Candy Jar Books is looking for your help on The Invisible Artist, the artbook of iconic Doctor Who artist, Jeff Cummins. Jeff will be painting a new commission for the tome, and it’s up to you to decide which Doctor Who serial that masterpiece will be of. Your options include stories from the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Doctors: The Time WarriorCity of DeathThe VisitationTerror of…

Doctor Who Season 17 will be the next series to be released as part of The Collection Blu-ray range. The series includes the fan favourite story, City of Death, and I personally think there’s something here for everyone: Destiny Of The DaleksCity Of DeathThe Creature From The PitNightmare of EdenThe Horns Of NimonShada (Anyone who doesn’t like Destiny of the Daleks and Nightmare of Eden is…

“I am The Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and dare to face the unknown, and ponder the question, ‘What if’…?” Leonardo da Vinci was a man ahead of his time. CENTURIES ahead of his time. We can talk about his art of course. His collection of Mona Lisas, etc (although only one’s real). Perhaps his revolutionary, groundbreaking work studying human anatomy,…

I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since 1983, and watched every episode the show’s ever put out (862 as of now), even including reconstructions of the lost 1960s episodes. I know probably far too much about this show than one person probably should. In all those episodes, I’ve seen a lot of actors. The show has a habit of recycling actors, but I wanted to write today about some of the best cameos the…

Hero Collector is releasing a Doctor Who advent calendar ready for the festivities this year — including some cool exclusives behind each door. What’s more, it’s shaped like the TARDIS, and when you open up the middle, you can see the interior of the Time-Space Ship. This luxury box calendar is absolutely stuffed with 24 high-quality festive gifts and accessories. These include a TARDIS-shaped…

With the interactive theatre experience Time Fracture now open for previews, there have been a number of locations and further details revealed in the lead up to the opening performance. As well as visiting different historical periods, including the court of Queen Elizabeth I and a trip to Leonardo Da Vinci’s study, as seen in City of Death, there will be trips to as many as 17 different…

As Joni Mitchell once famously noted, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone.” But, much as I admire the Canadian chanteuse, there is a much more niggling problem for we rampant completists: “You don’t know what you haven’t got until you don’t have it.” In 1993, the final (well not ultimately, as will be revealed) Doctor Who novelisation, The Evil of the Daleks, was published. It was…

‘Exsqvisit!’ Back again, so soon? How marvellous! Well, I think it’s marvellous. So nice to see you all again here in the Under Gallery. Well, almost all of you. Remember last time? One of you won’t be joining us – I told him not to wander off – didn’t I tell you not to wander off? That imbecile wandered off into our collection of floors – rather spectacular if I say so myself: The red and…

Doctor Who loves masks. You have to look pretty hard to find a Who story with no masks at all, though many of them are monster costumes, latex, ageing make-up, or stuntmen in wigs. The show also boasts an unparalleled range or fabulous headgear, but that’s a whole other article.

However, if you narrow down the definition to characters wearing removable* masks which cover their face for some…

As part of the promotion for the BBC’s forthcoming adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mark Gatiss has made an accompanying documentary: In Search of Dracula.

Gatiss has written Dracula with his Sherlock collaborator — and former Doctor Whoshowrunner – Steven Moffat. The new 3-part adaptation stars Claes Bang as the eponymous Count and co-stars Clive Russell, Dolly Russell, Jonathan Aris,…

There are times when seasons of Doctor Whoslip seamlessly from one to the next. Then there are times of seismic shifts: notably Season 6 to 7 with Troughton replaced by Pertwee and monochrome bursting into colour. But despite the complete regular cast change, behind the scenes there is a continuity. Terrance Dicks sticks around, as does Robert Holmes, and Dudley Simpson scores once more. The…

This is not a Target book.

Let’s get that out of the way straight from the start. What this is, in fact, is very much a book written by Steven Moffat and how you feel about his tenure is going to dictate just how much you enjoy it.

I can’t speak for the other books in this new wave of Targets – City of Death, Rose, The Christmas Invasion, and Twice Upon A Time, reviewed on the DWC throughout this…

Presuming you store your Target novelisations in the order of their respective serials’ broadcast on TV, there should be a gap between Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks and Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit. That gap has existed since the latter’s release in January 1981. For over 30 years, you stared at that spot and quietly lamented the fact that Douglas Adams’ City of Deathwas…

Pick up the brand new batch of Target novelisations – City of Death by James Goss, Rose by Russell T Davies, The Christmas Invasion by Jenny Colgan, The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat, and Twice Upon A Time by Paul Cornell – and you’ll see gorgeous cover art by the ever-talented Anthony Dry.

Dry’s Doctor Whocareer stretches back more than a decade now, arguably beginning with his co-founding…

In a wonderful interview with Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat, it’s been revealed that the original script for Twice Upon A Time was 30 minutes longer than the final version!

Former Doctor Who Magazine editor, Tom Spilsbury spoke to the two ex-showrunners (the first time the pair have been interviewed together… on video at least) primarily about their Target novelisations of Rose and The Day…