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'''''Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition''''' is an occasional publication of [[Panini]].  As of [[May]] [[2009]], each issue has offered a detailed view of some aspect of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.  Though each issue is in fact numbered, most people refer to particular issues by their topic, rather than the number.  In choosing to emphasize the content of the individual issue over its place in a larger series, it is occasionally forgotten that ''Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition'' is the actual title, rather than a descriptive phrase.  
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==Overview==
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Unlike the seasonal [[Doctor Who Magazine (special issues)|Marvel special issues]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Panini's ''Special Edition'' is a standalone magazine in its own right.  Importantly, it is no way a subscriber bonus, as was the original intent of the Marvel seasonals.
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|release date = [[January (releases)|January]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]] - present
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'''''Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition''''' is an occasional publication of [[Panini Comics]]. Since [[January (releases)|January]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]], each issue has offered a detailed view of some aspect of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.


There is also little commonality of format between ''Special Edition''  and either ''DWM'' or Marvel's seasonal issues.  Each issue of ''Special Edition'' has invariably offered a retrospective view of the programme. Whether reprinting the comic exploits of the [[Ninth Doctor]] or exploring the production of the [[First Doctor|First]], all issues of ''Special Edition'' deal with a topic that is firmly in the past.  This can be easily contrasted with the general practice of the Marvel seasonals.  Though there were a few that offered nothing but reprints of past comic strips, the vast majority presented new fiction interspersed amongst non-fiction articles.  In other words, most of the seasonals looked very much like regular issues of ''DWM''.  
Though each issue is in fact numbered, most people refer to particular issues by their topic, rather than the number. In choosing to emphasise the content of the individual issue over its place in a larger series, it is occasionally forgotten that ''Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition'' is the actual title, rather than a descriptive phrase.


==Types==
== Overview ==
As of [[May]] [[2009]], ''Special Edition''s have taken four main forms:
Unlike the seasonal [[Doctor Who Magazine (special issues)|Marvel special issues]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Panini's ''Special Edition'' is a standalone magazine in its own right. Importantly, it is no way a subscriber bonus, as was the original intent of the Marvel seasonals.
*Early issues explored a single Doctor's "era" in great detail.  These included analyses of non-television appearances by that Doctor and essays by writers — among them such prominent names as [[Paul Cornell]], [[Gareth Roberts]] and [[Robert Shearman]] — giving personal critique's of individual stories by that Doctor.  This "series" was abandoned after the announcement of the [[BBC Wales]] version of ''Doctor Who'' entered production.   
*After the new series began, it became usual to offer an issue of this magazine as a "companion" to the recently-finished series.  This then looked back on the production of the series, becoming a kind of "behind-the-scenes annual". 
*At roughly the same time, the magazine's editors began a campaign to tell the programme's history chronologically.  They thus begain the ''In Their Own Words'' series.  This series collected excerpts from interviews with ''[[Doctor Who]]'' cast and crew and presented them in chronological order.
*Finally, the series allowed a reprint venue for the comic exploits of the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]s.


