The cover and info on this month's edition of Doctor Who Magazine:
This month’s Doctor Who Magazine is a soap-tastic
special edition featuring your favourite stars from the worlds of both
Doctor Who and soaps!
Among the Doctor Who luminaries DWM chats to is former producer Phil Collinson, now in charge at Coronation Street. But which one does Phil
prefer…?
“Oh, blimey!” says Phil. “I love both of them, although
they sort of share the same place in my memories. Both you can sit and
watch with the whole family. I remember watching Corrie with my
grandmother when I was a little boy. It was the sort of thing everybody
had a view on and talked about. In the same way they did with Doctor
Who. Although with Corrie, characters like Ena Sharples and Elsie
Tanner were almost friends of my grandmother."
“My mum and she would talk about them as if they were real - what
Elsie’s been up to and ‘what about that husband?’ Somehow they were
tangible. And I suppose that’s been the main difference between the two
shows. Doctor Who’s a fairytale about a world you’d like to disappear
to, and Coronation Street is the world you’re in.”
Also in this issue:
SOAP CHAT!
DWM talks exclusively to even more actors who have appeared in both soaps and Doctor Who, including:
· Lousie Jameson, who played the Fourth Doctor’s assistant Leela, remembers her time in both Doctor Who and EastEnders!
· The legendary Dot Cotton, actress June Brown, on facing Irongron in The Time Warrior!
· Rovers Return regular, actress Helen Worth, on playing against Pertwee in Colony in Space!
· Walford’s Patrick, actor Rudolph Walker on filming The War Games!
· Corrie’s Vernon Tomlin, actor Ian Reddingston, on clowning around in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!
· Albert Square’s Zainab Masood, actress Nina Wadia on being the doctor in The Eleventh Hour!
· EastEnders’ Heather, actress Cheryle Fergison, on being blitzed in The Empty Child!
· Emmerdale stalwart Frazer Hines on playing 60s companion Jamie McCrimmon!
THE GREATEST SOAP IN THE GALAXY!
Is Doctor Who not only the best sci-fi show ever made, but also
the best soap opera ever? Is EastEnders shown on TV in the Doctor Who
universe - or is it vice versa? And is Corrie’s Ken Barlow really the
Doctor?! Find out the answers to these, and many more intriguing
questions, as DWM looks at Doctor Who’s relationship with the soaps from
the 1960s right up the present day, and talks exclusively to Doctor
Who writers Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts and Rupert Laight!
EASTENDERS!
An adventure featuring the first seven Doctors and a menagerie
of monsters… set in EastEnders‚ Albert Square?! It can only be the
most bizarre, unpredictable and utterly bonkers Doctor Who story ever -
Dimensions in Time! The Fact of Fiction digs deep to uncover all the
fascinating secrets behind this, the oddest of adventures!
HOME AND AWAY!
While Doctor Who’s executive producer Piers Wenger stays
Broadcasting House, his fellow execs are away at a top secret meeting
with one of the writers of the next series. Find out who that is - and
get some tantalising clues as to what lies ahead for the Doctor, Rory
and Amy in 2011 - as we eavesdrop on Steven Moffat's Production Notes!
HORROR - ASIAN STREETS!
The terrifying Axons have conquered the streets of Tokyo - and
the Doctor, Amy and UNIT are Earth’s last hope against the invading
menace! But the price of victory could be very high indeed… Find out
what happens in the concluding part of the brand new comic strip, The Golden Ones, by Jonathan Morris and Martin Geraghty!
AND THE WINNER IS…
At last! The much-anticipated results of the 2010 DWM Awards
are revealed. Who was voted best actor? Which monster was better than
all the rest? And what’s the story that topped the poll? Find out these
results and many more - and discover what the award winners themselves
have to say about their triumphs!
PLUS! All the latest official news; the latest DVDs,
CDs and books are previewed; comprehensive merchandise reviews;
prize-winning competitions; and much, much more…
… including a FREE DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER!
Issue 428 of Doctor Who Magazine is on sale from today at all good newsagents until 15th December priced £4.20 per copy.
