears completion. Gary Gillatt traces the development of the BBC's new Doctor Who CD-ROM.
 * Out of the vaults - In the final part of this series, Richard Molesworth turns his attention to Doctor Who's darkest hour - the mass junking of First and Second Doctor episodes...

Comic stories

 * Tooth and Claw - Part One

The DWM Archive
By Andrew Pixley
 * DW: Logopolis

Interviews / Profiles

 * Coming of age - In its 18th year Doctor Who quit schoolboy fooling and went off to study tachyonics, quantum theory and higher mathematics at university presided over by incoming script editor Christopher H Bidmead. In the first of a three-part interview, Peter Griffiths meets the architect of, among others, triptych of E-space adventures released by BBC Video this autumn...
 * Out of the TARDIS: Mark Strickson - The man who breathed life into the Trion tearaway Vislor Turlough is inspired to recall those blue remembered hills of his youth - and more, besides - as he plucks 20 teasers from the depths of that famous TARDIS tin...

Shelf Life
Reviews by Dave Owen
 * VIDEO: DW: The E-Space Trilogy (Includes DW: Full Circle, State of Decay, Warriors' Gate)
 * EDA: War of the Daleks
 * PDA: Illegal Alien
 * REF: Doctor Who: A Book of Monsters
 * REF: The Book of Lists
 * VIDEO: Who on Earth is Tom Baker?

Regular features

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

Credits

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

Additional details

 * Includes an advertorial 'Back issues' DWM order form.