Celestial Toyroom (fanzine)

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Celestial Toyroom is a monthly Doctor Who fanzine published by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, and named after the toyroom seen in The Celestial Toymaker. In its earlier years, the fanzine had been known as The Celestial Toyroom. The DWAS called it the longest-running Doctor Who fanzine in the world, having published it continuously since 1976.

History

  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s


To be added.

Notable contributors

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Attached honorary presidents

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  • Colin Baker (Issues 527, 528,

Issues

# Date Released Cover Contents Other Notes
CT 527 TBA TBA
  • Editorial: Celestial Yesterdays (Paul Winter)
  • Evolution of the Doctor - Episode 3 (Michael Asher)
  • Cooking In Shockeye's Kitchen (Steve Hardy)
  • The Capitol Five Previewed (Tony Jordan)
  • Tranquil Repost - The Tapezine. (Patrick White)
  • Pharos Project (Kevin Gardner)
  • Vworp Vworp! (Gareth Kavanagh)
  • Doctor Who Fanzines: Tides of Time (James Ashworth)
  • Meeting Chris Achilleos (Hayden Gribble)
Edited by Paul Winter. Layout by Nicholas Hollands. Publications Manager: Rik Moran. Cover: Chris Achilleos (front, used posthumously with permission of Tasha Achilleos) & Kevin Mullen (back)

Also contained a memorial to previous CT contributor Simon Wellings.

Contributors to The Screaming Jungle letters page: Ollie Hardaker, Brenda Vieths Sherrod, Paul Carrington, Andrew G. Dick, Alan Hayes, River Rosenberg, Andrew Ford, Clive Robert Bell, Kate Green, Ludo Ludo, Stuart Smith, Andrew Kennedy, Brandon Hulcoop, David Knight, Richard Long, Carriad Eager-Hobden, Marc Thorpe, Richard Wright, Dominic Smith.

CT 528 TBA TBA
  • Editorial: Celestial Yesterdays (Stephen Hatcher)
  • A Family Snapshot (Jez Strickley)
  • Driving Miss Sladen (Stephen Hatcher)
  • Five Faces (Martin A. W. Holmes)
  • Going Back Into Combat (Alan Darlington)
  • Introducing Declan, A Talented Young Artist (his dad, Robert Scott)
  • I Could Write A Better Story Than That (Paul Burns)
  • It's Timelash... Whether You Like It Or Not! (Gavin Skerry)
  • Grimwade Was A Tinker, When It Came To Tailoring Doctor Who (Huw Turbervill)
  • Master Mind (Jackie Green)
  • Monstrous Motives: Lady Adrasta - Metal Monopolist (Jez Strickley)
  • Book Review The Who Adventures By David J. Howe (Chris McAuley)
Edited by Stephen Hatcher. Layout by Nicholas Hollands. Publications Manager: Rik Moran. Cover: Andrew-Mark Thompson (front) & Declan Scott (back)

The article about Lady Adrasta ends with a dedication in memory of Myra Frances, who played the part. Also contained two pages of mockup Weetabix-style foldees, by Andrew-Mark Thompson, called Weetaflux.

Contributor to The Screaming Jungle letters page: Roland Moore

CT 529 TBA TBA TBA TBA
CT 530 TBA TBA
  • Editorial: A Time Traveller's (Eco) Footprint (Jez Strickley)
  • From The Death Zone (Paul Winter)
  • Trading Cards From Rittenhouse! (Rik Moran)
  • Building Back Better Revisiting Malcolm Hulke's Invasion Of The Dinosaurs (Ian Scales)
  • Cool Things Four To Doomsday (Fiona Moore and Alan Stevens)
  • Metaphors On The Moon, Or Foreshadowing Climate Change (Michael S. Collins)
  • Monstrous Motives: Forester and Robertson: Ecocidal Villains (Jez Strickley)
  • The New Doctor Announcement... Or Lack Of... (Rik Moran)
  • "Sand Gets Into The Machinery": Doctor Who, Dune, And Alien Ecology (Hamish Crawford)
  • The Hidden Factor (Alan Stevens)
  • "The Sound Of This Planet Screaming Out Its Rage!" (Nick Mellish)
Edited by Jez Strickley. Layout by Nicholas Hollands. Publications Manager: Rik Moran. Cover: Andy Lambert (wraparound, photo enhancements by Colin Brockhurst and Clayton Hickman)

Contributors to The Screaming Jungle letters page: Michael Crouch., Mary Roraff, Keith Tudor, Derek Martz, Brendan Sheppard, Scott Wilson, Legeon Henderson, Scott William Palmer, Richard Unwin, Tori Swain, Saffron Lisa Coulthard, Chris Beer, Nik Hewett, James Jeans

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