DWM 118

The 118th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in November 1986.

Articles

 * Travelling Companions - Susan Foreman the first of the companions makes a fitting subject for the start of this new series on the characters who have shared the TARDIS with the Doctor. By Richard Marson.
 * The Daleks - Fish and chips, the Royal Family, Doctor Who and the Daleks: British side by side. If Doctor Who ended tomorrow, for years to come we would still see children playing at being Daleks, just as they did in the lengthy gap - five years - between Evil of the Daleks and The Day of the Daleks. What made them quite so popular no one knows; perhaps they fill a gap that most fantasy creations in the 1960s were unable to do/ They made their creator, Terry Nation a rich man and their designer Ray Cusick little better off, as they swept across Britain in a wave of merchandising. By Philip Dickson.

Comic Strips

 * Changes - Episode 1

Archives

 * DW: The 3 Doctors (written as The 3 Doctors, rather than The Three Doctors)

Interviews / Profiles

 * Read on Writing - There are few people connected with the behind-the-scenes evolution of Doctor Who with whom writer and script-editor Anthony Read hasn't worked. Earlier this year, he told Richard Marson how he became involved with the programme during Tom Baker's era.
 * Colin Baker Interviewed - In Issue 111, we asked readers to send us questions they'd like to put to Colin Baker. Penny Holme put a selection of them to him recently, during a break from rehearsals.

Previews

 * New Season Preview - Story 3

Reviews - Off the Shelf

 * BOOK: REF: Doctor Who - Special Effects
 * BOOK: REF: The Companions

Additional features

 * To the TARDIS (Letters)
 * featuring: 'Doctor Who?' by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett


 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Matrix Databank

Credits

 * Editor: Sheila Cranna
 * Assistant Editor: Penny Home
 * Art Director/Design: Steve Cook
 * Production: Alison Gill
 * Advertising: Sally Benson
 * Publisher: Stan Lee
 * Advisor: John Nathan-Turner

Additional details

 * Free Giant Poster - Featuring 6th Doctor, Davros, a 1960s style Dalek and a 1980s style Dalek.