DWM 181

DWM 181
Cover date:	25 December 1991
Format:	52pp stapled
Editor:	John Freeman
Publisher:	Marvel Comics UK
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The 181st issue of Doctor Who Magazine was published 28 November 1991 and remained current through 25 December 1991. Despite its Christmas Day cover date, it was not a holiday-themed issue. Instead, most of its articles centred around the Pertwee era.

Contents

Articles

• All Conventions Great and Small - Behind the scenes at Panoptican '91 and Exo-Space 2
• The Pertwee Years by Stephen James Walker
• On Set: The Moonbase by Marcus Hearn and John Ainsworth
• Will the real UNIT... Kevan Loosely (a member of the armed forces), assesses UNIT as a military force and finds it severely wanting in discipline - and haircuts!
• Behind the scenes: The Doctor Who Comic Strip - Paul Travers takes advantage of the delayed comic strip Evening's Empire, to review recent strips and find out just how the stories are put together...

Comic stories

• The Fires Down Below (Reprinted from DWM 64)
• The Dalek Chronicles - Issue 2
• Comic Assassins: 7 The Two Nits from UNIT by Kev F. Sutherland

Fiction

• Heliotrope Bouquet - Part 1 by Dan Abnett
• Brief Encounter - Echoes of Future Past by John Summerfield

Interviews / Profiles

• Role Models: John Woodnutt - Earthbound, Colour, A New Doctor...Spearhead from Space marked a number of milestones in the history of Doctor Who. Liam Rudden spoke to actor John Woodnutt about his memories of that, and his three subsequent stories.
• Talking to Tom Baker: Part Three - In the final part of a three part interview, Tom Baker reflects as the Doctor, on his (then) present work and the fate of the programme itself...

Archive Feature

• Archive Feature: TV: Spearhead from Space with Factfile: by Andrew Pixley.

Off the Shelf

Gary Russell takes stock of a bundle of new Doctor Who books, released just in time to fill your stockings for Christmas...

• BOOK: REF: The Terrestrial Index
• BOOK: PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation
• VIDEO:BBV: Summoned by Shadows
• VIDEO: Blake's 7 - The Keeper / Star One and Aftermath / Powerplay

Page Pin-ups

• Tractator in the TARDIS from Frontios

Also featuring

• Gallifrey Guardian (News)
• Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
• Beyond the TARDIS (Who is doing what by Dominic May)
• 'Doctor Who?' by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett (comic strip)
• 'Who in Review' (Who event coverage)
• You on Who (Letters)
• 'Nix's View' by Nick Miller (cartoon)
• Data Coils (now incorporating personal and club events listing)

Credits

Senior Editor: John Freeman

Star Trek Infiltrator: Harry Papdopoulos

Copy Control: Sophie Health

Design Slave: Peri Godbold

Co-ordinating Overlord: Louise Cassell

Promotion: Jane Sumner

Production: Mark Irvine

Advertising: Jane Smale

Adviser: John Nathan-Turner

Editorial Director: Paul Neary

Managing Director: Vincent Conran

Excelsior: Stan Lee

Additional details

• This issue had a free fold out poster stapled to the centre that featured artwork by Alister Pearson, of the seven Doctors that was used for the cover of issue 174. The original caption used on the poster credited the quote to Survival Part Four but this was spotted at a convention (that there was no 'Part Four'), and was simply left as being credited to the story at the end.
• With the second installment of the comic story Evening's Empire having gone missing in the post, the space this issue is filled with the reprinting of a back-up comic story from DWM 64.
• This issues coverfeatures artwork from [Lee Sullivan]] (Dalek-Cybermen War) and was priced £2.25 (UK)
• On the copyright page of the magazine (usually page 3), is a box of very small text, the end of this text reads “In the basement of Coal Hill School, the Dalek considered the meaning of life, then shot it through the head at point blank range.”