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:''"Doctor Who" redirects here. For the character named Doctor Who, see [[The Doctor]].''
In 1963, a ragtag team at the [[w:BBC|BBC]] launched ''[[w:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. The show centred around a mysterious character known only as [[the Doctor]], who could travel through time and space in a ship called the [[TARDIS]]. This conceit was to allow the programme to explore factual history as well as science-based speculative futures. Although aimed at a family audience, it didn't become the children’s own programme that adults adore until its fifth episode took a hard turn into a post-nuclear civil war starring the dastardly xenophobic [[Dalek]]s – and with them came the explosion in popularity that was [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/rise-dalekmania-doctor-who-craze-made-suckers-us/ Dalekmania.]
In 1979, around the time [[Fourth Doctor|Tom Baker]] and {{Tardis|Philip_Hinchcliffe|Phillip Hinchcliffe}} were making the show the most popular it had been since 1964, Marvel UK snapped up the comics licence for ''Doctor Who'', launching what was then known as ''Doctor Who Weekly''; this comic-cum-magazine was spearheaded by {{Tardis|Dez_Skinn|Dez Skinn,}} who'd been watching the show since he was 12 years old. Notable creators to have contributed to its comic strips include {{Tardis|Alan_Moore|Alan Moore,}} {{Tardis|Grant_Morrison|Grant Morrison,}} {{TF|Dave_Gibbons|Dave Gibbons,}} and {{TF|John_Ridgway|John Ridgway.}}
''Doctor Who Magazine'' holds the [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/94561-longest-running-tv-tie-in Guinness World Record for the longest running TV tie-in.] Its continuous publication outlasted not only ''Doctor Who'' itself – which disappeared from the airwaves in 1989 "on hiatus" – but also Marvel UK, which was absorbed by [[w:Panini Comics|Panini]] in 1995. ''Doctor Who Magazine'' continues to report on the world of ''Who'', including rumours that the show may someday return to television...
Back when it was a Marvel publication, the central comic strip was allowed some degree of interconnectivity with the wider Marvel universe, with crossover characters including {{Tardis|Merlin_the_Wise|Merlin the Wise,}} the {{Tardis|Special_Executive|Special Executive}}, the {{Tardis|Freefall_Warriors|Freefall Warriors,}} the {{Tardis|The_Sleeze_Brothers_(series)|Sleeze Brothers,}} and, of course, [[Death's Head]]. What's relevant to ''us'' is that the Doctor (or should that be Doctors...?) once faced the [[Gwanzulum]]s.
*Issue 141: "[[Planet of the Dead]]" Episode One
*Issue 142: "Planet of the Dead" Episode Two
We also cover [[Doctor Who Magazine (ad)]].
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