The 85th issue of Doctor Who Magazine had a cover date of February 1984. It saw an extensive redesign and now sported the title "The Official Doctor Who Magazine".

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Articles 1.2 Comic stories 1.3 Fiction 1.4 Archives 1.5 Interviews / Profiles 1.6 Previews 1.7 Reviews 1.8 Colour Centre-spread Pin-up 1.9 Also featuring 2 Credits 3 Additional details

Contents Edit

Articles Edit

• Doctor Who at the (NFT) National Film Theatre by Stephen James Walker
• Photo-feature: The Undersea World of Doctor Who

Comic stories Edit

• Doctor Who: Skywatch-7 - Parts One and Two reprinted

Fiction Edit

• none this issue

Archives Edit

DWM Archives (Retelling by episode, with no credits)

• TV: The Krotons

Interviews / Profiles Edit

• Louise Jameson interviewed by Richard Marson

Previews Edit

• TV: Warriors of the Deep
• TV: The Awakening
• TV: Frontios

Reviews Edit

• TV: The Five Doctors

Colour Centre-spread Pin-up Edit

• The Daleks

Also featuring Edit

• Gallifrey Guardian
• Doctor Who Letters (Letters Page)
• `Doctor Who?’ by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett
• Matrix Data Bank

Credits Edit

Editor: Alan McKenzie

Assistant Editor: Roger P. Birchall

Design: Rahid Khan

Production: Tim Hampson and Alison Gill

Production Assistant: Jeanette M. Sweetland

Financial Controller: Robert W. Sutherland

Advertising: Sally Benson

Publisher: Stan Lee

Advisor: John Nathan-Turner

Additional details Edit

• Now ‘the Official Doctor Who Magazine’.
• FREE GIANT POSTER with this issue features the Master (as shown on the cover) by Doctor Who Artist Andrew Skilleter
• The page count drops to forty, but includes more colour pages (once again the centre four pages).
• The letters pages are given over to readers' comments on the recently screened ‘The Five Doctors’.
• The Photo-feature features several photos of Sea Devils and Fish People (from TV: The Sea Devils and TV: The Underwater Menace respectively).
• There is no regular Doctor Who comic strip this issue, and no explanation is given inside. Instead, the two-part Skywatch-7 (from DWM 58 and the DWMS Winter 1981) is reprinted in full.
• No year was shown on this cover of this issue, which was priced at 60p (UK).
• The cover shows the Fifth Doctor and Tegan from TV: Warriors of the Deep .

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