==List==
There is also little commonality of format between ''Special Edition'' and either ''DWM'' or Marvel's seasonal issues. Each issue of ''Special Edition'' has invariably offered a retrospective view of the programme. Whether reprinting the comic exploits of the [[Ninth Doctor]] or exploring the production of the [[First Doctor]], all issues of ''Special Edition'' deal with a topic that is firmly in the past. This can be easily contrasted with the general practice of the Marvel seasonals. Though there were a few that offered nothing but reprints of past comic strips, the vast majority presented new fiction interspersed amongst non-fiction articles. In other words, most of the seasonals looked very much like regular issues of ''DWM''.
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Image:36_DWM_SE1_5th.jpg|[[DWMS SE1 Fifth Doctor|Special Edition 1<br>Fifth Doctor]]
== Types ==
Image:37_DWM_SE2_3rd.jpg|[[DWMS SE2 Third Doctor|Special Edition 2<br>Third Doctor]]  
Since [[January (production)|January]] [[2002 (production)|2002]], ''Special Edition''s have taken five main forms:
Image:38_DWM_SE3_6th.jpg|[[DWMS SE3 Sixth Doctor|Special Edition 3<br>Sixth Doctor]]
* Early issues explored a single Doctor's "era" in great detail. These included essays by writers — among them such prominent names as [[Paul Cornell]], [[Gareth Roberts]] and [[Robert Shearman]] — giving personal critiques of individual stories from that Doctor's era, and also analysis of non-television appearances by that Doctor. This "series" was completed with the release of the issue covering the [[Seventh Doctor]] in [[February (releases)|February]] [[2005 (releases)|2005]].
Image:39_DWM_SE4_2nd.jpg|[[DWMS SE4 Second Doctor|Special Edition 4<br>Second Doctor]]
* Since the new series began, each year one or more issues of this magazine have been produced as a "companion" to a recently-finished series, looking back on the production of each episode, in much the same manner as the earlier archives features for the "classic" series. Similar specials have also covered the production of the spin-off ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', but not, to date, ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'', as production of that series (or, at least the first three seasons) was covered by ''[[Torchwood Magazine]]''.
Image:41_DWM_SE5_8th.jpg|[[DWMS SE5 Eighth Doctor|Special Edition 5<br>Eighth Doctor]]
* At roughly the same time, the magazine's editors began a campaign to tell the programme's history chronologically. They thus began the ''In Their Own Words'' series. This series collected excerpts from interviews with ''[[Doctor Who]]'' cast and crew and presented them in chronological order.
Image:42_DWM_SE6_40th.jpg|[[DWMS SE6 40th Anniversary|Special Edition 6<br>40th Anniversary]]
* Once, the series allowed a reprint venue for the comic exploits of the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]s.
Image:42_DWM_SE6_40thb.jpg|[[DWMS SE6 40th Anniversary (Unused Cover)|Special Edition 6<br>40th Anniversary<br> (Unused Cover)]]
* Some issues have collected [[Telesnap]]s from missing episodes from the [[William Hartnell]] and [[Patrick Troughton]] eras.
Image:40_DWM_SE7_1st.jpg|[[DWMS SE7 First Doctor|Special Edition 7<br>First Doctor]]
 
Image:43_DWM_SE8_4tha.jpg|[[DWMS SE8 Fourth Doctor (Volume One)|Special Edition 8<br>Fourth Doctor<br>(Volume One)]]
== Issues ==
Image:44_DWM_SE9_4thb.jpg|[[DWMS SE9 Fourth Doctor (Volume Two)|Special Edition 9<br>Fourth Doctor<br>(Volume Two)]]
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Image:45_DWM_SE10_7th.jpg|[[DWMS SE10 Seventh Doctor|Special Edition 10<br>Seventh Doctor]]
 
