Doctor Who Magazine 495 was the issue of the magazine cover-dated February 2016.
Contents
Comic strip
- The Dragon Lord Part Two
- Story: Steve Lyons
- Art & Colour: Adrian Salmon
- Letters: Roger Langridge
- Editors: Scott Gray & John Ainsworth
Regular features
The Fact of Fiction
The DWM Review
- Television: The Husbands of River Song
- Audio: Only the Monstrous, Theatre of War, Shield of the Jötunn, The Other Woman, The Black Hole, The Haunting, Torchwood: Fall to Earth
- Talking books: K9 and Company, State of Decay
- Books: The Legends of Ashildr, To Put You in the Picture
- Missing in Action!: The Wheel in Space
- DWM looks back on some of Doctor Who's missing episodes
- Fast-Return Switch!: The Face of Evil
- DWM reviews a classic television story recently repeated on UK television
Competitions
- Win series 9 Blu-ray sets
- Win The Diary of River Song Series One CDs
- Win The Churchill Years: Volume One CDs
- Win State of Decay taking book
- Win To Put You in the Picture memoir
Coming soon
- Audio: The Churchill Years: Volume One, Gardens of the Dead, The Waters of Amsterdam, Torchwood: Uncanny Valley
- Talking book: The Witch Hunters
The Time Team
Galaxy Forum
- DWM readers discuss Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent
Production notes
- Ask Steven Moffat
- The head writer and executive producer answers questions from DWM readers, this time relating to the Twelfth Doctor's confession dial in the television story Heaven Sent
Public Image
A History of Doctor Who in 100 Objects
- The Doctor's guitar
Supporting artist of the month
- The extra pushed into the sand by Bates in Attack of the Cybermen
Special features
- A Song for all time
- The cast and crew of The Diary of River Song Series One discuss the new audio box set
- Cereal Killers!
- DWM explores 1970s artwork featured inside boxes of Weetabix cereal
- Wreaking HAVOC!
- Tribute to actor and fight arranger Derek Ware, who died in 2015
Credits
- Editor: Tom Spilsbury
- Deputy Editor: Peter Ware
- Art Editor: Richard Atkinson
- Editorial Assistant: Emily Cook
- Panini UK Ltd
- Managing Director: Mike Riddell
- Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
- Head of Production: Mark Irvine
- Production Assistant: Jez Meteyard
- Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Rebecca Smith
- Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
- Marketing Executives: Jess Bell, Becci Ireland
- BBC Worldwide, UK Publishing
- Director of Editorial Governance: Nicholas Brett
- Director of Consumer Products and Publishing: Andrew Moultrie
- Head of UK Publishing: Chris Kerwin
- Publisher: Mandy Thwaites
- Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik