DWM 403
Title
David Morrissey Is The Next Doctor!
- Stand by for the one, the only... and the best! The new Christmas special previewed - inside!
Contents
Special Christmas Features
- 2008 Season Survey Results - It's time to announce the winners at last! What were your favourites from the last series of Doctor Who? Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present the DWM Awards...
- Results compiled by Peter Griffiths
- 2008 Review of the Year - Jason Arnopp looks back at the year when Donna Noble boarded the TARDIS full-time, Davros guest starred at the proms and Doctor Who became even more popular than it is already. Impossible you say? Well have a read of this...
- Special Christmas Toy Reviews (see The DWM Review)
- Space-time Telegraph
- Compiled by Sorvad
- Christmas Quiz
Articles
- Who's Next? - If you've bought this DWM promptly, there's only two weeks to go until The Next Doctor! To get us exited, the Special's guest star David Morrissey tells David Bailey why he was so thrilled to play the Doctor's next incarnation...
The Time Team
- Four Fans, one mission: to watch all 751 episodes of Doctor Who. In order. From the start.
- Delta and the Bannermen (episodes 658-661)
- Compiled by Michael Pritchard
- Illustration by Adrian Salmon
Comic Strip
- The Stockbridge Child - Part One
- Story: Dan McDaid
- Pencil Art: Mike Collins
- Inks: David A. Roach
- Colours: James Offredi
- Letters: Roger Langridge
- Editors: Tom Spilsbury and Scott Gray
The Fact of Fiction
- What are the Cybermen doing on a parallel Earth? David Bailey finds out... from beyond the grave!
The DWM Review
- All the latest Doctor Who DVDs, books and CDs reviewed...
- Reviewers: Vanessa Bishop, Gary Gillatt and Matt Michael
Regular Reviews
DVDs Reviewed
- Doctor Who Series 4 DVD box set (Pick of the Month)
- Illustration by Ben Willsher
Books Reviewed
Audios Reviewed
- BFA: Companion Chronicles: Home Truths
- BFA: Doctor Who The Stageplays: The Curse of the Daleks (audio release)
- BFA: Brotherhood of the Daleks
Special Christmas Toy Reviews
- Plush Adipose
- Exterminate Buzz Wire Game
- Action Figure Toy Range (The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Doctors, Adipose, High Priestess, Ood, Sontaranss, Zygon, Daleks, Robots of Death)
- Remote Control Supreme Dalek and Davros and The Stolen Earth Gift Set (remote control Supreme Dalek, Davros, Daleks)
- Micro Universe Figures (The Tenth Doctor, Ood, TARDIS, Chula Ship, SS Madame De Pompadour)
Previews
TV Previews
DVD Previews
- David Darlington tells us what to expect from the DVD of this 1989 story featuring the Seventh Doctor...
Book Previews
- David Darlington chats to the authors of the latest BBC novels...
- TDA: Beautiful Chaos
- TDA: The Eyeless
- TDA: The Story of Martha
Audio Previews
- The Sixth Doctor meets an old friend in his latest adventure on audio... David Darlington investigates.
- Illustration by Rob Davis
Issue Previews
You Are Not Alone
- The Pip Torrens Factor
- Neil Harris curls up on the sofa to play a festive game...
Regular Features
- Letter from the Editor
- Production Notes - Showrunner Russell T Davies wtites exclusively for DWM - and presents his annual Twelve Days of Christmas!
- Illustration by Ben Morris
- Gallifrey Guardian - All the latest news from every corner of the Doctor Who universe...
- Who On Earth Is... - Russell Tovey - He's been tipped as the Eleventh Doctor! Will the real next Doctor please stand up?
- Galaxy Forum
- Letters
- And You Texted Us To Say...
- Doctor Whoah - by Baxter
- On This Month 15 years ago - Tom Spilsbury fishes out his copy of DWM 208, from December 1993
Competitions
- Books! CDs! DVDs! And a replica Santa Mask! They could be yours just by answering a few simple questions
- Win Robot Santa mask and Roboform head!
- Win The Sarah Jane Adventures CDs! (The Time Capsule, The Ghost House)
- Win Battlefield on DVD!
- Win Short Trips: Christmas Around the World!
- Win Doctor Who: Space Travels
Credited Credits
- Editor - Tom Spilsbury
- Assistant Editor - Peter Ware
- Designers - Peri Godbold, Michael Yeowell, Caroline Dunk
- Head of Production - Mark Irvine
- Managing Editor - Alan O'Keefe
- Managing Director - Mike Riddell