Image:46_DWM_SE11_Season_1_Companion.jpg|[[DWMS SE11 Series One Companion|Special Edition 11<br>Series One Companion]]
Fifth Doctor DW Magazine.jpg|[[DWMSE 1|Special Edition 1<br>Fifth Doctor]]
Image:47_DWM_SE12_In_Their_Own_Words_Vol_1_1963_to_1969.jpg|[[DWMS SE12 In their Own Words 1963-66|Special Edition 12<br>In their Own Words<br>1963-66]]
DWMSE2.jpg|[[DWMSE 2|Special Edition 2<br>Third Doctor]]
Image:48_DWM_SE13_Collected_Comics.jpg|[[DWMS SE13 The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics|Special Edition 13<br>The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics]]
DWMSE3.jpg|[[DWMSE 3|Special Edition 3<br>Sixth Doctor]]
Image:49_DWM_SE14_Season_2_Companion.jpg|[[DWMS SE14 Series Two Companion|Special Edition 14<br>Series Two Companion]]
DWMSE4.jpg|[[DWMSE 4|Special Edition 4<br>Second Doctor]]
Image:50_DWM_SE15_In_Their_Own_Words_Vol_2_1970_to_1976.jpg|[[DWMS SE15 In their Own Words 1970-76|Special Edition 15<br>In their Own Words<br>1970-76]]
DWMSE5.jpg|[[DWMSE 5|Special Edition 5<br>Eighth Doctor]]
Image:51_DWM_SE16_In_Their_Own_Words_Vol_3_1977_to_1981.jpg|[[DWMS SE16 In their Own Words 1977-81|Special Edition 16<br>In their Own Words<br>1977-81]]
DWMSE6.jpg|[[DWMSE 6|Special Edition 6<br>40th Anniversary]]
Image:52_DWM_SE17_Season_3_Companion.jpg|[[DWMS SE17 Series Three Companion|Special Edition 17<br>Series Three Companion]]
DWMSE7.jpg|[[DWMSE 7|Special Edition 7<br>First Doctor]]
Image:53_DWM_SE18_In_Their_Own_Words_Vol_4_1982_to_1986.jpg|[[DWMS SE18 In their Own Words 1982-86|Special Edition 18<br>In their Own Words<br>1982-86]]
43 DWM SE8 4tha.jpg|[[DWMSE 8|Special Edition 8<br>Fourth Doctor<br>(Volume One)]]
Image:54_DWM_SE19_The_Tenth_Doctor_Collected_Comics.jpg|[[DWMS SE19 The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics|Special Edition 19<br>The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics]]
44 DWM SE9 4thb.jpg|[[DWMSE 9|Special Edition 9<br>Fourth Doctor<br>(Volume Two)]]
Image:55_DWM_SE20_Series_Four_Companion.jpg|[[DWMS SE20 Series Four Companion|Special Edition 20<br>Series Four Companion]]
45 DWM SE10 7th.jpg|[[DWMSE 10|Special Edition 10<br>Seventh Doctor]]
Image:56_DWM_SE21_In_Their_Own_Words_Vol 5_1987_to_1996.jpg.jpg|[[DWMS SE21 In their Own Words 1987-96|Special Edition 21<br>In their Own Words<br>1987-96]]
46 DWM SE11 Season 1 Companion.jpg|[[DWMSE 11|Special Edition 11<br>Series One Companion]]
Image:57_DWM_SE22_200_Golden Moments.jpg|[[DWMS SE21 200 Golden Moments|Special Edition 22<br />200 Golden Moments]]
47 DWM SE12 In Their Own Words Vol 1 1963 to 1969.jpg|[[DWMSE 12|Special Edition 12<br>In their Own Words<br>1963-69]]
48 DWM SE13 Collected Comics.jpg|[[DWMSE 13|Special Edition 13<br>The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics]]
49 DWM SE14 Season 2 Companion.jpg|[[DWMSE 14|Special Edition 14<br>Series Two Companion]]
50 DWM SE15 In Their Own Words Vol 2 1970 to 1976.jpg|[[DWMSE 15|Special Edition 15<br>In their Own Words<br>1970-76]]
51 DWM SE16 In Their Own Words Vol 3 1977 to 1981.jpg|[[DWMSE 16|Special Edition 16<br>In their Own Words<br>1977-81]]
52 DWM SE17 Season 3 Companion.jpg|[[DWMSE 17|Special Edition 17<br>Series Three Companion]]
53 DWM SE18 In Their Own Words Vol 4 1982 to 1986.jpg|[[DWMSE 18|Special Edition 18<br>In their Own Words<br>1982-86]]
54 DWM SE19 The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics.jpg|[[DWMSE 19|Special Edition 19<br>The Tenth Doctor Collected Comics]]
55 DWM SE20 Series Four Companion.jpg|[[DWMSE 20|Special Edition 20<br>Series Four Companion]]
56 DWM SE21 In Their Own Words Vol 5 1987 to 1996.jpg.jpg|[[DWMSE 21|Special Edition 21<br>In their Own Words<br>1987-96]]
57 DWM SE22 200 Golden Moments.jpg|[[DWMSE 22|Special Edition 22<br>200 Golden Moments]]
58 DWM SE23 Sarah Jane Smith.jpg|[[DWMSE 23|Special Edition 23<br>Sarah Jane Smith]]
59 DWM SE In Your Own Worlds 6.jpg|[[DWMSE 24|Special Edition 24<br>In Their Own Words<br>1997-2009]]
60 DWM SE25 The Specials Companion.jpg|[[DWMSE 25|Special Edition 25<br>The Specials Companion]]
