The 158th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of March 1990.
Contents[]
Articles[]
- 'The Press Gang' - Roger Clark looks at a year of Doctor Who in the British press (1989)
- 'SFX' - Justin Richards and Peter Anghelides talk to Effects Designers Malcolm James, Dave Bezkorowajny and Graham Brown about their work on Season season 26 that had a budget less than for a single episode of Red Dwarf
Comic content[]
- Hunger from the Ends of Time! - Part 2 (reprint)
Archives[]
- Episode Guide: Season 20: Peter Davison (Arc of Infinity - The Five Doctors)
Interviews / Profiles[]
- Writing Doctor Who: Marc Platt writer of Ghost Light interviewed by Gary Russell
- Writing Doctor Who: Bill Strutton writer of The Web Planet interviewed by Gary Hopkins
- Kevin O'Shea the outgoing BBC Drama Publicity Press Officer interviewed by John Nathan-Turner, talks about the trials and tribulations of promoting twenty-two years of Doctor Who.
Previews[]
- None this issue
Reviews - Off the Shelf[]
- NOVELISATION: The Happiness Patrol by Graeme Curry (Target Books)
- NOVELISATION: The Space Pirates by Robert Holmes novelised by John Peel (Target Books)
Page Pin-ups[]
- The Seventh Doctor from Ghost Light
- Judson / Fenric from The Curse of Fenric
- Karra from Survival
Also featuring[]
- Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
- Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
- Gallifrey Guardian (News)
- Data Coils (now incorporating pen-pals and events listing)
- You on Who (Letters)
- Doctor Who? by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett
- Nix View by Nick Miller (cartoon)
- An update on 'missing episodes from the Archives
- Competition: 3 Questions & tiebreaker (10 x each The War Games & An Unearthly Child Videos)
Random quote[]
“Come on Doctor, wakey wakey - it's all over now...”
“What did you say my boy? It's all over, that's what you said. No, but it isn't all over. It's far from being all over ...”
Credits[]
- Editor / Designer: John Freeman
- Designer: Jacqui Papp
- Production: Mark Irvine
- Advertising: Julie Hughes
- Advisor: John Nathan-Turner
- Magazine Group Editor: Sheila Cranna
- Managing Director: Robert Sutherland
- Excelsior: Stan Lee
Additional details[]
- This issue's comic strip concludes a reprint of a strip that first featured in The Incredible Hulk Presents title.
- Priced £1.50 (UK), the cover shows Tom Baker on location for the first over-seas filming in Paris for City of Death.
- The Matrix Data Bank includes a listing of all the clips used in the Boxpops edition entitled ' Space, Rockets and Aliens' first broadcast on 11th December 1988.
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