DWM 597

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The 597th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was cover dated December 2023.

Dedicated to the 60th anniversary specials, this issue was branded a "souvenir issue" in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.

This issue marked the publication of the fourteenth and final part of the comic story Liberation of the Daleks, which began in issue #584.

Contents[[edit] | [edit source]]

Interviews[[edit] | [edit source]]

Articles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Preview: The Star Beast - Benjamin Cook previews the first of the 2023 specials, based on a DWM comic strip, returning Doctor Who to TV screens and featuring the return of Donna Noble as she teams up with the new Fourteenth Doctor.
  • Preview: Wild Blue Yonder - Emily Cook previews the second special, of which almost everything is being kept under wraps.
  • Preview: The Daleks - Paul Kirkley previews the brand-new colourised and re-edited version of the 1963-64 classic serial that introduced the Daleks to the world.
  • Neil Patrick Harris is the Toymaker - Mark Wright shines a light on the American actor who is stepping into the role of one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes.
  • The DWM 60th Anniversary Poll: Magnificent Heaven - The results are finally in for readers' top ten all-time favourite Doctor Who stories. Breaking down the results, Tom Spilsbury chats to Steven Moffat and receives a special message from Peter Capaldi.
  1. Heaven Sent
  2. World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
  3. Genesis of the Daleks
  4. The Caves of Androzani
  5. The Day of the Doctor
  6. Blink
  7. Human Nature/The Family of Blood
  8. City of Death
  9. Remembrance of the Daleks
  10. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Galaxy Forum[[edit] | [edit source]]

Readers discuss Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, the achievements of Emily Cook, giving Melanie Bush a second chance, and feeling the excitement around the future of the Whoniverse.

Letter from the Showrunner[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a double-length special, Russell T Davies prepares for the return of Doctor Who to TV by discussing some of the "Seismic Shifts" in the show's history and considering how, despite how much may change, how much stays the same over sixty years.

Production Diary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Scott Handcock provides an update on the production of Series 15 and the post-production of the 2023 specials and Series 14 from 16 September to 13 October 2023.

Time and Space Visualiser[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This Month In... 1963

Saturday 23 November: Across a drizzly United Kingdom, the film The World Ten Times Over plays in cinemas starring a certain William Hartnell. Later that evening, a new BBC science fiction series begins with the same star which one newspaper columnist claims "could, on its accepted formula, run indefinitely".

Comic strip[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story: Alan Barnes
Art: Lee Sullivan
Colours: James Offredi
Lettering: Roger Langridge
Editor: Marcus Hearn
Daleks created by Terry Nation

The Fact of Fiction[[edit] | [edit source]]

Reviews[[edit] | [edit source]]

Competitions[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other Worlds[[edit] | [edit source]]

Sufficient Data[[edit] | [edit source]]

Additional information[[edit] | [edit source]]

This issue is accompanied by two double-sided posters: one of artwork from The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Blink, The Day of the Doctor, and World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls, and one of artwork from DWM 596 and the 2023 specials.

Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]

Panini UK Ltd
BBC Studios, UK Publishing

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Page 5 of the magazine incorrectly identifies Kate Herron as the director and executive producer of the entirety of the TV series Loki. In fact, she was not involved with the second season, which had already filmed in the middle of 2022, and aired its season finale worldwide the same day or the day after this issue came out, depending on time zones.