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The 23rd issue of Doctor Who Weekly had a cover date of 19 March 1980. Its cover was the first to primarily feature a Cyberman.
Contents
Articles
- The UNIT File (Part Two of Two)
Comic content
- Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Part Five)
- Writers: Mills + Wagner
- Art: Dave Gibbons
- Editor: Paul Neary
- Ship of Fools (Part One)
- Tales from the TARDIS: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (Part Two)
Archives
- Story Seventeen – The Time Meddler (Part Two of Two) (Synopsis, comment and credits by Jeremy Bentham)
Interviews / Profiles
- Deborah Watling (Photo-file Number 23)
A4 pin-ups
- B&W The Third Doctor from TV: The Green Death
- B&W The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Servo Robot from TV: The Wheel in Space
Additional features
- Crazy Caption Competition (£5 to be won)
- Who Cares! (Letters Page)
Additional details
- Additional Input: Gallifrey Guardian (from DWM 29) RE: Photo-file 23 Deborah Waterfield. The actress's name is Deborah Watling! The companion's name was Waterfield.
- Additional Input: Matrix Data Bank (from DWM 71) The explanation given for the Doctor's referring to the Monk as a "fellow Gallifreyan" some eight years before its chronological occurrence in TV: The Time Warrior is that the "text articles were restructured to try and make them more appealing to young readers".
- Published every Thursday, this issue had a cover price of 12p (UK).
- This was Paul Neary's first issue as Editor.