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DWM 602
Price (in GBP):	£7.99
Cover date:	Spring 2024
Release date:	28 March 2024
Format:	84 pages, bound
Editor:	Jason Quinn
Publisher:	Panini Comics
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The 602nd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was cover dated Spring 2024.

This issue featured Ruby Sunday on the cover to commemorate Millie Gibson's standout interview with the magazine. This issue also marked a visual redesign and the changing of some regular features, following a recent previous overhaul in issue 595.

Contents

Interviews

• Sunday Times - Millie Gibson talks to Benjamin Cook in her most in-depth interview yet about being Ruby Sunday and what the future holds for her character.
• McCall to Action - Davina McCall tells Benjamin Cook about how playing herself in Doctor Who twice fits into her thirty-year career in TV.
• Who Crew: Ahead of Schedule - Sophie-May Twose speaks to Simon Guerrier about her life as the assistant to executive producer Joel Collins on Series 14 and 15.
• Flight Engineer - To commemorate the release of The Collection: Season 15, a previously unpublished 2018 interview with model maker Bill Pearson, talking to Jonathan Helm about his work in the 1970s.

Articles

• Into the Unknown! - DWM breaks down the Christmas Day teaser trailer for Series 14 to come up with some "100% unfounded theories" on what might happen in the episodes to come.
• Script to Screen: Stooky Bill and Family - Simon Guerrier talks to the team of producers and designers that created the puppets from The Giggle ^[+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"].
• Gallifrey Rises! - Simon Guerrier reports from the annual Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles to see how popular Doctor Who is becoming Stateside.
• Who's House - Mickey Lewis chats to the cast and crew of Henry House, a new TV comedy series starring Peter Purves and featuring many more Doctor Who stars.
• The Tell-Tale Hartnell - Alan Barnes looks back on an interview given by William Hartnell to the Sunday Post newspaper in 1966, which was historically not exactly supportive of Doctor Who.

Russell T Davies

Starting this issue, Letter from the Showrunner was renamed simply as Russell T Davies. In this instalment, Russell discusses the timey-wimey demands of promoting one series while writing and filming the next to feel like Time Lords.

Galaxy Forum

Readers discuss Ncuti Gatwa making history, Horror of Fang Rock ^[+]Loading...["Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)"] airing at the BFI, the DWM crossword, readers' current picks of the Whoniverse, and keeping childish innocence.

Who & Me

In the first of a new regular series where individual writers get to share the stories of their histories with Doctor Who, Beth Axford explains why the show is special to her.

Time and Space Visualiser

• This Month In... 1966

Saturday 16 April: In commemoration of writer Roger Noel Cook, who passed away on 10 March 2024, The Trodos Tyranny ^[+]Loading...["The Trodos Tyranny (comic story)"] is published in TV Comic, introducing the Dalek-rivalling Trods and beginning a four-year run of comic adventures that would go on to inspire generations of writers.

Comic strip

• Mancopolis ^[+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"], Part Four

Story: Alan Barnes

Art: Lee Sullivan

Colours: James Offredi

Lettering: Roger Langridge

Editor: Marcus Hearn

• The Daft Dimension 602 ^[+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 602 comic story)"] by Lew Stringer

The Fact of Fiction

• The Woman Who Lived ^[+]Loading...["The Woman Who Lived (TV story)"]

Reviews

• Blu-ray: The Collection: Season 15
• Audio: Revolution in Space ^[+]Loading...["Revolution in Space (audio story)"], Victory of the Doctor, Buried Threats, The Children of the Future ^[+]Loading...["The Children of the Future (audio story)"], Born to Die ^[+]Loading...["Born to Die (audio story)"], Planet Doom, Sabotage ^[+]Loading...["Sabotage (audio story)"]

Competitions

• Win The Collection: Season 15 Blu-ray box set
• Win The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"] Blu-ray
• Win Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon (novelisation)"] audiobook
• Win The Dream Team audio drama
• Win The Quin Dilemma audio drama

Other Worlds

• One Morbius Time - Previewing Morbius ^[+]Loading...["Morbius (audio story)"] Part One, the first episode in the new long-running Dark Gallifrey audio series, highlighting rebel Time Lords.
• Galactic Personae: The Kantrofarri - Detailing the so-called Dream Crabs ahead of their return in the latest audio box set in The Fifth Doctor Adventures, The Dream Team.
• In the Green Room with... Cassian Bilton - The actor discusses his guest appearance in The Casebook of Paternoster Row, the second volume of The Paternoster Gang: Trespassers on audio.
• Six of the Best: Time Twisters - Writer Ben Tedds lists his favourite timey-wimey Doctor Who stories following his entry in You Only Die Twice, the latest instalment of The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles on audio.
• Rutanasia - Previewing In Name Only ^[+]Loading...["In Name Only (audio story)"], the fourth and final episode of the Sontarans vs Rutans audio mini-series, starring the War Doctor.
• Game of Jones - Previewing Missing Molly ^[+]Loading...["Missing Molly (audio story)"], the second entry of the so-called "Ianthology" of Torchwood - Monthly Range on audio, written by and starring Ianto Jones actor Gareth David-Lloyd.

Loose Ends

The beginning of a new regular feature showcasing "what really happened before, during and after the Doctors' televised adventures".

• 1: The Sixth Doctor

Words by Jonathan Morris

Illustrations by Roger Langridge

Credits

• Editor: Jason Quinn
• Art Editor: Mike Jones
• Deputy Editor: Richard Atkinson

Panini UK Ltd

• Managing Director: Chris Clover
• Consultant: Mike Riddell
• Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
• Head of Production: Mark Irvine
• Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Rebecca Smith
• Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
• Marketing Executive: Samantha Hammond

BBC Studios, UK Publishing

• Chair, Editorial Review Boards: Nicholas Brett
• Managing Director, Consumer Products and Licensing: Stephen Davies
• Global Director, Magazines: Mandy Thwaites
• Compliance Manager: Cameron McEwan

Notes

The "text light" cover

• For this issue, Doctor Who Magazine exclusively published a "text light" version of the regular purple cover online, with Mike Jones citing algorithms of social media as the reason.