DWMSE26.jpg|[[DWMSE 26|Special Edition 26<br>Series Five Companion:<br>Volume One]]
DWMSE27.jpg|[[DWMSE 27|Special Edition 27<br>Series Five Companion:<br>Volume Two]]
DWMSE28.jpg|[[DWMSE 28|Special Edition 28<br>Sarah Jane Companion:<br>Volume Two]]
DWMSE29.jpg|[[DWMSE 29|Special Edition 29 <br>The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:<br>Volume Three]]
DWMSE 30.jpg|[[DWMSE 30|Special Edition 30 <br>The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:<br>Volume Four]]
DWMSE 31.jpg|[[DWMSE 31|Special Edition 31 <br>The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:<br>Volume Five]]
DWM SE 32.jpg|[[DWMSE 32|Special Edition 32<br>Sarah Jane Companion:<br>Volume Three]]
DWM SE 33 The Eleventh Doctor Companion 6.jpg|[[DWMSE 33|Special Edition 33 <br>The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor:<br>Volume Six]]
DWM SE 34 The Missing Episodes The First Doctor.jpg|[[DWMSE 34|Special Edition 34 <br>The Missing Episodes The First Doctor]]
DWM SE 35 Missing Episodes The Second Doctor Volume One.jpg|[[DWMSE 35|Special Edition 35 <br>The Missing Episodes The Second Doctor:<br>Volume One]]
DWM SE 36 Missing Episodes The Second Doctor Volume Two .jpg|[[DWMSE 36|Special Edition 36 <br>The Missing Episodes The Second Doctor:<br>Volume Two]]
DWM SE 35 The Official Guide to the 2013 Series .jpg|[[DWMSE 37|Special Edition 37<br>The Official Guide to the 2013 Series]]
DWM SE 38 Year of the Doctor.jpg|[[DWMSE 38|Special Edition 38<br>The Year of the Doctor<br>The Official Guide to Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary]]
DWMSE 39 2015 Yearbook.jpg|[[DWMSE 39|Special Edition 39<br>The 2015 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 40.jpg|[[DWMSE 40|Special Edition 40<br>The Art of Doctor Who]]
DWMSE 41.jpg|[[DWMSE 41|Special Edition 41<br>The Music of Doctor Who]]
DWMSE 42 2016 Yearbook.jpg|[[DWMSE 42|Special Edition 42<br>The 2016 Yearbook]]
DWMSE43.jpg|[[DWMSE 43|Special Edition 43<br>Special Effects]]
DWMSE 44.jpg|[[DWMSE 44|Special Edition 44<br>On Location]]
DWMSE 45 2017 Yearbook.jpg|[[DWMSE 45|Special Edition 45<br>The 2017 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 46 Toys.jpg|[[DWMSE 46|Special Edition 46<br>Toys & Games]]
DWMSE 47 Referencing.jpg|[[DWMSE 47|Special Edition 47<br>Referencing the Doctor]]
DWMSE 48.jpg|[[DWMSE 48|Special Edition 48<br>The 2018 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 49.jpg|[[DWMSE 49|Special Edition 49<br>In the Studio]]
DWMSE 50.jpg|[[DWMSE 50|Special Edition 50<br>The World of Doctor Who]]
DWMSE 51.jpg|[[DWMSE 51|Special Edition 51<br>The 2019 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 52.jpg|[[DWMSE 52|Special Edition 52<br>Costume Design]]
DWMSE 53.jpg|[[DWMSE 53|Special Edition 53<br>Target Books]]
DWMSE 54.jpg|[[DWMSE 54|Special Edition 54<br>The 2020 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 55.jpg|[[DWMSE 55|Special Edition 55<br>Production Design]]
DWMSE 56.jpg|[[DWMSE 56|Special Edition 56<br>The 2021 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 57.jpg|[[DWMSE 57|Special Edition 57<br>Writing Doctor Who]]
DWMSE 58.jpg|[[DWMSE 58|Special Edition 58<br>Directing Doctor Who]]
DWMSE 59.jpg|[[DWMSE 59|Special Edition 59<br>The 2022 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 60.jpg|[[DWMSE 60|Special Edition 60<br>Action Figures: The Essential Guide 1963-1996]]
DWMSE 61.jpg|[[DWMSE 61|Special Edition 61<br>Guest Stars]]
DWMSE 62.jpg|[[DWMSE 62|Special Edition 62<br>The 2023 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 63.jpg|[[DWMSE 63|Special Edition 63<br>Showrunners]]
DWMSE 64.jpg|[[DWMSE 64|Special Edition 64<br>Action Figures: The Essential Guide 2005-2023]]
DWMSE 65.jpg|[[DWMSE 65|Special Edition 65<br>The 2024 Yearbook]]
DWMSE 66.jpg|[[DWMSE 66|Special Edition 66<br>50 Years of the Fourth Doctor]]
DWMSE 67.jpg|[[DWMSE 67|Special Edition 67<br>The Missing Doctor Who]]
</gallery>
</gallery>
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== External links ==
{{official website|doctorwhomagazine.com/specials/}}
 
