DWM 158

The 158th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of March 1990.

Contents Edit

Articles Edit

• '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 Edit

• Hunger from the Ends of Time! - Part 2 (reprint)

Archives Edit

• Episode Guide: Season 20: Peter Davison (Arc of Infinity - The Five Doctors)

Interviews / Profiles Edit

• 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 Edit

• None this issue

Reviews - Off the Shelf Edit

• 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 Edit

• The Seventh Doctor from Ghost Light
• Judson / Fenric from The Curse of Fenric
• Karra from Survival

Also featuring Edit

• 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 (comic strip)
• '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 Edit

“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 ...”

Ben Jackson and the Doctor in The Tenth Planet

Credits Edit

• 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 Edit

• 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.