DWM 555

The 555th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was cover dated October 2020.

	October 2020
	20 August 2020
	75 pages, bound
	Marcus Hearn
	Panini Comics
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Contents

Interviews

• Out of the TARDIS

Derek Jacobi interviewed by Scott Handcock

Articles

• Golden Years

A look at UKTV Gold repeats of Doctor Who during the 1990's and early 2000's.

• Secret Lemonade Drinker

Discussion of the appearance of Tom Baker in his Fourth Doctor costume within a 1978 promotional photoshoot for Country Times lemonade.

• A Near-Death Experience
• Smart to be Square

In-depth look at the 1990 BSB TV repeats of Doctor Who and their culmination in a Galaxy Weekend event - a weekend-long repeat marathon, featuring special studio guests, linking material and interviews.

• Making Waves

The making of the Fury from the Deep animation.

• Controversial Continuity - Companions

A look at the complicated and sometimes contradictory information given in the TV show about certain companions and their lives.

• Controversial Continuity - Silurians
• Controversial Continuity - UNIT Dating
• Controversial Continuity - The Fourth Dimension

Comics

• The Daft Dimension bt Lew Stringer

The Fact of Fiction

• Mummy on the Orient Express

Apocrypha

• Continuity Errors

Reviews

• Blu-ray DVD The Power of the Daleks Special Edition
• Audio: The Sixth Doctor and Peri: Volume One, Out of Time
• Soundtrack: The Massacre

Competitions

• Win The Complete Series Six Blu-ray Steelbook
• Win Lost in Translation Audio Drama
• Win The Flying Dutchman / Displaced Audio Drama
• Win Heritage 4 Audio Drama
• Win Hearts of Darkness Audio Drama

Coming Soon...

• Audio: The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Four

The Blogs of Doom

• The Investigator

Credits

• Editor: Marcus Hearn
• Deputy Editor: Peter Ware
• Art Editor/Designer: Peri Godbold
• Designer: Mike Jones
• Editorial Assistant: Emily Cook

Panini UK Ltd

• Managing Director: 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: Jess Bell

BBC Studios, UK Publishing

• Chair, Editorial Review Boards: Nicholas Brett
• Managing Director, Consumer Products and Licensing: Stephen Davies
• Head of Publishing: Mandy Thwaites
• Compliance Manager: Cameron K McEwan
• UK Publishing Co-ordinator: Eva Abramik

Additional details

• This was the fifth issue to be worked on remotely, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• This was the third consecutive issue to lack a comic story. As announced in DWM 552, the comic strips took a 3-issue break as a result of the aforementioned pandemic.