The 52nd issue of Doctor Who Magazine was released in May 1981.
Contents
Articles
- ‘Photo-feature: Monster Gallery IV: Foes of the Third Doctor’
- ‘Cry Havoc - The Stuntmen’
Comic Strip
- Doctor Who: Spider-God
Fiction
- None
Archives
DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits)
EPISODE GUIDE (Listing details including dates, episode endings, credits and dates):
Interviews / Profiles
- Star Profile: Katy Manning (Actress)
- Barry Letts (Producer)
- Photo-file Number 3: Anthony Ainley (Actor)
Previews
- None
Reviews
- Season Review and Season Survey
A4 Pin-ups
- B&W Dalek (DW: Destiny of the Daleks )
Also Featuring
- Gallifrey Guardian
- Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
- Matrix Data Bank (Questions and Answers)
Credits
Editor: Alan McKenzie , Layout: Rahid Khan and Jimmy Ross , Consultant: Jeremy Bentham , Publisher: Stan Lee
Additional details
- Additional Input: Gallifrey Guardian (From DWM 54):
- The Photo-File on Anthony Ainley contains three errors.
- His hair is `dark` not `blond`.
- The part of Tremas was played `in make-up` not `unmade-up`, and
- The part of the Master is played with `little make-up` not `with dyed hair and a beard`.
- Special Jon Pertwee themed issue.
- The year date is not included on the front cover .
- The cover image shows the a Third Doctor publicity shot (introducing the Master) from DW: Terror of the Autons and inset, from DW: The Time Warrior.
- There is no back-up strip this issue (the pages being given over to the Monster Gallery, but readers are assured they haven’t been abandoned.
- The retelling of older stories now comes under the heading ‘The Doctor Who Archives’ but doesn’t yet include extra details.
- Steve Moore leaves as writer of the regular Doctor Who comic strip.
- Price rise from 30 pence to 35 pence.
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