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News And Views - The third and fourth stories of the new season are titled Nemesis and The Happiness Patrol. JNT has announced that he will be leaving the show after Season 25, though a new producer has yet to be announced. Super Channel have clearance for Seasons 12-15 inclusive, and will be showing Blake's 7 from mid May. Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews The Edge of Destruction ("brilliant; the very best novel since Fury From The Deep" 5/5) and Paradise Towers ("not an excellently written book; a marked improvement over Time and the Rani" 3.5/5). Notables - A new events listing feature, Rel Time, debuts. Andrew Pixley makes his feature writing debut with an article on the Roots of Who. The 24th Season Survey Results are published, with the winners as follows :- Favourite Story - Dragonfire, Delta and the Bannermen, Paradise Towers, Time and the Rani Best Actor - Tony Selby Best Actress - Kate O'Mara Best Director - Chris Clough Best Villain - Kane Favourite Doctor - Tom Baker Hall of Fame - Patrick Troughton
Favourite Comic Strip - World Shapers Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in June 88 were the continuing Wet Wet Wet, Doctorin' The Tardis by the Time Lords and I Owe You Nothing by Bros. Skaro Says - Logo Polish remarks that Edge of Destruction is a good book, and expands the original story to a greater extent than he realised at the time. Nathan Cooke was sad to see Cranna leave as editor, as he really enjoyed her time on the magazine. He hoped that Freeman was not going to be another Ridout, but thankfully he was even better! Andrew Curnow says that Andrew Pixley's debut is worthy of note, with his articles always being very informative and, of late, entertaining too. He was appalled to see Dragonfire get top spot in the Season Survey result. Jonno remembers being much more pleased with DWM at the time that Freeman became editor, with the magazine slowly starting to become more fan orientated from now on, with more varied feature writers. He remembers that it was exciting at the time with the return of the Daleks to look forward to, and the chart-topping Doctorin' The Tardis, which his sister bought him that month for his 19th birthday! Si Hart was very disappointed at the time that Time And The Rani didn't win the season survey, and couldn't understand why it didn't. |
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Basics - Issue 137, June 1988. The main photo on the front cover is
Gavrok from Delta and the Bannermen, and the back cover pin up is from
Image of the Fendahl. John Freeman becomes editor as well as designer.
Favourite Issue - Autumn Special (Design)