DWM 85

The 85th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was published in February 1984. It saw an extensive redesign and now sported the title "The Official Doctor Who Magazine".

Articles

 * Doctor Who at the (NFT) National Film Theatre by Stephen James Walker
 * Photo-feature: The Undersea World of Doctor Who

Comic stories

 * Doctor Who: Skywatch-7 - Parts One and Two reprinted

Fiction

 * none this issue

Archives
DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits)
 * DW:  The Krotons 

Interviews / Profiles

 * Louise Jameson interviewed by Richard Marson

Previews

 * TV: Warriors of the Deep
 * TV: The Awakening
 * TV: Frontios

Reviews

 * TV: The Five Doctors

Colour Centre-spread Pin-up

 * The Daleks

Also featuring

 * Gallifrey Guardian
 * Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
 * `Doctor Who?’ by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett
 * Matrix Data Bank

Credits

 * Editor: Alan McKenzie
 * Assistant Editor: Roger P. Birchall
 * Design: Rahid Khan
 * Production: Tim Hampson and Alison Gill
 * Production Assistant: Jeanette M. Sweetland
 * Financial Controller: Robert W. Sutherland
 * Advertising: Sally Benson
 * Publisher: Stan Lee
 * Advisor: John Nathan-Turner

Additional details

 * Now ‘the Official Doctor Who Magazine’.
 * FREE GIANT POSTER with this issue features the Master (as shown on the cover) by Doctor Who Artist Andrew Skilleter
 * The page count drops to forty, but includes more colour pages (once again the centre four pages).
 * The letters pages are given over to readers' comments on the recently screened ‘The Five Doctors’.
 * The Photo-feature features several photos of Sea Devils and Fish People (from DW:  The Sea Devils  and DW:  The Underwater Menace  respectively).
 * There is no regular Doctor comic strip this issue. Instead the two-part Skywatch-7 (from DWM 58 and the DWMS Winter 1981, is reprinted in full.
 * No year was shown on this cover of this issue, which was priced at 60p (UK).
 * The cover shows the Fifth Doctor and Tegan from DW:  Warriors of the Deep .