Doctor Who Bulletin, also known as DWB, dwb or DW Bulletin, was a Doctor Who fanzine first published in July 1983 by Gary Levy (later known as Gary Leigh).
The publication became well known for its often overtly critical attitude towards the series (and then-incumbent producer John Nathan-Turner), particularly in comparison with contemporary issues of either the DWAS newsletter Celestial Toyroom or Marvel Comics’ Doctor Who Monthly—both of which were required to maintain good working relationships with the Doctor Who Production Office and the BBC's thrn commercial wing, BBC Enterprises.
From 1989, in order to help secure wider distribution through specialist science fiction bookshops (and to avoid the opprobrium of the BBC and official licensee Marvel UK, which could have argued dwb had become a commercial but unlicensed Doctor Who magazine), the publication widened its editorial coverage to include other genre films and television shows, such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Red Dwarf and The X-Files. The retitled DreamWatch Bulletin (enabling the retention of the symmetrical dwb logo) continued until 1994, when the publication was relaunched (with numbering reverting to issue 1) as the nationally-distributed Dreamwatch magazine.
Dreamwatch was subsequently purchased by Titan Magazines in 2001, becoming the company’s only non-licensed property title, in competition against Visual Imagination's Starburst (acquired 1985, launched 1978) and Future's SFX (launched in 1995). Despite reasonable sales, the publisher eventually opted to fold the print version of Dreamwatch after its 150th edition, published in 2007. Its online successor Total Sci-Fi was regularly updated until 2011.
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