DWM 612

The 612th issue of Doctor Who Magazine was cover dated January 2025.

This issue was dedicated to the Second Doctor story The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"] and its recently colourised edition broadcast in December 2024.

Contents

Interviews

• War Hero - Actor Rudolph Walker talks to Alex Moore about his early appearance in The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"] before his fame took off elsewhere.
• Calling Time on the Doctor - Steven Moffat tells Tom Spilsbury about the writing and creation of Joy to the World ^[+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"], and why it might be his final Doctor Who episode.

Articles

• Regenerated! - DWM talks to executive producer Phil Collinson, colourisation artist Rich Tipple, and editor Benjamin Cook about the creation of The War Games in Colour ^[+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"], including its new model shots, effects, music, and the brand-new regeneration.
• Model of Supremacy - Mark Wright speaks to the team from Hachette Partworks behind the new official magazine and collection, The Dalek, which allows fans to build their own half-scale Bronze Dalek.
• Script to Screen: Baby Station Beta - Simon Guerrier talks to the team of producers and designers that created the space station from Space Babies ^[+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"].
• From Here to Eternity - Alex Hewitt speaks to actor Lisa Bowerman and producers James Goss and Gary Russell about the life and times of Bernice Summerfield, the Virgin New Adventures companion who has had a life of her own with Big Finish Productions for over 25 years.
• Doomsday Scenario - The second and final part of Robbie Dunlop's analysis of Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday (stage play)"] on its 50th anniversary, meeting companion Jimmy Forbes actor James Matthews.
• The DWM Christmas Quiz: The Answers

Russell T Davies

The showrunner tells a story of remembering director Pennant Roberts at the Women in Film and TV Awards when presenting an award to his friend and TV producer Frith Taplady, and all the advice Roberts gave that still lives on.

Galaxy Forum

DWM readers discuss The War Games in Colour ^[+]Loading...["The War Games in Colour (TV story)"], neurodivergent representation, celebrating Doctor Who Day, and many other goings-on in the Who fandom.

Memory Worm

David Richardson tests Chang Lee actor Yee Jee Tso on how much he can remember of his history with Doctor Who.

Time and Space Visualiser

• This Month In... 1986

Thursday 23 January: Amid very public scrutiny of Doctor Who's fortunes courtesy of Michael Grade, Bonnie Langford is announced as Melanie Bush, generating much press coverage.

Fantrap!

• Ringing in the new! - Alison Zrada rewatches the Doctor Who New Year Specials of years gone by in search of any life advice for a new beginning they could offer.

Comic strip

• The Monster Makers ^[+]Loading...["The Monster Makers (comic story)"], Part Five

Story: Alan Barnes

Art: Mike Collins

Colours: James Offredi

Lettering: Roger Langridge

Editor: Marcus Hearn

• The Daft Dimension 612 ^[+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 612 comic story)"] by Lew Stringer

The Fact of Fiction

The Dominators ^[+]Loading...["The Dominators (TV story)"], Episodes 1 and 2

Shelf Life

Audio

• The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Eternity Club 1-4
• The Seventh Doctor Adventures: The Doctor and Carnacki
• Beyond the Doctor: Harry Sullivan's War ^[+]Loading...["Harry Sullivan's War (novel)"]
• The War Master: Future Phantoms

Action figure

• History of the Daleks #19
• Friend & Foes of the Doctor

Soundtrack

• The Daleks in Colour ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks in Colour (TV story)"]

Competitions

• Win Blu-ray prize bundle (The Daleks in Colour ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks in Colour (TV story)"], The Celestial Toymaker ^[+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], The Collection: Season 2, 8, 17, 22 & 26)
• Win Dalek mega-prize bundle (Skaro City Dalek and Bronze Dalek models, The Daleks Parliament Set and Dalek Gunship action figures)
• Win Infiltration audio drama
• Win Faithful Friends audio drama
• Win Most Wanted audio drama
• Win House of Plastic ^[+]Loading...["House of Plastic (audio story)"] audiobook

Other Worlds

• Unsilent Running - Previewing Most Wanted, the first ever box set of The Fugitive Doctor series on audio, beginning a set of solo adventures for the Doctor's most mysterious incarnation.
• Galactic Personae: The Zygons - Detailing the shapeshifting foes ahead of their 100-year invasion of Earth in Infiltration, the first volume of the new audio series, Zygon Century.
• In the Green Room with... Sara Griffiths - The actor of Ray from Delta and the Bannermen ^[+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"] discusses finally returning to the role as a companion in Faithful Friends, the latest installment of Classic Doctors, New Monsters on audio.
• Six of the Best: Steven Taylor Moments - Writer Jacqueline Rayner lists the best bits of the First Doctor's companion ahead of their reunion in The First Doctor Adventures audio story, The Living Darkness ^[+]Loading...["The Living Darkness (audio story)"].
• The Time Lady Vanishes - Previewing The Lord of Misrule ^[+]Loading...["The Lord of Misrule (audio story)"], the latest of The Audio Novels, in which Romana I meets Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot.
• Upstairs, Downstairs - Previewing Ianto's Inferno ^[+]Loading...["Ianto's Inferno (audio story)"], a space-twisting new episode of the Torchwood - Monthly Range on audio.

Credits

• Editor: Jason Quinn
• Art Editor: Mike Jones
• Deputy Editor: Richard Atkinson

Panini UK Ltd

• Managing Director: Chris Clover
• Consultant: Mike Riddell
• Managing Editor: Alan O'Keefe
• Publishing Manager: Simon Frith
• Head of Production: Mark Irvine
• Circulation & Trade Marketing Controller: Rebecca Smith
• Head of Marketing: Jess Tadmor
• Marketing Executive: Samantha Hammond

BBC Studios, UK Publishing

• SVP Global Licensing: Stephen Davies
• Global Director, Magazines: Mandy Thwaites
• Compliance Manager: Cameron McEwan