{{DWMSE issues}}
{{Doctor Who Magazine}}
{{DWM issues}}
 
[[Category:Real world lists]]
[[Category:Doctor Who Magazine]]
[[Category:DWM by year]]

Latest revision as of 17:13, 1 August 2024

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Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is an occasional publication of Panini Comics. Since January 2002, each issue has offered a detailed view of some aspect of Doctor Who.

Though each issue is in fact numbered, most people refer to particular issues by their topic, rather than the number. In choosing to emphasise the content of the individual issue over its place in a larger series, it is occasionally forgotten that Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition is the actual title, rather than a descriptive phrase.

Overview[[edit] | [edit source]]

Unlike the seasonal Marvel special issues of Doctor Who Magazine, Panini's Special Edition is a standalone magazine in its own right. Importantly, it is no way a subscriber bonus, as was the original intent of the Marvel seasonals.

There is also little commonality of format between Special Edition and either DWM or Marvel's seasonal issues. Each issue of Special Edition has invariably offered a retrospective view of the programme. Whether reprinting the comic exploits of the Ninth Doctor or exploring the production of the First Doctor, all issues of Special Edition deal with a topic that is firmly in the past. This can be easily contrasted with the general practice of the Marvel seasonals. Though there were a few that offered nothing but reprints of past comic strips, the vast majority presented new fiction interspersed amongst non-fiction articles. In other words, most of the seasonals looked very much like regular issues of DWM.

Types[[edit] | [edit source]]

Since January 2002, Special Editions have taken five main forms:

  • Early issues explored a single Doctor's "era" in great detail. These included essays by writers — among them such prominent names as Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts and Robert Shearman — giving personal critiques of individual stories from that Doctor's era, and also analysis of non-television appearances by that Doctor. This "series" was completed with the release of the issue covering the Seventh Doctor in February 2005.
  • Since the new series began, each year one or more issues of this magazine have been produced as a "companion" to a recently-finished series, looking back on the production of each episode, in much the same manner as the earlier archives features for the "classic" series. Similar specials have also covered the production of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, but not, to date, Torchwood, as production of that series (or, at least the first three seasons) was covered by Torchwood Magazine.
  • At roughly the same time, the magazine's editors began a campaign to tell the programme's history chronologically. They thus began the In Their Own Words series. This series collected excerpts from interviews with Doctor Who cast and crew and presented them in chronological order.
  • Once, the series allowed a reprint venue for the comic exploits of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors.
  • Some issues have collected Telesnaps from missing episodes from the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras.

Issues[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]