The latest Special Edition of DWM is based around the forthcoming Blu-ray release of Season 13, and the majority of features relate directly to those six stories. However, we also get a general introduction to the Gothic in the series, which goes up to more recent stuff like the Weeping Angels and episodes like The Haunting of the Villa Diodati.
There's an article on the old movies which inspired Season 13, from Forbidden Planet via The Mummy and Frankenstein to The Thing From Another World, and this extends to later stories of the genre such as The Hand of Fear (disembodied hand films) and The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Fu Manchu films).
Image of the Fendahl gets a article to itself - costume design - and naturally there's a piece on Robert Holmes.
(We also have one on his nemesis Mary Whitehouse).
A feature on the new model shots of the Skarasen provides an image from the Blu-ray optional replacement sequence where the creature emerges from the Thames. Looks a bit plasticky to me, but we'll have to see it in action.
There's another item on the restoration of the unused TARDIS arrival sequence from Terror of the Zygons.
Louis Marks is profiled, as are a number of the actors who were heard but not seen in the series around this time - Martin Friend (Styggron), Michael Spice (Morbius and Magnus Greel), Gabriel Woolf (Sutekh) and Peter Pratt (the Master).
Some fans revisit the village of Devesham to see if it's still full of androids (spoiler: it isn't) and we delve into the personal archive of director Christopher Barry and the production of The Brain of Morbius. (He really, really didn't want to do it...).
There's loads more, and the magazine is rounded off by some original fiction from Louise Jameson.
Plus, you get a free CD which features 15 extracts from audiobooks of TV stories, from The Daleks up to Rose.
The monthly magazine might not be up to much these days, but the Special Editions and the occasional bookazines remain well worth getting hold of.
Before I go, the Doctor Who official YouTube channel is going to be streaming the upscaled version of Terror of the Zygons tomorrow evening (Saturday 30th) to mark its 50th Anniversary.
PS: I've got some family birthday business to attend to this weekend which will inevitably mean that the next "Episodes" post will be delayed until Monday. See you then.
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