DWM 253

The 253rd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released on 5 June 1997 and removed from British newsstands on 2 July 1997.

Contents Edit

Articles Edit

• 1966 and all that - Lost or incomplete for nearly 30 years, The War Machines, the first Doctor Who serial to have an explicitly contemporary edge, has been restored, re-mastered and is finally released on video this month. Richard Molesworth, a member of the team who pieced the story back together, tells how the Machines came to be dismantled in the first place.

Includes inset articles:

• Ghosts in the Machines - The original director of The War Machines re-views his work of 31 years ago
• Noises off - Sound engineer Mark Ayres on hiss, clicks, pops and drop-off...

• "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!" - Compiled by The Monitor
• Robots: Part 4 Holmes and Vardans - DWM sleuth Stephen Cartwright dons deerstalker and cape to search out Doctor Who's many strange and eccentric relatives and finds bodies in the library...
• 1997 Readers' Survey - The Results!

Comic content Edit

• The Dalek Chronicles - Return of the Elders - Part 5 of 6
• Fire and Brimstone - Part Three

The DWM Archive Edit

By Andrew Pixley

• TV: The Pirate Planet

The Telesnap Archive Edit

Compiled by Matthew Pereira

• TV: The Macra Terror - Episode 3

Interviews / Profiles Edit

• 1666 and all that - Director Peter Moffatt was a mainstay of early eighties Doctor Who. In the first part of a wide-ranging two-part interview he talks to Peter Griffiths about his work on State of Decay, The Visitation and Mawdryn Undead.

Shelf Life Edit

none this issue

Regular features Edit

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

Credits Edit

Editor: Gary Gillatt

Assistant Editor: Alan Barnes

Designer: Michael Yeowell, Gary Gillatt

Additional details Edit

to be added